It's Not a You Problem

Tina Yerkes, PhD spent three decades as the only woman in almost every room she walked into, from solo field assignments as a research scientist to boardrooms as an executive. She joins Danielle and Lauren to talk through what that felt like and what she's decided to do about it. What's covered: Tina's path from public school science teacher to PhD researcher to executive, including a remote Alaska fieldwork assignment where she had to pick a partner capable of saving her life if things went wrong, and by her own account picked the wrong man for the job Being introduced as "Ms. Yerkes" in a room of colleagues who all knew she held a PhD, and the small corrections she's had to keep making ever since The executive coach who told her she needed to act more like a man The stage moment, mid-career, where she announced to a room of friends and colleagues that she was writing a book Her closing message to any woman who recognises herself in these stories: it is not a you problem Tina's book, Change the System, Not the Women, will be available from Amazon from 29th September.