She Leads Collective Podcast
She Leads Collective Podcast
Podcast Description
Real stories. Bold conversations. Leadership that lifts everyone.Welcome to the She Leads Collective Podcast—a space where stories spark change, and lived experience becomes leadership wisdom. Each season, we rotate through three powerful themes:Real Models – conversations with inspiring women leaders and business owners who share the truth behind their success—the bias they’ve faced, the doubts they’ve overcome, and the wisdom they’ve gained. Allies – honest insights from men and women who are actively championing gender equity, revealing what true allyship looks like in action. The Undiscussables – the topics no one talks about, but everyone is impacted by—domestic violence, baby loss, harassment, poverty—and how they shape women’s presence, power, and potential at work.This podcast is for women in leadership, business owners, HR leaders, and change-makers who believe the workplace can—and must—be better for women.You’ll leave every episode with something real: inspiration, insight, and the courage to lead differently.Let’s change the conversation—together.
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Content Themes
The podcast rotates through three powerful themes: Real Models, which explores the journeys of women leaders sharing their challenges and successes; Allies, focusing on insights from those championing gender equity in workplaces; and The Undiscussables, addressing critical yet overlooked topics like domestic violence and harassment that affect women's roles and opportunities in the workplace.
Bold conversations with women leaders & allies.
Real stories, leadership insights, and the “undiscussables” shaping how we work today.
Each season of the She Leads Collective Podcast features three powerful themes:
Real Models – conversations with inspiring women leaders and business owners who share the truth behind their success—the bias they’ve faced, the doubts they’ve overcome, and the wisdom they’ve gained.
Allies – honest insights from men and women who are actively championing gender equity, revealing what true allyship looks like in action.
The Undiscussables – the topics no one talks about, but everyone is impacted by—emotions at work, wholistic leadership, womens health needs, mental health, baby loss, domestic violence—and how they shape our workplaces and leadership.
I’m Mary Gregory—Executive Coach, Author and host of She Leads Collective. My mission is to enable women to step into their full leadership potential and create workplaces where everyone can thrive.
Let’s change the conversation—together.
And if you’re a woman leader who’s ever doubted your confidence, explore my programme “Exploding the Confidence Myth” → https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploding-the-confidence-myth-tickets-1617750698889?aff=oddtdtcreator
Part 2 of 2 episodes with Penny De Valk.
Why are organisations still losing talented women — and why does this pattern persist, even when leaders genuinely want things to change?
In this second episode of a two-part conversation, Mary Gregory and Penny De Valk move beyond individual leadership journeys to examine the systems shaping women’s experiences at work today.
Drawing on Penny’s global work with senior leaders — alongside insights from the McKinsey Women in the Workplace research — this episode explores why the leadership pipeline continues to leak, why women are still promoted and sponsored differently, and how well-intended organisational decisions can quietly disadvantage women.
Mary and Penny discuss the broken first rung, sponsorship versus mentorship, invisible and emotional labour, flexibility stigma, and the growing fatigue around gender equity efforts — as well as what actually helps organisations retain and develop female talent.
This is a grounded, realistic conversation about why women leaving is not a lack of ambition, but a rational response to systems that still haven’t caught up — and what leaders can do differently if they want to stop losing great people.
Free resource:
If this conversation has raised questions for you, you can download the Gender Equity Temperature Check — a short, reflective tool designed for HR, DEI and senior leaders to assess the what's really happening beneath the surface for gender equity in your organisation.
Download your Gender Equity Temperature Check here: https://www.marygregory.com/gender-equity-temperature-check
Connect with Penny on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pennydevalk/
Or visit her website: https://pennydevalk.com/
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