Female Leadership

Kerstin Plehwe

Recording: YesLanguage: English, GermanDuration: 45 min / 15 minSpeaker rating: 4.5/5 from 490 participants across all their sessions
Female Leadership

This one works well as a lunch and learn: accessible from the first minute, nothing to prepare, and easy to join for one hour of the day.

Session Summary

Female Leadership is in high demand in organizations but numbers show that often women are still not present at the tables of power. In this talk Kerstin shares powerful insights into the careers and learnings of outstanding female leaders she has worked with, from Olympic athletes and top politicians to Nobel prize winners and female CEO’s .

Join this interactive session and be inspired from the leadership secrets of women like Angela Merkel, Dr. Shirin Ebadi and Jutta Kleinschmidt, the first female winner of the Dakar race. This session is a must for any women aspiring to grow – and also a highly interesting session for men.

Interaction

During the expert session, Kerstin Plehwe engages the audience through storytelling, live demonstrations of courage and resilience, and interactive exercises using the Mentimeter app. She shares her personal experiences and interviews with successful female leaders to emphasize the importance of self-confidence, purpose, communication, adaptability, and teamwork in female leadership.

The session concludes with thought-provoking questions on self-care through the Mentimeter app, encouraging participants to prioritize their health for peak performance and positive impact.

Key Learnings

Embracing Self-Confidence

Cultivating self-confidence is essential for achieving personal and professional success as female leaders, drawing inspiration from the experiences of influential women like Angela Merkel and Hillary Clinton.

Purposeful Leadership

Having a strong sense of purpose and vision in leadership enables effective communication and adaptability, as illustrated by the stories of courageous women like Afghan activist Zah Pagad and German Olympic athlete Berget Fisher.

Overcoming Limits and Discovering Potential

Stepping out of comfort zones and embracing new experiences is crucial for personal growth and unlocking one's potential, as demonstrated through examples like Kerstin Plehwe's own journey to becoming a ranger in South Africa and founding Voice of Afghan Women.

Detailed session description

In this expert session, entrepreneur and motivational speaker Kerstin Plehwe shares valuable insights into the topic of female leadership. The session begins with Kerstin expressing her passion for empowering women in all industries and reflecting on her encounters with influential female leaders such as Angela Merkel and Hillary Clinton.

She shares how their self-confidence and purpose have left a profound impact on her, inspiring her to embark on a mission to interview successful female leaders worldwide.

Throughout the session, Kerstin emphasizes the importance of self-confidence in achieving leadership goals. She draws from interviews with these women, who all stressed the significance of having faith in oneself and one's abilities.

Kerstin also highlights the importance of having a strong sense of purpose and vision, using Afghan women's rights activist Zah Pagad as an example. Zah shares her inspiring story of standing up against gender inequality in Afghanistan and fighting for girls' education during the Taliban regime.

Courage is another essential quality Kerstin discusses in the context of female leadership. She encourages everyone to develop their self-confidence through personal practices, citing examples of women who have taken bold steps to overcome challenges and make a difference.

Communication and adaptability are also crucial skills for effective leadership, which Kerstin illustrates using examples from various successful female leaders.

Kerstin's session includes a discussion on the importance of taking action swiftly and effectively as part of any successful leadership journey. She emphasizes teamwork and appreciation for those around us in achieving personal and professional excellence.

Kerstin further encourages participants to step out of their comfort zones and discover their potential, drawing parallels from her own experiences of becoming a ranger in South Africa and climbing Mount Everest from both sides.

Throughout the session, Kerstin emphasizes the importance of having a clear personal purpose and vision in life and encourages audience members to identify their comfort zones and challenge themselves with new experiences that align with their values. She also discusses women and power, urging participants to redefine power positively and overcome limiting beliefs.

As the session comes to a close, Kerstin offers recommendations for inspirational biographies and personalities that can help inspire and lift one's spirits. She concludes by emphasizing the importance of prioritizing self-care and creating a life that gives energy rather than draining it.

The session ends with an invitation for participants to reflect on their own self-care habits and invest in themselves to be at their best and make a positive impact on those around them.

Before you book

Questions about Female Leadership

Is this session interactive, or do people just watch?

It is interactive, and the block above says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.

Is this for beginners or for people who already know the subject?

Female Leadership is in high demand in organizations but numbers show that often women are still not present at the tables of power. In this talk Kerstin shares powerful insights into the careers and learnings of outstanding female leaders she has worked with, from Olympic athletes and top politicians to Nobel prize... It is built for a general working audience: no prior knowledge is assumed, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction.

Would this work as a lunch and learn?

Yes, and it is one of the sessions we would suggest for it. There is nothing to prepare, it is accessible from the first minute, and an hour over lunch is enough to do it justice.

Is Kerstin the right expert for this?

Kerstin Plehwe is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.3 out of 5, across 490 responses, and rate Kerstin personally 4.5 out of 5.

How long does it take, and what do we have to prepare?

It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Kerstin, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.

Who can join, and where does it run?

A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.

Can our global colleagues follow it?

The session is delivered in English, German. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.

Will our IT department have a problem with this?

No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.

How does this work under GDPR?

We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.

What do we get afterwards?

You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.

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