How I got here
From the only woman in the room to building one.
Retired US Air Force Colonel and Judge Advocate. International and domestic attorney. Professor of international criminal law. Managing Counsel, NATO Communications and Information Agency, Brussels.
I spent a career as a US Air Force Colonel and Judge Advocate. Twenty-two years, a 43-person legal team, and most of it as the only woman at the table. I practice law at NATO in Brussels now, teach international criminal law, and speak to organizations about what keeps women in the room.
I learned the leadership part the slow way, by getting it wrong in front of witnesses.
Then menopause turned up mid-career and I found there was a second conversation nobody was having either.
None of it was rare. All of it was silent.