Jennifer Kenny of 100% Capacity, a consultancy that helps organisations build gender balanced approaches into how they operate and Michael Millward discuss a quotation from Mary Robinson, the seventh and first female President of Ireland, about the balance between power and freedom. Jennifer and Michael explore the impact that a perceived lack of freedom has on the ability of people to fulfil their potential and how being perceived to have the power to act does not always mean that someone also has the freedom to act.