Editor’s Note – Summer 2016

Welcome to the Summer 2016 issue of People & Purpose – the Positive Leadership Journal. While women are still paid significantly less than men, they take fewer and fewer management roles the higher we look on the corporate ladder, there are some shining examples of women at the helm of corporations, their own companies and communities. In fact, the UK now has a female Prime Minister and there is the first female candidate for the post of US President.

As an increasing number of female leaders find their way to the top of organisations and find their voice one thing is clear: enabling women in leadership is not a binary or a win-lose issue.

Women leaders do not succeed against their male counterparts, they succeed alongside men and with them. Women’s progression benefits all, including male employees, as gender balanced organisations are more inclusive, better places to work as well as more successful.

I also strongly feel that the way forward for women is not to be more like men, but to add a different, complementary voice to the conversation. Where everyone is emboldened to be his or her authentic best self, the organisation truly benefits from the culmination of all talents within.

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