Problem: One London-based law firm with with over 2500 employees globally recognised they were losing mid-career women There was a particularly dramatic drop off at Partner level. Above all, this was frustrating as 60% of all trainee hires for over a decade had been young women. Like many firms, the firm had grown through 15 […]
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Problem: One global financial services firm with over 50,000 employees was struggling to move adequate numbers of successful business women into positions of leadership. There had been multiple leadership changes over a five year period. The organisation had made positive progress around racial diversity, mainly driven through government legislation, but they did not have sufficient
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It won’t pay the bills and you certainly can’t eat it during a recession. However, recognition can be as motivating as money for many of the women I work with. This can be useful in a recession, as many sectors face an effective pay freeze and relative wage erosion caused by inflation. Plus, while it
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Anxiety, particularly around self-promotion, can stymie a career. It can stem from too frequently being outside your comfort zone. Equally, it can get worse when you always play it safe and get stuck. If left unchallenged for too long, stretching your comfort zone suddenly becomes a very big deal. That’s why self-promotion is much the
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How do many women in tech end up in their jobs? Probably not the way non-technologists often assume. Indeed, I’m an ‘accidental technologist’ myself! As someone who founded an online learning games start-up several years ago, I know that many women in tech are exactly like me. While the rate of women studying technology is
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