Female Innovators at Work

Why, as women, there has never been a better time to stand up and finally be counted.

At the end of last year, LinkedIn asked what my prediction was for 2017 and naturally, I said “The rise of women.” The post I wrote on this was entitled Rise of the Women (in Tech): How the biggest disruption next year will come from women, not robots, and can be found here.

The reason I am so bullish on this is because I believe now is the first time in history that we have a voice. But it is still critical that we band together to support each other and tell the stories of female role models so that we create our own legacy, and to inspire future generations into fields which might once have been regarded as male-dominated.

This is one of the reasons I wrote Female Innovators at Work. The book tells the back-stories of twenty amazingly inspirational women in tech and is available on Amazon. It was really important to me to seek these women out and tell their unique and compelling stories — the lessons they learned, the hurdles they overcame, the successes they share.

So as we bid adieu to the month which sees us celebrate women with International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, I thought I’d share an exclusive look at why I wrote this book, taken from its introduction: