International Women's Day 2025: #AccelerateAction

International Women's Day 2025: #AccelerateAction

It won't have escaped your notice that today is International Women's Day.  Perhaps, as you made breakfast this morning, the radio was full of declarations of solidarity and high hopes for progress.  Perhaps your colleagues are full of renewed vigour and enthusiasm this week about the importance of gender equality in your organisation.  Perhaps you took an extra moment today as you waved your daughters off to their swimming lessons to think about how their lives were going to unfold.  Whether you're feeling fired up or concerned about the work still to be undertaken, International Women's Day is a time when we all pause, look back over our shoulders at the breakthroughs we've already made, and look forward at the path stretching out towards the horizon.

10 Tips to optimise your Linkedin profile for job search

10 Tips to optimise your Linkedin profile for job search

LinkedIn holds a multitude of opportunities for all. Apart from the obvious job search, it also enables you to grow a relevant business network where you can also proactively reach out to business contacts to strike up conversations. You can share content for the benefit of your personal brand, and unlock other visibility opportunities such as speaking and collaborations.

Smelling the coffee

Smelling the coffee

By the time you read this, your New Year's resolutions may no longer be foremost in your mind.  Perhaps they've quietly fallen by the wayside - or perhaps they imploded in a puff of wheatgrass-smoothie-fuelled smoke at some point last week.  You may have spent the first week of January declaring that this year you'd practise the saxophone for three hours every day, only eat hand-stroked vegetables grown in the Outer Hebrides, or never argue with your teenage offspring ever again about the levels of hygiene observed in their bedrooms…