The Female Lead is a UK-based women's empowerment charity with 8.5 million followers, created by loyalty and data entrepreneur Edwina Dunn OBE. WHO ARE WE? Our mission at The Female Lead is to empower women. We help them overcome inequalities in society and business, by dispelling gender myths through our expertise in research and data and through content, sharing the stories of successful and inspirational women. We start in the classroom by promoting self-development and role models to girls in schools. We evolve our mission to the boardroom by working with businesses to prove women are an investment, not just a tick box. And throughout their lives and careers, we give women an online community that amplifies their voices and is an unbiased champion for conversations that matter to them at every age and every stage. We are a charity that uses all income to fund our work. Current Team: Edwina Dunn Rowena Humby Louise Ridley Beverley Brown Laura Whiteside Veryan Dexter Holly Francis Nün Stannard Paddy Spiers Freja Love Edmunds There are no other employees working for us at this time. Contact us: info@thefemalelead.com
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All of the Female Leads we have interviewed are driven by a curiosity about the world. There is always more to find out, more to be taught and more that you can be. 🌱 Find out about more of our Female Leads' qualities, and how to use them in your own life, in "When She's in the Room" by our founder Edwina Dunn OBE How has being curious empowered you? Comment below 👇 #whenshesintheroom
Ever feel like your reactions are way bigger than the situation calls for? @drjulie says old wounds can make us sensitive, and if we hide or numb the pain that's causing this, people around us might not get why we’re reacting so strongly. Healing is key. Does this resonate with you? Comment to let us know.
"The ex-Spice Girl has been an advocate for domestic abuse victims since she made claims in her 2018 memoir that she had suffered abuse from her ex-husband Stephen Belafonte, allegations he has repeatedly denied."
Good Housekeeping editor Gaby Huddart told us about her 17 years in the magazine industry and her passion for sharing women's stories at our #PrimeTime event to celebrate women over 40 last week. "There is not a single woman out there who hasn't got a story that's interesting, who has done something brave or shown resilience" 💃💪
EXACTLY 💪 Chloe Angyal
Talking about money can be taboo 🚫💰 But younger women are breaking the silence with "radical pay transparency" on TikTok, according to The Washington Post. Can sharing earnings help level inequality? Would you do it? Comment below 👇 Read the full article: https://shorturl.at/AhmRJ
“I’m finding this actually quite empowering because having been very sexualised from a very early age and literally everybody else in the process profiting from that sexualisation, it’s actually really fun to be in power and in control of something that I find so silly.”
"I don’t think I would have had the achievements I’ve had without the failures that have happened," Katarina Johnson-Thompson.
Ayo Sokale CEng MICE MAPM FRSA "I have always wanted to be the CEO but ALSO the love interest! I grew up reading Mills & Boon (my grandmother got me into them…!). And in those books it’s always the guy who’s the CEO who is super successful and flies jets and ends up with the cute girl who spins around like a ballerina, having all the fun in life. And it struck me even back then that I wanted to be both. I wanted to be the CEO and be successful but also have a ditsy, whimsical side to me. So I can still be in the moment, chat to the birds and hug the trees on my walk. The journey of my life has been amalgamating the two, so it doesn’t need to be one or the other ❤️" #ceo #becometheceo #femaleengineer #womaninstem #blackwoman #blackwomaninstem
Creator & Leader of The Female Lead. Author of When She's in the Room & Fulfilment Finder. Tech/Data Science Pioneer & Founder of dunnhumby. NED & Ex Chair of Starcount & Centre for Data Ethics & Innovation
We were treated last night at the Amazon headquarters where we celebrated the 40th birthday of Sane Seven, our amazing collaborator for our #PrimeTime project of 40 portraits of women over 40. I hosted a panel with Gaby Huddart, Editor at Large of Good Housekeeping; Deborah Joseph, European Editorial Director of Glamour magazine; and the wonderful novelist Rose Sandy (who also published my book!) The room was full of warmth as they told us about their career journeys and successes after 40. The idea of "giving your best 70%" by dropping the things you don't need to do will stay with a lot of us, I'm sure. #TheFemaleLead #women #empowering #WhenShesInTheRoom