Grow your own women
It is expensive to recruit and then lose women to your competitors. How do you ensure they stay and rise through the ranks, effectively balancing your gender profile as they go? If you don’t truly understand why they leave, nothing changes. If you don’t have a plan...
Recruiting more women makes everyone richer
The maths of gender diversity: Evidence from the City is that women are performing at least as well as men in fund management, the law, insurance, and banking. It is equally true in ‘real’ industries outside the City. So how do you convince those in power to pay more...
Gender Diversity is key to ESG
Getting it right scores across multiple dimensions: Getting ESG right is complicated as so many factors and activities are intertwined. You need to be seen to do the right thing. Acting on Gender Diversity is highly effective and has a high signalling value. We will...
ESG is here to stay
Ignoring it will hurt your pocket: Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) value drivers first emerged from a UN conference in 2005. Over time it has become an important filter for investors and employees. But what is it exactly and who does it apply to? What are...
Fund Boards need to wise up to female excellence
What continues to prevent chief executives from accessing the entire talent pool, rather than favouring men? City Wire’s Wealth Manager Magazine asks Averil Leimon why despite strong evidence of high performance so few women were promoted to senior positions in...
“Ugly, stark & unacceptable”: What can be done to stop sexual harassment in the City?
This the verdict of Lloyd’s CEO John Neale on an independent report highlighting persistent sexual harassment across the world’s oldest insurance market. This follows hot on the heels of investment bank BNP Paribas losing a high profile sexual...
Optimism and life expectancy – are they linked?
The latest research confirms that optimism plays a big part in extending life expectancy. As an expert in Positive Psychology and author of Positive Psychology for Dummies, Averil spent Tuesday taking part in a range of Radio and TV...
Freedom from Corporate Fear
How millennials help drive Fear out of the Corporate world – there is a lot more to them than lazy Snowflake descriptions… In this interview with The Daily Telegraph our expert, François Moscovici, comes to the defence of misunderstood millennials. The feature...
Do you have to work with someone you dislike or even hate?
… that’s what BBC radio asked me to talk about. Here’s a snippet of the programme. Key points: Develop some emotional literacy. Check the emotions are accurate – hate ? Really? What exactly are you feeling?Calibrate the feelings on a scale of mildly miffed to...
Looking busy at work
Business school researchers have identified a type of employee, who manages to look busy and successful without actually doing anything useful. You know the one, who talks a big talk at meetings but when it comes to implementation, they are nowhere to be seen. Turns...