I have often thought that women pursue their careers at the wrong time of their lives. So, I was really interested to hear how 5 of the Forbes 50 over 50 women supercharged their careers after 50. Women enter the workplace in their early 20s (or earlier if they don’t go into further education), are statistically likely to be very successful in the first 10 years of their career building and are certainly on a parr with their male counterparts….
Working on “Wonder Women”, Katy and I spent considerable time researching stories of how women had contributed to the success of brands old and new, and we have included 40 tales in the first section. Over 50% of the stories feature American women so we’re delighted that the book has just been launched in USA. In the book we grouped the stories into four categories – A Woman’s Intuition, Girl Power, A Women’s Work and A Woman’s Place. We thought…
In the first section of “Wonder Women”, Katy and I tell 40 stories of how women had contributed to the success of brands old and new, Over 50% of the stories features American women so we’re delighted that the book has just been launched in USA. In the book we grouped the stories into four categories – A Woman’s Intuition, Girl Power, A women’s Work and A woman’s place. Today’s taster is an edited form of one of the stories…
Giles and I are privileged to know the wonder woman Hilarie Viener who is the CEO of the Genius 100 Foundation. Today Genius 100 sent us a brilliant quote from Sima Samar, Human Rights Activist, which we thought worthy of sharing with you all: “You educate a man you educate a person, you educate a woman you educate a society.” Sima Samar, Human Rights Activist This isn’t a completely new quote – there are many similar ones that talk about…
Working on “Wonder Women”, Katy and I spent considerable time researching stories of how women had contributed to the success of brands old and new, and we have included 40 tales in the first section of the book. Over 50% of the stories features American women so we’re delighted that the book has just been launched in USA. In the book we grouped the stories into four categories – A Woman’s Intuition, Girl Power, A Women’s Work and A Woman’s…
Working on our book, “Wonder Women”, Katy and I spent considerable time researching stories of how women had contributed to the success of brands old and new, and we have included 40 tales in the first section. Over 50% of the stories features American women so we’re delighted that the book has just been launched in USA. In the book we grouped the stories into four categories – A Woman’s Intuition, Girl Power, A Women’s Work and A Woman’s Place…
To celebrate the launch of Wonder Women in the USA, Giles and I are writing a series of blogs with excerpts from the stories of and interviews with some of our American Heroes featured in the book, as well as women who have progressed their careers working across the Atlantic. Today, we’re featuring three of the amazing women who have crossed the Atlantic: EDWINA DUNN Edwina D Dunn OBE, is an entrepreneur in the field of data science and customer-centric…
To celebrate the launch of Wonder Women in the USA, Giles and I will be writing a series of blogs with excerpts from the stories of and interviews with some of our American heroes featured in the book, as well as women who have progressed their careers working across the Atlantic. Today we’re featuring two of the American Heroes we interviewed: KATHY LEECH Kathy’s marketing career started at Quaker, then Amoco, BP and Comcast. She is highly experienced in crisis…
I love Ted Talks – they’re short, engaging, understandable and are a powerful way to inspire new thoughts and ideas. Today I listened to Sophie Williams – The rigged test of leadership. We all know about the glass ceiling, but Sophie talks about the glass cliff – what happens when under-represented people (namely women and racially marginalised) break through the glass ceiling, make it to the C-Suite and find themselves in a new and dangerous position – on the edge…
Katy’s and my latest article, published in Dialogue Review magazine, with edited highlights from some of the stories from the book about the female leaders who have built brilliant brands including Marcia Kilgore, Brownie Wise, Coco Channel and Nathalie Molina Niño amongst others.