Jeannette discusses the crucial topic of the underrepresentation of female CEOs in the business world. Drawing from her extensive experience as a corporate CEO and entrepreneur, she highlights the progress made in gender diversity but emphasises the need for further action. The episode explores the reasons behind the lack of female CEOs, including cultural norms, biases, and outdated organisational policies

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Gender diversity, equity, and inclusion are crucial for business success, with diverse teams and boards showing higher growth, profitability, innovation, and better decision-making.
• Cultural norms, biases, and lack of strategic focus contribute to the underrepresentation of female CEOs in top organisations.
• Organisations must prioritise gender diversity from the top down, hold leaders accountable, and implement inclusive policies and initiatives to support female talent.
• Challenging biases, providing mentorship, coaching, and role models, and encouraging women to push past self-limiting beliefs are essential for career progression.
• Embracing creativity, flexibility in policies, and reshaping traditional roles can create a more inclusive environment where women can thrive and reach leadership positions.

BEST MOMENTS

"The case is absolutely clear. Quite frankly, diverse teams, diverse boards make more money, have a better position in the market, attract more people to the organisation."

"There are some preconceptions around as well, right? Around women can't do an engineering job, or women don't make good mechanics, or women don't make great pilots, etc."

"And of course, what I would say as well, for all of us women out there, we need to help ourselves as well. We need to help each other."

This is the perfect time to get focused on what YOU want to really achieve in your business, career, and life. It’s never too late to be BRAVE and BOLD and unlock your inner BRILLIANCE. If you’d like to jump on a free mentoring session just DM Jeannette at info@jeannettelinfootassociates.com or sign up via Jeannette’s linktree https://linktr.ee/JLinfoot

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ABOUT THE HOST

Jeannette Linfoot is a highly regarded senior executive, property investor, board advisor, and business mentor with over 25 years of global professional business experience across the travel, leisure, hospitality, and property sectors. Having bought, ran, and sold businesses all over the world, Jeannette now has a portfolio of her own businesses and also advises and mentors other business leaders to drive forward their strategies as well as their own personal development.

Jeannette is a down-to-earth leader, a passionate champion for diversity & inclusion, and a huge advocate of nurturing talent so every person can unleash their full potential and live their dreams. 

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Podcast Description

Jeannette Linfoot talks to incredible people about their experiences of being Brave, Bold & Brilliant, which have allowed them to unleash their full potential in business, their careers, and life in general. From the boardroom tables of ‘big’ international businesses to the dining room tables of entrepreneurial start-ups, how to overcome challenges, embrace opportunities and take risks, whilst staying ‘true’ to yourself is the order of the day.