Gemma Stow

Gemma specialises in supporting Tech companies to create strong female talent pipelines in the workplace so that companies can retain and promote valuable employees.  Her work focuses on the importance of visible leadership for women’s career progression.

Tech firms are always striving to have more diversity around decision making tables so that they can increase innovation and thought leadership in their sector.  They need to stand out for the service they provide and this requires leaders to be confident with being visible.

In a male dominated industry like Tech this can lead to difficulties especially for high performing women who either don’t have the confidence or skillset to be more visible and create a personal brand that they can leverage with networks to build the company’s reputation.

Executive coaching for visibility has a huge impact on those women who are ambitious, driven and keen to up their game and take their careers and companies to the next level of success.  Key benefits show that it helps women to;

• Influence decisions so that they can make faster and smarter decisions and not relying on management to do all the heavy lifting
• Impact change in organisation so that their stakeholders relationships make it easier to influence change and they are role models for the rest of the company
• Create powerful internal networks so that projects run effectively within budget
• Take control over career development so that can highlight themselves saving pressure on L&D and save recruitment costs and also skills that make them stronger leaders long term
• Build brand recognition so that it helps attract more talent to the company and reduces recruitment costs. Also shows thought leadership promoting the company’s reputation as an industry leader
• Selling themselves at interviews makes it easier for companies to evidence promotions, retain best talent and have successful succession planning pipelines.

Gemma is an ICF accredited coach in personal performance and qualified trainer with over 20 years experience of working in behaviour change and management.  Founder of No More Hiding Ltd and the No More Hiding Podcast.

Areas of expertise to support female leaders to:

• Explore the expectations of visible leadership so that they can identify specific challenges that stop them from achieving their individual and team objectives and position themselves within the company to create and influence new opportunities and promotions for succession planning.
• Identify their own leadership style and strengths so that they can step up,  take ownership of their career progression and maintain and showcase their high levels of performance whilst hitting key targets for the business.
• Learn networking strategies so that they can build strong key stakeholder relationships and increase their influence internally at at their company and and externally with partners to build its reputation.