What the 'right support' for female leadership looks like

The ‘sink or swim' approach can be a risky and costly one

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Rosanna Williams‑Wood shares a success story in retaining and growing talent with the added benefit of increasing a female pipeline for leadership…

Following the PA's Senior female leaders can go the distance with 'right support' article, we thought some readers might be interested in our example of ‘right support' and what they can take from our success with a European asset management group to inform a talent focus. The Talent Challenge + Female Agenda + Finance Sector = Competitive Advantage In this piece, we want to put the politics aside. This is how we see the need in the context of business competitive advantage. Fig 1, shows our choice, do we view the landscape as a challenge OR an opportunity?  Fig 1   The j...

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