Vanessa Vershaw

Vanessa Vershaw, author of Unreasonable Ambition: Renegade thinking for leaders to create impossible change is an award-winning speaker, facilitator and peak-performance coaching psychologist, entrepreneur, and transformation strategist. She is a trusted advisor to executives, key decision-makers, ASX-20 and Fortune 100 organisations globally.

Vanessa Vershaw is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. Connect with her through LinkedIn. For more information, visit the author’s website CLICK HERE.

Big Business

Beyond gossip and games – how to create a culture of female empowerment at work

Big BusinessVanessa Vershaw

Picture this: A talented, driven woman walks into a leadership meeting, armed with insights and ideas that could transform the business. Yet, before she has the chance to speak, the conversation shifts to idle chatter, a game of workplace politics, and an unspoken hierarchy that keeps certain voices in the...

CEO Insider

Mentors vs. Sponsors: Why Women Need Both to Climb the Corporate Ladder

CEO InsiderVanessa Vershaw

We’ve all heard it before - get a mentor, build your career, rise through the ranks. And yes, mentorship is powerful. But if mentorship is the foundation, sponsorship is the rocket fuel that propels women forward. Having the right people in your corner can make all the difference. As a...

Special Reports

How to think like a renegade and take radical action to create new solutions at work

Special ReportsVanessa Vershaw

To succeed in the new world of work, it’s thinking like a renegade that will help CEOS create new solutions to wicked problems and get ahead. Almost overnight, it feels like the world has changed. Change is causing a storm in the world, and humanity is caught in the maelstrom....

CEO Explainers

The value of small talk as a powerful empathy tool

CEO ExplainersVanessa Vershaw

We are living in an era in a revolution of human relationships where technology has pushed us further apart in life and at work. To solve for an uncertain future, it’s become mission critical for leaders to build empathy as a non-negotiable skill and work more closely with others to...

CEO Insights

What it’s like being a real life Wendy Rhoades

CEO InsightsVanessa Vershaw

“I’m a high-performance coach.” “You’re a what?” “A high performance coach.” And then I’d see it on their faces. The reaction instant. Palpable. The furrowed brows, the looks of bewilderment – people dazed and confused. The look that says “you just sound like a weirdo to me”. I could see...

CEOWORLD magazine

Vanessa Vershaw

Beyond gossip and games – how to create a culture of female empowerment at work

Mentors vs. Sponsors: Why Women Need Both to Climb the Corporate Ladder

How to think like a renegade and take radical action to create new solutions at work

The value of small talk as a powerful empathy tool

What it’s like being a real life Wendy Rhoades

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