Ambika takes the strategic skillset she spent 15+ years cultivating in advertising, and applies it to evolving challenges in our modern worklife. From questions of parental leave to privilege paradigms. From leading with instinct to navigating life through a feminine lens. From the under-investment in women’s healthcare to the under-reported realities of maternal mental health.
In Corner Office Breakdowns, she intertwines these topics with conversations about success, leadership, and modern work to imagine a more diverse, equitable, humanity-first future of work.
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Ambika takes the strategic skillset she spent 15+ years cultivating in advertising, and applies it to evolving challenges in our modern worklife. From questions of parental leave to privilege paradigms. From leading with instinct to navigating life through a feminine lens. From the under-investment in women’s healthcare to the under-reported realities of maternal mental health.
In Corner Office Breakdowns, she intertwines these topics with conversations about success, leadership, and modern work to imagine a more diverse, equitable, humanity-first future of work.
Why Do So Many Women in Leadership Perform Like Men?
Corner Office Breakdowns
48 minutes 4 seconds
2 years ago
Why Do So Many Women in Leadership Perform Like Men?
I was always taught to choose a job based on the manager. And because I’m an ambitious woman, I always wanted to work for an ambitious woman. But as my life started to dimensionalize (marriage, family, wanting to define my own way of “leading”), I realized that often, ambitious women have gotten where they are by performing as men. They’re not introducing diverse perspectives into the top of their companies, they are chameleons trying to belong.
Guest: Stephanie Redlener, founder of Lioness, a leadership and change agency for women on the rise, and executive coach
Questions:
* We’re taught to lean in, take up space at the table, and speak loudly if we want to be seen/noticed. How have we been conditioned to lead/work through the masculine?
* Is it possible to find success in existing companies by navigating work in a predominantly feminine way?
* What does it mean to lead through the feminine?
* How can women be true to themselves, help other women, and still get ahead?
Corner Office Breakdowns
Ambika takes the strategic skillset she spent 15+ years cultivating in advertising, and applies it to evolving challenges in our modern worklife. From questions of parental leave to privilege paradigms. From leading with instinct to navigating life through a feminine lens. From the under-investment in women’s healthcare to the under-reported realities of maternal mental health.
In Corner Office Breakdowns, she intertwines these topics with conversations about success, leadership, and modern work to imagine a more diverse, equitable, humanity-first future of work.
