Sue Watson
After decades in leadership roles and developing leaders in Aotearoa New Zealand, Sue has spent the last two years researching her birth family history and leaning into creative pursuits as a tool for connection, healing and acceptance.
Managing leadership roles by day and exploring her own history in her downtime, Sue has found that honouring the truth of her family history has unlocked a powerful foundation for her leadership practice.
Sue believes leadership is most powerful when it is strongly connected to our purpose, whakapapa and life experience. In challenging the narrative that to succeed as a leader, we need to present a sanitised version of ourselves, Sue has embarked on several creative projects exploring the past, present and purpose, anchored by her own experience of adoption.
To read more about Sue’s work in the leadership space, visit her business website here: www.connectedleadership.co.nz/
Connected Leadership: Wisdom For Women Who Lead
By Sue Watson
Endorsed by Helen Clark, Connected Leadership is an urgent and empowering read for women leadership in New Zealand, Australia, and beyond.
Women are stepping into senior leadership roles in greater numbers than ever before. Yet, many find themselves exhausted, isolated, and questioning whether they want to stay. Burnout is on the rise, equal footing is far from a reality, and more women leaders are choosing to leave their roles.
Connected Leadership offers a different way forward.
Read more about Connected Leadership here.
A powerful, moving, and darkly-honest memoir.
Sue Watson grew up in a perfect, loving nuclear family, a white-picket fence, quarter acre paradise. But all was not quite as it seemed.
Sue and her sister were adopted, and one day when Sue as a young woman was studying in Wellington, she received a letter from her birth mother Elizabeth Winters. This began a life-long journey to discover the shadowy truth of her past.
Read more about Finding Cynthia Winters here.
Finding Cynthia Winters
By Sue Watson
Coming Soon
Connected Leadership book launch 17 August, Auckland
All are welcome to join our discussion and celebration around Sue Watson’s latest release.
Discover the book endorsed by Former Prime Minister Helen Clark!
Photo Credit: Michael Stephen
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