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In 2012, leadership consulting firm Flynn, Heath, Holt collected feedback on 1,100 female executives, examining over 7,000 surveys in total. This research was inspired by a recurring problem that the businesswomen they coached had - an inability to make themselves heard during meetings. 2014-06-12-MicrophoneTheatre.jpgMany of the women they talked to felt like they just couldn't get into the conversation and their study corroborated these stories. The firm found, both in the 2012 study and further surveys, that more than half of the women they talked to designated 'being heard in meetings' as either a serious issue or a work in progress...