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A woman can spend twenty years building expertise inside an institution whose priorities shift in twenty weeks. Much of what she has accumulated, reputation, relationships, credibility, influence does not automatically travel with her when that institution changes course. The title, the email database, the platform, the programme. These belong to the employer, not to her. The same risk applies to founders and consultants who are, in effect, concentrated in a single client, fu

There is something wonderfully optimistic about September. Summer begins to retreat, schools return, diaries refill, Q4 suddenly stops looking comfortably distant and organisations rediscover all the meetings they apparently managed perfectly well without during August. Menopause, unfortunately, has no respect for the corporate calendar.

When it comes to empowering women of colour in the UK, the journey is as inspiring as it is essential. We all know that representation matters, and creating spaces where Black, and women of colour can thrive professionally is a powerful step forward. That is where the National Black Women’s Network (NBWN) steps in. We are not just a support system we are a movement dedicated to boosting career growth, inclusion and representation across business, professional, and governmen