Women in Consulting Women's Consulting Workshop

Today I am speak with Cat Ainsworth and Annie Legge from the Dot Project. Annie and Cat started Dot Project 6 years ago with the purpose of building strength through technology. They come from very different backgrounds but share a dislike of hierarchy and have created a cooperative that helps organisations position technology and human relationships as core organisational infrastructure. It was a breath of fresh air talking to these two amazing women! We hear how it takes bo...

Today I am speaking with Elizabeth Fitton Higgins and Eunchim Choi from the Mangrove Collective. The Mangrove Collective is a for-purpose international humanitarian and development consultancy, based in New Zealand and Singapore with a focus on the Pacific and Asia regions. In this powerful conversation we learn how the lack of support for working mothers in a corporate NGO environment became a catalyst for one of the founding principles for The Mangrove Collective. We hear how th...

Emily Lomax is a founding partner of www.wrkwll.org. Workwell is a growing collaborative of associates based all over the world, all working to drive social change through a broad range of interventions such as strategy development, well-being, mentoring, change management, and diversity & inclusion. In this vibrant conversation we hear how Emily focuses on showing up and being authentically herself and why this is so important. We get a bit down and gritty about the inside wor...

Today I am speaking with Heather Burns. Heather is an independent ESG and sustainability consultant who for the past 15 years has helped companies and NGOs improve and report on their social, environmental, and governance performance. Today she helps consultants start and grow their own sustainability practices that have a positive impact. In this wide-ranging conversation, we hear how Heather’s journey into consulting started while she was blogging about environmental issues. She describes h...

Dorothea Baur is an independent consultant, speaker, and lecturer on ethics, responsibility and sustainability. Her focus is on tech and finance where she helps companies align value with values.In this far reaching conversation we focus on authenticity and integrity. We learn how showing up every day on Twitter helped Dorothea build her personal brand, by having an opinion and having conversations with a growing community of people interested in ethics and ESG. We learn how she found l...

Today Helen and I are talking you through a useful framework you can use to reflect on your year. These are 6 questions to ask about your year as a consultant . You can also use these questions if you are working as an employee but wish to move into consulting as they may give you some ideas about the direction you could go in the future. This is an episode where you need to find a quiet space, perhaps an hour to yourself. For us this is part of self-care. Make sure you have a pen, pape...