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I’m speaking to you today because I spent 20+ years thinking that the tools I needed to succeed and drive my career were and needed to be dictated by others.

The magic tricks that helped me were my pants, my boots, my uniform and I needed those because without them, my colleagues, largely male, wouldn’t have listened to me.

They wouldn’t have recognised and responded to me as a professional, let alone a professional woman.

It took me years to learn to be true to myself, to be authentic and to be assertive in a skirt!