The author’s latest book is ‘Lift As You Climb: Women and the Art of Ambition’
At a conference in central London recently, I finished giving a talk and watched the audience stream out of the room, faster, it seemed to me, than in pre-pandemic times.
Couldn’t wait to get away from me? Probably. Or just being practical about the precious ticking minutes in which you must go to the toilet, grab some overbrewed coffee and a stale pastry, “network” with a colleague you have worked with for two years but only just met and quickly plough back to your seat to receive yet more in-person downloads about wellbeing, self-care and psychological safety? Definitely.