STYLE & STRATEGY HUB

Most women in leadership can name the outfit they bought for their first serious job: the one that never quite looked right, the one they wore out of duty rather than choice. It usually gets filed away later as an early style mistake, when it was rarely that at all. It was the only material availabl...

Somewhere in your wardrobe there is a piece with the tags still on. Research suggests it has company: one survey found the average woman reports 21 per cent of her wardrobe as unwearable and has never removed the tags from 12 per cent of it. For a professional wardrobe of 150 to 200 pieces, that can...

There is a calculation that runs before an important room, and it does not appear in anyone's workload.

You are preparing for the board update, the client pitch or the keynote. You know the content, and you have known the content for weeks. What takes the extra bandwidth is everything sitting under...

You are the most prepared person in the room. You know the material, you have the track record, and you have been delivering at this level for years. And yet the opportunity keeps landing somewhere else.

Most women in leadership assume this is a skills problem. Something to fix, add, or prove. But ...

You have grown and your responsibilities have changed. Your strategic thinking is sharper than it was three years ago, your confidence has caught up with your capability, and the rooms you walk into now expect a different version of you than the one who was earning her seat then.

Your wardrobe and ...

Leadership Presence: The Gap Between Who You Are and How You're Being Seen

Most leaders never stop to ask a simple question. What do people say about you when you're not in the room, and does it still match the leader you've become?

If you're operating at a senior level, there's a good chance the ...