Leaders in Waiting: Part 2 – Confidence
Article for Counsel Magazine, published July 22 A 4.5 minute read on progressing a career at the Bar including considerations to be made when deciding how to proceed and …
Riding the Pupillage Rollercoaster
Counsel Magazine Article on the Pupillage Application Process Read my latest guest blog for Counsel Magazine on successfully navigating the pupillage application process, including strategies to cope with rejection, manage …
What Makes us Brave?
A 4-minute read with 5 strategies for a courageous mindset I’ve chucked myself out of a plane at 12000 feet skydiving. I’ve bungee jumped with a 42m elastic band wrapped …
Poking the Sacred Cow: Highlighting Controversy in the Controversial
In the Line of Fire When you express opinions in a way that puts your head above the parapet, you have to take what’s coming – whether others agree or …
From flexi-hours to breast pumps: 10 strategies to help career breakers nail a successful return
A four-minute read. Aimed at law firm HR leaders overseeing women during maternity leave but equally applicable to other professions and anyone planning a career break return. I was thrilled …
Return with Confidence: How to Nail your Career Break Return
Career Return Experience As a Corporate Career Break Return Coach for 3 years and former criminal barrister who navigated my own career break return twice with child 1 and …
Women in Law: Their Unique challenge around Confidence
Blog for Lawcare Ltd celebrating International Women’s Day 2020 and focusing on Women in Law and their unique challenges around confidence. https://www.lawcare.org.uk/news/women-in-law-their-unique-challenge-around-confidence
Do-s and Don’t-s for Career Break Return Women Lawyers: Guest Blog for Oxford Women in Law
Do-s and Don’t-s for Career Break Return Women Lawyers Here is the link to my latest blog on behalf of Oxford Women in Law (OWL), founded in 2014 as a network …
Women in Law: Rising to the Challenges
Link to article for The Criminal Bar Association Criminal Bar Quarterly – see from p.28 onwards. https://www.criminalbar.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CBA_Winter_2018.pdf
Confidence Breeds Confidence: Guest blog for GPS Return, 1st May 2018
As a Corporate and Executive Coach specialising in coaching lawyers, I note with interest how clients’ words and tone on occasion betray an under- confidence not immediately associated with the …