I say it in every room I walk into. “The greatest untapped resource we have on this planet is the unrealised potential of women.” I said it again this week, sitting across from two senior men in an organisation, with James beside me. I said it the way I always say it - not as a provocation, not as a pitch, but as the thing I know to be true in my bones. And they agreed with me. I don’t take that for granted. I really don’t. Not right now. Here’s what I get to witness. I get to see women walk...

Every year, organisations invest significantly in women's leadership development. Mentoring programmes. Skills workshops. Confidence coaching. Networking events. And yet the pipeline remains stubbornly narrow. The attrition continues. The senior leadership tables stay largely unchanged. The numbers tell a stark story. In Ireland, just 19.2% of chief executives are women, a figure that has barely changed in two years. In the UK, women occupy 42% of board seats in large companies, but only 10...