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Career & leadership

Wisdom from experience female and diverse leaders on reach your career potential and taking an inclusive approach.

Getting heard in meetings

Meetings are key forums for making your influence felt and establishing yourself as a leader (potential or current). Yet women and people of other underrepresented groups often struggle to be […]

How to overcome blockers in the workplace

Blockers in the workplace are challenging, frustrating and draining! Dealing with “blockers” in the workplace is a pervasive challenge, causing considerable frustration among professionals. According to UGM’s Personal Influence at […]

Fiona Hathorn's Top Tips for Career Success

Fiona Hathorn, our co-founder and CEO, shares her advice on realising your career goals – based on global research findings, combined with her personal experience building a successful career in […]

Your Career Map

Building a successful career is something that rarely ‘just happens’. Proactive and life-long career management is a key factor to success – particularly for those from under-represented groups. Our Career […]

Are You a Leader or a Manager?

Do you understand how to think strategically, oversee change and/or manage a diverse team innovatively and collaboratively? Fiona Hathorn, our co-founder and MD, considers leadership & management and how both […]

How to ask for a pay rise

Equal Pay Day signifies the day in the year that women effectively stop earning, relative to men. Or put another way, in comparison to the average man on a full-time […]

Securing a Board Position - 5 simple Steps

Finding a board appointment that suits your interests, skills and geography takes patience, determination and effort. Women on Boards is here to help. Our focus is to encourage, inspire and […]

Think 'BlockBusters', Not Snakes & Ladders

Making decisions in uncertain times. Julie and Malcolm are both Women on Boards’ Ambassadors and deliver our Getting to the C-Suite Leadership programme Based on a webinar with Julie Ashworth […]

How Can Women Make the Transition to Leadership?

Julie Ashworth, CEO of Broadreach leadership consultancy and Women on Boards Ambassador. For years there has been talk of a ‘glass ceiling’ for women, where they are not reaching the […]