Newsletters for Executive Women

Here you'll find our collection of leadership newsletters — thoughtful, practical insights written to support your growth as a woman in leadership.

Each edition offers guidance on real-world challenges, strategies you can apply immediately, and reflections designed to strengthen your confidence, clarity, and impact.

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Welcome to our newsletter library

Each edition is crafted to inspire, guide, and equip you for the realities of leadership.

Dive in to discover practical tools, reflective insights, and the kind of grounded wisdom that supports sustainable success.

What about MY priorities?

February 27, 2026 Hi Karyn I have a really bad habit of taking on other people’s goals and needs as if they’re my own and then never having time or energy to fulfil my own objectives. I’m always hyper-focused on my team, the department, the outcomes then somewhere along the way my own KPIs and…

I don’t think I can do this again

16 January 2026 Hi Karyn. You won’t remember me but we had a brief exchange on LinkedIn this time last year and you gave me some great advice. I didn’t ignore it exactly but I didn’t follow it very well either 🙁 And here I am back again in exactly the same place. I have…

How do I deal with anxious team members?

January 31, 2025 Hi, Karyn. It feels like we’re lurching from crisis to crisis at the moment and I feel like I’m spending way too much of my time trying to deal with anxiety in my team. To be clear, I don’t think things in our organisation are any more unstable or uncertain than they’ve…

I need a new job! I need it now!

February 14, 2025 Hi, Karyn. I need a new job. I NEED a new job. I can’t keep going on with the one I’m in. It’s not just about getting no satisfaction from it (which is important to me), my relationship with my boss is toxic and I’ve tried to make them happy and I…

It’s only January and I’m exhausted

January 17, 2025 Dear Karyn Last year you sent me a card about burnout and at the time I kind of shrugged it off. I was too busy to go to your event and anyway I really thought I was managing everything okay. Fast forward to now and I think I’m in trouble. I’ve come…

How do I respond to infantilising endearments?

December 6, 2024 Hi Karyn. This seems like a petty problem in the big scheme of things but it’s doing my head in so here goes. I work in a heavily male-dominated industry and have been in it for long enough to know how to deal with most of the sexism and micro-aggressions. The upfront…

How do I help somebody who doesn’t want to be helped?

November 22, 2024 Hi, Karyn. I’ve spent months warning my team that redundancies are coming and trying to get them to pull together and concentrate on how we can present our value as a team so we can avoid losing people. Most of them have responded really well but I have a couple who genuinely…

I identified bullying and now I’M on the outer

November 8, 2024 Hi Karyn I’ve been in a deputy role for around 9 months, working remotely from a team in the capital (working in the local office, but my team is all in the city). The job was advertised as a remote role and I voluntarily travel to the city one day each fortnight…

A special brand of Sunday Dread

October 25, 2024 Hi Karyn, would love some help with this. I’m in an organisation that talks a good game about work/life balance but we have a COO making life hell with his weekend email emergencies (that are never actually emergencies). On the most recent long weekend I got copied into emails on Saturday, Sunday…

READY TO TAKE THE NEXT STEP IN YOUR LEADERSHIP?

If you’ve found yourself nodding along as you read these newsletters — recognising your own challenges, frustrations, hopes, and ambitions — you’re not alone.

Executive women are carrying extraordinary responsibility while navigating pressures that traditional leadership programs don’t address.

Maybe you’ve felt the weight of high expectations, the exhaustion of being “the reliable one,” or the quiet ache of wondering if there’s more to leadership than pushing through.

These insights aren’t just ideas on a page. They’re the starting point for real, sustainable change.

If you're ready to develop your confidence, strengthen your leadership presence, navigate complexity with clarity, and build a career that feels authentic (not draining), personalised support is available.

You don’t have to figure this out on your own — and you weren’t meant to.

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