Female Leadership: How Women Lead Without Imitation

Tash Koster-Thomas

Recording: YesLanguage: EnglishDuration: 45 min / 15 minSpeaker rating: 4.8 out of 5 from 193 participants across all their sessions
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Female Leadership: How Women Lead Without Imitation
Tash Koster-Thomas
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Tash Koster-Thomas

Tash Koster-Thomas (she/her) is an Inclusion and Diversity Consultant, presenter, speaker, and LGBTQ+ Activist who stands at the forefront of transformative conversations. Leveraging her identity and lived experience as a Black queer woman, Tash champions the cause of diversity and inclusion in both society and the workplace. Tash understands that embracing diversity is not only a moral imperative but also a strategic advantage. She is committed to guiding organizations through transformative journeys that go beyond compliance, fostering cultures that champion diversity, equity, and inclusion at every level. With a blend of enthusiasm, professionalism, and a results-oriented approach, Tash has built a diverse portfolio of projects across various sectors. Her passion for creating change is evident in her client work, which spans both the public and private sectors. Previous clients include Mercedes Formula 1, Disney, Google and Unilever. Tash supports organizations in developing more inclusive and equitable cultures through discovery, strategy, education, and coaching.

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Session Summary

What can leadership look like when women stop measuring themselves against a template that was never built for them? Tash Koster-Thomas explores why so few women make it into senior roles despite the demand for female leaders, the biases and self-imposed limits that get in the way, and how women can lead with their own strengths rather than imitate what already exists.

Key Learnings

1. Why the numbers do not add up

Why so few women reach senior roles despite the demand for female leaders, and what sits behind the gap.

2. The barriers, inside and out

The biases, expectations and self-imposed limits that get in the way, and how to recognise them.

3. Leading on your own terms

How women can lead with their own strengths instead of imitating what already exists, and how colleagues and managers can support them.

Detailed session description

This session looks at what leadership can look like when women stop measuring themselves against a template that was never built for them. Tash Koster-Thomas explores why so few women make it into senior roles despite the demand for female leaders, the biases and self-imposed limits that get in the way, and how women can lead with their own strengths rather than imitate what already exists.

It is an energising and down-to-earth session, open to everyone in the organisation, with concrete takeaways for women who want to grow and for colleagues and managers who want to support them.

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Questions about Female Leadership: How Women Lead Without Imitation

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

No prior knowledge is assumed. It is built for a general working audience, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction. What the hour itself covers: What can leadership look like when women stop measuring themselves against a template that was never built for them? Tash Koster-Thomas explores why so few women make it into senior roles despite the demand for female leaders, the biases and self-imposed limits that get in the way, and how women can lead with their...

Is Tash the right expert for this?

Tash Koster-Thomas is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.5 out of 5, across 193 responses, and rate Tash personally 4.8 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 Tash, 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. 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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