Resources
A range of resources to support you at every stage of your career. Browse our range of resources including articles, workbooks & challenges to allow you to take hold of your confidence.
“Core Confidence” is a book written by Kate Boorer & Fiona Pearman. It examines the reasons (systemic, bias, practical and personal confidence barriers) that contribute to why professional women are often perceived as less confident than men.
10-Day Core Confidence Challenge
We know that for many women, confidence is one of the biggest barriers to securing and succeeding in career progression opportunities. If you would like to transform your relationship with confidence and see the impact 100% unshakeable, unbreakable confidence can have in your career & life, join our free 10-Day Confidence Challenge.
Download your FREE Core Confidence Workbook
Our Core Confidence Workbook help you start to explore your relationship with Confidence. What’s really going on so you can start to make some positive decisions to move yourself towards the career and life you want. There is no magic pill, just work to do and courage to hold on to as you move forward step by step.
Fiona & Kate talk about their Confidence Journey
What is confidence anyway? Women are twice as likely to get feedback that they lack confidence; listen to Kate & Fiona discuss what confidence is and what can get in the way.
Join the CORE CONFIDENCE Community to access information and hear from the authors.
If your organisation would like to discuss ways in which you can create workplaces where men and women thrive, are confident and able to navigate the complexity of 21st century business, please visit our consulting site Pearman & Partners.
Latest Articles
Confidence and Self Belief
The Henry Ford quote, “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right” is ubiquitous for a reason – it speaks to every one of us and the belief we have in ourselves and our abilities. Now [...]
What we prioritise expands or limits our experiences
When did you last use ’I don’t have time’ as a reason for not doing something? We are all guilty of it occasionally, so at the beginning of this New Year we’re drilling down to understand our relationship with time [...]
Rewriting the stories we tell ourselves
When is the last time you thought about taking some sort of action and then talked yourself out of it? Maybe saw a role that you wanted to apply for but didn’t because your experience and skillset was not exactly [...]
Saying no with confidence
One of the most common things women share with us when talking about their relationship with confidence is the tendency to say “yes” to everything, despite the little voice inside saying “no, no, no!” So why do so many of [...]
Why Fake It ‘Til You Make It is BS
In a recent Core Confidence video conversation we went deeper on the often quoted “fake it ‘til you make it” saying, coming to the conclusion that despite it being used in the context of building confidence, it is a short-term [...]
Fear, Failure and the Continuous Loop of Learning
In Chapter 10 of Core Confidence we talk about facing our fears, and the most common one for many of us is the fear of failure. Intellectually, we all know failure at some point is a given; the trick is [...]