Category: In The News

Sir Stuart Rose. Executive Chairman of Marks and Spencer, recently said this “Apart from the fact that you’ve got more equality than you ever can deal with, the fact of the matter is that you’ve got real democracy and there are really no glass ceilings, despite the fact that some of you moan about it… Continue reading Sir Stuart Rose says you’ve never had it so good

We had an overwhelming response to last weeks blog which invited you to download the free report on senior women’s bench-mark competencies or Authentic Leadership. We hope you found it useful and remember we are here to support you in any way, so please contact us if you need further support or have any questions.… Continue reading 7 Tools for increasing effectivness

Over the past seven years, we have had the privilege of having over 1500 hundred women go through our leadership programmes. The women have largely worked in the professions for large Blue Chip organisations and have been in the marshmallow layer, ready to take the next step into senior executive positions. In other words they… Continue reading New report benchmarks senior women’s leadership competencies

It has been a challenge to motivate myself to sit down and write this on a sunny Bank holiday weekend, especially as I am just about to head off to the Lakes for some well earned R&R! However, this very conflict leads me to my first point: Know your outcome! Last week I said that… Continue reading Women Leaders, communicate clearly

Everywhere I go I am hearing that performance management is key in the current climate. Many of our clients are under-going radical change and dealing with cut-backs/downsizing/merging or, at the very least, planning a new future with a more values based culture. To address this need I am using the next few weeks to bring… Continue reading Women leading perfomance management – rule number 1

I was asked for my ‘expert’ opinion for a Sunday Times article that ran last weekend on why so many women are opting to take the redundancy money and run. If you would like to see the piece which includes expert opinions from myself, Sarah Churchman who is Head of Diversity at Price Waterhouse Coopers… Continue reading Expert opinion in the Sunday Times

I was at a celebration event last week for the completion of the first cohort of emerging women leaders to go through a groundbreaking programme at one of our High Street Banks. I was touched and honoured to be presented with a bottle of champagne in thanks for my part but the real cheerleader is… Continue reading Leading or surviving?

You may have noticed that I didn’t blog last week. We had a very scary Bank Holiday in our family. My 18 year old daughter had a totally unexpected seizure and nearly lost her life. Thank God she is OK. This kind of incident makes you re-calibrate everything in life and I was floundering for… Continue reading Women Leaders need an Organisation that supports them as women

Michelle Obama made only one speech during her trip to London and that was at a girls-only, inner-city school, its pupils, of whom 20% are the children of refugees or asylum seekers, speak a total of 55 different languages and 92% of whom are from a black or minority background. And then, carefully, using personal… Continue reading Michelle Obama inspires girls to become women leaders

I have recently been doing research for my new book and have been shocked and delighted to discover that much of what we always knew to be true (intuitively) has, in recent years, been verified by Scientists as Biological differences. I am talking, of course, about the differences between men and women. We have joked… Continue reading This is a human issue not a gender diversity token issue