Bridging the Confidence Gap
eBook - PDF

Bridging the Confidence Gap

How Empowered Women Change the World

  1. 211 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Bridging the Confidence Gap

How Empowered Women Change the World

About this book

A roadmap to self-confidence for women in leadership

Bridging the Confidence Gap: How Empowered Women Change the World is a startlingly insightful and inspiring discussion of female leadership by celebrated executive, business leader, and author Sheena Yap Chan.

Yap Chan delivers a transformative and fresh take on the challenges, pitfalls, and opportunities women face when they reach for the reins of leadership in business. She walks you through how to navigate those challenges and realize those opportunities with powerful observations drawn from a lifetime in business.

You'll learn to level-up your career as you discover how to increase your courage and promote yourself, just as you explore the benefits to you, your organization, and society that come from you taking on a leadership role.

You'll also find:

  • A formula for women's leadership you can replicate in your own life and job
  • Strategies for celebrating your remarkable achievements and supporting others in their own journeys through leadership
  • Techniques for overcoming imposter syndrome and the double standards that women face in the workplace

Perfect for managers, executives, board members, entrepreneurs, founders, and other other women in leadership roles, Bridging the Confidence Gap is a must-read for all professionals interested in a female perspective on the challenges and opportunities of leadership for women in business.

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Information

Publisher
Wiley
Year
2025
Print ISBN
9781394257614
eBook ISBN
9781394257638

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: The State of Women’s Leadership and Confidence
  6. Chapter 1 The Double Standards That Kill Confidence
  7. Chapter 2 Imposter Syndrome: Changing the Narrative for Women
  8. Chapter 3 The Gender Confidence Gap
  9. Chapter 4 Courage Before Confidence
  10. Chapter 5 Why Self-Promotion Empowers Women
  11. Chapter 6 The Confidence Era
  12. Chapter 7 The Benefits of More Women in Leadership
  13. Chapter 8 Ready, Fire, Aim: The Formula for Women’s Leadership
  14. Conclusion
  15. Notes
  16. Acknowledgments
  17. About the Author
  18. Index
  19. EULA