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Gender Inclusion at Work

Latest article on Public Affairs Ireland: https://www.pai.ie/building-a-gender-inclusive-workplace/

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Irish Independent Feature May 2018

Playing catch up a little here as it’s been a busy few months! If you missed our feature in the Irish Independent in May you can read it here.

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Building a Gender Inclusive Workplace

Gender Diversity & Inclusion and Gender Equality are hot business topics at the moment, with an ever-increasing body of research demonstrating the significant productivity and ‘bottom-line’ benefits of having a healthy gender balance at all grades, levels and disciplines in an organisation. For example, the recent research from McKinsey and […]

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Corporate Social Responsibility Strength Within

Corporate Social Responsibility 2018

At Strength Within, we are focusing on three areas this year… Start-ups and small businesses Career returners Parenting charities & communities Start-ups and small businesses I’ve been on the receiving end of a lot of support, advice and kindness since the inception of Strength Within and am hoping to […]

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Sunday Business Post Article

Thrilled to be featured in the Sunday Business Post today. You can read the article here. Want to learn more about transition coaching and creating inclusive workplace practices? Get in touch here. #sundaybusinesspost #transitioncoach #maternitycoach #thrivethroughchange #hr #femaleleadership

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Congruence, Connection & Mental Fitness

In the space of one crazy week last month, I had the pleasure of attending these fantastic events: Women’s Inspire Network (WIN) Conference; the Mental Health and Wellbeing Summit (MHWS); the Irish Positive Birth Conference (IPBC) and Unplug’s ‘Maximising Performance in a Distracted World’. What an eclectic mix of events […]

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DisruptHR Dublin – WAHM version…

Bit of light-hearted humour for the working parents among us! If you haven’t seen my recent DisruptHR talk, you can watch it here. This is the polished version, where I’ve had time to practice and make myself presentable. I’m a parent of two small children, so when I’m not with clients […]

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Reciprocity at Work – Disrupt HR Dublin

I was delighted to speak at Ireland’s first very DisruptHR event earlier this month. My talk was about how organisations can protect female leadership pipelines by building reciprocal relationships with their employees. Essentially, if we want our employees to thrive when they’re at work we need to support them to […]

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October News & Update

Hello there, it’s been a while! Time is flying by and I can’t believe we are well into October already. When I started this blog I committed to a new post every week, possibly every fortnight but have been MIA now for well over a month so might need to […]

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Measures to tackle the Gender Pay Gap

In August this year the Department of Justice and Equality commenced a public consultation, seeking views on measures to tackle the gender pay gap. Strength Within was delighted to be able to participate in this consultation, you can see our response here: Consultation Response – Strength Within – 4 October 2017

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