The Pause Effect Insights

Earlier this week I posted on LinkedIn about watching Ladies First on Netflix, a comedy that's absurd, and yet I recognised almost everything in it.

The quiet question underneath all the laughs: What...

Activity vs lived experience and why closing the gap matters for every woman in your organisation.

Back to the Maritime industry conversation this week and a connection I have been sitting with since...

I rehearsed every sentence before I said it. Out loud. In my head. Sometimes both.

I thought I had simply become more careful. More mature. More considered. I had not. I was in perimenopause. And I d...

There is a woman in her mid-30s in your organisation right now. She is ambitious. She is watching. And she is drawing conclusions about whether this is an organisation she wants to stay in for the nex...

I've asked a lot of questions from various stages. Last Saturday in Norway, I asked one that stopped the room.

How many of you wake up at four in the morning, regularly, and can't get back to sleep?

I have written about what it costs when organisations look away. This one is about what happens when they don't.

The question I put on a slide this week

I was preparing for a talk and I wrote a titl...

Yesterday I ran a Power Pause session and forgot about my slides.

I was prepared and had the slides, but a technical glitch happened, and something more true took over: My own experience of navigatin...

Editions 15 and 16 of this newsletter named two things.

The gap: Experienced women at the height of their careers, navigating something that has no language in their working world.

The cost: Not jus...

Let's start with one woman.

One experienced woman at £30,000. Think about what she carries. The client she has held for six years. The team she steadied through a restructure. The unwritten knowledge...

Maritime gave me some of the best years of my career. The global reach, the sense of belonging to an industry that moves the world, literally. The travel, the relationships across continents, the priv...

You have a woman in your life. A partner. A sister. A daughter. A colleague you've worked alongside for years, and at some point, maybe recently, maybe a while back, something shifted. Maybe she notic...

Most organisations are treating 2027 like a distant deadline.

The women inside them aren't waiting for 2027. They are navigating the symptoms right now, today, in your meetings, on your vessels, at t...