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How can we best support women in their careers, particularly in leadership roles?

Executive coaches Joanna Menezes and Marie Stephenson who together have created a coaching programme for women, answer 3 questions on this subject

Before projecting yourself into 2026, why not take the time to press ‘pause’? Taking the time to conduct a career audit allows you to grant yourself a moment of clarity and empowerment: a space to revisit your career path, recognise what you have learned and clarify your professional aspirations.

After fifteen years with the same company, Karim*, 48, finds himself facing redundancy. It comes as a shock, of course. But very quickly, he chooses to see it as an opportunity to take stock and reconnect with his deepest aspirations.

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What if salary negotiations were an opportunity to get to know yourself better? That is, to question your beliefs and redefine what you will and will not accept in your professional life? Something to think about...

When it comes to finding a new job, salaray negotiations are often perceived as a delicate, even intimidating process. However, with the right preparation, it can become an opportunity to assert your value, set your terms and build a healthy, balanced professional relationship. Here is our advice.

Sofia*, 29, has just been through several successful interviews for an engineering position at a large industrial group.  As she approaches the final stages of the recruitment process, one question keeps niggling at her : how should she approach the salary negotiations?

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Thomas*, 52, an experienced director in the pharmaceutical sector, has been appointed to head up a six-person R&D team in Dublin, Ireland. Coming from a rather vertical French managerial culture, he is discovering a more horizontal, direct Anglo-Saxon approach... which he sometimes finds disconcerting.

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