ARTICLES
Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Empowering Women in the Workforce and Advancing them into Senior Positions through Leadership Development & Inclusivity
May 11, 2023Despite progress over the past few decades, women are still underrepresented in leadership positions across industries. According to recent statistics, only 23% of executives around the world are women. While this number has increased from previous years, it is still far from where it needs to be. Women continue to face barriers to advancement in […] Read more...
The Name Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović Might Not Sound Familiar, But The President of Croatia Is An Inspiring Female Leader
July 15, 2018Kolinda Grabar- Kitarovic joined the victorious Croatian players after the match to celebrate their win over World Cup hosts Russia last week, and since then much has been said of the President of Croatia. The joy of the Croatian head of state is in marked contrast to those of English dignitaries, who have stayed away […] Read more...
5 Steps To Overcoming Your Presentation Fears
May 27, 2018Presentations and public speaking are a large part of the modern business environment. It doesn’t matter how experienced you are, or how well you know your subject, a lot of us fear this essential business skill. At LEADWomen we’ve developed a series of programmes on Mastering Public Speaking and Presentation Skills, and we’ve put together […] Read more...
How to LEAD Smarter – 3 Simple Ways to Lead by Example
May 23, 2018For many of us working in the Middle East, pushing boundaries and shattering the glass ceiling may be out of reach in the somewhat traditional business environment we work in. Yet that is the same for many working-women around the world, where they are constantly faced with a barrage of issues and pressures they have […] Read more...
Why do Women need to be taught how to lead?
May 15, 2018Why do Women need to be taught how to lead? Or – why should they be leading at all. These two areas are often brought up when discussing LEADWomen, and our mission to inspire the Middle East’s Women to lead, and empower themselves. Organisations and society are often developed around a “man’s world” approach. However, […] Read more...
Why is gender equality important?
May 13, 2018I want to say in answering these important questions that as a white man from a working-class family I am all too aware of my own unconscious biases around gender and it is an on-going journey. What I have learnt is that without gender equality at the most fundamental level in all our different cultures […] Read more...
How different are men and women anyway?
May 10, 2018In the best-selling 1992 book, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, John Gray argues that there are enormous psychological differences between men and women. Central to his argument is that men and women communicate so differently that they could be from ‘different planets’. However, this is just based on the author’s personal experiences […] Read more...
Women in Management
May 7, 2018Diversity in the workplace has for the past 10 to 15 years been one of acknowledgment and reassurance: Yes, women represent only a small fraction in senior posts worldwide, but give it time. It’ll change. After all, women also make up just less than half of the global workforce, with significant growth in certain countries. […] Read more...
Women at the Top
May 3, 2018Women professionals are better for business and the environment Female leadership is characterised by vision and the ability to convey it to others, research shows, but senior sustainability jobs are more likely to be held by men. The reasons vary across countries and industries. But three common hurdles crop up all the time: Cultural assumptions […] Read more...
