With stunning views from More London, a packed and lively room eagerly welcomed ITV’s Mary Nightingale, our host and compère for the evening who introduced an equally stunning panel of successful women: Moya Greene, CEO of Royal Mail in the year that it celebrates its 500th anniversary, Ffion Hague, who, after a thriving career in the civil service, leads her own consultancy business undertaking Board appraisals, the co-founder of Ambition First and insurance broker Emma Bell and our very own General Counsel Margaret Cole together made for an energetic panel discussion around the issues and achievements of women in business past, present and future.
There are an array of issues that face women who wish to maintain a healthy career with real distance; the panel touched on childcare costs, lack of female role models for young women at the beginning of their careers, self-confidence and that small thing called ambition.