Episode 24: Leadership Transitions, Feminist Dilemmas, Soft Winds and the Roses

The Gender at Work Podcast

G@W has a new Executive Director - madeleine kennedy-macfoy. Welcome madeleine!

In this episode, we introduce madeleine and invite the past EDs of Gender at Work to think about what the opportunity and challenge mix has been over the decades at G@W and what learnings and dilemmas they have to share with Madeleine as she steps in. We build on a theme that we’ve explored over the past episodes of the podcast: feminist leadership transitions. Like many of those we interviewed, we tried as much as possible to interject feminist principles into the leadership transition and were somewhat successful while also learning in the process. The EDs speak of early choices about co-leadership, the virtual structure of G@W, and dilemmas and questions connected to the emergent nature of the work and how that shaped power dynamics, ownership, accountability and culture. Join us in our praxis of reflection-action-reflection and share with us your feminist dilemmas.

This is inspired by a Gordon Lightfoot song and Joni’s “for the Roses”