Episode 156 - How to Breakthrough Barriers to Bigger Leadership Roles

Season 1, Episode 156,   Jan 31, 10:14 PM

We women face a powerful barrier, an often invisible obstacle that we must break through to make it anywhere close to bigger leadership roles. It is not the glass ceiling—it is the mirrored door. Listen to learn processes to overcome seeds of doubt that hold us back.

Ellen Taaffe
Ellen Connelly Taaffe is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, where she teaches Personal Leadership Insights and is the Director of Women's Leadership Program.

She spent 25 years with Fortune 500 companies holding the top brand management post at divisions of PepsiCo, Royal Caribbean, and Whirlpool Corporation. Ellen serves as an independent board director for two public and one private company boards, runs a leadership advisory consulting, speaking, and coaching business, and is a TEDx speaker.

She shares her insights on leadership, careers, and advancing women and inclusion through her writing and speaking in media like Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Business Insider, and more.

Ellen believes in encouraging women to step into their own leadership, let go of past messages and behaviors that block them, and realize their possibilities.

From her teaching, coaching, and investigation into existing research, Ellen has learned that today’s women are prepared to work and lead yet face the same hurdles she did years ago.

Ellen saw that society seemed to have glossed over the challenges women face, navigating workplaces full of old systems, bias, and a lack of role models, amid a greedy culture that rewards careers at the height of women’s childbearing and caregiving years.

Her goal with her book ‘The Mirrored Door’ is to share the realities she has seen and to enlighten women on their way.

In this episode, Ellen shares how to set boundaries and overcome people-pleasing behaviours in her professional and personal life.

She talks about how to shift from thoughts to action using a four-part framework and how to succeed without struggle or self-judgment.

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