<img decoding="async" src="https://aghy.me/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/working-out-loud-book.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-156 lazyload" width="164" height="250"/> If you haven’t read John Stepper’s book Working Out Loud I highly recommend it. As I was reading it recently, I had to realize, I’ve been doing exactly this in the last fifteen (or even more) years. Probably, not that conscious though. Reading the book, I did not only had numerous “Aha!” moments, but also decided to c

‘Thought Leader’ and ‘Influencer’ are very much buzz words across the digital space (that’s another one!). Very few people who become leaders in this field actually set out to self-style themselves to be a thought leader or influencer in my opinion. I think they just did their thing, shared it, and people began to be interested and a following developed. Digital marketing has made it an aspirational value to be a leader of this style. We are encouraged to now position ourselv

Like any journey, achieving professional success can take a round-about route. In my mentoring work, it is not uncommon to hear of frustration when dealing with this reality. We all tend to imagine (especially when we are young), that the point from which we start out, to the point of reaching our professional goal(s), is a straight line, upward, trajectory. For some people, this can be the case, but this is rare. In most cases, circumstances occur which have the potential to

The majority of professional women work in a male-dominated industry sector. In areas where the majority of the workforce is made up of women, quite often the power base is held by male bosses. In the IT sector, where I have spent my entire career, it is certainly the case that women are in the minority at all levels of business. We frequently see reports reminding us that women still generally earn less than male counterparts. We know that less women reach positions of senio