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Continue reading →: You’re not the Team Therapist
We’re spending a few weeks talking about the Leadership Load, the invisible load that builds up over years of building expertise and supporting your teams. Today, we’re talking about the Carrier. There’s a version of this you’ve probably lived. A colleague comes to you, not with a technical question, but…
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Continue reading →: It’s Not Imposter Syndrome. It’s a Structural Problem.
Let me say something that I think a lot of women in engineering need to hear. That feeling you have, the one where you’ve delivered consistently for years, where your expertise is genuine and deep, where you’ve handled things that would have floored plenty of your peers… and you still…
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Continue reading →: What Kind of Leadership Load Are You Carrying?
I want to try something a little different this week. Over the past couple of months, I’ve been writing about microaggressions, office housework, technical credibility, and the exhausting invisible curriculum that women in engineering navigate every single day. And the response has been, frankly, overwhelming. Not because these are new…
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Continue reading →: Becoming Technically Credible Without Burning Out
There’s a particular expression I’ve seen on the faces of so many women in engineering: a sort of tight, polite smile that says: “I know exactly what I’m doing, but I’m also one minor comment away from rethinking my entire career.” Technical credibility is strange that way. Men often get…
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Continue reading →: The Hidden Curriculum of Engineering: What Women Learn the Hard Way
There are the things you learn in engineering school — statics, circuits, thermo, design principles — and then there are the things you learn only after you land your first job, sit through your first design review, get your first “Are you taking notes?” comment, or realise that everyone else…
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I’m Órlagh
I’m an engineer, speaker, consultant and coach. I’m here to help, no matter what your situation, but my specialty is working with women in engineering, how to empower them, make their lives better and encourage them to stay in the profession!
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