It makes a lot of money, but it’s destroying the planet.
It has so many intelligent people working there, but they’re all miserable.
It’s experiencing rapid-fire growth, but its business model is unsustainable.
Over the years, friends have worked at many different companies, and I’ve heard variations of the above…
Like many people in 2020, I decided that I wanted to do something different. Why not blow up your life? That dumpster fire of a year seemed like the perfect time. …
“We just need more senior women in power, then they’ll fix everything for the generation that comes next,” goes the implicit argument of so many diversity initiatives.
While people often assume that women at the top will lead to a more hospitable environment, the messy truth is that women can…
Years ago, I sat in a shiny central London office with two men. One was a partner at a global consulting firm (who was there to ‘green light’ a digital campaign); the other was the CEO of the company I was producing the campaign for.
They spent the first half…
She didn’t even have time for a haircut because she was so busy; how was she ever going to have time for a kid? Or a partner?
Was this really what she was meant to be doing with her life?
But she had worked hard. …
We are thrilled to announce the judges for the 2021 Women in Software awards. They are high-profile industry leaders with demonstrated interest in technical excellence, inclusion, and cross-sector collaboration.
Together, they’re going to select not only the top rising stars in tech across the UK for the Women in Software…
We were having dinner on a Sunday, or maybe it was during the week. All I remember is being 22 and sitting at a kitchen table in Wellington with my then-boyfriend’s parents, who said:
“Enjoy this decade: your twenties are for fun, travel and doing whatever you want. Your thirties…
Whenever I hear the phrase ‘change the world’, part of my heart rolls its eyes. After spending my early twenties saturated in this kind of chat, I eventually learned that when people speak solely in vague platitudes, it often comes from a place of vanity and/or moral superiority.
Yet when…
“It sounds like a photocopier company,” Dad said over dim sum one Sunday a couple of weeks back. Thanks, Dad. My parents have never really ‘gotten it’ when it comes to what I do for work (“she works in I.T.”, …
After over a decade working with fast-growing startups where time is short, and the to-do list is long, I’ve learned how to help first-time founders and busy brands articulate what it is they’re really trying to say thoughtfully and quickly.
I’ve worked with all kinds of startups — the crowdfunded…
