This week, something different. I’ve invited two of my previous guests to join me. Each of them have significant corporate experience and strong opinions on women in leadership. The first of these is Kelly Ann McKnight. Kelly Ann was my first guest, almost 50 podcasts ago. Kelly Ann is a very experienced Certified Master of The Leadership Challenge. She’s worked across a broad range of clients delivering leadership programs. She’s also worked with and coached many women at all...

If you’ve been a regular listener to my Podcasts, I’m sure you’ll know that I’m on a quest to talk to inspiring woman leaders around the world.Of course, that often means women with diverse backgrounds.My special guest today certainly fits those criteria. Jenell Paul has an engineering degree. She’s a proud woman of color – specifically she’s African-American. She claims the shortest period of retirement - only a few hours – before she was offered a position she couldn’t refuse.&nb...

In producing this podcast, I always look for women leaders who have an inspiring leadership story to tell – and for us all to learn from. As you might have gathered if you’re a regular listener, I’ve had the pleasure of talking to many who are Certified Masters of The Leadership Challenge. In fact, my first guest was fellow-Canadian and Certified Master, Kelly Ann McKnight. Today I’m so pleased to be talking to another Certified Master, Brittney Majka. Brittney is taking her e...

Let’s go to Texas today !And let’s talk to Meredith Garcia who is developing 3,000 leaders. Well, not all by herself – at least, I don't think so. Meredith had a solid corporate career and then successfully ran her own business for a number of years. But the attraction of an offer to return to work in a large state government authority in her home state of Texas – and developing leaders - was an offer she couldn’t refuse. Three thousand ? I want to find out how she did tha...

Let’s talk about love.Jim Kouzes, the co-author of The Leadership Challenge, signs his emails ‘Love ‘em and lead em’. Helena Clayton is my special guest today. So why the reference to Jim Kouzes and ‘Love ‘em and lead ‘em ? ?Helena is UK-based and has developed leaders for some of the UK’s largest companies for well over 25 years, delivering leadership programs and leadership coaching.Now in all that time she must have impacted thousands of leaders.Oh – so where does love come in ? Helen...

My guest this week has just received an award for 30 years service in the Department of Social Service in the state of Texas.More specifically, her work has been in the critically important area of Protective Services.Lawandra Smith is passionate about developing leaders who work in this area of government helping families and people at risk. So passionate is she that two years ago she became a Certified Master of The Leadership Challenge to be able to take her development of others to a...

I’m really excited to be starting my podcast journey for 2024 with a woman who I think is truly remarkable. The role that she has, literally impacts on the lives and more specifically the health of just over 6 million people.Dr Heidi Miller is the Chief Medical Officer for the state of Missouri …. in the US, of course. The CMO of any state or government has to manage the multiple interests and pressures which come from so many - from government, to all the states healthcare practitioners...

My guest this week comes with a passion for developing leaders. And to deliver the best results she can, not only does she have a PhD with the focus being on leadership, but she has 23 certifications – and growing – on behavior, personality and leadership which she uses as necessary to get the best results with individual leaders.Dr Rachel Monteverdi is also a Certified Master of The Leadership Challenge.Dynamic, passionate and committed are three words I could use to describe Dr Rachel.But y...

This week - a ‘first’. This is the first time in forty podcasts that I’ve invited a guest back. And yes, this is podcast 40 in my journey having conversations with inspiring woman leaders. Last year Elise Sinha joined me, and we talked about the inspiring leadership she and other dedicated healthcare executives delivered to get us through the Covid crisis.Now Elise is a very busy leadership coach. I recently read a blog she wrote about Vulnerability – the Untapped Leadership Superpo...

If you’re a regular listener to my podcasts, I’m sure you’ll know that I’m a great supporter of anything which can help women in the workplace, That means anything which can help their careers, their empowerment, their leadership development – and even their most important role, being a mom.My guest today is Rowen Nadia Astrom.Rowen had a career in corporate communication, branding and marketing and now has her own company doing just that – and more.As a new mom, Rowen identified critica...

In my last podcast, I was really pleased to be talking to an experienced and very successful woman from Bahrain, Khulood Al Qattan.But there are always young women who are setting themselves up for a successful, long-term leadership journey. Sometimes in the corporate context, they’re labeled ‘emerging leaders’. My guest this week is a perfect candidate for that description – and in addition, she’s from Dubai, where women leaders are now reaching high-profile, significant leadership...

My guest today is living proof that determination and commitment brings huge rewards.She began her career in the customer service area of a bank, and after various positions in that bank, joined another bank as general manager…, then another as CEO of an investment bank twelve months later. Khulood Al Qattan is from Bahrain. At the peak of her banking career she was appointed as the first female board member of Bahrain’s national telecommunications company, Batelco and she served on the ...

I have a very special guest this week. I say ‘very special’ because of what she’s been through and what she’s now doing with the experience of what she’s been through.Angie Chaplin had a 20 year career in HR and capacity management. Among her many qualifications in the area of human behavior, she’s a Certified Master of The Leadership Challenge.And she was Professor of Strategic Communication & Leadership at Seton Hall University.Her company is called, appropriately, Mindful Leadership an...

Today, we’re going back to Bahrain. I’ve said before this maybe a small country, but it punches above its weight.And the women there are amazing. I’ve had two inspiring guests from Bahrain recently: Sonja Janahi and Dina Bseisu.My guest today is Eman Dea’bil. Eman is passionate about women becoming outstanding leaders. She’s a highly qualified project manager and is pushing for more women to become project managers.She’s also researching the impact of women in the boardroom. I’m sure yo...

I’ve always said my podcasts are ‘conversations with inspiring leaders from around the world’.In the podcast before last we were in Nepal. The one before this, in Bahrain and now the US – Los Angeles.My guest this week is Michele Kawamoto Perry. Michele has been involved in leadership development for over 20 years. She’s a Certified Master of The Leadership Challenge, among the other qualifications she has acquired over the years to help leaders and organizations be more successful.She has a ...

This week we’re going back to Bahrain to meet a truly remarkable woman.A former banker dealing with private clients for 20 years, my guest had what she calls a ‘life changing’ event. She describes one particular day as the most important day of her life.My inspiring guest this week is Dina Bseisu.Dina is Palestinian – but she only lived there until she was four, as her family left there as refugees and moved to Bahrain.Obviously, her Palestinian heritage is so much a part of who she became.I’...

If you’re a regular listening to my podcast, you’ll know that the focus is on inspiring leaders for around the world and usually the focus is on inspiring women leaders. Today the leader I’m talking to is certainly inspiring – and it’s a man. Bhupendra Ghimiri or as most people call him Bhupi, is from Nepal. Bhupi began his career as a teacher but soon realized there was a need to improve the lives of the people of Nepal in so many ways.He established a foundation which he cal...

I always love to talk to women who are innovative and who become successful in the process. Isn't that what leaders do ?My guest this week is Hope Zvara and she is certainly innovative and successful.Hope was introduced to yoga to help her with some issues she was having.She became so involved that she then became a yoga teacher and set up her own yoga school to teach others. But then something happened which means she is now making a difference to the well-being and therefore the lives ...

This week my guest is a woman who, like me, left Bangladesh to begin a new phase of her life in another country. Ayesha Bibha is an Australian Bangladeshi thought leader in the neuroscience of leadership. She has experience designing and delivering learning solutions to develop global corporate, non-profit, and academic leadership capabilities. For over 17 years, she walked an ambitious path as a mom, educator, L&D consultant, facilitator, performance coach, mentor, a...

Just occasionally in my podcast, I move away from having an inspiring woman as my guest. But always the focus is leadership.This week, my guest is one of the most highly recognized people in the area of leadership and leadership development – globally. Forty years of evidence-based research and seven editions of the book he co-authored, certainly has him as the most highly recognized in this area. I am honored that this week my guest is Jim Kouzes.Jim and his co-author, Barry Posner have...