Walk into a construction site, trading floor, or engineering lab, and you’ll likely notice the same thing: a sea of men with perhaps a few women navigating these professional waters like salmon swimming upstream. In these male-dominated industries, “being the only woman in the room” isn’t a figure of speech but a daily reality.

In my coaching work –and in my own career—I’ve noticed how these industries develop distinct communication cultures that were NOT designed with women’s voices in mind.

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