Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

Why Women-Led Businesses Are Winning with Head + Heart Leadership | (Podcast 488)

2 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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Excerpt from a Cameron Herold YouTube podcast episode (Podcast 488) discussing how women-led businesses benefit from a "head + heart" leadership style. Speakers emphasize that women often lead through empathy and direct, candid conversations; they note studies suggesting women feel less financially secure than men, which can shape a leader’s focus on understanding team members and meeting people where they are.

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Women have a different perspective to bring a different sense of leadership and one that's really grounded in empathy in real hard conversations but that are done with care. And I think too from a financial perspective women tend to feel less secure in their finances than men. That's just some studies that have been done in the industry. And so I think too coming from the place of also needing to meet the needs of making sure that you understand how everything fits together, it's not in let me tell you how it's done. Let me understand really where you're at so I can meet you where you are.
It's really interesting watching how women interact with each other where they just really throw the facts and feelings on the table. They know that by having the hard conversation the relationship is either going to get very, very strong or it'll fall apart because that hard conversation needed to be had anyway. But they won't avoid it.