Melanie studied biology at the University of Cologne (Germany). For her Ph.D., based at the University of Bristol, she worked with the critically endangered Sahamalaza sportive lemur in north-west Madagascar, before conducting behavioural research on non-human and human primates at the German Sports University, Cologne. Melanie is the founder of Th…

I speak to Prof Julie Bernhardt. Julie is a clinician researcher, NHMRC Established Fellow and Senior Principal Florey Research Fellow at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne. Julie has been working with people with stroke for 30 years. She is Head of the Stroke Division at The Florey and leader of the AVERT Early Inter…

I speak to Hayley Sudbury founder & CEO at WERKIN, an application that helps you track and activate mentoring and career development programmes for your people. In the podcast, we speak about how rage gets the job done, the importance of owning your work and how wine, cheese and irrelevance make her the leader she is today.…

Angela Spang the founder and owner of several companies, she is Swedish but lives in UK. She describes herself as an optimistic introvert and full of ideas and solutions. She has a patent in the US, and 6 innovation projects that she is developing. And she has been shortlisted for the First Women Entrepreneur Of The Year 2017.…

I speak to Karen Massin CEO Burson-Marsteller Brussels. Karen has worked for Burson-Marsteller for nearly 17 years ago and joined the company after completing internships with the United Nations, UNHCR, and the European Commission. In the podcast, she talks about the importance of being authentic and having a strong set of guiding values and ethics…

In this podcast, I speak to Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez, Top Quark Analysis Group convener at CERN. As well as finding out exactly what a Top Quark Analysis Group convener does we talk about the challenges of leadership as a woman in physics. Rebeca shares her story and views of gender bias in science and her passion for taking pictures of lonely chairs…