E88 – Women, Leadership, and the Power of Self-Awareness with Rosalind Cardinal
A life-changing cancer diagnosis gave Rosalind Cardinal the opportunity to reassess everything—her career, her purpose, and the impact she wanted to have. Through six months of brutal treatment, she built a bucket list, and at the top of it was starting her own business. Now, she helps women navigate leadership, career transitions, and breaking through the invisible barriers that hold them back.
With insights from a focus group of over 500 women worldwide, she has explored why many female leaders feel stuck at the glass ceiling—sometimes questioning if they even want to break through it. She sheds light on the unconscious biases in recruitment, the hidden gaps in research that overlook female perspectives, and the cultural norms that shape how women are perceived in leadership compared to men.
In this episode, we delve into bias, culture, and the power of curiosity-driven self-awareness. We discuss how leaders can create thinking space, shift their internal monologue, and harness practical strategies like mindfulness, scents, and music to manage stress and overwhelm. Plus, we explore how the words we tell ourselves can shape our reality and why gratitude and emotional curiosity are key to effective leadership.
Rosalind Cardinal Contact Details/Links:
Rosalind Cardinal Bio:
After more than 20 years in corporate human resources and organisational development roles, a successful battle with cancer gave Ros the nudge to take her passion for transforming leaders and improving how individuals and organisations cope with change, in a new direction.
Leaving her senior corporate role in 2012, Ros established her consulting business, Shaping Change, to achieve her goals. Her inspirational business story was featured in the 2014 book “Australian Entrepreneur”.
Ros’ expertise spans strategic planning, leadership development, organisational culture, change management, emotional intelligence, and employee engagement. She is a multi-award winning leadership mentor and coach.
Popular Podcasts
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January of 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. My Favorite Murder is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.