All Diversity and inclusion articles – Page 9
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Future LeadersDocumentary: Developing future female leaders
Senior events executive Hannah Burnel investigates how Retail Week’s Be Inspired campaign is actively developing retail’s female leaders.
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Future LeadersRetail Week launches biggest ever Be Inspired conference
Retail Week is launching its biggest ever Be Inspired conference, upping its efforts to develop and nurture retail’s future leaders.
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NewsOpinion: Breaking down the old boys' network
It is often assumed that the only route to success is through influence and contacts.
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InterviewListen: The Future Laboratory boss on AI and equality
Trevor Hardy, chief executive of trends forecaster The Future Laboratory explores some of the factors that will come to define the retail sector.
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OpinionOpinion: Good mentorship can bring a confidence boost
Mentorship is an important component of increasing the representation of women in tech and start-ups, explains Lucy Ward, managing director of Trouva.
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AnalysisHobbs’ Meg Lustman on rediscovering the retailer's mojo
When chief executive Meg Lustman arrived at fashion retailer Hobbs three years ago she was greeted by a business that had lost its way.
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NewsMove of the week: Helen Webb promoted to Co-op HR chief
Co-op boss Steve Murrells strengthened his executive team this week by promoting Helen Webb to the position of chief HR officer.
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InterviewAngela Spindler on fixing a business before it's broken
“We would have got more credit if we had let it go horribly wrong,” says N Brown boss Angela Spindler, sitting in her spacious office at the retailer’s headquarters.
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VideoThe Retail Week: Sainsbury's, Asda, Brantano and Jones Bootmaker
The Retail Week team discuss Sainsbury’s Q4 results, Asda pay changes, John Allen’s comments on equality and the prospective administrations.
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NewseCommera supports Be Inspired with headline sponsorship
Retail consulting and technology specialist eCommera has partnered with Retail Week on its Be Inspired campaign.
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AnalysisHallett Retail: Diversity wins it awards and staff loyalty
The Be Inspired Award for Diversity in Retail was picked up by Hallett Retail, thanks to the influential work of founder and managing director Wendy Hallett.
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VideoWatch: Card Factory boss on impact of business rates
Chief executive of Card Factory Karen Hubbard joins the Retail Week Studio to discuss the Be Inspired campaign and the winners and losers from the business rates revaluation.
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VideoThe Retail Week: Retail Week Live Special
The Retail Week team discuss the highlights from day one of Retail Week Live and look ahead to the best of day two.
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NewsBe Inspired: Retailers need female leaders to survive
Retailers need to promote female talent if they are to thrive, Be Inspired ambassadors said at Retail Week Live today, International Women’s Day.
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OpinionOpinion: There's no place for ‘locker-room banter’
Many people have made and continue to make negative assumptions when it comes to women in business.
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OpinionOpinion: Nickolds' John Lewis appointment speaks volumes
The glass ceiling has been broken. A woman has the top job in the most influential organisation in our world.
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NewsBe Inspired: 'There's room at the top, go after it'
“There’s a tonne of room at the top, go after it,” Baroness Neville-Rolfe urged women seeking career progession in retail.
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VideoWatch: Be Inspired's male ambassadors discuss diversity
In the second documentary on inspiring future female leaders we speak to some of the sector’s leading men about how to balance the boardroom.
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AnalysisBe Inspired: Targeting the retail gender gap
Retail Week carried out a Gender Diversity Monitor to find out what the UK’s largest retailers are doing to plug the gender gap at the top.
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AnalysisBe Inspired: Female retail chiefs on their role models
The Be Inspired campaign puts aspiring female talent in touch with retail role models, but who inspired those who have already made it to the top?