Female Leadership Workshop at L'Oreal

Start with
Your Voice
A Workshop for Female Leaders
& Drivers of Change
L’Oreal | March 2021
With Terri Trespicio

What’s it like to be
heard?
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What’s it like to be
ignored?

There isn’t a person in this
room who doesn’t want
women to succeed.

We still believe there’s not
enough room for us.
The problem?

We still think
we’re fighting
over one slice.

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McKinsey and LeanIn.org surveyed 329
companies and more than 68,000 employees. 
Half the women surveyed have been
interrupted or talked over in meetings. 
Around 40 percent watched other people
take credit for their ideas.
2019 Women in the Workplace
Report

2019 Women in the Workplace
Report
For every 100 men promoted or hired at the
manager level, only 72 women were hired or
promoted to manager.
Men end up with 62% of manager jobs while
women hold just 38%.
The “broken rung” theory has been posited as the
biggest obstacle for women re: leadership.

We can’t have expectations
of men if we can’t raise those
expectations for ourselves.

There is no growth or
progression without
trust

L’Oreal has taught us
We’re worth it.

You’ve achieved gender equity at
the top. Zero pay gap.
You’re making amazing strides.

Top 5 most gender-balanced
companies of the world
in Equileap's Global Gender
Equality Ranking
You’re making amazing strides.

Metrics are like climbing
anchors.

This is where the work
begins, not ends.

And it doesn’t mean you
“feel” secure.

Attempt to undo all of sexism, everywhere.
What we’re NOT going to do

Make sweeping decisions about how we’re
“supposed” to act or be

Man bash.

Criticize, question, or judge each other.

Access a part of you that you don’t always get
the chance to use.
What we ARE going to do

Turn our attention to your story.

Learn to listen and respond  
with a new set of tools.

Establish a container of safety and support

I spent the first part of my career
crafting ideas in and for media.

I hosted a live radio show for years.

Today, I change the way people
think about, talk about &
communicate what they do.

Um is this thing on?

“Stop searching for your
passion” 6.7M views

How we were raised, encultured,
and taught affects how we talk,
what we value, and how we listen.
Fact!

Men tend to be rewarded for
standing out, showing status.  
Women tend to be rewarded for
playing down their achievements
and being inclusive.
Fact!

Kathryn Heath, Jill Flynn and Mary Davis Holt,
“Women Find Your Voice,” Harvard Business Review
More than a third [of men] indicated that
when their female peers do speak up, they
fail to articulate a strong point of view.  
Half said that women allow themselves to be
interrupted, apologize repeatedly, and fail to
back up opinions with evidence.
“

Men are not your enemy. In
fact, many of them would love
nothing more than to
champion you.
Fact!

There’s something that tells
women that being seen is unsafe. 
(Try a million years of
experience.)

If we’re going to rise, to be seen
& heard, and help others to do
the same, we can’t just “muscle”
through it. We need to
thrive

You’ve heard (ad nauseum) to get
OUT of your comfort zone.
I disagree.

Take us very far out of our
comfort zones, and our brains
stop paying attention to anything
other than surviving the
experience.
Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, “The Feedback
Fallacy,” Harvard Business Review (April 2019)
“

We learn most in our comfort
zones.…It’s where we’re most
open to possibility, most creative,
insightful, and productive.
“

Welcome to your
Comfort zone

idiosyncratic
Excellence is
“

People don’t need feedback.
They need attention to what
they do best.
“

So why is this hard?

Your brain has a
negativity bias
(so negative
thoughts stick
more).
Rick Hanson, Hardwiring Happiness

You’ve been
taught to
believe
criticism is
“good” for you.

You’ve been taught to
compete with instead
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Criticism
shuts down
your
creativity.

“Can I
give you
some
feedback?”

This is
way, way
better.

‘While the critical method
sharpens the mind, it dulls the
heart. We fail to see what is right,
what is working, what is good.”
Patricia Madson, Improv Wisdom
“

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How do we access the brilliant,
creative, generous, not-anxious
part of us?
So.

We go back
to the page.

Our relationship to the page began
a long time ago.

This is where
we were
conditioned to
distrust
ourselves (and
each other).

Squeeze
We call it the

…But it can also feel like this.

Let’s get on
the same page.

This is a methodology created by
Suzanne Kingsbury to help us
quiet the critic and amplify your
creativity and intuition.

Began as tool for busting
through writers block.

We do it by listening to what works.

you’ll start to see it in
your own.
Train yourself to look for genius in
others’ work, and

How this works
• You’re brought into a state of relaxation and
heightened attention
• You’re given a prompt and a few minutes to write
• You share your work (optional!)
• You comment on the work by pointing out what’s
working

WHY this works
• We remove fear of criticism/judgment
• We ease the fight or flight response
• We give ourselves the chance to connect with
story, memory, intuition
• We’re given a rules AND room to explore
• We create a safe container in which to listen and
share without repercussions

What does it mean to have a
safe space?

The Rules of Engagement

The Rules of Engagement
• No disclaiming
• No criticizing, questions, suggestions
• We focus on what works
• We stay on the page
• We refer to the “speaker,” “narrator,”
not by name

I’m going to give
you a prompt.

And you’re going
to write for just
a few minutes.

What does this do?
• Taps insights you wouldn’t have considered
• Changes the tenor of conversation
• Gives us another way to view work
• Shifts us out of fight or flight
• Trains us to look for patterns of genius
• Teaches us to separate work from person

Ready?

Your prompt…
A time you spoke up.

Time for
feedback

How to comment
• Choose one thing you loved: a word, a
phrase, a moment
• Reflect back what you heard
• Stay on the page with the writer

OK! So where can you put
some of this into
Action?

Where can you
• Point out what’s working
• Catch someone in their moment of genius
• Advocate for someone or something
• Encourage another woman to speak
• Create a safe environment for others to share

Everyone is talented, original,
and has something important
to say.
Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write
“

Thank you!

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