Recommended Reads

By Christina Ioannidis & Nicola Walther A Must Read For Employers of Women in Business. Top performing business women are turning on their well-heeled shoes and walking out the door of some of the world’s best known companies. This gender based brain-drain is causing a shortage of women at board level. Around the globe, women are carving [...]

By Eileen Brown Take a look (includes contents, first chapter and index) Engaging with social media such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter is now a key part of global business communications. Blogs, microblogs, social networking and social news sites have become the new tools for effective marketing and sales. This book is an excellent resource [...]

By Christine Brown-Quinn This book is a swift, easy, and engaging read for any woman who is currently managing a family and a career, and any woman who is considering doing so. As an industry “go-to” person for women solopreneurs and women who work from home who feel overwhelmed in the workplace and want to [...]

By Carole Stone With more than 14,000 entries in her electronic address book, Carole Stone is a self-confessed people addict who has turned networking and making friends into an art form. Packed with top tips and real-life scenarios, this is your essential guide to getting on with people in all aspects of life. You might [...]

  By Nadia Finer & Emily Nash GET CONFIDENT, GET INSPIRED AND BAG YOUR DREAM JOB Do you dream of changing your life, but you’re not sure how? Want a more rewarding job, your own business, a chance to make a difference or the push to do that thing you’ve always wanted to? It’s time [...]

Few people are as experienced at generating controversy as American essayist Caitlin Flanagan, who has previously incited female ire with her takes on everything from housewives (“Women have a deeply felt emotional connection to housekeeping”) and working mothers (“At a certain point a mother must choose between her work and her child”) to the flaws [...]

By Sarah Lloyd-Hughes Speaking in public can be fun – honestly! Whatever the occasion, whatever the content, whatever the situation, this book will teach you everything you need to know to plan, prepare and deliver any speech or presentation and will give you the skills to deliver it with style, wit, charm and confidence. Discover [...]

It’s tough, leaving office life in order to be a better parent and keeping the professional show on the road. I know, because I’ve done it. The route most of us choose is to present “working from home” as a version of a career without the commuting, not a means of being around the children [...]

By Lynne Franks Learning to juggle career and relationships, while living a healthy, fulfilled life, has created a whole new set of circumstances unique to the modern woman. At the same time, we’re living in a world that needs the balance of feminine energy at its most powerful to create a sustainable, positive future for [...]

A quarter of all co-habitating women earn more than their partner, and the number is set to dramatically rise. Available from 1 October 2011 The rising number of women earning more than their partners is causing couples to renegotiate gender roles in the home.  At work, forward-thinking employers must adapt to capitalise on this growing [...]

By Dr Suzanne Doyle-Morris STRATEGIES FOR ACHIEVING CAREER SUCCESS AS A WOMAN WORKING IN A MALE DOMINATED FIELD… will show you how to develop your careers strategy, break though the glass ceiling for women and  completely raise your game. Packed with vital insights and inspirational ideas, the book is written specifically for professional females to enable [...]

Twenty years ago I went for the first time into Angela Carter‘s study. I knew the rest of her house in Clapham quite well. Downstairs was carnival: true, there was a serious kitchen, but there were also violet and marigold walls, and scarlet paintwork. A kite hung from the ceiling of the sitting room, the [...]

By Andy Lopata & Peter Roper Do you dread going to networking events? Do you hide at the back of the room when you have the opportunity to present? In 1984 a New York Times Survey on Social Anxiety placed death third in the list of people’s biggest fears. The top two responses were walking [...]

We asked one of our members, Elizabeth Harrin to review “Why Women Mean Business”. Elizabeth is a professional journalist and author, she also writes an award winning blog and has recently been nominated for our Project Manager of the Year award. There’s a skills shortage. If you haven’t noticed it yet you will do when [...]