24: Women's Leadership: My Journey with Lynne Sedgmore CBE

In this episode Lynne shares her personal leadership journey and
thoughts on women's leadership. Lynne was born into a
working-class community, and travelled a long and fascinating
journey to the top of the educational establishment.  Lynne
draws on two defining influences that have shaped her work,
feminism and spirituality.  Lynne now runs her own
leadership programme based on Goddess spirituality.  She
believes that creating a separate and sacred space outside of
mainstream leadership development allows for counter-cultural
innovations to emerge that can challenge the patriarchal thinking
that continues to define leadership practice.  Lynne is an
inspirational leader and speaker and I hope you enjoy this
podcast.



BIO
Lynne was born into a working-class mining community, and had a
successful mainstream career in FE as a lecturer and college
Principal. She has been a national education influencer, becoming
CEO of a national institute and working at Prime ministerial
level with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Lynne has received many
awards and was given a CBE in 2002.  Throughout her journey
spirituality has been core to her being.  Lynne is now a
Priestess and Founder of the Goddess Luminary Wheel leadership
development programme. She is an elder who coaches individuals
and teams in a range of organisations, especially charities. Her
work on spirituality in the workplace received international
recognition with books and articles written on her unusual
contribution.  Lynne has a Doctorate in spiritual
leadership, has published 3 poetry collections and her new book
Leading through the Goddess will be published later this
year.