Women in Leadership

If you’re a woman who wants to pursue a career in software development, you may face certain challenges. You might get paid less than...

Interview with Ms Gina Lodge CEO of The Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC) Businesses across all industries have discovered that executive coaching is one of...

By Lucy Franklin Stereotyping is not inherently bad, but it is undoubtedly restricting. Most especially in the industry of finance and professional service where such...

BE BRAVE, ADAPTIVE AND EXPERIMENTAL In the evolving culture GCC has witness an advancing women’s economic contribution and opportunities. Empowering women legally and politically allows...

By Lucy Franklin Women are still less likely to reach the top levels of management – only 9% of the financial and professional services companies...

Interview with Professor Ann Bartel, A Faculty Director of Custom Programmes at Columbia Business School Executive Education   Being one of the Top Executive Education Programmes...

By M.S. Rao The article introduces the concept of “soft leadership” and illustrates what differentiates soft leadership from hard leadership, and explores how to acquire...

Interview with Laura Tyson, Interim Dean, Haas School of Business Located in the heart of the world’s innovation center, UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business...

By Christie Hunter Arscott and Lauren Noël Early career women understand that building a career and life they thrive in is no small feat. Instead,...

An Exclusive Interview with Magdalena Nowicka Mook, Executive Director and CEO, ICF A professional coaching program has proven to be a powerful catalyst for helping...

By Ineke Ceder and Sumru Erkut Can companies successfully align attention to their bottom line with the current urgent calls for wider diversity and inclusion?...

Working at the upper echelon of the workplace, Lucia Waldner, Head of Credit Suisse Research Institute and Innovation, and the Chief of Staff to...

by Lianne Taylor CPsychol This article purposefully shifts the narrative that disadvantages female entrepreneurs to a focus on entrepreneurial differences in thinking, traits and behaviour...

What is the secret to sustain and grow your wealth in the most effective and efficient way? In this interview with Sherilyn Williams Casiano,...

By Lauren Noël and Christie Hunter Arscott Imagine you enter an interview for a job and an executive asks you: “What’s your superpower?” How would...

By Won-Yong Oh, Loren Falkenberg, and Jim Dewald There has been an increase in the number of women serving on boards. Today, everyone talks about...

By Sally Helgesen “What’s your worth?” might be one of the more difficult questions that women, particularly in the corporate world, need to face. In...

By Katie Mehnert Women’s rights have been front and centre in recent weeks, given the current political climate. But movement toward change has been brewing...

By Melissa Greenwell If a roomful of men can draw on their experiences and insights to help a business succeed, a roomful of men and...

By Sucheta Nadkarni Recruiting women to corporate boards and top executive roles helps businesses find the best people and reach key consumers. There’s a risk...

By Lynn Taliento and Anu Madgavkar While there has been progress toward increased opportunities in the labour force for women, they remain underrepresented at the...

By Katharina Balazs When connecting with an audience, Hillary Clinton leads with the head while Donald Trump comes from the heart: both hold lessons for...

By Christie Hunter Arscott, Lauren Noël & Douglas Ready The International Consortium for Executive Development Research (ICEDR) identifies five key themes that emerging women leaders...

By Myra Strober Sometimes it is only with hindsight that one understands the benefits that come from taking an entrepreneurial risk. In 1974, Myra Strober...

“I believe that true passion has no gender and focusing on your goals and dreams helps you to overcome gender and cultural boundaries.” Simonetta...

We women should not take such gender biases too seriously and put limitations on our career choices and ourselves. Franziska Gsell majored in Business Administation...

We all take risks in life and that’s why working with professional coaches is important; it should not be a matter of good fortune. Magdalena...

Through my transformative art, I’m aspiring to shift the old paradigm that governed politics, economics and society so far and destroyed human life: ‘the...

Yes! Income is key to decent living and decent living provides the necessary tools for a woman to occupy her rightful and respectable position...

I believe that true passion has no gender and focusing on your goals and dreams helps you to overcome gender and cultural boundaries. Simonetta Di...

The role I have carved out for myself is predominantly based on the experiences that molded me into the woman I am today, my...

I have always shaped myself according to my values and set goals to realise those values. Instead of focusing on social prejudices, I set...

Without influence, competence is powerless...  if we refrain from engaging in politics we are effectively withdrawing ourselves as serious candidates for high corporate office. Named...

I am an independent thinker and a creative risk taker . . . It was a big risk to develop and validate my own...

I am convinced that passion is the key to success. Annelise Alig Anderhalden is a trained engineer and Director of Aargau Services Economic Promotion.  She...

I wake up every day grateful for being able to do what I do and looking forward to materialize my research and ideas. Living...

My philosophy for success and leadership is that leaders don’t necessarily have to have all the right answers every time, but they should trust...

Women have strong minds and we believe that our skills to empower the work force can make a difference in the industry that we...

Here's a question I want to see you ask: How can people, who run the economic and social life in their country at large,...

Life is full of challenges, and one of the early lessons that I learnt, is the fact that life does not give you what...

Since I could remember, my grandma has always explained to me that I have control over nothing except what is in my own head...

Support and encourage other women. Because there have been so few spaces for women at the table, this has pitted women against each other...

It has been critical for me to embrace tough assignments. It is easier to take the path of least resistance... It’s far better to...

When I was about 13, my mother was working for an accounting firm and when I told her that’s what I wanted to do,...

Successful women leaders in senior leadership roles can be an important part of a support network that can help emerging leaders be successful. Nancy Nix...

All that procrastination and weighing up doesn’t get you very far in a male-dominated business world. 'Just get on with it' is sometimes the...

My rule of thumb while raising finance is to always know who you are raising money from. Don’t stop at researching about venture capitalists,...

I think the most important thing is to expose women to technology early enough for them to experiment so that when the time comes...

I’ve found that the best way to deal with gender bias is with a strong offense, meaning you need to be smart and not...