Today the world puts huge emphasis on performance and demands more skills than ever before. Yet far too many managers don’t get the guidance they need to tackle their challenging roles. We want to end this paradox and help managers to stop simply getting by… and to start excelling. It was over 60 years ago…
After a decade with communications agency, Golin, I have recently taken over as managing director of our 130-strong, award-winning London office. My focus is on our ambition to create brave work that delivers real change and I’m incredibly proud that we won the PR Week Large Agency and overall Consultancy of the Year awards in 2015.
As Managing Director, Europe & Africa, Ailie MacAdam is responsible for the business development, project execution, and profit and loss for all market sector work in the regions.
Sheila Wild was for many years the Director of Employment Policy at the Equal Opportunities Commission (the EOC), where she led a number of major projects on workplace issues affecting women.
Working Families is the UK’s leading work-life balance organisation. The charity helps working parents and carers and their employers find a better balance between responsibilities at home and work. Our Legal Helpline gives parents and carers advice on employment rights such as maternity and paternity leave, rights to time off in an emergency, shared parental…
Sarah is the Chief Executive of Working Families and has led work-life balance campaigning and culture change for over twenty years. Sarah is an acknowledged expert and has worked across the political spectrum to push for positive change including the right to request flexible working, maternity and paternity leave and fathers’ rights at work.
Fiona is Managing Director of Women on Boards in the UK and is a Trustee of the Charity Fight for Sight. She is a passionate angel investor and helped to found one of the first female angel investment clubs, Incito Ventures.
Women on Boards (WOB) exists to help women make the right connections and career choices to get to the top within their own company or to take on a board or committee role as a non executive director (NED), trustee or governor.
Ben leads the CIPD’s Public Policy team, which works to inform and shape debate, government policy and legislation in order to enable higher performance at work and better pathways into work for those seeking employment.
Ann Francke, CEO of Chartered Management Institute (CMI), author of: Financial Times Guide to Management: How to Make a Difference and Get Results and winner of the ‘Louis Armstrong award for outstanding leadership of a UK professional body’ at the 2016 MemCom Awards.