Elevate - for business leaders
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Infographic,
Thought Leadership,
Women in business
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
statistics,
research,
Ros Simmons,
infographic,
women in business,
CEO,
data,
chart,
IBR,
boardroom,
women,
management,
senior management,
PHBs,
discrimination
How many women made the C-Suite last year? Which countries are currently topping the list for employing female senior-level female executives? Find out in
Grant Thornton’s latest infographic, which maps figures from 24 countries. On a shocking note, neither the UK nor the US even makes the top 20…
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector,
Retail sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
links,
media,
Ros Simmons,
diary,
Ten Alps,
VIE at home,
retail,
VIE,
Entrepreneur’s Diary
This summer, the Elevate blog followed two leading UK entrepreneurs to find out what CEO life is like, especially during a recession. For three months, Alex Connock, chief executive of Ten Alps PLC, and Ros Simmons, head of VIE at home, posted a weekly
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Monday, September 14, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: recession,
entrepreneur,
Ros Simmons,
VIE at home,
direct sales,
e-commerce,
flexible working,
launch,
consultant,
party plan,
Virgin, women in business
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Thursday, September 10, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: entrepreneur,
Ros Simmons,
women in business,
VIE at home,
Virgin,
flexible working,
work-life balance,
launch,
consultant,
mobile phone
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: entrepreneur,
Ros Simmons,
women in business,
VIE at home,
Virgin,
teamwork,
Christmas,
direct sales,
presentations,
event management,
motivation,
organisation,
recognition
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Friday, August 21, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: business,
entrepreneur,
Ros Simmons,
women in business,
VIE at home,
Virgin,
Christmas,
event,
launch,
events company,
production company
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Friday, August 14, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: entrepreneur,
Ros Simmons,
women in business,
VIE at home,
Virgin,
recruitment,
Christmas,
customers,
promotions,
Retail Week,
campaign
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: entrepreneur,
Ros Simmons,
women in business,
health,
VIE at home,
success,
Virgin,
fashion,
networks,
mentors,
Liz Warom,
qualifications,
mentoring,
beauty,
Felicity Hone,
London College of Fashion
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Friday, July 31, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: entrepreneur,
Ros Simmons,
strategy,
international,
women in business,
VIE at home,
expansion,
franchise,
direct sales,
Germany,
Entrepreneur’s Diary
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: entrepreneur,
Ros Simmons,
women in business,
diary,
Ten Alps,
VIE at home,
Virgin,
management buy-out,
Entrepreneur’s Diary,
Entrepreneur’s Diary Alex Connock
Inspired by
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Friday, July 17, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: entrepreneur,
Ros Simmons,
women in business,
VIE at home,
Christmas,
direct sales,
PR,
flexible working,
part-time working,
Avon,
press,
DSA,
Entrepreneur’s Diary
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
Ros Simmons,
CEO,
diary,
Ten Alps,
VIE at home
How does the boss deal with knockbacks, big wins or the daily grind? In Grant Thornton’s Entrepreneur’s Diary series, we’ll be getting inside the heads of two chief execs. Last week, we heard from
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector,
Women in business
| Tags: recession,
entrepreneur,
Ros Simmons,
women in business,
VIE at home,
recruitment,
management buy-out,
maternity leave,
downturn,
consultants,
commission,
Entrepreneur’s Diary
Steering a business through a recession can’t be easy. So we asked our female CEO,
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
| Tags: Ros Simmons,
women,
income,
VIE,
Diary,
Entrepreneur's Diary
For the next 12 weeks, we’ll be following two entrepreneurs – one male, one female – as they go about their work, delving behind the scenes of CEO life and seeing how they deal with the challenges of steering a business through the recession. First up is our female entrepreneur, Ros Simmons, co-owner of direct sales company
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