A conversation from before Christmas has followed me into the new year.

I was having a catch-up coffee with a contact – someone I like and respect. We got talking about a mutual acquaintance, a woman in a senior leadership position. Given my own recent move into a new role, my contact was being helpful. Here was someone I could learn from, she suggested. Someone whose style I might study.

What made this leader worth emulating? It wasn’t the qualities themselves – strategic thinking, decisiveness, command of a room – but how she expressed them. She maintained professional distance. She didn’t do warmth. Her gravitas was the traditional kind: cool, contained, authoritative.

Read more at: https://www.marketingweek.com/authenticity-double-standard-female-leaders/