Together with other male colleagues, I recently attended a Female Entrepreneurs’ Breakfast at C.Hoare & Co, the oldest privately-owned bank in the UK. The bank has an excellent initiative to bring together its customers and invited guests for question and answer panel discussions on a whole host of topics. Such educational platforms naturally facilitate networking,

Hosting your team or your clients at a special event provides a relaxed environment to get to know people on a deeper level. Salary and therefore cash, is seen as the baseline compensation in a business transaction between an organisation and its employee. Conversely, a non-cash reward is viewed as a vehicle for celebration. Non-cash

I talk a lot. Let me re-phrase. I can talk, if talking is required. I am also fine with silence. It doesn’t make me particularly awkward. If you give me a room full of people, “working the room” is fine by me. Don’t be so quick to think it’s because I am hugely confident or

Puglia is a region much loved by Italians, favouring it above all others for their domestic holidays. In a nation where you really have to eat your heart out to find bad food, it says a lot when somewhere is particularly renowned for its wine, olive oil and culinary delights. When we were invited to