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Speech Bubbles with Charlotte Otter

Be seen and heard as the leader you are.

A podcast that has conversations about reputation, diversity, and leadership with leaders from diverse backgrounds and diverse identities so that we can normalise their success, accept new models of leadership, take back power, and start to change the leadership status quo once and for all.
Occasionally English Germany Management · Business
6 Episodes

Giving Yourself Permission with Advita Patel

How a communications executive gave herself power to lead. In this episode, Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) President 2025, Advita Patel, charts her journey from quitting the restraints of corporate to building a purposeful working life by stopping looking to others for validation. Advita is an award-winning founder, communications…
23 Apr 34 min

Charlotte Reflects

Rewriting the rulebook on leadership, communication, and success. In this episode, leader and reputation coach Charlotte Otter reflects on the first three episodes of her podcast Speech Bubbles. She looks at how her first three interviewees are rewriting the rulebook on leadership, communication, and success. Charlotte engages with insights from…
16 Apr 17 min

A New Way of Working with Sara Daw

Finding freedom in the workplace. In this episode, Sara Daw (group CEO of the CFO Center and the Liberti Group and author of the business books Strategy and Leadership as a Service: How the Access Economy meets the C-Suite and Executive Freedom: How to Escape the C-Suite, Create Income Security,…
9 Apr 38 min

Power of Stories with Sarah Goodall

Learning her team's lived experience changed how Sarah leads. Sarah Goodall is an entrepreneur who turned her love of social media into an award-winning business - Tribal Impact - which has grown to 25 employees over nearly 10 years. In this open and sometimes vulnerable conversation, Sarah shows how opening…
2 Apr 35 min

Smashing Archetypes with Meg Bear

From outsider and the only woman in the room to tech exec. In this episode, Meg Bear (former president of SAP SuccessFactors, and formerly also a senior executive at Oracle and PeopleSoft) talks to host Charlotte Otter about overcoming obstacles in her leadership journey. Meg describes how she broke through…
27 Mar 44 min
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Welcome to Speech Bubbles

I'm a writer, communicator and former journalist. I'm also a former executive and leader of a large global team in a software company. This experience gave me a ringside seat around boardroom tables where I saw men of a certain background being shuffled to the top roles, other men failing…
20 Feb 3 min