5 Things That Only Successful Female Leaders Understand

Karl Sprague
The Startup
Published in
11 min readJan 2, 2020

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Something doesn’t seem right.

You are hungry to advance your career and to get more ______ (you fill in the blank — more responsibility, more visibility, more authority, more opportunity, more income).

It just doesn’t seem to come as fast as you’d like.

And you’re sure that beyond lip service, other people don’t really understand what you’re going through.

A lot of your business interactions seem to take place in a culture that was set up a generation ago and didn’t account for someone like you. Or your work has you confronting full-on Bro culture…and it is exhausting.

The rules you have to play by seem to be different. Is it just you? Are you being paranoid?

You’d like to approach your future with confidence. And to make sure you are making progress. Every day.

Over the last fifteen years I’ve worked closely. with dozens of female leaders, from solopreneurs to corporate executives, and from start-ups to international companies with more than $1 billion in revenues. During that time, I’ve witnessed certain approaches that have worked extraordinarily well for women leaders.

Here are the common ideas that successful female leaders understand. They’re also the strategies that…

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Karl Sprague
The Startup

Executive Coach, Teacher, Trainer, Speaker and Storyteller