Gallup’s 2025 report states only 21% of workers globally are engaged in their jobs. The estimated cost of that disengagement is $438 billion in lost productivity. Most advice treats this as a problem with management or individual resilience. The research…
Your employer expects you to negotiate. A CareerBuilder survey found 73% of U.S. employers say they would be willing to negotiate salary on an initial job offer. The first number is their opening position, not their final one. They have…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…