2024 marks the 20th year of Grant Thornton’s work to monitor and measure the percentage of senior management positions held by women at mid-market businesses across the globe. While there has certainly been progress over the past 20 years, this progress has been far too slow.
Grant Thornton’s International Business Report (IBR) has been casting a light on the issue of gender diversity in senior management at mid-market businesses for 19 years, exposing barriers and identifying facilitators of change.
As markets emerge from COVID-19 lockdowns, the financial services sector is taking stock of the pandemic’s impact, and future working practices. Against this backdrop, female Grant Thornton partners working with financial services clients around the globe share their perspectives on advancing female leaders in the sector, and enabling financial services businesses to realise the performance benefits of an inclusive culture.
Employees are the fuel of any organisation, they need to function at their best to enhance future performance.
The workplace is evolving. The leadership skills that will be needed within the dynamic mid-market, and how organisations can stay competitive is changing.
India’s young, growing workforce and China’s ageing population put Asia’s two great economies at either end of the age dividend. In this article we explore how businesses will need to respond.