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Mid Life Career Change for Women London UK | Moving from Employment to Self Employment | Confidence Building. Development for the Mature Women, Personal Development, Business Coaching, Career change

5 Tips to Regain Momentum If You Didn’t Achieve Your Goals Last Year

For a positive and productive 2025, set intrinsically motivating goals: There are many reasons why we don’t achieve our goals. Sometimes stuff happens that means we can’t continue. And if so, that is ok because in life it is a given that we will experience setbacks and life changing events. How we respond to these, …

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Understanding and Supporting Introverts with a Disability in the Workplace

Having coached leaders with both visible and invisible disabilities, I have seen firsthand the impact a lack of inclusion and belongingness in the workplace can have on leaders with a disability. This can be further compounded where there are intersecting identities. One intersecting identity that is generally not considered is that of introversion. Because introversion …

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How Introverts Can Re-Energise and Thrive this Festive Period, Which Can Be a Very Energy-Draining Time of Year

Self-reflection is a key part of personal and professional growth. It helps to increase self-awareness, making it easier to recognise faulty thinking, and identify answers and solutions. How often do you make the time to be still and self-reflect? In this episode I discuss the importance of it and how to do it.As we enter …

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Does Self-Doubt, Imposter Syndrome, or a Lack of Self-Confidence Hold You Back? – If So, This is For You

In a survey I did, 73% of introverted women in senior leadership admitted struggling with self-doubt—despite their incredible achievements. Does self-doubt hold you back from speaking up in meetings, pursuing bigger opportunities, or confidently leading others? This constant battle can impact your confidence, assertiveness, and ability to exude leadership presence. But what if you could …

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How Well Are You ‘Fighting’ Your Corner? – Why Introverted Leaders Need to Self-Advocate

It was my first annual performance review as a line manager. It had been a turbulent year with a staff member leaving and finding volumes of work he had not acted on after he left. The person leaving was not replaced and the rest of the team had been under pressure. ‘You need to fight …

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How to Communicate More Impactfully as a Leader if You are a Woman Prone to Apologetic Language

The way you communicate can have an impact on how you are perceived as leaders. If you are prone to using apologetic language, the use of it can undermine your leadership presence, influence, and impact. Using apologetic language can come across as you lacking confidence in your abilities or being uncertain about what you are …

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If You are an Introverted Woman and Doubt Yourself, Lack Self-Confidence, and Self-Belief, You CAN Change Things

For many of the leaders I coach, when they initially contact me, the situation they say they want my coaching for is some external factor such as leading a difficult change project, negotiating a pay rise, promotion, or compensation package, being more influential, having difficult conversations, managing conflict, developing and motivating their teams, or something …

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How to Avoid Falling Prey to the Introvert Pay Gap if You are an Introverted Leader

Two weeks ago, I wrote about the introvert pay gap and the research that supports the view that such a gap exists. Last week I wrote about what employers can do to close this gap. This week I write about what introverted leaders can do to be the best self-advocates and not fall prey to …

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The Introvert Earnings Gap: Do Extraverted Leaders Earn More Than Introverted Leaders?

You will have heard of the gender pay gap and may even have heard of the ethnicity pay gap, but what about the introvert pay gap and does it even exist? I first came across the notion that earnings may differ between introverts and extraverts a few years ago. Then, having recently had a post …

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