Current ranking: #3

Signature move

Long-form, argument-driven posts. McGlynn writes more like a columnist than a contributor. The structure is usually a hook line, a personal anchor, then a structured case. Three or four bullet points doing real analytical work, then a turn back to a wider observation. Most of her top posts run to 200 to 400 words. The format reads like an op-ed in the FT, which is no accident given the subject matter is governance, regulation and the M&A reality behind the headlines.

Topic fingerprint

• Corporate governance and accountability. Board minutes, regulators, fines, the gap between what the news says and what the documents say.
• M&A reality. Twenty years of practice showing up in posts about diligence, signing, buyer’s remorse, what binding actually means.
• Women in leadership. Not the inspirational-quote kind. The hard kind. “Diversity hire”, being underestimated, the cost of having to prove things twice.
• Regulators in the room. FCA fines, FT exposés, the reading-between-the-lines of enforcement letters.
• Real stories framed as case studies. Carillion, Musk vs Twitter, Crispin Odey. She picks the story everyone is half-watching and rewrites it as a governance lesson.

Best post of the quarter

“Are you a diversity hire? Apparently, that’s a question you’re meant to ask yourself before accepting a board seat.” 3 February 2026. 653 likes, 100 comments. Twenty years of M&A and board work as the answer.

Firm context

DWF is the biggest firm in the TBD dataset by tracked headcount, 822 individuals contributing a combined power score of 444,164 across the window. McGlynn’s 20,665 is 4.7% of that, which is enormous given the denominator. One person carrying nearly five percent of an 800-person firm’s LinkedIn power is the kind of signal that gets noticed internally.

Why follow her?

• If you write about regulation, governance or M&A and you want to see how to make those subjects readable.
• If you are a senior woman in law and you want a working example of how to write about being underestimated without making it the only thing you write about.
• If you want to see how to turn the FT’s front page into LinkedIn content in the same week.

Source: TBD Marketing LinkedInfluencer dataset, Q1 2026 Top 200. Posts sample window: 1 January – 5 April 2026.