Occupation: Retailer Birth: May 28, 1960
I don't want to be Sheryl Sandberg and 'Lean In', I don't want to lean in like a guy. I want to be more. I want to be a woman and proudly a woman..
I really, really do believe that the future of being successful in work is going to be about embracing all of those wonderful things women bring - em….
The more we talk about kindness in business, the more we'll break through the hard structures that have defined business and alienated women from get….
Success is a balance thing, it's about work and play together, so we need to work on how we embrace that. The conversation we need to keep having is ….
The elephant in the room time and time again when it comes to work and promotions is maternity leave. We need to work with businesses so they work wi….
Because of the financial crash, we've lost trust in these big businesses that were led by a linear ambition to reach the top by risk - and invariably….
I have a responsibility to lots of people in my life. I have three children, I'm a wife, I have 60 staff and lots of charity shops, so therefore I ha….
I get up because there is just so much out there and you just don't know what's going to happen, that's the great thing..
When you meet people at dinner parties, you'll ask what they do and it might be a woman who'll say: "Oh I used to work but I'm only a housewife now."….
When I first went on TV, to make you look like a successful woman you had to be ball-breaking. I remember looking at these shows and thinking 'I'm no….
I think we need to embrace feminism, we need to embrace all of the gifts women bring to the workplace..
Balancing your ego is the most important thing, because success fuels ego - and that is not easy sometimes. When you're in the public eye, people see….