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My Bravest Year: a lesson in female self-empowerment

My Bravest Year, a programme meant to aid female leaders across the technology industry, is now seeing significant results.

Key factors female-led businesses need to consider to secure funding

Sam Smith, founder and CEO of finnCap Group plc, summarises the key factors female-led businesses need to consider when seeking to raise growth capital. She also outlines some of the challenges they face.

School Report on diversity: ‘could’ve tried harder,’ says Chime Specialist Group’s CEO

If Joanne Parker, CEO of the Chime Specialist Group (a division of Chime), were to receive a School Report on her efforts to drive diversity and inclusion in her workplace, like many CEO’s today, it would read ‘could do better’. Here she openly explains why, and her ambitions to be best in class.

Bad boss? 49% of Brits quit their job because of poor management

Anyone could be a manager, but that doesn’t mean anyone should be. Almost half of UK workers feel unsupported by their management team or a bad boss

Diversity and Inclusion: Why we need to put the ‘I’ in team

Sarah Kirk, Global Diversity and Inclusion Director from global recruitment specialists, Michael Page, explains why we need to put the ‘I’ in team.

Sutton Trust: education is the key to boosting social mobility

The Sutton Trust has helped push social mobility to the top of the political agenda. CEO James Turner reveals how the Trust is helping young people to aim high.

Lloyd’s of London bans drugs and alcohol with a new code of conduct

Lloyd’s of London takes major steps to curb inappropriate behaviour and sexual harassment in the workplace with a new code of conduct that bans drugs and alcohol from its building.

Targeting ethnic minority talent can help improve boardroom diversity

A meritocratic system is one based on talent, abilities and effort; why then are so few ethnic minorities in senior roles in UK corporates?

7 ways for women in tech to succeed

Women remain heavily underrepresented in the tech industry worldwide

Enabling more women to thrive in leadership positions in business

Roxana Mohammadian-Molina discusses what could be done to level the playing field and enable more women to thrive in leadership positions.