When women tell me they are attending imposter syndrome training to improve their confidence, I always tell them; stop wasting your talent and time on imposter syndrome training. All that energy focused on fixing yourself when there is nothing wrong with you. You ARE an imposter. Capitalism is a system currently serving the few not the many. Of course, you feel out of place. Feeling like you don’t fit into a system that has many many problems is your superpower. It gifts you the ability to see more clearly what needs to change. Now that you have freed yourself from the additional labour of more training, you can use that space to ask bigger questions of yourself. I have no doubt the corporate system wants you. But what do you want? What would it look like if rather than trying to appease the old, you found the courage to have a vision for something new?

This matters because the problems of the world are too big for you and I as individuals. But they are not too big for business. We have to harness the power of business if we want to see real change in the world. That can only happen through us. This is true irrespective of your gender. We must develop the clarity and the courage to become the leaders that make business better.

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