Corporate Rebel - How to Survive and Thrive as a Woman in the Workplace

Sadika Fakir

Summary

'Let's be honest – no one grows up saying, "One day, I want to be undervalued, underpaid and overused like a free trial that no one cancels."'
In Corporate Rebel, Sadika Fakir delivers a fearless, funny, no-BS guide to surviving – and thriving – inside systems that profit from women's ambition while quietly diminishing it.
From unpaid gigs and free consulting to boardrooms, breakdowns, bad bosses and even worse job offers – and finally rising to senior leadership – Sadika tells it like it actually is. She has lived the contradictions of corporate life and is done pretending that hard work alone is enough. No corporate jargon. No girl-boss clichés. Just hard-won lessons, sharp humour and radical honesty about what it really takes to rise.
This is about how power really works, and how to stop playing small without burning everything down.
Funny, fierce, deeply human and refreshingly unpolished, Corporate Rebel is for every woman who's ever felt invisible in the room – and decided she wasn't going to stay that way.
This is not a career manual. It's a rebellion.

Available since: 07/22/2026.

Print length: 344 pages.

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