Tag: workplace equality

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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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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Gender Pay Gap Symposium

I was privileged to attend the Gender Pay Gap Symposium in Dublin earlier this month, here’s my summary of the event: http://herizon.ie/2018/01/16/gender-pay-gap-symposium-10-january-2018/ If you would like to learn more about inclusive workplace practices, maternity coaching and career returners, please get in touch claire@strengthwithin.ie, www.strengthwithin.ie. You can read out Gender Pay Gap consultation submission […]

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First Thrive Global Article!

This month I was delighted to have my first article published on Thrive Global. If you’re not familiar with Thrive Global – it’s Arianna Huffington’s venture, offering daily advice, insight and inspiration. There’s a dedicated channel for women and work – see here. Here’s a link to my article:https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/17341-redundancy-and-maternity-leave-finding-my-strength-within-and-thriving-through-change

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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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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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Free Coffee Mornings: Back to Work After Baby

Before becoming a parent, I hadn’t ever really given much thought to mum & baby community support groups, or possibly no thought at all. I knew that parenting was tough-going (everyone said so) and I kind of thought that maternity leave would be a bit monotonous and tedious, but rewarding […]

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Thriving Through Change: reflections on Inspirefest 2017

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/thriving-through-change-reflections-inspirefest-2017-claire-flannery I had the privilege of attending Inspirefest 2017 in Dublin this week. For anyone who hasn’t heard of this yet, it’s the world’s leading event on STEM and Inclusion. To quote inspirefest.com, it’s a “truly unique international festival of technology, science, design and the arts, which places diversity and inclusion at […]

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