Bridging the Confidence Gap: How Empowered Women Change the World
A roadmap to self-confidence for women in leadership

Bridging the Confidence Gap: How Empowered Women Change the World is a startlingly insightful and inspiring discussion of female leadership by celebrated executive, business leader, and author Sheena Yap Chan.

Yap Chan delivers a transformative and fresh take on the challenges, pitfalls, and opportunities women face when they reach for the reins of leadership in business. She walks you through how to navigate those challenges and realize those opportunities with powerful observations drawn from a lifetime in business.

You'll learn to level-up your career as you discover how to increase your courage and promote yourself, just as you explore the benefits to you, your organization, and society that come from you taking on a leadership role.

You'll also find:

  • A formula for women's leadership you can replicate in your own life and job
  • Strategies for celebrating your remarkable achievements and supporting others in their own journeys through leadership
  • Techniques for overcoming imposter syndrome and the double standards that women face in the workplace

Perfect for managers, executives, board members, entrepreneurs, founders, and other other women in leadership roles, Bridging the Confidence Gap is a must-read for all professionals interested in a female perspective on the challenges and opportunities of leadership for women in business.

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Bridging the Confidence Gap: How Empowered Women Change the World
A roadmap to self-confidence for women in leadership

Bridging the Confidence Gap: How Empowered Women Change the World is a startlingly insightful and inspiring discussion of female leadership by celebrated executive, business leader, and author Sheena Yap Chan.

Yap Chan delivers a transformative and fresh take on the challenges, pitfalls, and opportunities women face when they reach for the reins of leadership in business. She walks you through how to navigate those challenges and realize those opportunities with powerful observations drawn from a lifetime in business.

You'll learn to level-up your career as you discover how to increase your courage and promote yourself, just as you explore the benefits to you, your organization, and society that come from you taking on a leadership role.

You'll also find:

  • A formula for women's leadership you can replicate in your own life and job
  • Strategies for celebrating your remarkable achievements and supporting others in their own journeys through leadership
  • Techniques for overcoming imposter syndrome and the double standards that women face in the workplace

Perfect for managers, executives, board members, entrepreneurs, founders, and other other women in leadership roles, Bridging the Confidence Gap is a must-read for all professionals interested in a female perspective on the challenges and opportunities of leadership for women in business.

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Bridging the Confidence Gap: How Empowered Women Change the World

Bridging the Confidence Gap: How Empowered Women Change the World

by Sheena Yap Chan
Bridging the Confidence Gap: How Empowered Women Change the World

Bridging the Confidence Gap: How Empowered Women Change the World

by Sheena Yap Chan

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A roadmap to self-confidence for women in leadership

Bridging the Confidence Gap: How Empowered Women Change the World is a startlingly insightful and inspiring discussion of female leadership by celebrated executive, business leader, and author Sheena Yap Chan.

Yap Chan delivers a transformative and fresh take on the challenges, pitfalls, and opportunities women face when they reach for the reins of leadership in business. She walks you through how to navigate those challenges and realize those opportunities with powerful observations drawn from a lifetime in business.

You'll learn to level-up your career as you discover how to increase your courage and promote yourself, just as you explore the benefits to you, your organization, and society that come from you taking on a leadership role.

You'll also find:

  • A formula for women's leadership you can replicate in your own life and job
  • Strategies for celebrating your remarkable achievements and supporting others in their own journeys through leadership
  • Techniques for overcoming imposter syndrome and the double standards that women face in the workplace

Perfect for managers, executives, board members, entrepreneurs, founders, and other other women in leadership roles, Bridging the Confidence Gap is a must-read for all professionals interested in a female perspective on the challenges and opportunities of leadership for women in business.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781394257614
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 05/06/2025
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

SHEENA YAP CHAN is a keynote speaker, podcaster, consultant, and bestselling author dedicated to empowering all women, with a focus on leadership and confidence. Through her work, she inspires women to embrace their authentic selves, step into leadership roles, and amplify their voices. As the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book, The Tao of Self-Confidence, she is on a mission to foster stronger, more authentic representation for women and to equip them with the confidence to lead boldly and unapologetically.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The State of Women’s Leadership and Confidence 1

Chapter 1 The Double Standards That Kill Confidence 7

Chapter 2 Imposter Syndrome: Changing the Narrative for Women 33

Chapter 3 The Gender Confidence Gap 51

Chapter 4 Courage Before Confidence 75

Chapter 5 Why Self-Promotion Empowers Women 89

Chapter 6 The Confidence Era 111

Chapter 7 The Benefits of More Women in Leadership 127

Chapter 8 Ready, Fire, Aim: The Formula for Women’s Leadership 151

Conclusion 161

Notes 163

Acknowledgments 177

About the Author 179

Index 181

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