Carole Field

The relative inequity of women in senior leadership positions in most organisations is well documented. This has important implications, including the waste of talent it implies.

Unrelenting pressure, global travel and high performance expectations are all features of today’s business world. What are things that people who thrive in this environment do? What can we learn from the? What skills and disciplines underpin those who thrive in this world? In talking from those who are doing so, these are their traits.

Leaders navigate well during times of change but what happens when that change is relentless, driven by forces outside the leader’s control, with unprecedented scale and pace? 

Pierre* worked for a multinational travel company. He worked his way up through the organisation within the Finance Function. During his tenure he had been an integral part of many of the company’s major change strategies including working on mergers and acquisitions.