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Episode Description

In this episode, Julia Middleton is joined by Katja Weisheit to explore the unexpected leadership lessons that come with early motherhood. Katja shares the challenges of juggling professional responsibilities with the demands of caring for a newborn, revealing how this transformative period reshaped her approach to leadership. She discusses the importance of empathy, authenticity, and setting healthy boundaries, showing how these insights have influenced her professional life.

About the Guests

Katja Weisheit

Katja Weisheit is the Corporate and Private Donor Coordinator at TURTLE FOUNDATION, where she applies her expertise in media and communications to support global conservation initiatives. With experience across various media company departments, Katja has also played an instrumental role in marketing efforts, including Jean&Len’s sponsorship of “Germany’s Next Topmodel.”

About the Host

Julia Middleton

Julia Middleton is the host of the Women Emerging podcast and a best-selling author of “If that’s leading, I’m in” as well as two previous books: “Leading beyond Authority” and “Cultural Intelligence”. She is deeply committed to helping people from all backgrounds to find their own approach to leading.

In 2020, Julia launched Women Emerging and in 2022 she lead an expedition of 24 women to find ‘an approach to leading that resonates with women’. She now leads expeditions with women all over the world based on 4Es methodology, discovered in the first expedition.

Prior to that, Julia was founder and, for over thirty years, Chief Executive of Common Purpose, which grew to become one of the biggest leadership development organisations in the world.
Julia is also an Ambassador for the Aurora Prize based in Armenia, on the boards of Alfanar Venture Philanthropy in the Arab World and Equality Now, which operates globally, and on the Advisory Councils of Fundacao Dom Cabral in Brazil and Synapse in Pakistan.

Born in London and brought up in New York, Julia was educated at French Lycées and graduated from the London School of Economics. She is married, with five children and lots of grandchildren.