Welcome to Confessions of Corporate. How to get ahead navigating and thriving within the corporate business all while being authentically you! We’ll be discussing important topics that affect how women are seen, heard and represented in the corporate world.

I hope you learn something from it, and would love to hear your experiences on the topics discussed or share what things you’d like my thoughts on.  

My story

Some of you may be wondering how I have the merit to be sharing about such an important topic. So I thought where best to start than with my story.

As a young girl and into womanhood, I always felt driven, felt different, felt powerful to do something to challenge the norm. In my year book as I left school, I was given ‘most likely to become Prime Minister, I am very grateful to not have that tough job!’ I found a nack for understanding how the world of business worked. After graduating at 22 I started my first ‘proper’ job at the bottom of the tree; as a product marketing executive to cover a maternity cover for 6 months. What I have learned along the way that no matter how you get into something, always expect the unexpected. Within 5 years I learnt my craft, worked my network, surrounded myself with the right people and became Director of the same company. A story the business had never seen before. A company that was bought for nearly 1.5 billion dollars, near enough 3000 people and operational in over 30 countries. Not bad, eh?! But this journey wasn’t all pretty and smelling of sweet roses, the hard work, the knock backs, the unconscious and conscious bias was all part of making me both successful but confused as to who I actually was and wanted to become. Driven by money, status and the desire to be liked and respected by others fed my behviours and sometimes my decision making and while I don’t regret any of that, I am now at a point where I think I could’ve been even more successful had I worked on me earlier and consistently. Had I known a little bit more of what was instore for me, the way in which the corporate environment operated and even more so private equity backed businesses, I wouldn’t have sacrificed the way I did. 

This is not a bashing on those workplaces, I LOVE what I do, I will go back into the corporate world, but without the blinkers, without the imposter syndrome but more on what the beauty and beast can look like and how I can manage my way through it, remaining authentically me! And I’d like to help you do the same. 

As I share this with you, I am looking out my office window onto the Cotswold countryside, breathing deeply, empowered that Confessions of Corporate is going to heal me, empower me but also perhaps inspire other women and give back to others, as many people have given to me. 

x L x