Do you remember the ‘Bad’ and the ‘Good’ Culture Shapers from last week’s Future Leaders’ post? If not, check it out before you continue reading. Thanks! The reason leaders are such major culture shapers is that leadership behaviours are contagious. A study by Zenger & Folkman where 51 leadership behaviours were tested for their contagiousness,...Read More

Women – Positioning Yourself for Leadership Masterclass by Winmark Academies – Business Leadership Academy Having a recognised voice at the table, trusting their own voice, standing by their own achievements, tackling imposter syndrome and asking for money, have been identified as the top 5 challenges women face when in and seeking to be appointed to...Read More

Vulnerability; it’s a word on so many leader’s lips, yet many often misunderstand how to deal with it in a business environment. For instance, many believe that to be vulnerable they have to expose their inner most thoughts, or spill out their childhood secrets, but this isn’t the case at all at all. Rather vulnerability...Read More

We are finally seeing a changing culture where raising women as leaders in the workforce is becoming more attainable. The UK is ahead of many of its counterparts with up to 20 years head start on places like Australia who are only just starting to wake up to the need for more senior women in...Read More

To launch her new book, Energetic Selling and Marketing, Lenka Lutonska will be holding an event to explore gender bias, challenge the preconceptions and blocks that women face and propose a radical rethink on how we teach women to become successful entrepreneurs. As one of Europe’s leading business coaches, Lenka is helping women to turn their passion for making...Read More

By Wendy Rowe, Director, Wolters Kluwer, TAA UK My early years in the accounting profession were spent as a junior tax assistant working in a number of compliance tax departments for Ernst & Young. In the eighties, accounting was still a male-dominated industry and back then, a set of Trust Accounts were still being prepared...Read More

Women taking leadership roles is often portrayed these days as a ground-breaking development, something achieved through relatively recent laws and strong social pressure about equality of opportunity.  It is good to learn from history. From very long ago across the millennia there have been women taking charge of nations and communities. Hence the capability and...Read More

Gender inequality and women in the workplace is a hot-button topic. Women have gained much ground in the workplace, but inequality still persists in both pay and position. With  International Women’s Day 2019, coming up on March 8th, (this year’s theme #BalanceforBetter), we spoke to some top female business leaders and authors, who have been...Read More