Women Emerging Podcast

Women Emerging Podcast


Latest Episodes

27. Leadership insights from successful transgender women leaders
September 20, 2022

This weeks episode looks at what we can we learn from Leaders who were successful male leaders who have transitioned. One of our expedition members, Yvette Hopkins, thought that the insight of what trans women have experienced as being both male and femal

26. On privilege and power, spirituality and womanhood
September 14, 2022

Dipping into the expedition a third of the way through. Aparna Uppaluri and Ana Luz Porzecanski have repositioned privilege as responsibility and power as energy. Aparna has got me through my struggles on the link between motherhood and leadership with t

25. Leadership lessons from Botswana Part 2
August 31, 2022

Two powerful Botswana leaders Pelonomi Venson Moitoi and Joyce Wema Isa Molwane reveal their realities and secrets. Nothing sanitised here, just unvarnished advice. Botswana becomes a more and more interesting place for me. But it’s still tough “you can b

24. Leadership lessons from Botswana Part 1
August 25, 2022

Botswana. Rebecca Binns said that she loved the expedition but that it not speak to her fully. It didn’t feel ‘like home’ So she took me home. To meet 7 powerful women leaders in Botswana, Priyanka Handa Ram, Tebogo Matenge, Rosalind Kwinje, Kelly Ramput

23. Leadership within Faith Part 2
August 23, 2022

The spiritual texts are abound with extraordinary women. This week Hatoon Alfassi, Amany Lubis, Ani Choying Drolma and Juliette Neuberger reinforce the message from Islam, Judaism and Buddhism. The women they tell the stories of were extraordinary leaders

22. Leadership within Faith Part 1
August 17, 2022

We don’t talk enough about faith when we talk about women leaders. There are amazing women leaders in the #sacredtexts of #Buddhism, #Islam, #Christianity, #Judaism and #Hinduism. Women - sometimes little known - who show us that women have been leaders f

21. Teenagers & Leadership
August 10, 2022

Listening is a big theme of this episode. Speaking to seven seventeen year old students in Karachi Pakistan was fascinating. I asked them “ if the expedition delivers an approach to leadership that resonates with women, what would it need to do to resonat

20. Answering the unsettling questions about leadership
August 03, 2022

With the expedition two months in, this episode focuses on nine of the members. Their experience so far. What they have learnt. What has sent them into a whirlwind of confusion. What has settled some issues in their minds. For the first two months they ha

19. Leadership outside of work
July 27, 2022

Yoga teaches leaders self awareness, rugby teaches leaders relationship awareness.Alison covers yoga (and also draws on 35 years of working with me, I have always thought that without yoga Alison would have abandoned me long ago). She covers the groundwor

18. Happiness in Leadership
July 18, 2022

Ani Choying Drolma is a Buddhist nun. Ani sings utterly beautifully. Anigives people deep faith. And Ani is also deeply thoughtful about leadership too.Katrina has only ever talked about faith with Ani but here she talks about leadership. About the need t