International Women's Day

International Women’s Day: Equity for All

February 28, 2023
With International Women’s Day taking place on 8th March, much discussion and focus are turning to the progress (or otherwise) towards equity of opportunity and achievement for women working in the finance, technology and the corporate world more broadly. Of course, international celebrations and awareness-raising events such as International Women’s Day are important – shining […]
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International Women’s Day 2022: The Disadvantages Women Still Face Professionally

March 8, 2022
What has been encouraging is the increasing flexibility and accessibility that the evolution of the digital and virtual world has afforded women. This has provided access to education and professional jobs that, in the past, were just not there.  At the top of organisations, we see that the presence of women on boards, particularly in […]
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International Women’s Day: Leadership Lessons For My Younger Self

March 4, 2022
Ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8th, we spoke to female entrepreneurs, leaders, and business authors to hear the number one piece of advice they would give to their younger self when they first started out. Connect with others  Dr Joan van den Brink, Executive Coach, management consultant and author of The Three Companions […]
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International Women's Day 2022: Celebrating Female Leadership

March 1, 2022
Ridhima is on a mission to help ambitious women adjust the power dynamics that are hidden beneath the surface of their interactions with others to empower them to be recognised and treated as female leaders long before it’s announced. Please introduce us to yourself and The Executive Coaching Bootcamp. I’m the founder of The Executive […]
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IWD: Why ‘Choose to Challenge’ Should Resonate with Tech Executives

March 5, 2021
The theme for International Women's Day 2021 is #ChooseToChallenge, and it should strike a chord with tech leaders. Nicky Tozer, VP EMEA of Oracle NetSuite, believes it must set the tone for us to analyse, question and adapt our leadership to benefit the future of the technology industry as a whole. We hear more about it below.
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The 4 Up-and-Coming Female CEOs Right Now

February 26, 2021
Despite the tough year that 2020 was, it actually wasn’t too bad for women in leadership, with 41 female CEOs now slated to be running Fortune 500 companies. And although this is not a very high number, it’s certainly a new record which demonstrates that progress has been made – and that change is afoot!
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Inspiring Lessons from Female Leaders’ Journeys to the Top

March 2, 2020
We already know that the increasing number of inspiring women at the top are having a measurably positive impact on business. Recent studies looking at three critical financial measures show Fortune 500 companies with the highest representation of women board directors attained significantly higher financial performance on average than those with the lowest representation of […]
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You’ve Got the Dream Job, Now What?

March 2, 2020
Transitioning to a new senior role is more challenging than dealing with divorce, bereavement or a serious health issue and almost 50% of leadership transitions are considered a failure. One could argue that once an individual reaches a senior level, it’s down to them to make their own transition a success. But is that realistic? […]
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Will the World’s Women Leaders Ever be Truly Equal?

March 2, 2020
However, for the world’s women leaders, this presents a frustrating conflict. Research from 2018 described how “paradoxical tensions exist between agency and communion because they are associated with distinct, and at times conflictual, cognition, behaviour, and motivation.” In short, says the research, you must be both warm and nice AND competent and tough. A 1998 […]
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The Conversation around Gender Equality in Business Needs to Change

March 2, 2020
Forbes has been honing its list-making methodology for years. It’s a data-driven exercise. The numbers are crunched and the chips fall where they may. Nonetheless, the US business magazine was slammed by the international press; its approach heavily criticised. But perhaps the real problem here is not Forbes, but rather that women are still so […]
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Prepaid Financial Services: One of the World's Leading FinTechs

March 29, 2019
Already in 2019, Noel Moran, Chief Executive Officer at Prepaid Financial Services has been honoured with three CEO awards, two of which are international. The current European Entrepreneur of the Year was showcased at the prestigious World Economic Forum meeting in Davos in January. His company, PFS, is one of the world's leading FinTechs. Recently, […]
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Women and the C-suite: Five Senior Female Professionals On Their Journey to the Top

March 8, 2019
As the 8th of March ushers in the 110th International Women’s Day (the first was held in New York in 1909), we talk to five trailblazing senior female professionals from the creative industries, and ask them how they deal with the challenges facing women in the workforce today, and the key qualities that you need […]
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