Sustainability is A Mindset, A Never Ending Journey
Interview with Franziska Gsell, Chief Marketing Officer of IWC Schaffhausen, chairwoman of the company’s Sustainability Committee
Franziska Gsell has been the Chief Marketing Officer of...
How to Build a Thriving Self-managed Organization
By Anne Krog Iversen, Chief People, DNA & Culture Officer of TimeXtender
We hear a lot these days about corporate modernization taking place by deploying...
Working Parents Employment Law: Does it Need an Overhaul?
By Jayne Harrison
There has been an on-going struggle to pass laws that offer legal protection to pregnant working women. More and more people...
Empowering Women Within STEM Careers
Over the last four decades more women have entered into STEM careers than ever before, according to Data analysis by LinkedIn. Philanthropist and former...
Why More Women Should Consider a Software Development Career
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...
The Coach Route to Transformation: Helping Individuals and Organisations to Arrive at their Full...
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...
Changing the face of finance and professional services
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...
Women In Leadership 2020, 4th & 5th March 2020, Riyadh, KSA,
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...
Banishing Self-Doubt to Promote Female Success
By Lucy Franklin
Women are still less likely to reach the top levels of management – only 9% of the financial and professional services companies...
Custom-built Programmes for the Future Workforce
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...
Soft Leadership and Women Leadership
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...
Berkeley Executive Education: Creating A “New Thinking For The New Economy”
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...
How Women Leaders Build The Career They Thrive In
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,...
Leading as a Coach: Advancing Career, Transforming Life
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...
Data to the rescue: Investing in (female) employees
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?...
The Power of Content: Credit Suisse’s Lucia Waldner on Innovation and Keys to...
Working at the upper echelon of the workplace, Lucia Waldner, Head of Credit Suisse Research Institute and Innovation, and the Chief of Staff to...
Shifting the Gender Gap to an ‘All Differences Matter’ Narrative
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...
Take Back Control: Sherilyn Williams Casiano on providing the affluent true control of their wealth
What is the secret to sustain and grow your wealth in the most effective and efficient way? In this interview with Sherilyn Williams Casiano,...
What’s Your Superpower?
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...
Gender Diversity in the Boardroom: Finding an Optimal Level?
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...
Claiming Your Value: A Key Skill for Women in Transition
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...
Parity in Progress: A New Future for Women in Energy
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...
The Value of Gender-Based Leadership
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...
We Need a Greater Focus on the Benefits Women in Top Executive Roles Bring...
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...
Power with Purpose: How Women’s Leadership Boosts the Economy and Society
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...
What Leaders Can Learn from Both Clinton and Trump
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...
Winning the War for the Best Female Talent
By Christie Hunter Arscott, Lauren Noël & Douglas Ready
The International Consortium for Executive Development Research (ICEDR) identifies five key themes that emerging women leaders...
Entrepreneurial Risks and the Joys that Come with Them
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...
Introduction to the Female Leadership In Our Time
“I believe that true passion has no gender and focusing on your goals and dreams helps you to overcome gender and cultural boundaries.”
Simonetta...
Franziska Gsell, CMO, IWC Schaffhausen
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...
Magdalena Mook, Executive Director & CEO, International Coach Federation
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...
Rama Mani, Founder, Theatre of Transformation Co-Founder, Rising Women Rising World
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...
Nike Okundaye, Artist & Founder, Nike Centre for Art and Culture
Yes! Income is key to decent living and decent living provides the necessary tools for a woman to occupy her rightful and respectable position...
Simonetta Di Pippo, Director, UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)
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...
Veronika Linardi, Co-founder & CEO, Qerja
The role I have carved out for myself is predominantly based on the experiences that molded me into the woman I am today, my...
Ozlem Denizmen, Founding Chair, Financial Literacy and Inclusion Association
I have always shaped myself according to my values and set goals to realise those values. Instead of focusing on social prejudices, I set...
Caroline Fattal Fakhoury, Executive Coaching, Managing Partner, Praesta
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...
Leslie Pratch, Founder & CEO, Pratch & Co
I am an independent thinker and a creative risk taker . . . It was a big risk to develop and validate my own...
Annelise Alig Anderhalden, Director, Aargau Services Economic Promotion
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...
Tiffany Chung, Contemporary Artist
I wake up every day grateful for being able to do what I do and looking forward to materialize my research and ideas. Living...
Kathryn Finney, Founder & Managitng Director, digitalundivided (DID)
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...
Nabilah Alsagoff, Founder and COO, PT Nusa Satu Inti Artha (DOKU)
Women have strong minds and we believe that our skills to empower the work force can make a difference in the industry that we...
Penelope Trunk, Co-founder & CEO, Quistic, Author, Blogger
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,...
Ethel Cofie, CEO, EDEL Technologies
Life is full of challenges, and one of the early lessons that I learnt, is the fact that life does not give you what...
Grace Woo, Founder, Pixels.IO
Since I could remember, my grandma has always explained to me that I have control over nothing except what is in my own head...
Stephanie Holland, Founder and Author, Sheconomy
Support and encourage other women. Because there have been so few spaces for women at the table, this has pitted women against each other...
Sharmla Chetty, Regional Managing Director, Duke CE South Africa
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...
Sherilyn Williams Casiano, Founder & CEO, S.I. Williams Wealth Management, LLC
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,...
Nancy Nix, Executive Director, AWESOME
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...