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Learning to lead from our feminine power in male dominated spaces [S1 E5]

by Noomi Natan | 11 Apr, 2023

Nanna Bülow Mertz has enjoyed a highly successful career in the financial sector – something she didn’t expect as a creative young person with an interest in architecture. She started out as a Student Assistant at Danish investment bank Saxo Bank, and quickly found that the work ‘was fun and felt right’. Her first full time position saw her working under a visionary female boss, who set her on the path to successfully navigating a male-dominated environment, while staying in her feminine energy.

Since then Nanna has held leadership positions including Global Head of Onboarding at Saxo Bank, leading a team of 500, and her current role as Head of Customer Operations at Pleo.

In this conversation Nanna shares:

Her experiences of working in male-dominated environments – and how she’s navigated crying at work
Why she’s learned to honour her intuition in the workplace
How she’s found trying to balance career and parenthood amid structural inequalities
Her observations about women demanding too little at work – and her advice on how we can value ourselves more highly and ask for more.