How many times have you had something to say in a meeting… and talked yourself out of saying it? I've done this more times than I can count. Throughout my career, I've sat in meetings wondering why anyone would particularly want to hear my view. Everyone here knows more than me. Maybe I've misunderstood, perhaps this is obvious. I'll wait and see what everyone else thinks. Particularly when I was younger, and often one of very few women in a room full of men, the imposter s

Have you ever come across a great idea or solution and thought, “Why didn’t I think of that?” Businesses that embrace diversity in thought aren’t simply ‘doing the right thing’, they usually outperform their competition, avoid costly mistakes, and drive innovation, and we are not short on data backing this up. McKinsey & Company’s 2020 Report demonstrates companies in the top quartile for ethnic and racial diversity in management were 36% more likely to have financial return

I was reminded recently returning to work after maternity leave is one of the strangest transitions there is, particularly the first time around. You go from living in a bubble of feeds, nappies and sleepless nights, a world that shrinks down to one tiny person (or two, in my case) needing you every hour of the day - to walking back into meetings, decisions and deadlines as if nothing has changed. Nothing has changed. And yet, everything has. It brought back so much of what I

Promoted while pregnant: My first year at Tribe | LinkedIn First things first, I’m acutely aware that I’m one of the lucky ones. It seems like every week, there’s a story in the news that sheds light on the battle women face for equality; whether it be in the workplace, the adjectives used to describe us in newspapers, or the litany of other double standards dotted around society. Having spent more than a decade building a career in the payments space and the last five yea