rethinking success: women, business & purpose
Can women lead the way in redefining business success? Not just as participants in the future of business but by taking…
07/03/2025business,mission,entrepreneursBusiness for good,RSA,Professor SIr John Kay,Royal Society for the Arts,women in business,Purpose driven,redefining success
why gender-inclusive product development matters
The way we design our world has long been shaped around a ‘default male’ perspective, often leaving women as an…
20/02/2025life,missionWomenInBusiness,InclusiveDesign,GenderEquity,ProductDevelopment,WomenInInnovation,WorkplaceEquality
women, perception and the power of authenticity
The recent release of official portraits of Donald Trump and J D Vance provides a striking reminder of how self-image…
24/01/2025missiongendered inequality,womenchangemakers,bridginggenerations,women in leadership,Reclaiming The Narrative,NoFilter,mentoringwomen,femalesolidarity
solidarity without borders
As the year draws to a close , it’s a time to reflect, rest, and renew. But it’s also a moment to pause and reflect on…
19/12/2024community,mission,careersAfghanistanWomen,WomensRights,GenderEquality,EducationForAll,GlobalSolidarity,WomenSupportingWomen,HumanRights
first woman chancellor fails to move dial for women in work
This week’s budget from Rachel Reeves was disappointing from a female perspective on so many counts. Nothing about…
01/11/2024LUMIN,finances,mission,entrepreneurs,careersBudget,gender pension gap,childcare,business funding,gender pay gap,Rachel Reeves,Autumn Statement,Labour,Chancellor
the right to be who we want to be at any age
“We have earned the right to be exactly who we are and who we want to be,” says beauty editor Anita Bhagwandas,…
why the cat eye was a game changer
Cleopatra may not seem an obvious role model for younger women today, but there’s an important lesson in her life story…
26/07/2024business,mission,careersmentoring,inter-generational,leadership,role model
time to challenge preconceptions on ageing
If things don't change, they'll stay as they are... Yes, that's ridiculous at first reading, a joke my father used to…
22/04/2024finances,mission,entrepreneurs,careersgendered ageism,intergenerational
on the power of collaborative networking
A great piece of advice for aspiring leaders from Belén Garijo the ceo of the $22.8 billion science and technology…
26/03/2024community,missionleadership,community,mentoring,networking,women entrepreneurs
why women at work may be missing their smiles
Why women may not be happy at work: so many valuable findings to digest, attitudes to embrace and actions to initiate…
21/03/2024mission,careersmentoring,gender pay gap,gender equality,gendered ageism,intergenerational,Women in Work Summit
we need a new strategy for parenting and flexibility
The challenge of combining parenting and the workplace will not go away: it simply reinvents itself. Flexible working…
25/01/2024mission,careersworking from home,hybrid working,working mothers,flexible working,GenZ
inter-generational conversations in action
Inter-generational conversations about the world of work in action at an AllBright member lunch with some great debate…
06/12/2023community,missionwomen in business,knowledge sharing,inter-generational,world of work,Allbright
building a human library to spark change
To tackle the gender pay gap and ageism, we need the resources to understand what has gone before and to work together…
28/11/2023LUMIN,missionageism,inter-generational,gendered inequality,human library,world of work
gender pay gap closes at glacial pace
The one place where the glaciers aren't melting is women's pay The pace of change is glacial and meanwhile women aged…
let’s build a new model of equality
"You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the…