While the number of women in executive roles has increased steadily over the past few decades, it’s still very rare to see a company with a female CEO. Only about 5% of Fortune 500 companies have female chief executives.

As a woman in the corporate world, you’re likely to experience two major obstacles during your career: perception and power dynamics, which can critically impact upon you furthering your career goals.

Read my latest Forbes article to find out about the results of my research conducted with 300 executive women, and how navigating issues related to perception, power, politics and promotion can impact upon women in senior leadership.

Thank you to all of the executive women that contributed to the research for this article, your support is greatly appreciated.