FAREWELL TO THE FUTURE LEADERS AWARD

We launched the Future Leaders Award in 2010. At the time the focus was on women getting on Boards.

WiC knew that in order to achieve more women on boards, we would need to identify and support women with the potential to reach senior management and executive board positions – what began to be called the “talent pipeline”.

Between then and 2017 we recognised many outstanding females all of whom have gone on to undertake more stretching and more senior roles.

We’re proud of the success of this and our earlier Woman of Achievement Award which recognised senior women who were actively championing the progress of women in their teams, organisations and sectors.

We are delighted that WiC was at the forefront of a  recognising gender diversity champions and  future female leaders, carving a pathway for other awards and businesswomen to follow.

This website is now “mothballed” but we do hope you’ll explore the section on our Winners.

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Updates from Women in the City:

UK workplace culture stalls women’s careers

UK workplace culture stalls women’s careers say three in four women and two in five men reports year-long study involving almost 6,000 UK employees. Everyday examples of unintentionally gender biased behaviour in workplace culture are stalling women’s careers, according to a year-long study released on 13 February 2019 by Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. […]

Hospitality, travel and leisure sector improves gender diversity

This year’s Women in Hospitality, Travel and Leisure 2020 Review shows improvement on gender diversity over the past year. New analysis of gender diversity in the hospitality, travel and leisure sector shows the industry has made positive progress in the past year to address the number of women in senior positions. While improvements have been […]

Promotion chances are reduced for part-time parents

The UK’s working parents are penalised for working part-time and suffer from poorly-designed jobs that force them to work extra hours, according to a major new study published today by Working Families and Bright Horizons. Part-time penalty leaves mothers behind The 2019 Modern Families Index  reveals that parents working part time – most of whom […]

Flexible working megatrends

Flexible working is not easily defined. This is because it is often seen by what it isn’t – not the 9-to-5, not the daily commute to a central workplace – as opposed to by what it is. Nevertheless, people think they know it when they see it, and as a result certain working patterns or […]

1 in 4 workplace harassment perpetrators are customers or clients

2 in 5 UK Business Directors Lack Workplace Harassment Training, study finds Leading ethics and compliance software and services company NAVEX Global® highlighted research  finding more than 44 percent of UK business directors have never received training on workplace harassment, and 21 percent have only received one training session, according to the report available here. […]

Recent Posts: Project Diamond

Courage and better processes are keys to senior level roles

[Author:  Gwen Rhys] My 25-yr old godson recently attended a corporate away-day: “Did you know research shows that women only apply for jobs when they met 100% of the qualifications listed, as opposed to men, who apply if they met 60%?” he asked me. I replied that well, yes, I had heard this (yawn!). I […]

Culture matters when it comes to the acquisition and retention of female talent

I was delighted to be asked by Leathwaite to contribute to its 2019 Global HR Leadership Report. This data-rich document is the result of a poll of 1000 Global HR leaders including Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs), Heads of Specialist Functions (including Talent, Reward, Learning and Recruiting) and those at the vanguard of HR Transformation […]

Value your differences, and include generously.

Ma’am, are you lost? A first-hand account of bias in tech, and some practical suggestions for those who want to fix it. In this blog, first published in Medium in early December 2018, Ramona Liberoff, Founder Link Mission 2, StartupFounder, StoriesAngel, InvestorsEuropeVC discusses her experience in tech. I’ve been fortunate enough to work in and […]

Blow your own trumpet, the #1 tip for women

“Blow your own trumpet” is something men somehow seem to do all the time. They just subtly drop how brilliantly they contributed to the last design, or they jokingly repeat a compliment from – obviously – a highly regarded person.  I was 5 years into my working life when I realised that men actually do […]

Leveraging gender difference at work, tips for women

[Words by Inge Woudstra] Are you keen to get ahead? Then you know it’s not easy. Sometimes it seems a lot easier for men, and you may feel that women have to work twice as hard and be twice as good. Let me tell you that it isn’t just you. Many women feel the same. […]

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