Theme: Can introverts be leaders?

Key insights

This video was shared by one of our IBC mentors Clare LeBecq, CEO of the LMG. As a fellow introvert, she identifies with this & I can too. There is no good or bad when it comes to introversion or extroversion, it’s all about knowing yourself, recognising your strengths, and leveraging them.

Theme: The Anatomy of Trust (Brene Brown)

Key insights

Once you hear this, you’ll always remember it. Helped me realise how trust is built by tiny actions & also how fragile it can be. I love this breakdown of something that is so critical to our relationships at work & at home & where I need to pay attention. Love to hear your thoughts on this one.

Theme: Speaking up for yourself

Key insights

A TED talk from Adam Galinsky.

Theme: Risk taking

Key insights

“You are going to be called upon to do something you’ve not done before, and that’s ok, that’s how you grow”.

Michele Meyer-Shipp, Chief Diversity Officer at KPMG LLP, explains why embracing risk is a necessity

Theme: Building your network

Key insights

Michelle Meyer-Shipp, Chief Diversity Officer of KMPG shares her views on the importance of your professional network including:

1. Build your network both inside work and outside it to ensure you have the support you need
2. Get comfortable being uncomfortable

Theme: Building your network

Key insights

Great short video from powerhouse Sallie Krawcheck on building your success “tribe”.

Theme: Career lessons

Key insights

1. Oprah didn’t like being a journalist because she wasn’t allowed to use her key value of empathy, therefore it just didn’t feel right and she looked for alternative opportunities
2. She didn’t plan her career as much as perhaps some of us may because of course in the 1970s for a black woman this was a lot harder than it is even today
3. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity
4. When she’s in the minority she draws on her heritage & all the strength of all the people that have gone before who’ve enabled her to be who she is – that’s who walks into the room.
5. There is no such thing as failure. You get as much from your losses as you do from your victories because the losses are there to wake you up.
6. Oprah asks every guest what advice they they would give to their younger selves & in one way or another they all answer “relax, it’s going to be ok.”
7. Always be thinking, what is the next right move & don’t be overwhelmed by it.
8. Everyone Oprah has ever interviewed from murderer to politician and from Obama to Beyonce, has asked her the same question at the end of the interview “Was that ok?”.
9. All anyone ever wants to know is “Do you see me? Do you hear me? And, does what I say matter to you?” Every argument will come down to this – wise words to remember because it is almost always true!