What’s Your Superpower?
By Lauren Noël and Christie Hunter Arscott
Imagine you enter an interview for a job and an executive asks you: “What’s your superpower?” How would...
Gender Diversity in the Boardroom: Finding an Optimal Level?
By Won-Yong Oh, Loren Falkenberg, and Jim Dewald
There has been an increase in the number of women serving on boards. Today, everyone talks about...
Claiming Your Value: A Key Skill for Women in Transition
By Sally Helgesen
“What’s your worth?” might be one of the more difficult questions that women, particularly in the corporate world, need to face. In...
Parity in Progress: A New Future for Women in Energy
By Katie Mehnert
Women’s rights have been front and centre in recent weeks, given the current political climate. But movement toward change has been brewing...
The Value of Gender-Based Leadership
By Melissa Greenwell
If a roomful of men can draw on their experiences and insights to help a business succeed, a roomful of men and...
We Need a Greater Focus on the Benefits Women in Top Executive Roles Bring...
By Sucheta Nadkarni
Recruiting women to corporate boards and top executive roles helps businesses find the best people and reach key consumers. There’s a risk...
Power with Purpose: How Women’s Leadership Boosts the Economy and Society
By Lynn Taliento and Anu Madgavkar
While there has been progress toward increased opportunities in the labour force for women, they remain underrepresented at the...
What Leaders Can Learn from Both Clinton and Trump
By Katharina Balazs
When connecting with an audience, Hillary Clinton leads with the head while Donald Trump comes from the heart: both hold lessons for...
Entrepreneurial Risks and the Joys that Come with Them
By Myra Strober
Sometimes it is only with hindsight that one understands the benefits that come from taking an entrepreneurial risk. In 1974, Myra Strober...
Introduction to the Female Leadership In Our Time
“I believe that true passion has no gender and focusing on your goals and dreams helps you to overcome gender and cultural boundaries.”
Simonetta...
Franziska Gsell, CMO, IWC Schaffhausen
We women should not take such gender biases too seriously and put limitations on our career choices and ourselves.
Franziska Gsell majored in Business Administation...
Magdalena Mook, Executive Director & CEO, International Coach Federation
We all take risks in life and that’s why working with professional coaches is important; it should not be a matter of good fortune.
Magdalena...
Rama Mani, Founder, Theatre of Transformation Co-Founder, Rising Women Rising World
Through my transformative art, I’m aspiring to shift the old paradigm that governed politics, economics and society so far and destroyed human life: ‘the...
Nike Okundaye, Artist & Founder, Nike Centre for Art and Culture
Yes! Income is key to decent living and decent living provides the necessary tools for a woman to occupy her rightful and respectable position...
Simonetta Di Pippo, Director, UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)
I believe that true passion has no gender and focusing on your goals and dreams helps you to overcome gender and cultural boundaries.
Simonetta Di...
Veronika Linardi, Co-founder & CEO, Qerja
The role I have carved out for myself is predominantly based on the experiences that molded me into the woman I am today, my...
Caroline Fattal Fakhoury, Executive Coaching, Managing Partner, Praesta
Without influence, competence is powerless... if we refrain from engaging in politics we are effectively withdrawing ourselves as serious candidates for high corporate office.
Named...
Ozlem Denizmen, Founding Chair, Financial Literacy and Inclusion Association
I have always shaped myself according to my values and set goals to realise those values. Instead of focusing on social prejudices, I set...
Leslie Pratch, Founder & CEO, Pratch & Co
I am an independent thinker and a creative risk taker . . . It was a big risk to develop and validate my own...
Annelise Alig Anderhalden, Director, Aargau Services Economic Promotion
I am convinced that passion is the key to success.
Annelise Alig Anderhalden is a trained engineer and Director of Aargau Services Economic Promotion. She...
Tiffany Chung, Contemporary Artist
I wake up every day grateful for being able to do what I do and looking forward to materialize my research and ideas. Living...
Kathryn Finney, Founder & Managitng Director, digitalundivided (DID)
My philosophy for success and leadership is that leaders don’t necessarily have to have all the right answers every time, but they should trust...
Nabilah Alsagoff, Founder and COO, PT Nusa Satu Inti Artha (DOKU)
Women have strong minds and we believe that our skills to empower the work force can make a difference in the industry that we...
Penelope Trunk, Co-founder & CEO, Quistic, Author, Blogger
Here's a question I want to see you ask: How can people, who run the economic and social life in their country at large,...
Ethel Cofie, CEO, EDEL Technologies
Life is full of challenges, and one of the early lessons that I learnt, is the fact that life does not give you what...
Grace Woo, Founder, Pixels.IO
Since I could remember, my grandma has always explained to me that I have control over nothing except what is in my own head...
Stephanie Holland, Founder and Author, Sheconomy
Support and encourage other women. Because there have been so few spaces for women at the table, this has pitted women against each other...
Sharmla Chetty, Regional Managing Director, Duke CE South Africa
It has been critical for me to embrace tough assignments. It is easier to take the path of least resistance... It’s far better to...
Sherilyn Williams Casiano, Founder & CEO, S.I. Williams Wealth Management, LLC
When I was about 13, my mother was working for an accounting firm and when I told her that’s what I wanted to do,...
Nancy Nix, Executive Director, AWESOME
Successful women leaders in senior leadership roles can be an important part of a support network that can help emerging leaders be successful.
Nancy Nix...
Sabine Eckhardt, Chief Commercial Officer, ProSiebenSat.1 Media Group
All that procrastination and weighing up doesn’t get you very far in a male-dominated business world. 'Just get on with it' is sometimes the...
Sylvia Yin, Co-Founder and COO, SHOPPR
My rule of thumb while raising finance is to always know who you are raising money from. Don’t stop at researching about venture capitalists,...
Judith Owigar, Founder, Akirachix
I think the most important thing is to expose women to technology early enough for them to experiment so that when the time comes...
Susan Gunelius, President & CEO, KeySplash Creative Inc.
I’ve found that the best way to deal with gender bias is with a strong offense, meaning you need to be smart and not...
Colette Ballou, Founder, Ballou PR
If you have a strong reputation, you have a better chance of charging a premium for your products, even in price-sensitive times; you have...
Heather Baker, CEO, TopLine Comms, Editor and Blogger
I’m also always learning and trying to improve – I think I’m a much better leader now than I was two years ago. I’m...
Keneilwe Mampuru, Founder & Head Designer, Kente by Keneilwe
I would like people to think of my brand as not just a fashion label, but as a brand that stands firm against the...
Empowering Women through the Transformative Power of Coaching
Coaching has long been lauded as one of the most transformative learning interventions, and research indicates that women derive a host of benefits from...
Develop a Robust Female Leadership Pipeline
By Alexia Vernon
In this article, Alexia Vernon provides actionable strategies for organisations to develop their next generation female leaders. Grounding her recommendations in research...
Negotiating Advice for Women: The Problem-Solving Conversation
“You can’t improve on a skill that you’re avoiding,” says Wharton management professor Nancy Rothbard. “Many people shy away from negotiations because they associate...
Global Female Leaders 2015: International Networking for Female Leaders in Berlin
The Global Female Leaders Summit 2015 brought together female leaders from more than 20 countries in Berlin’s prestigious Adlon Kempinski Hotel during April 20th...
Looking at the Universe as a Systemic Whole: Women in Global Leadership
Interview with Magdalena Mook
CEO, International Coach Federation
The International Coach Federation (ICF) is a rapidly growing organisation, encompassing 26,000 professional coaches globally. The European Business...
Challenging Stereotypes: The Women’s Executive Leadership Programme at Berkeley Executive Education
Interview with Laura Kray
Professor of Leadership, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
UC Berkeley’s Women’s Executive Leadership Programme is unique: it was designed by women...
Women as Global Leaders: Challenges & Strategies for Getting to the Top
By Susan R. Madsen and Faith Wambura Ngunjiri
In this article, Susan R. Madsen and Faith Wambura Ngunjiri discuss the challenges facing women in global leadership...
Closing the Gender Gap
A growing body of research and anecdotal evidence shows a positive correlation between gender-balanced corporate leadership and organisational performance. Despite this, a significant gap...
The Future of Gender Equality, from School to Boardroom
Helena Morrissey Talks with Camille Merrells
Helena Morrissey is the unstoppable CEO of Newton, Chair of the Investment Management Association (IMA) and founder of...
Through the Ceiling and Over the Cliff? Catch-22 for Women Executives
A new program for women executives combines business acumen with leadership development and career reflection. It’s an approach designed to strengthen the key skills...
Global Female Leaders Networking Breakfast
April is inching closer, bringing the exciting prospect of the Global Female Leaders Summit with it. The European Business Review caught up with some...
Dream Bigger Be Braver
Exclusive Interview with Cheryl Giovannoni by our editor Camille Merrells
Cheryl Giovannoni is the dynamic CEO of Ogilvy & Mather UK, the advertising giant responsible...
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