Dr Amanda Sterling
Leadership Coach and Consultant
“I believe that – in an age of increasingly complex problems – creating opportunities for women to progress into leadership isn’t just a social good but what workplaces need to survive and thrive”.
Dr Amanda Sterling
I partner with workplace leaders to remove barriers for women into leadership roles. My approach is unique for how I combine deep research insight and expertise with decades of practical experience.
After a career working in corporate leadership and culture change I made the decision to pursue a PhD on motherhood and leadership because of my own experience being passed over for a senior leadership role after becoming a mum.
My PhD (completed in 2023) revealed the barriers women continue to face progressing their careers into leadership. But it also revealed opportunities to better include women in leadership roles by challenging what gets rewarded and recognised as leadership.
I founded my consulting practice to use these insights to better help workplaces remove barriers for women into leadership roles.
But I wanted to provide more insights, actions, and resources – to make a difference for leaders championing the inclusion of women in leadership roles. The Four Factors for Women ® – its resources, and the Women Leading Workplace ® assessment – were born.
I am a neuroscience trained Executive Coach, author, and winner of the HRNZ award for Innovation for my work leading a global community of people and culture to create more humane workplaces.
I am also mumma to one human boy and a ragdoll kitten.
