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Women in the news

Suddenly they are everywhere! Just skimming through news stories yesterday, here’s a tiny, disparate selection: IMF: after the DSK resignation in questionable circumstances , French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde appears to be the frontrunner for the IMF job....

Don’t worry, be happy ♫

Preparing for the newspaper review on Sky on Saturday, I came across an article in The Times which talked about how much women worry. To the point that they worry about worrying. Many women seemed to be in a constant state of heightened anxiety. Men it would appear,...

Where are all the women?

At White Water Women, we are spending a lot of time and energy working with women to help them reach leadership positions in the corporate world to ensure more balance, stable representation of diverse views. Then we got to thinking. Some women find that corporate...

Champagne!

On Thursday we received a couple of plain looking boxes without any content indication. A few minutes later screams all-round: our latest book had finally been published! So on Friday we trotted to London’s National Portrait Gallery for a Champagne Tea celebration....

Transforming People

When I am asked what I do as a Leadership Psychologist, I often say, ‘I transform people’. Regularly, people in a variety of social situations will reply with the statement, often framed as a question, ‘Yes, but people don’t really change, do they?’ Inside, I wonder...

This is a man’s world, this is a man’s world But it wouldn’t be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl. James Brown and Betty Jean Newsome.

  Are our attempts to develop women to function well in a ‘man’s world’ misguided when:   60% of university graduates worldwide are women 80% of the market is female or female influenced gender balance has been repeatedly proven good for business Why are...

Forever Blue… Not!

I was going to write a learned entry about managing Talent but an unforeseen event happened last night that reordered my priorities… We went to see Chris Isaak at theShepherd’s Bush Empire, a West London theatre now dedicated to good live music (Buddy Guy is playing...

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