Podcast – Women in Leadership
Episodes
Lorraine Cooke Value Yourself, Look After Your Finances
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Women prioritise everyone else over themselves about everything but they shouldn't, especially when it comes to their finances so says Lorraine Cooke ...
Women and Peacebuilding UWE Conference Naples 2025
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'Women's voices and skills for a future of peace' Naples 2025. In this report voices from women who attended the conference of University Women Of Eur...
Anna Mezzetti The Magic of Micro Forest Making
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The pace of climate change can seem overwhelming especially as we witness hotter summers, more flooding and more natural disasters around the world. W...
Helena Doyle Living The Dream
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Helena Doyle Living The Dream Travel Business COO of 5 Star Villa Holidays is the guest. She believes in having a go and self belief being focussed an...
Georgina Woodstra Holding It Together
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It is all about the team, not silos or star leaders when it comes to getting the best out of people according to Georgina Woodstra the latest podcast ...
Sarah Perugia Be Authentic Not Perfect
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Perugia talks to Angie Mezzetti and discusses the challenges women face in leadership, including imposter syndrome and micro-aggressions. She hi...
Carolyn Watson Conducting Her Way
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Women Conductors of orchestras, why do reviewers comment on their costume rather than their conducting? Why do women conductors still face unconscious...
Dr Jackie Maalouf – Motivate yourself and don’t expect support
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Jackie Maalouf says that despite advances for women worldwide, there will always be impediments because of the pull of the motherhood and caring ro...
Nuala Walsh Tune In to Lead Smarter
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nuala Walsh author of "Tune In, How To Make Smarter Decisions In A Noisy World" joins the podcast with Angie Mezzetti to discuss the importance of m...
Prof Jacqueline Dunkley Bent Advocating Takes Courage
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Advocating for women before during and after birth is the life's work of Prof Jacqueline Dunkley Bent OBE Chief Midwife with ICM International Confede...
Ali Cox Getting Serious About Sustainable Farming
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ali Cox CEO of Noble West believes consumers, especially women consumers want to see food become safer and farming become more sustainable. That invol...
Regina Mangan Smarter Faster Better
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Regina Mangan Liberty Blue Estate Agents and Author is the guest on the Women In Leadership podcast. She talks about the need to live by your values a...
Dr Louise Kavanagh McBride Self Care and Reflection
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Louise Kavanagh McBride on Challenges In Nursing Dr Louise Kavanagh McBride Chair of the NMBI talks about the retention of nurses and midwives, ...
Nina Noonan Power of Reflection and Blossoming
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nina Noonan is the guest on this episode of Women In Leadership. She says systemic barriers still exist for women in the workplace and often companies...
‘The World Needs More Women in Leadership Mnà’ UCC IWD 2024
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
International Women's Day in UCC University College Cork was celebrated with a series of presentations and discussion on the subject of 'why the world...
Learning the Secret Sauce of Leadership
03 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Learning The Secret Sauce of Leadership for women. Navigating the territory of leadership for women is not easy. There are unwritten rules that are no...
Aine Murray It’s A Balancing Act
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Aine Murray podcast guest says women still need reminding of their potential and their achievements especially when it comes to promotional opportunit...
Sue Deagle Illuminating and Living In The Moment
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Deagle talks about surviving grief and loss and even daring to thrive. "We're told in society, when you go through grief, it's this five stages, i...
Dr Orlaigh Quinn Trail Blazing Secretary General
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Orlaigh Quinn the guest on this podcast is one of a rare breed. She rose through the Irish Civil Servant to become the Secretary General or head of...
Katie Honan ‘How To Fall Flat On Your Face’
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Actor Katie Honan talks about becoming a successful playwright thanks to the pandemic which gave her the headspace and time to work on creating work s...
Sharon Rogers Ph.D Creative and Tenacious in fighting Alzheimer’s Disease
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sharon Rogers Ph.D is one tenacious woman who has dedicated her career to neuroscience and to finding creative ways to work with others in the search ...
Marah Curtin It’s Your Money So Let It Grow
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marah Curtin Director of Client Engagement and founder of femolutionist talks about women and investing in this podcast with Angie Mezzetti. The big...
Sara Phelan SC Practical, Paperless and Pro Diversity
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Phelan Chair Bar of Ireland says Equitable briefing really means equality across the profession of barristers. She talks about the new Equitable ...
Get Into Honest Communication – Sabrina Shaheen Cronin
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Wise Counsel Sabrina Shaheen Cronin Sabrina Shaheen Cronin is not your typical lawyer. She is also a musician and actress who takes the job title of c...
Women in a Post Covid World from Women In Media Ballybunion Part 2
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Women in the post Covid World. What has changed in the workplace, in the home and in the wardrobe? Discussion from Women In Media Ballybunion 2022
Women In Media Conference podcast 3Hs that matter to 4 women
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Three Hs that matter to women. The first of two podcasts from Kilcooley's Country House Hotel Ballybunion the home of Joan O'Connor's Women In Media C...
Susan Hunt Stevens on Leading Sustainably
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Hunt Stevens – Leading Sustainably Susan Hunt Stevens is CEO of WeSpire a technology company that runs employee engagement campaigns using...
Caitriona Gleeson – Getting Women Elected
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Catriona Gleeson CEO of Women For Election says men or women don't have to be up in Dublin for the sake of it. "There's actually an opportunity to r...
Dr Catherine Day Citizens Hungry for Change on Gender Equality
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Citizens' Assembly is strongly calling for change, and not just change at the margins, but big changes in our system to make it more gender equal....
Seonadh Johnson Three Pots Philosophy
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There is also a fear of wealth destruction by taking risk. Investing for long term takes a bit of thinking about Seonadh Johnson believes. "The tempta...
Dr Joanne Kenney – Champion of Women In Research
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Joanne Kenney Champion of Women In Research Dr Joanne Kenney is one of the Co Directors and leaders of WIRI, Women In Research Ireland, with Dr Sus...
Rachel Hussey The Serious Business of Gender Equality
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Hussey Gender Equality is Everyone’s Business When Women Thrive, Everyone Thrives Gender equality is now a serious business matter and on...
Charity Kabango This money is for you!
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Rwanda It is pretty phenomenal to see what can happen when you allow women into the ranks of leadership.
Dion Johnson Healing Collective Trauma
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"This is in the ether this is in the atmosphere and this is what we women are up against when it comes to being seen, being heard and taken seriously ...
Prof Maura McAdam Navigating family business
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
McAdam believe we all need our tribe around us. We are not born having the right people to turn to. We need others with similar experience to share ou...
Annie Scranton Book Her!
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Annie Scranton Booking the best Annie Scranton books guests for TV radio and media events. She has gone from working in network TV in the US where it ...
Tamara Gillan ‘She’s Got This’
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tamara Gillan CEO Wealthiher Network Tamara Gillan is the CEO of the Wealthiher network, an entrepreneur, change-agent and champion for female empower...
Bernadette Phelan Maintaining Urgency On Sustainability
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bernadette Phelan Instilling Urgency in Sustainability. We need to focus on 2030 she tells the Women In Leadership Podcast
Niamh Dunbar Get Your Own Board of Advisors
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Presenteeism no longer an option in COVID times. Niamh Dunbar's research with Irish female leaders
Linda Hogan, Finding The Light
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Prof Linda Hogan Sustainable Leadership in Difficult Times Has there ever been a time when ethical leadership has been more needed? From sustainabilit...
Noelle O Connell Champion Of Change
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Noelle O’Connell on Championing Change Noelle O Connell is the Executive Director of the European Movement in Ireland and in the podcast she tal...
Karen Ní Bhroin World Class Risk Taker
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Karen Ni Bhroin Assistant Conductor Winston Salem Symphony is the guest on the podcast. She shares her story so far and talks about taking risks and i...
Dr Michelle D Cullen Focussing on the Big Picture
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Focussing on the Big Picture Dr Michelle D Cullen is a familiar name to anyone who follows equality and particularly gender equality initiatives and i...
Frances Fitzgerald Valuing Women’s Voices
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Critical Mass and Voice of Women Is A Necessity Frances Fitzgerald MEP is tired of waiting for social change, that will benefit women and children...
Sharon Bowers Women in Publishing Turning Over New Leaves
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sharon Bowers Literary Agent says things are much better now for women in publishing.
Naysa Mishler Cutting through red tape COVID19
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Naysa Mishler Cutting Through Red Tape in COVID19 Staying true to real leadership values
Emily Foges – Listen Learn Do
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Foges Listening and learning from clients. "There is no point in crashing about if you haven't really listened and really understood."
Fidelma Greene Real Authentic Leadership
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Answer that call. The world needs more feminine leaders to find their voice and be visible be the change.
Sarah Blake It’s Easy Being Green
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kermit the Frog used to sing that ‘it’s not easy being green’. According to Sarah Blake of Earthology though, it is easier than you ...
Patricia Bradley – Be Compelling
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This Women In Leadership podcast episode has a terrific guest for you Patricia Bradley, a trailblazing executive paving the way for women and minoriti...
Lisa Shumate ‘Always and Never’ Principles
15 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Always and Never 20 truths for a Happy Heart This week’s guest on the Women in Leadership podcast is Lisa Shumate who has written a book for the you...
Journalism Matters Aine Kerr COO Kinzen
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
JOURNALISM MATTERS Áine Kerr COO with Kinzen Áine Kerr, Chief Operations Officer with start up Kinzen, believes journalism is changing rapidly (agai...
Are We There Yet? Women Inequality and Media with Anne O’Brien
16 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Women Inequality and Media Work Women’s Voices and women’s stories are still not getting aired at the same rate as mens. This is what co...
Joyce Walsh and Pam Skerritt IITD Shine Sisters
10 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Women Who ‘Shine’ in Training and Development Joyce Walsh and Pam Skerritt Pam Skerrit and Joyce Walshe ‘shine’ when it comes ...
Dr Marisa Ronan Working Quietly Against The Machine
01 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Working Quietly Against The Machine Have a listen to the podcast right to the end and you will get the meaning of the headline, it relates to Marisa&#...
Lorraine Hariton Catalyst for Change
08 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lorraine Hariton A Catalyst for Change “The world is changing and rapidly but sometimes old patterns are hard to change,” so says Lorraine Hariton...
Dr. Sabina Brennan Animated About Healthy Brains
21 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
100 Days To A Younger Brain Dr. Sabina Brennan has good news about staving off dementia and adding an extra two healthy years to later lives. ‘...
Martina Fitzgerald on ‘Madam Politician’
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Martina Fitzgerald Martina Fitzgerald RTE’s Political Correspondent talks about the progress women politicians have made in Ireland as well as t...
Ali Sheridan Making Sustainability Relevant
24 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Getting Real About Sustainability ALI SHERIDAN Sustainability Lead for IKEA Ireland In this episode of the Women In Leadership Podcast, Ali Sheridan ...
Helen Carroll Says Put Your Hand up!
27 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Put Your Hand Up! Helen Carroll is the new Head of Communications and Partnerships with Business to Arts in Ireland and she is the guest on this episo...
Joan Mulloy – Wild Atlantic Woman
28 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Global Ambitions for Irish Woman Joan Mulloy Joan Mulloy is a solo sailor from Mayo on the west coast of Ireland. She’s on top of her game, havi...
Dr. Shawn Andrews, Time for Men to Support Women in Leadership
13 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Time to Enlist Men as Sponsors Doctor Shawn Andrews says if we are to improve the position of women in the workforce and in society, we have to enlist...
Theresa Siaw
06 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Theresa Siaw is Director of Business Development at OMNI Healthcare and she also focuses on various philanthropic elements in the neighbourhood of Hum...
Linda Smith On Maximising Your ‘Kick Assets’
20 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Linda Smith On Maximising ‘Kick Assets’ Linda J Smith is on a mission to empower women to use their ‘kick assets’ which they a...
Edel Creely on Courage and Encouragement
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Courage, Cyber Space and Carousel Edel Creely on the Women In Leadership Podcast The multi talented Edel Creely of Trilogy Technologies and President...
Get Your ‘Go To’ Grove Song
25 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lessons in Leadership in 7 Songs from the Women In Leadership Podcast with Angie Mezzetti Music is one of those things you can tap into in your head t...
Kelly Roach – Get A System and Look after Yourself
06 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Align yourself with people who can help you Kelly Roach is a business coach from USA. She is a former NFL Cheerleader and has boundless energy when it...
Carol Andrews on Calling It Out
28 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Listening, Learning and Calling it Out Leading woman Carol Andrews of BNY Mellon and the 30% Club Lead in Ireland, is the guest in this episode of the...
Clodagh Hughes of WoW – Empowering Women to Thrive Not Just Survive
07 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The WoW effect in the workplace requires relentless focus, relentless measurement. These are some of the key pieces of advice Clodagh Hughes of Motive...
Eimear Caslin of GSK – Maternity Leave No Big Thing Anymore
24 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Eimear Caslin says the business world is learning to work with women going on maternity leave and particularly coming back from leave and she sees how...
Sandra Healy on Why We Can’t Wait for Change
20 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Why We Can’t Wait for Change It is going to take 180 years if we want to wait for gender parity, according to Sandra Healy Head of Diversity a...
Niamh Gallagher #morewomen for election
15 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Women For Election wants to get #morewomen into Irish politics. Bridging the gap, getting women from ‘being busy in the background’ to ...
Suzanne Anderson – Upgrade How You Live, Love and Lead
07 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Suzanne Anderson of ‘Mysterial Woman’ is the guest on this podcast. Suzanne is a psychologist, executive leadership coach international sp...
All Changed film for WiSER extract
29 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Newstalk ‘Banking On Women’ Radio Documentary
20 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Banking On Women Radio Documentary If Lehman Brothers had been Lehman Brothers and Sisters would we have had the financial crisis? This documentary as...
Jennifer Davis Own Your Career and Find Balance
19 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Davis is the guest on this episode of the Women In Leadership Podcast. She is the Chief Marketing Officer with Planar a multi million dollar...
Gillian Harford on AIB Equality Initiatives
06 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Gillian Harford of AIB on Diversity Initiatives Gillian Harford heads up human resources planning and strategy in AIB and this is an exciting week for...
Dr Anne Laure Humbert Quotas Are They Desirable?
03 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
‘What we treasure we measure,’ is the motto of Dr Anne Laure Humbert who is a senior research fellow at the Global Centre for Gender and L...
‘All Changed’ Film About Women in Trinity
10 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
https://vimeo.com/161458030 Click this link to see the film WiSER All Changed Women had to be off campus by 6.30pm, there were restrictions on wo...
Sustainability and Diversity Prof Beate Sjåfjell
16 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Prof Beate Sjåfjell brings a whole new insight in the real meaning of ‘sustainability’. A Professor of Corporate Law and an expert on sus...
Prof Dame Ann Dowling – Why we need more creative women in engineering
17 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dame Ann Dowling, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambrid...
Esther Weinberg on ‘No Retreating’
22 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Most women are great at advocating for others but when it comes to advocating for themselves that is a different story. So says Esther Weinberg of the...
Sandra Ondraschek of Catalyst on Engaging the Majority
17 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
“We’ve done Diversity the wrong way round, we started with the women,” according to Sandra Ondraschek-Norris Senior Director with C...
Monique Svazlian Tallon on Leading Gracefully
10 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Monique Svazlian Tallon joins us from the US to talk about what she has learned about leading gracefully. It is the title of her new book ‘Leadi...
Mary Carroll on Finding Your Voice and Using your WITS
04 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Carroll is Vice Chair of WITS Ireland -Women in Technology and Science. Mary is a mechanical engineer now working with companies to improve thei...
Margot Slattery CEO Sodexo on How Fantastic Things Can Happen…
02 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Margot Slattery CEO of Sodexo in Ireland says Letting Go of your expectations of yourself and opening yourself up to the unexpected is one of her thre...
What’s So Great About Work?
03 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Women are much more ‘purpose oriented’ in work by about 10% according to a survey by Arthur Woods of Imperative. “Women are really drivi...
Marion Courtney McKillen advises younger women to be ‘On Guard’
21 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
DUWGA is the Dublin University Women Graduates Association (Trinity College). Last Autumn DUWGA under the Presidency of Marion Courtney McKillen hoste...
Professor Nancy Hopkins MIT
02 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Nancy Hopkins of MIT visited WiSER at TCD to talk about ‘Stemming the Leaky Pipeline The MIT approach’. She had some valuable ...
Veronika Hucke on Networking
28 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Independent Consultant Veronika Hucke from Germany talks about how women’s networks can work to improve employee engagement. Veronika was a gues...
Lynda Barnes, MD 360 Search
26 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Lynda Barnes is the Managing Director of 360 Search in Baggot Street in Dublin and they are a specialist recruitment company who work and focus on sen...
Petronela Zainuddin on Creativity at Work
15 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Petronela Zainuddin of Good Morning Creativity is a woman on a mission to awaken the innate creativity in us all that tends to get stifled particularl...
Catherine Guy, Managing Partner, ByrneWallace
08 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
There’s Something About Catherine Catherine Guy is the only woman to head up one of Ireland’s Top Ten law firms. She is not the first and ...
Missed Opportunities for Women in Sports
21 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Women In Leadership at# FEWomen15 Brussels met Paola Ottonello Policy and Communications Assistant, Gender Equality in Sport, European Commission In ...
Quotas, Data and Making the Case for More Women In Leadership -Louise Glennon of the NWCI
14 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Louise Glennon is Women In Leadership Officer with the National Women’s Council of Ireland. In this episode of the podcast she says we need to g...
A Sense Of Adventure – Lieutenant Commander Mary Lane of the Irish Naval Service
18 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
“You have to want a sense of adventure, the Naval Service needs well qualified technical people.” It is obvious just be listening to her t...
Bright Spark and Mover – Brid Horan of the 30% Club Ireland
04 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Brid Horan is on the Steering Committee of 30% Club Ireland. She is a non executive director at FBD and DCU and is Former Deputy CEO of the ESB (the E...
Vivienne Jupp, Wise Woman And Champion Of Diversity
25 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Vivienne Jupp is Chairman of CIE and is also on several other boards including the Irish Hospice Foundation. She has had a terrific career with Accent...
Julie O’Neill
29 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Julie O Neill a proud Wexford woman, is former Secretary General of The Department of Transport in Ireland and a board member of both Ryanair and Perm...
Niamh Bushnell Dublin Commissioner for Startups
27 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Females make great leaders and operators. So says Niamh Bushnell the new and first Dublin Commissioner for Startups. Female entrepreneurs in Dublin sh...