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LEAD LIKE MAGGIE

Find out how Maggie is teaching girls about gender bias

Maggie Bailey wished she knew about gender bias sooner — now she’s teaching girls about it.

There are a lot of things Maggie Bailey wished she knew about when she was younger. But gender bias—and how it limits the possibilities for women—may be top of the list.

Bailey, now a vice president at the architecture firm CannonDesign, struggled with confidence earlier in her career. As a Guatemalan, Bailey didn't see many women who looked like her in leadership positions. It made her wonder how likely it was that she'd reach the top. These doubts came to head after a tumultuous divorce in 2016 when Bailey was questioning her personal and professional path forward.  


That’s when she turned to Lean In Circles in her hometown of St. Louis to find a group of like-minded women who could help chart her next steps.


“I was refocusing myself away from my relationship and re-envisioning where I wanted to go professionally,” said Bailey, who was working in marketing at the time. “It is hard when you don’t have a [professional] network that wants to go the same way as you.”

We all realized we wish we would've known [about gender bias] when we were in high school or middle school…

Maggie Bailey, vice president at CannonDesign

Over the next seven years, Bailey went from a Lean In Circles volunteer to a Network Leader for 46 Circles reaching 964 members in the St. Louis area. Inspired by a conversation she had in a Circles meeting early on, she wanted to take the lessons she had learned and bring them to girls who could benefit from this knowledge earlier. 

“We all realized we wish we would've known [about gender bias] when we were in high school or middle school… That sparked something inside of me,” she said, thinking back to her own dreams as a young girl of exploring passions like poetry and talk show hosting.

In 2018, that spark led Bailey to create a “Lean In Club” at Marian Middle School for girls. It began with a group of eight students, who Bailey would visit every month to speak about topics like leadership and confident communication.  

If I would've had a program like this, I would've felt so much more confident. I would've embraced more of my leadership skills.

Maggie Bailey, vice president at CannonDesign

Now, with Lean In Girls launching a 15-lesson curriculum, Bailey is leveraging the Girls lesson plan —which includes sessions on challenging stereotypes and reframing risk and failure—to strengthen the program she built organically. And she’s excited about how it can change the lives of the girls she works with.


“You can be so insecure as a middle school girl, especially nowadays,” she said. “If I would've had a program like this, I would've felt so much more confident. I would've embraced more of my leadership skills.”

After completing the Lean In Girls curriculum with 11 participants in the summer of 2023, here are her reflections — in her own words — on what the girls and she have learned: 

On the Lean In Girls difference

“​​Lean In Girls is a program for middle school girls to not only learn about leadership, but actually talk about it, feel it, and get to know what being a leader is, by being a leader. It's very different from other programs that I've seen. It's not just a transformation, it really is giving them the keys to their own future.”

On leadership

“For so long a leader was a man, always a man, typically a white man. And that's all you saw. I know for me, I always said I could never become president because all the presidents when I was young were white men. And for young women and young girls nowadays, to be able to see leaders who are diverse, who are doing different things, women who are out there not just in careers, but who are curious and constantly learning and running the spectrum of what you can do and what you can be is very powerful.”

On amplifying more diverse leaders

“What we think of leadership is changing. And I think it's evolving because of girls who are doing programs like this. They realize, ‘Maybe I don't need to be a CEO, but I want to be a leader who's thought of as helpful.’ Or, ‘I want to be a leader who's thought of as kind or is generous.’ The titles and all the things that we've held onto for so long—they don't care about it. They care about how you act and how authentic you are.”

On Bailey’s hopes for Lean In Girls participants

“I want them to not let anybody take their light. It's so easy for them to feel all these different pressures from other people and [for their light to be dimmed by others]. And then one day you realize you don't have your light and it’s gone.

These girls, their lights are so bright right now. When you get them talking, their confidence, the way that they speak about their futures, they have their whole lives ahead of them. They are just incredible, remarkable girls that have so much that they can do and so much impact that they can make.”

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