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Case Study: Elevating Executive Presence for Women in Sales

The Challenge:   A client in the Sustainability sector recognised a gender representation gap within their leadership pipeline. While women made up a healthy proportion of their sales team, few were putting themselves forward for open leadership roles. This raised concern, as it suggested a potential disconnect between the company’s diversity goals and the lived […]

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Case study: Building confidence to pursue a senior role

Helping a client to navigating difficult conversations, manage perceptions and gain confidence to pursue a senior role.   The Challenge: How to build confidence to pursue a senior role My client (a HR professional) was feeling stuck. She felt unheard and unsupported by her manager. Wanting to build her confidence to navigate difficult conversations with […]

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