female leaders

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Shirley Adrain, CEO of Career Catalyst Group

Shirley Mentors Financial Executives to Reach Their Full Performance Potential What’s your story?I am a certified executive coach, corporate trainer and consultant for global banks and professional service organisations across Asia Pacific. I support executives, at all levels, to gain clarity in their career, and senior executives, to accelerate their development into key leadership positions.  […]
  1. CALLUM CONNECTS
  2. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
  3. INTERVIEWS

Ainslie Young, Copywriter and Online Marketing Coach & Consultant

Ainslie Young is a certified life coach who helps female entrepreneurs work smarter not harder to grow their businesses. What’s your story?I completed an honours degree in Psychology, (which I detested), and then went into a career in marketing and business development (where I also completed a Masters in Marketing). While I enjoyed the international […]
  1. CALLUM CONNECTS
  2. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
  3. INTERVIEWS

Kirti Lad, Executive Director of Meraki Executive Search & Consulting

Driven by changing the face of business and committed to levelling the playing field, executive headhunter, Kirti Lad, has had great success in placing female leaders on the boards of many listed companies in Hong Kong. What’s your story? I’m an executive headhunter, working with corporates, both large and small, to find and engage the […]
  1. ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Women in Tech: Movers and Shakers – Lathika S. Pai from Microsoft Start-Up

Lathika S. Pai, Country Head, Microsoft for Startups, MENA and SAARC, was a speaker at Women in Tech Conference (Asia); a supercharged platform that brings together Asia’s leading female innovators, celebrating diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics What resources you know that are out there to support women as they grow start-ups? I’ve been […]
  1. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
  2. INTERVIEWS

Women on Top in Tech – Zineb Chekraoui, Founder/CEO at Moroccan Heritage Exchange (MHE)

(Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Here is our interview with Zineb Chekraoui, CEO & Founder of Moroccan Heritage Exchange (MHE). She is a social entrepreneur who has been involved extensively in leadership […]

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