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title: Rich Woman Magazine London Editor's Letter
description: Dame Neslyn Watson-Druée is launching the first London Autumn Edition. It brings together stories of extraordinary women who are making a positive difference...
author: Dame Neslyn Watson-Druée, DBE (Executive Contributor)
date: 2026-09-23T15:37:35.000Z
updated: 2026-10-27T22:23:54.654Z
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This autumn Rich Woman Magazine opens its first London Edition, and I am honoured to lead it as Editor-in-Chief. I am writing for those of you who run organisations and teams in the city of London: the people who sit on boards, set strategy and decide who is developed, promoted and seen.

I arrived in Britain from Jamaica at nineteen, trained as a nurse and went on to become a senior leader in the National Health Service. In 1989 I founded Beacon Organisational Development, and for more than thirty years I have worked as an executive coach and business psychologist with leaders in the public and private sectors. That work has taught me that the leaders we need are developed, not discovered, and that most of the people who develop them are reading this letter. Our strapline, The Woman Re-Imagined, describes a change that leadership research explains well. Ronald Heifetz of Harvard Kennedy School separates technical problems, which expertise can solve, from adaptive challenges, which require people themselves to change their assumptions, behaviours and relationships. Re-imagining a career or an organisation is adaptive work. Herminia Ibarra of London Business School, whose research on professionals and managers in transition became Working Identity, argues that the usual advice runs backwards: knowing who we want to become is the result of doing and experimenting. Amy Edmondson of Harvard Business School has shown that experimenting depends on psychological safety, the shared belief that people can speak openly, admit mistakes and challenge assumptions without fear.

Why a London Edition, and Why Now

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