by Dianne Bayley | Aug 19, 2020 | Sustainability
While key areas such as advancing and retaining female employees have shown some progress over the past few years, there is more work to be done in other areas such as equal access to leadership roles. This is according to Mercer’s When Women Thrive 2020, Sub-Saharan...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 10, 2020 | Workplace 2020
A huge 84% of chief sales officers (CSOs) report they are satisfied with the gender diversity of their sales organisations; however, men still outnumber women in all levels of the organisation, according to Gartner. “While heads of sales are generally satisfied with...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 26, 2019 | Featured Articles
It is not a lack of talent that resulted in 30 JSE listed companies being without female representation on their boards, and a further 67 that may fall into this category. Rather, it is that female talent lacks deep experience in comparison to their male counterparts,...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 15, 2019 | Workplace 2020
In the United Kingdom, women only make up 17% of IT roles. In the United States, the percentage is slightly higher at 25% and in South Africa only 13% of STEM graduates are women. Lorna Hardie, Regional Director Sub-Saharan Africa at VMware shares how the value that a...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 26, 2019 | Innovation
The recent Saphila 2019 conference, the African SAP User Group’s (AFSUG) biennial conference for SAP users, closed with a presentation from a keynote speaker who spends much of his time in the future. And this is fitting, because the job title of Tom Raftery is...