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"What we tend to do is spot trends and then democratise them. An example would be cappuccinos and lattes – we saw these were growing as a trend and we thought there was an opportunity to [provide] great tasting, ethical, good quality coffee but at exceptional prices, more conveniently than some of our competitors.""

"It’s important for businesses to reach out but also for universities to reach into business and really understand what skills and capabilities those businesses are looking for.""

"We’ve had to work hard at helping people understand that jobs at McDonald’s are good quality jobs with prospects. Over half of my executive team started off working in restaurants"

"Get some practical experience that will help you place in context some of the learning you’ve had and apply it in the real world. That gives you a real start in being able to decide what you want to do.""

"“It is much harder being a leader when it’s tougher than when you were just rising. Leading in a variable environment means absorbing a lot of the uncertainty. It’s about being honest with what you say – and what you don’t say.”"

"Women must be willing to say: ‘I am good at what I do and this is how you’d have to act to keep me,’"

"We talk about generational changes, attitudes to work and the concept of a ‘worklife balance’. It isn’t just women who want change, and it isn’t always about parenthood, she suggests. “Men in their 30s and 40s have a very different attitude to work than their fathers. It’s much more about not letting one thing dominate [your life].”"

"Companies also have a role, as do leaders in organisations, to ensure you have a culture where you can speak up about it. Men in management have a very important role to play."

"It has a lot to do with how connected they feel and if there is a real flexible working opportunity. Women do have to ask and companies have to listen – if they remain rigid about how they see this world, they will lose women,”"

"Business today is hugely disrupted all the time and its environment is volatile and very uncertain. Sailing is a phenomenal metaphor for having to cope, use, and thrive to win, by exploiting that volatility."

"Getting the mindset right in business and sailing starts from the top. You need to create a culture where people are not just focusing on their job, but also taking into account the context of everybody else’s. That is done through dialogue and teaching. With our sailing team on JOURNEYMAKER, our culture is that we all do it together and support each other. We all have bad days at the races and heads do go down. So, you have to call it out and you have to take action and talk about what was not happening and put it right. It is very much a learning culture."

"Sailing is so good for teaching resilience, teamwork and working towards a common cause. I would love it to be really accessible, ultimately giving many kids a chance to have a go. There’s a lot of children that may not be good at the usual school sports, but they could be really good at sailing. If they are given the chance to find their confidence, their passion, their purpose in life, sailing could be their thriving environment.”"

"Becoming a public business, it was a whole new learning for me. I was surrounded by the banking industry and I found it really difficult.So, to go into another world, I found that really challenging, but what I did, was thought ‘well they don’t really know my subject’! Once I understood that I knew my subject better than anyone else, the confidence came back, because who’s really going to question the fashion authority?"

"I think you have to balance it off, I think I can be successful in my day job, and I’ll be better in my day job if I do these other things. I feel better for going to the gym in the morning and having an odd day when I do a detox, and I just feel overall better for it."

"I believe in always being disciplined; I think a little bit of self-discipline. I try and get in probably between four and seven sessions of some kind of exercise a week, I watch what I eat, limit my alcohol intake, and I try and get as much sleep as I can."

"It needs strategic and far-sighted leadership. That has not existed, and it is clearly urgently required. We don't even know who is running it."

"I have always been a champion of women; I am the eldest of four sisters so, for me, purpose has always been around championing women. It’s not a huge surprise therefore that my first business as an entrepreneur is all about that."

"An understanding of the numbers is definitely important. Before becoming CEO I had worked as head of digital and strategy [for Hachette Filipacchi before the Hearst merger] so I had an understanding of operations and positioning, as well as communications and marketing. You need a good gut instinct too – and that’s important for female entrepreneurs and executives"

"With a growing community of inspiring and connected women across the globe, we feel that there's no stopping what we can do. I think global business is waking up to the impact of having motivated and empowered women building businesses for themselves and others – and as we're half the population, that can only be a great thing."

"I have always felt well supported but what I have observed in boardrooms is women understating their experience and achievements. Men will traditionally overstate their experience. With AllBright we are trying to give women the space to develop that confidence and to share their experience within a supportive community.”"

"Being able to cope when things are really bad also gives you some confidence, and having courage is an important part of being a leader. But it did take me a year until I fully found my footing as a CEO.”"

"More than anything it’s just about recognising what’s happening to you and not letting it direct your emotions. Recognise it so you can take back some control,”"

"recognising what’s happening to you and not letting it direct your emotions. Recognise it so you can take back some control,”"

"“I’ve always been someone who wanted to look at the bigger picture, working on the business rather than in it. HR initially allowed me to see how all the dots join together in order to make a change in the business.”"

"I also witnessed great advances in liver diseases, my chosen speciality."

"I rode the cusp of socio-economic changes as more women entered medicine."

"I found my feet and wings, and King’s supported my accommodation for three years. ‎*Starting as a student to becoming a part of staff faculty."

"I was homeless and penniless when I first started at King’s."

"Now that we’ve had real success in helping individuals move into stable housing, we’re turning our focus to prevention."

"It will take a partnership between parents and schools to help mitigate the effects of cell phone use among teens."

"I have personally worked with this group to help educate the public on the benefits of waiting and I believe they will be able to collaborate with our schools to spread the message."

"What made this possible was a state grant program that only opens up about once every 15 years."

"Once that’s complete, the city can move forward with plans for a sale."

"Right now, we’re waiting for an appraisal of the property."

"We’ve submitted our Housing Element and Fair Share Plan as required by state law. It’s posted on the city’s website so that residents can review and understand what’s being proposed."

"The numbers are encouraging. We’ve gone from 30 motor vehicle thefts in 2023 to six so far this year."

"More than 20 individuals who were once living on the streets are now in real homes, and that shift has improved life for the entire community."

"There’s been a lot to be proud of this year, but one of the most powerful accomplishments is the progress we've made through the Homelessness Task Force."

"It is really important that every organisation signs up."

"We must change attitudes and behaviour."

"There are some really practical things that we can do."

"I think we have to ask ourselves and be much more aware of what’s going on around us."

"It is a significant problem; it is everywhere."

"It is shameful, I could tell you stories from my own experience from when I was a trainee right up to last year."

"Some of our leaders talk about the need for diversity of opinion and diversity of thought without necessarily acknowledging that we need more women."

"Diversity brings new ideas, new solutions, and a wider range of understanding about the subtleties of culture, behavior, and values."

"We have the same old solutions, the same old people, coming up with the same old answers."

"We don’t make the most of all the assets that we have in terms of our people in the health service."

"Leadership is something that everybody in an organization can demonstrate and take on at different points in time, no matter their rank or professional identity."

"Who will increasingly look to foster closer ties to the various Royal colleges and to develop new ways to maintain and even enhance learning."