Rhian Bowler / 27 Oct 2017
E2W leadership coach Rhian Bowler challenges you to take the 'Human Approach to Networking'. During many coaching conversations that I have with the E2W community, women readily admit that they hate the thought of networking. To them, networking feels like forced conversations with people they don&rsquo...
Read moreMark.Freed / 16 Oct 2017
A news piece on the BBC recently caught my eye regarding a girl and a bull. This was no fairy tale though and reading on I realised that the story had a far bigger tale to tell about ‘investing with impact’ and financial products driving...
Read moreRhian Bowler / 12 Oct 2017
This week E2W leadership coach Rhian Bowler challenges you to ask “Why?” Children don’t have a problem with asking why something happened, or why something is just as it is and as annoying as the incessant questioning may be, as adults, there is something for...
Read moreMark.Freed / 11 Oct 2017
Mark Freed E2W CEO says "If your recruitment partner tells you they can only find qualified male candidates, they’re probably wrong." Meeting gender targets that enable businesses to collect the gender dividend depend on them being able to recruit more women. If you are...
Read moreMark.Freed / 05 Oct 2017
Next year is the 100th anniversary of women securing the right to vote in the UK. As part of celebrating the centenary, we are producing a history of women’s careers in financial services over the years. In the latest in the series we meet Stephanie. E2W member,...
Read moreMark.Freed / 05 Oct 2017
This week E2W CEO, Mark Freed, does the maths to show what banks will need to do to meet their gender diversity commitments and makes some practical suggestions about what needs to change in the recruitment process. “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting...
Read moreRhian Bowler / 02 Oct 2017
Recently Chris Evans on Radio 2 interviewed inventor and designer Sir James Dyson on his ideas, innovations and failures. I was fascinated to hear how many designs fail before a prototype has been agreed, but each failed attempt has provided valuable learning and experience to improve the next design. ...
Read moreMark.Freed / 02 Oct 2017
Here at E2W, we face problems and opportunities on a daily basis - big and small - that's the nature of business. I worry most about hidden problems and missed opportunities, those that no one recognises. These represent risks to the business or a failure to...
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