Do You Have Executive Presence?
The largest bottleneck in a career is not at the executive level, but at the first step into management. For every 100 men promoted to manager, only 93 women are promoted. For women of colour, that number is 74. This…
What’s Your Leadership Archetype?
Only 21% of people are truly engaged at work. According to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2025, the other 79% are either checked out or actively working against their organisation’s goals. Your leadership style is one of the few…
Are You Ready for a Promotion — Or Just Waiting for One?
The advice you were given is wrong. Doing excellent work is not enough. For every 100 men who received their first promotion to manager in 2024, only 81 women did. That figure has barely moved since 2018, when it was…
What Dress Code Were You Actually Made For?
In a 2014 study, Professor Karen Pine found that when women are stressed, they neglect 90% of their wardrobe. The main reason women dress up is not to look attractive but to feel confident. Yet many of us spend our…
Which Power Piece Defines You?
There is a moment most professional women recognise. It is 7:14 in the morning, the meeting starts at 9, and you are standing in front of a wardrobe full of clothes wearing nothing that feels right. This is not a…
What Does Your Morning Routine Say About Your Style?
A study of over 1,000 parole decisions found that a judge’s likelihood of granting parole starts at around 65% after a meal break and drops to nearly zero just before the next one. The legal facts do not change. The…
What’s Your Professional Communication Style?
A performance review told me my delivery could be “softer.” The feedback did not mention the project’s 12% revenue increase, which I had delivered. Research published in the Harvard Business Review found 57% of women receive vague, non-actionable praise in…
What’s Your Workplace Superpower?
There is a striking paradox in the modern office. Research from The Self-Promotion Gap found that 83% of women are inspired by hearing other women talk about their successes. Yet, 69% of those same women would rather minimise their own…
Dress Code Roulette
Barry Schwartz tells a story about buying jeans. He walked into a shop, expecting a five-minute transaction. Instead, he was asked to choose between slim fit, easy fit, relaxed fit, baggy, or boot cut; stone-washed, acid-washed, or distressed. He left…
Rate the Coworker
Self-rated and other-rated physical attractiveness correlate at only r = 0.24. That figure, from a meta-analysis of 21 studies, means you have strikingly limited insight into how you actually appear to others. You spend twenty minutes in front of the…