The Courageous Leaders Club

010 Rania Robinson: Why fear is your biggest barrier to success and changing the leadership stereotype

January 27, 2022 Joanna Howes Season 1 Episode 10
The Courageous Leaders Club
010 Rania Robinson: Why fear is your biggest barrier to success and changing the leadership stereotype
Show Notes

 Rania Robinson CEO and Partner at Quiet Storm


In this episode Rania shares more on how stepping out of your comfort zone and being vulnerable is the key to leadership growth and success. As well as acknowledging when you don’t have the answers, accepting your failures and recognising when you need help are key to self-growth and development. 


She is passionate about challenging how we define leadership and what it means to feel fulfilled in a leadership role. 


Rania Robinson came to the UK from Egypt at the age of three and started school not speaking a word of English. Her early experiences sparked a life-long passion for forming connections and meaningful communication. Having spent most of her career in non-traditional agencies in both account leadership and strategic roles, she has worked with some of the world's best-known brands, including: Haribo, Mercedes, Virgin, Google and Coca Cola. 


Since joining Quiet Storm nine years ago, she has brought a 360° perspective and new energy to the agency, helping extend its service offer and broaden its sector experience. A passionate exponent of empowering women in the workplace, she is Vice President of WACL (an organisation whose purpose is to accelerate gender equality in the advertising and communication industry). Quiet Storm currently work with the Women's Equality Party pro bono. Rania is an active diversity champion and in 2020 relaunched Create Not Hate, Quiet Storm's initiative to get under-represented young people into the creative industries by unlocking their creative potential to tackle social issues that they live with every day. Rania is an active participant in D&I initiatives across the industry and a regular commentator on BBC Radio. She features in Campaign's A List of the most influential industry figures, sits on the IPA's Commercial Leadership Group, and is on AdAge’s Leading Women list of 2021. 


Topics covered include:


  • Feeling the fear and doing it anyway
  • Sustainable growth 
  • Burnout
  • Attracting great talent 
  • Vulnerability 
  • Self-belief 
  • Accepting your failures
  • How to ask for help 
  • Changing leadership stereotypes
  • Self sabotage
  • Creating your own experiences 



Follow Joanna Howes and The Change Creators: 


website: https://www.thechangecreators.com

linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joannahowes/