Siobhan

Siobhan is has been leading a team of 10 software developers supporting the company’s products for the last 8 years. During this time she has gone out of her way to ensure there have no service breakdowns to the products her team support. Her team is consistently top performing, she maintains an atmosphere of high-performance, trust and loyalty. In her tenure as manager, 3 of her team members have been promoted into positions more senior than her and her own peers have also moved on. Her managers (there have been 4 of these over the years) have been encouraging and always found reasonably helpful feedback about what she should do better and she has taken it to heart. In spite of being a consistently reliable top performer Siobhan has never been what she is doing well – in fact praise has been conspicuous through its absence. Her career has stagnated and she has not progressed in her company. Siobhan sometimes feels she will never be good enough and suffers from impostor syndrome. Sometimes she feels she is ready to make some changes but is unsure how to go about it.

Though Siobhan and her exact case is fictional, it echoes real conversations about how business leaders face the realities of male-biased corporate cultures working against their gender -- whether it be through difficulties understanding unspoken rules or being consistently taken for granted and/or underestimated.

I help business leaders like Siobhan by guiding them in objectively exploring their current position, mirroring back a neutral perspective on their situation, and jointly discovering workable options so they can create a solution that is uniquely theirs.

If you feel you are stuck, would like to make a change and are willing to do some introspection and hard work to get there, why not free 30 minute discovery session to explore your unique position and whether I might be able to help.