Ep 26 - Elevating Women with Disabilities Into Leadership

While some people are more naturally inclined to seek out leadership roles than others, it’s possible for anyone to grow into a leader.Leadership fundamentally starts with yourself, your experiences, and how you’ve led yourself through life’s ups and downs. Good leaders know how to pick themselves back up after a challenge; they’re resilient.The challenges I’ve faced again and again as a result of living with a disability have actually become something of a leadership superpower, because they’ve made me incredibly resilient. Today, I want to talk about why resilience is about more than bouncing back, how my experiences have helped me lead myself and others, and my vision for helping other women with disabilities elevate themselves into leadership.Listen to the full episode to hear:How resilient leaders not only get back up after a challenge, but believe in themselves enough to forge a path forwardWhy it’s okay to shift focus and recalibrate when a project isn’t workingHow challenging social conceptions of what a woman with a disability is capable of throughout my life has shaped my leadershipMy dream for my next big project and how I want to make an impactLearn more about Molly KennedyMolly Kennedy Consulting