Sonia Brown MBE

Discover how to test a #festive #promotion before you spend 👉 nbwn.net/event-details/seaso… @JJyabbas @WomenintheCity @womenintech @TheWomensOrg @cwowomen

2 hours until 👉 nbwn.net/event-details/crisi… I’m bringing one question. As a journalist @EvadneyC what was usually the first sign that a leader didn’t know what their own organisation already knew? What’s yours? @JJyabbas @WomenintheCity @womenintech @TheWomensOrg @cwowomen

I’m asking myself before tomorrow. When did someone last tell me I was wrong & did they ever do it again? If the honest answer makes you pause, join us tomorrow ▶️ nbwn.net/event-details/crisi… @TrowsdaleGary @worldafroday @BerksBlackBiz @BBMBMC @MetBPA @ClaudiaWebbe @LDCRE1 #Crisis

Here's the paradox of reputation. The truth can win the argument & still lose the opportunity. If someone is cleared after the decision is made, who restores what they lost? ▶️ nbwn.net/post/survive-the-st… @TheWomensOrg @DefendWindrush @WEScotland #YouBelongHere

We can track a parcel across continents, yet struggle to connect a woman's symptoms across medical appointments. Perhaps the problem isn't a lack of information, it's what we fail to do with it. ▶️nbwn.net/post/the-health-cri… @womenoffaith @GUBAAwards @LesterJHolloway @JJyabbas

Then we wonder why problems surface too late. I’ll be in conversation with @shilohpr @EvadneyC about exactly this ▶️ nbwn.net/event-details/crisi… @CurzonPR @JJyabbas @Janet_Hills @rudiglobal @joycefletcher18 @foluke @WomenintheCity @womenintech @TheWomensOrg

An open-door policy means very little if people have learned what happens when they walk through it. I’ve seen talented women, especially #Blackwomen raise the right concern at the right time & walk away labelled “difficult.” #womeninSTEM #womeninleadership #YouBelongHere

Something I keep coming back to. The more senior you become, the more people tell you what you want to hear. Not because they’re dishonest. Because they’ve learned which truths are welcome. That should worry every leader, me included #WomeninLeadership #WomeninBiz #womeninSTEM

Starting in 30 minutes ⏰ Grab your seat, bring your questions, and bring a colleague who needs to hear this. nbwn.net/event-details/menop… @womenintech @GLBSLTD @Janet_Hills @shilohpr

#WorldMenopauseDay was on Sunday. But menopause in the workplace isn't a once-a-year conversation. Thursday we're talking about what happens after the awareness posts stop. Free webinar nbwn.net/event-details/menop… @chandlerlou @FarzanaBaduel @LaurenChiren @LibDemDiversity

#Managers If an experienced woman on your team seems "not herself lately, the question isn't what's wrong with her. It's what your culture makes her afraid to say. Tomorrow | 6pm UK | Free nbwn.net/event-details/menop… @MetBPA @NursesSikh @LDCRE1 @WMPBAPA @BBMBMC @BerksBlackBiz

Your closest contacts may be giving you something valuable. Trust. The next opportunity sits at the edge of your network, with someone who knows what your usual circle does not. Read: nbwn.net/post/when-networks-… @womenoffaith @GUBAAwards @LesterJHolloway #YouBelongHere #Networking

Stop asking how many people you know. Ask what your relationships can actually move. A large network can still have very limited economic reach. Read: nbwn.net/post/when-networks-… @TheWomensOrg @LaurenChiren @DefendWindrush @WEScotland #WomeninLeadership #Networking #YouBelongHere

You were not the slowest person in the room. You are still playing by the old rules. AI can retrieve information. It cannot inherit your 20 years of judgement, context & pattern recognition. Start translating experience into influence. Join the discussion: nbwn.net/group/careertalk-1/…

Perhaps the uncomfortable feeling is not that AI has made you irrelevant it is what happens when the market reprices the expertise you spent twenty years building. The question is “Where has my value moved?” Join the discussion: nbwn.net/group/careertalk-1/… #YouBelongHere @JJyabbas

Perhaps we have been measuring the wrong thing. A #diverse room tells us who got through the door. It does not tell us who has influence once the decision starts. That distinction matters. More: nbwn.net/group/diversity-inc… #YouBelongHere @womenintech @GLBSLTD @Janet_Hills @shilohpr

There is a difference between a life that looks successful & one that feels true when nobody's opinion mattered or watching. What would you actually want?” Join the conversation: nbwn.net/group/sistas-in-spi… #WomeninLeadership #YouBelongHere @GUBAAwards @Janet_Hills @Gifty_Enright

We spend years learning how to achieve, but considerably less time asking whether the achievement still belongs to us. Join the conversation: nbwn.net/group/sistas-in-spi… #YouBelongHere @womenintech @WomenintheCity @TheWomensOrg @LaurenChiren @BBMBMC @FarzanaBaduel @chandlerlou