CEO Today speaks to Danni Rush, Chief Operating Officer at Virgin Experience Days and Virgin Incentives, about the obstacles women in business face, female mentorship, and what businesses can do to support women in leadership roles. What would you say are the biggest obstacles preventing women from reaching higher positions in business? Firstly, being really […]
Louis-Dreyfus had been attempting to sell a stake in agricultural commodity trading house Louis Dreyfus Co after she borrowed over $1 billion from Credit Suisse Group AG to buy out family members. The heiress had over $400 million of debt due by the end of 2020. However, since then, Louis-Dreyfus has sold 45% of Louis […]
Elizabeth Holmes, once the founder and CEO of Theranos, media darling and silicon valley tycoon has suffered an almighty fall from grace. How did it happen?
Whiteside has given notice of his intention to retire and is set to step down from the board at the close of the company’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in May 2022. However, he will remain on hand to support the transition process until his notice expires in early January 2023. In the interim period, Currie […]
In 2012 you crystallised the concept called Neurolanguage coaching for language learning, how did you reach that point? Over the last 20 years, it has become really clear that languages in business are essential. Businesses have increasingly broken out beyond borders into the globalised market and even the smallest of provincial companies now understand the […]
In a statement, Chanel said that French billionaire Alain Wertheimer, who owns Chanel with his brother Gerard Wertheimer, would take on the role of global executive chairman. Nair, 52, has 30 years of experience at Unilever. She has served as the global consumer goods company’s first female, first Asian, and youngest ever Chief Human Resources […]
Whitman has spent decades in high-level corporate roles, taking eBay from $5.7 million to $8 billion in sales as CEO from 1998 to 2008. She then served as CEO at Hewlett-Packard from 2011 to 2015, where she oversaw its split into HP Inc and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Alongside her corporate roles, Whitman has been politically […]
Tech entrepreneur Jo Wimble-Groves explains how girls and young women can be inspired to consider careers in STEM. Can you remember who inspired you at school? Perhaps a teacher or a fellow student? Now, take a moment to visualise that person and consider what impact that positive role model had on you.? Was there someone […]
What brought you to executive coaching? I was a coach before I knew what a coach was. I had worked in a number of corporate jobs spanning from very large companies like Amazon and Microsoft to small-to-medium technology-based businesses. Looking back on several jobs after they were done, I realised the thing I remembered most […]
Reports produced by research conducted into the economic status of talent in the workplace confirm time and time again that the black woman is paid less than her white colleagues. In terms of economic hardship, the implications of this can therefore be felt much worse in her life than in that of her counterparts, as is highlighted in a LeanIn report which although […]
Tell us a little bit about your belief that "the outer will never be transformed without inner consciousness”. Why do businesspeople forget instantly the new skill set when they leave the training room? How could we stop it? This is a kind of an obvious mystery that nobody pointed out. After acquiring my professional coaching […]
Living in Mangawhai, New Zealand she is also a co-owner of Jackson Brown Automotive and Marine with her husband James, employing a team of 10. COVID-19 saw the closure of the business for over six weeks. Though Jackson Brown retained all of their staff during the lockdown Carol witnessed the heavy financial toll and the […]
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