We all need people in our corner to help navigate challenges, validate ideas, and offer fresh perspectives. That’s why building a personal advisory board — a diverse group of trusted voices — is one of the most powerful steps you can take for your career or business.

Global recruitment company Indeed was forced to apologise over a description of career age stages on their website. It described age 45+ as "late career" and 55+ as "in decline" and rightly kicked up a storm, generating column inches and outrage. But ageism in the workplace is endemic.

Obituaries still reflect gender bias, focusing on women's 'feminine talents' over real achievements. How will you be remembered? Let's rethink legacy.

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Cleopatra may not seem an obvious role model for younger women today, but there’s an important lesson in her life story because, it turns out, she achieved much of that thanks to the guidance of her earlier sisters. It makes her an early exemplar for inter-generational knowledge sharing and mentoring by women in the workplace. And, indeed, for succession planning in family businesses.

If things don't change, they'll stay as they are... Yes, that's ridiculous at first reading, a joke my father used to make, but it gets to the heart of the problem when it comes to ageism in the workplace. It's the orphan 'ism', left behind and ignored, and unless we change how we think, feel, and act towards age and ageing, nothing will ever improve.

A great piece of advice for aspiring leaders from Belén Garijo the ceo of the $22.8 billion science and technology company Merck KGaA. Her key takeaway? Make sure people know you’re a bar raiser and a collaborator.

Why women may not be happy at work: so many valuable findings to digest, attitudes to embrace and actions to initiate from this commentary looking at issues faced by women in the workplace. For starters, flagging up that there is no lack of ambition on the part of women is a crucial myth-buster.

The challenge of combining parenting and the workplace will not go away: it simply reinvents itself. Flexible working is certainly important, if we want to retain the huge resource that young mothers represent to the workplace, but it’s only one part of a multi-faceted equation. For Gen Z’ers flexibility is a right for all, not a ‘perk’ for parents.

Inter-generational conversations about the world of work in action at an AllBright member lunch with some great debate around the issues to tackle if we want to make things better for younger women on their career or business journey.

Voices on how ageism affects them - young and old. This World Health Organisation video hits home hard. #AWorld4AllAges. How can YOU help tackle ageism?