As the founder of WILD, a quickly growing business geared towards women in leadership and gender equality, it is great to start to see a surge of companies ready and willing to invest in their female talent. Whilst we are starting to see some efforts being made, we still have much work to do in terms of gender equality; the UN has recently cited it could take up to 286 years to achieve full gender equality. Change starts with awareness and education. I think the world is slowly waking up to what gender equality is, what the key benefits are for an organization and importantly, how we can all play our part, no matter how small. When I launched WILD in 2018, no one was talking about gender equality, let alone investing in female talent.

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