Women and the New Business Leadership

Peninah Thomson is a Partner of Praesta Partners, the UK's leading executive coaching firm, andDirector of the FTSE 100 Cross-Company Mentoring Programme. Her early career was in the UK Foreign Office and NATO, and subsequently as a Director of the London office of PricewaterhouseCoopers. She has worked extensively with chief executives and boards in the public and private sectors in the UK and abroad on strategy, organizational change and culture, and leadership. She is co-author of The Changing Culture of Leadership: Women Leaders' Voices (The Change Partnership Limited, 1999); and of the successful A Woman's Place is in the Boardroom and A Woman's Place is in the Boardroom: The Roadmap (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 2008). She is an Advisor to the Center for Work-Life Policy, New York. Tom Lloyd is a former editor of Financial Weekly and Management Today, was Founding Editor ofGemini Consulting's quarterly management journal Transformation and wrote the 'Working Brief' column in the Sunday Telegraph for several years. He has written five books, including Managing Knowhow, with Karl-Erik Sveiby (Bloomsbury, 1987) and The 'nice' Company (Bloomsbury, 1990). He was also the co-author of the successful A Woman's Place is in the Boardroom and A Woman's Place is in the Boardroom: The Roadmap with Peninah Thomson and Jacey Graham (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 2008).