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What Women REALLY Want in EMPLOYERS and Leaders Today?

4 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief interview, the speaker emphasizes that women seeking career growth should prioritize value alignment with their employer, as this alignment has led to long tenures and successful matches. The conversation highlights that career needs evolve over time, making it essential to choose organizations that can grow with an individual’s changing priorities. Additionally, the speaker discusses the tech sales sector, noting its unusual salary transparency and warning against pursuing large compensation packages without fully understanding the role’s responsibilities and fit.

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What should women be really looking for in an employer or leader to ensure that then their career can evolve with them?
Yeah, and it's interesting you say that because it is a journey that you go through. Like you say, different things happen in your life along the journey. The one thing for me that stands out is that you need to have value alignment. So I need to make sure I've got a company where my personal values align to the values of the business. That is where I've had the most amazing matches. I've had 10-year-plus stints. And I can see back to the roles that haven't worked out, that value alignment was not there. So when I look back, I think I'm not surprised that those few roles didn't quite work out. The other thing I see here too is that in tech sales, and it's an interesting industry in that salary is often, you know, lots of people are very open in their salaries and so forth. And it's an industry like no other from that perspective that I've seen. But I see sometimes people chase the large packages. without looking at what the entirety of that role looks like.