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Ego, Culture and Learning: Three Critical Factors to an M&A Deal
Date: May 11, 2022
By Karen Thomas-Bland, founder of Seven Transformation According to Bain M&A could account for 50% of revenue growth in banking and financial services in the years ahead, an increase from the already high 35% rate. As the M&A environment remains hot, traditional banks are facing increasing disruption from private equity firms and digital-native banks. Success of...
The Numbers Don’t Lie: Bad Pso Leaders Bring Everything Down
Date: May 5, 2022
By Mark Gibbison, Head of Strategic Motions for New Business, Unit4 Professional services organizations (PSOs) can often struggle for competitive differentiation, leading to a temptation to compete on price and thus instigate a race to the bottom involving unsustainable business practices. Organizations need clear strategies, forensically targeted audiences, KPIs and other measurements aligned with overall...
Bloom UK Launches Fourth Annual Co-Mentoring Scheme, the Exchange, for Senior and C-Suite Men and Women
Date: April 25, 2022
Call out for C-suite leaders from a variety of backgrounds to support leading community and sign up to Bloom UK’s co-mentoring scheme, The Exchange London, UK 25th April 2022: Leading professional women’s network, Bloom UK announces that The Exchange programme is once again opening its doors as the only communications industry wide co-mentoring programme focused...
Finding Your Voice: How to Be a Successful Woman in Finance
Date: April 12, 2022
By Natasha Dhar, Portfolio Director, Vanquis Bank As a senior leader in financial services, I look around boardrooms and can see I look quite different from most of my peers. Research from the Financial Conduct Authority found only 17% of managers in financial services are women. This figure drops quite a lot when you narrow...
Four Behaviours to Unlearn (and Relearn) to Become a Better Leader Today
Date: March 29, 2022
By Abi Adamson, Founder & DEI Director of The Diversity Partnership (TDP) Futurist Alan Toffler famously wrote: “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” And whilst the concept of unlearning and relearning is perhaps nothing new, I would contend...
The Next Generation Cfo: The Rise of the Modern Finance Leader
Date: March 28, 2022
By Adam Zoucha, Managing Director, FloQast EMEA Since inception, finance departments have been known as a back-end function – the ghosts in the machine that grind silently to ensure the financial cogs are balanced, supporting operations while also providing room for innovation. But today, in a much faster moving world, digital transformation has given way...