# Cynthia Fortlage

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Episode 8 - Navigating Workplace Transitions: A Journey of Inclusion and Understanding with Cynthia Fortlage

Join Cat Wildman and Cynthia Fortlage as they dive deep into the complexities of gender transition in the workplace. Drawing from Cynthia's personal experience as a C-suite executive who transitioned, this powerful podcast explores the critical importance of creating inclusive policies, understand…

Internalised Misogyny, Allyship, and the Cost of Fitting In

Welcome to the first official episode of Holding It Both Ways — a podcast about leadership, paradox, humanity, and strategy. In this opening conversation, Cynthia Fortlage and Katie Allen dig into the hard-to-name, often-unspoken realities that shape how women show up in leadership. Katie brings de…

When Equal Isn’t Enough – with Emily

In this final episode of the Gender Equity Rebels series, Cynthia Fortlage sits down with Emily Button-Ham, founder of Emily Button Coaching, to discuss the reality behind Pay Gap Day in the UK (15 November 2023). What begins as a conversation about the numbers quickly becomes something more deeply…

The Courage to Rethink Power – with Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas

In this episode of Gender Equity Rebels, Cynthia Fortlage sits down with Professor Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas to explore the intersections of gender, power, privilege, and purpose within the global fashion industry. As a seasoned academic, a social impact leader, and the first UK winner of the prest…

Beyond the Good Girl: Working Mothers, Burnout & the Bias Traps

Gifty Enright joins Cynthia to get practical about the real pressures facing working mothers—and what leaders can do beyond platitudes. We unpack why parents are the most stressed demographic, how the “good girl” social script and performance bias stack the deck against women, and why meritocracy o…

Small Teams, Big Culture — Leading Well in SMEs (with Heather McDaniel)

SMEs run hot: fewer people, faster decisions, and almost no safety net. In this conversation, Heather McDaniel shares how small and medium enterprises can build strong cultures without big‑company budgets. We explore the realities of “trial‑by‑fire” leadership, what to do when training is thin, and…

If Not Now, When? Clarity, Courage & Simple Systems with Jeanne Omlor

Jeanne Omlor joins Cynthia for a straight‑talk conversation about moving from hesitation to action. We explore how to build a values‑aligned business (or team) by choosing clarity over complexity, getting crystal‑clear on the offer, who it serves, and the result it creates—and then using simple, re…

Older Queer Voices E13 rewriting Family - transition , Parenthood & Love

We hear about transition.We rarely hear about the children who live through it.This exclusive episode brings together a trans woman and her daughter in a first-ever public conversation about family, rupture, migration, and what love becomes when truth changes everything.Cynthia Fortlage lived much …

Cycles, Gender & The Power of Listening ...with Cynthia Fortlage

I am incredibly honoured to welcome Cynthia Fortlage as my next guest on The Bloody Truth. Cynthia is an award-winning consultant, speaker, and strategist whose work centres on inclusive leadership, gender impact, and psychological safety. With over 25 years in senior leadership and a deep commitm…

Leadership Needs Empathy and a Backbone

In this episode of Holding It Both Ways, Cynthia Fortlage is joined by leadership coach and Next Level University co-founder Alan Lazaros for a conversation about the tensions great leaders learn to hold. Drawing on his own journey through loss, ambition, professional success and a life-changing ca…