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Per Ardua hosts HR Dinner
An excellent dinner was held at the top of the Gherkin with a number of key HR Directors from the Insurance sector. Kim Birnie, Leadership Development Consultant and Executive Coach, facilitated a fascinating debate around how HR Leaders can help their Executives to manage the pace of change facing the industry. Key themes emerged around […]
Sally Talbot featured in HR Zone discussing how to build a Senior Female Talent Pipeline
Reality v aspiration: women in senior roles The poet W.H. Auden once wrote that civilizations should be reassured by “the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.” The same could be said of boardrooms and executive leadership teams. Today, the importance of boardroom and top tier executive diversity is universally acknowledged. However, […]
We recently hosted our annual technology dinner for asset management leaders
This was an opportunity for people to get ‘inside the head of the disrupter’, personified by a global thought leader whose work spans both FinTech investment and digital strategy. It became clear that the world has moved on from incumbents being nervous or cynical about the ability of newcomers to disrupt their business. There is […]
Per Ardua Associates hosted its annual CEO dinner last month
Not surprisingly, Brexit took centre stage with general agreement that whilst the General Election has thrown up unhelpful uncertainty, it will likely lead to a ‘softer’ Brexit which was positive for business. The implications for retention of top talent, particularly non UK nationals, was a concern to many of those present. A government collapse before […]
Per Ardua’s Kate Hammar’s recent article on Diversity in Real Estate featured in Property Week
Addressing the lack of board diversity starts at the grass roots level Casting our minds back to the property industry of yesteryear, diversity was not even a consideration for big real estate businesses. However, the past ten years have seen the sector make enormous strides in hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. You can […]
