“Men and women are different biologically. How different are men and women in their expressions of leadership? And in this question, I am not thinking about behaviours; I’m thinking about intentions and results. How are the intentions different for women when they consider leadership?”
- Louise LeBrun

Women create differently because we are the gender that gives birth. Our physiological and neurological and energetic wiring is different from men’s, because of our capacity to birth.

In that, we are wired to create differently than men.

Let’s use birth as a metaphor for creation. As a generalization, women don’t simply spread seeds anywhere, hoping one will take root as we walk away and spread more seeds elsewhere.

When we plant a seed, we stay.

We intuitively nourish our creation-to-be even when we don’t know the outcome, simply because it is ours. We don’t give our creation up to layers of off-shore accounts in order to remove ourselves from accountability; instead, we take ownership of our creation and we become the Force that breathes life to it– even if we don’t know exactly how it will look and feel once it is birthed. We simply intuitively engage, trust and let go.

I am using this metaphor as a means to show you that women lead differently than men.

'Leadership’ is a result (it’s a noun and not a verb); the kind of intention fulfillment that comes from being true to yourself and engaging only because it holds deep, personal meaning for you. I believe that when we find the courage within ourselves to live this way, magic happens! And the world opens to new possibilities.
- Louise LeBrun

In other words, women create that which is meaningful for us, not that which will bring us the most fame and fortune. And thus in order to stay in the game of meaningful creations, we must leverage the power of our intuition to make unique and congruent decisions that have lasting impact on our lives and those whose lives we touch.

In full recognition that we live in a “man’s world”, I believe we need to define and redefine our reasons for wanting to play in the game of creation and leadership. When we find it and define it we can engage congruently to design with intention our meaningful creations!

Next up: Redefining leadership.

Women instinctively know this experience. Is is like gestation and birth. We have no idea what will be created – only that creation will occur. And we trust that process. It is one that bypasses knowledge and the intellect and moves directly from the impulse/intuition of the body and its attending wisdom. However, in any other process than pregnancy, we often either deny this to ourselves and others, or we seek to find ways to take this experience and make it ‘acceptable’ or palatable to others by masking it in the language and the details of that which is familiar. In that moment, much of its power for acceleration and expansion is surrendered to the status quo and incremental change.
- Louise LeBrun

3: How women create differently.