Speed mentoring TOPIC

Defining leadership

Leadership is not about the role you’re in. It is about the stance you take and the way you feel and the actions you take in any number of moments.

Resilience and the ability to keep going. Staying true to yourself through your integrity, values and morals.

What kind of good advise would you like to share?

Leadership is not about the role you’re in. It is about the stance you take, the way you feel and the actions you take in any number of moments. It’s not only about being able to speak to a large audience and lead them somewhere. In fact, leadership may be about the opposite, about guiding others to find their own pathways, discover their own power, and speak their own words. Leadership happens when we are authentic, assertive, aspiring and emotionally intelligent. In a culture that sends women mixed messages about just how powerful they can be, many women are uncertain about leadership. They are passionate about changing the world but worry about how their authority will be perceived.

Wish the best for 10th anniversary:

We need to celebrate the powerful roles that adult women play in a girl’s life. We need to expand definitions and challenge traditional concepts about leadership, explore what it means to be a woman and the various roles and ways in which we express that identity, and finally, to do something different.

About me

I have been a school principal for 25 years in international schools around the world. Last year I was in Prague and now I am working for Nord Anglia education in Switzerland.
I am passionate in developing girls’ skills to be self-aware, take healthy risks and speak for themselves.
We need to encourage girls to develop the confidence to use their talents in leadership roles within and beyond the school community. A generation of women, now and in the future who have the ability to lead and make a difference to the world.
We need a society where girls and women engage authentically and assertively at every level of decision making in all areas of their lives. We need to create learning environments where teachers foster the positive qualities of girls, empower learning and create a learning community in which each girl can recognise and develop her own intellectual power and personal strengths.