Lead Like A Woman: Your essential guide for true confidence, career clarity, vibrant wellbeing and leadership success - Softcover

McQuaid, Michelle; Dalla-Camina, Megan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0994597029 ISBN 13: 9780994597021

Publisher: Lead Like A Woman Pty Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

Does a lack of confidence stop you from embracing new opportunities or speaking your truth? Have you ever wanted to create a change, make a career move, or become a more authentic leader, but didn’t quite know where to start? Do you ever feel like you just don’t have the energy and grit to pursue your dreams? Or perhaps you’re a leader or coach looking for tested ways to help women succeed? Lead Like A Woman guides women to see more of who they really are, and get more of what they truly want. Based on the award winning leadership development program, this journey uncovers the stories that hold women back, and gives them the evidence-based roadmap to create the career and life they long for. From seeking more confidence, to building a personal brand, leveraging mentors and sponsors, and creating vibrant wellbeing, this book is the permission slip women have been waiting for. Fusing the latest research from positive psychology, neuroscience, gender science, leadership development and wellbeing, with real stories of what it’s like to work in a male dominated world, this book teaches women how to flex their mindsets and leverage their feminine traits so they can fully step into their power. It will forever change the way women work and live, and provides the missing guidance for leaders who want to create long awaited breakthroughs for women at work. Brilliantly researched, passionately written, enjoyable to read, and packed with coaching playsheets to enable action, Lead Like A Woman is the guidebook that will create both a personal and workplace revolution in how women live and lead.

About this title

About the Author

Megan Dalla-Camina and Michelle McQuaid are former corporate executives with decades of experience in business, leadership, positive psychology and gender diversity. They work with multinational organizations, leaders and individual women to create positive change based on their unique fusion of science, spirit and experience. Their award winning work has been featured everywhere from Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review, to Fast Company and Elle magazine.

Review

"Great insights into how your mindset can turn even the most challenging situations into opportunities."  
Professor Carol Dweck, Stanford University, Author of Mindset

"Lead Like A Woman brings together idealism and pragmatism in this wonderfully readable and actionable guide to corporate leadership. It gives women the tools to lead without twisting themselves into pretzels to fit male norms. Most importantly, the book makes a compelling case for organizations to win based on their inclusion of women at all levels, especially the very top." 
Sylvia Ann Hewlett, President of the Center for Talent Innovation, Author of Executive Presence

"Women can become our most powerful and effective leaders - if they have the right knowledge and tools. Lead Like a Woman shares strategies you can apply today to become a stronger, more authentic leader." 
Dorie Clark, Author of Reinventing You and Stand Out, and Adjust Professor, Duke University

"Too often, the phrase that include 'like a girl' is pejorative, as in 'He runs like a girl.'  In this powerful new book, Michelle McQuaid and Megan Dalla-Camina show how leadership at its best involves women bringing their confidence, grit, compassion and strengths so that every workplace and situation is better for it, and we can hear the positive phrase, 'He leads like a woman!"
Caroline Adams Miller, best-selling author of Creating Your Best Life, My Name is Caroline, and Positively Caroline

"Practical, insightful and inspiring, Lead Like A Woman is a 'must read' for any woman who wants to find the confidence and courage to make a bigger mark on the world." 
Margie Warrell, Bestselling Author, Speaker & Australian Ambassador For Women In Global Business

"Prepare to be inspired, equipped and propelled to live your life as a leader (and beyond) with integrity, purpose and health. Megan and Michelle lead us through an engaging and impactful program of guided learning to build our leadership capabilities as women. They use research, experience, stories and tools to enliven and enrich our quest to find a meaningful and sustainable leadership path. This book is a joy." 
Jane Dutton, Professor of Business Administration and Psychology, University of Michigan

"Inspiring and energising. This book will help female leaders create a positive pathway forward for themselves and those they lead." 
Professor Lea Waters, Director of the Centre for Positive Psychology at Melbourne University

"Megan and Michelle are an incredible team who have changed the lives of thousands of women. In Lead Like A Woman they have developed a truly unique roadmap that will revolutionize the way women show up, how they lead, and how workplaces deal with the challenges of getting to gender parity. Based on irrefutable research and evidence and packed with inspiring stories, this is the book we have all been waiting for. Read it. Share it. Talk about it. It might just change everything." 
Angela Priestley, Publisher, Women's Agenda

"Genius! Inspiring and practical, Lead Like A Woman is a book that can change the world because it changes the way we see female leadership. If you're a woman or a leader of women you'll love this book." 
Kieran Flannagan, CCO, The Impossible Institute

"Lead like a Woman maps a path to the leadership the world requires today. It's a book for women who lead, but the stories and lessons are universal. We all desperately need a new organizational model and Megan and Michelle may just have found it." 
Dan Gregory, Speaker, Author, & CEO, The Impossible Institute

Edition details

• Publisher: Lead Like A Woman Pty Ltd
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0994597029
• ISBN 13: 9780994597021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 342