The Generalist Code - MUST HEAR!

Last Friday I stood in front of a room full of women from industry, logistics, energy and ports. The theme was how we shape the next generation of changemakers.

In my panel sat a young woman in her late twenties. She told the room she felt she did not yet have the level of detail her peers had. That she was still catching up.

I asked her one question: is it possible that you are a generalist?

She went quiet. Because she recognised something.

In this episode I unpack what that moment revealed — about the misidentification that keeps capable women silent, about why the gender pay gap is as much a recognition problem as a negotiation problem, and about what actually changes when a woman stops measuring herself against a standard that was never designed for her profile.

The generalist is not the specialist who has not yet arrived. She is the leader the boardroom cannot function without — in a role that almost nobody has ever correctly named for her.

This is The Generalist Code.