Nov 16 2009
Travelling on business, particularly as a woman, can be a lonely experience. I recently travelled to Houston, Texas to panel and run a session for the Women’s Global Leadership Conference in Energy and Technology. I spent 5 of my 5-day trip inside the hotel (where the conference was organised) with plenty of time to myself. [...]
Mar 17 2009
Entrepreneurs are lucky people. They have a passion, and their work provides such fulfilment, that they can somehow carry on following their dream when the odds are really against them.
In my previous life, I had a retail business offering bespoke design services in jewellery, accessories and home interiors. We often held events in our Creative [...]
Mar 12 2009
March is a wonderful month for women as International Woman’s Day (8th March), is a time when we all recognise the achievements of women who have succeeded when the odds were against them. From the days of the Suffragettes to modern-day hard-working women (whether mothers or professional women), the “fairer sex” has demonstrated they are agents [...]
Feb 09 2009
With the onset of the financial crisis, the City is in turmoil. Redundancies are announced on a daily basis, employees escorted out of corporate premises just as frequently. The corporate bodies are responding in a knee-jerk fashion: ‘let’s cut our losses, let’s get rid of the extra “fat” in our organisation and let’s, effectively, run [...]
Feb 08 2009
When we are in school, we play with all of the kids in the playground – bar, of course, the school bully. As children, we want to be included and run home crying if ”Johny, did will play with me”. Societal and organisational norms somehow make us, as we mature, to home in on a certain ”career [...]