Women’s role in solving the productivity puzzle

Bvalco’s CEO, Alison Gill, talks to Governance about why only by creating diversity targets based on the business benefits that women can bring to boards, instead of viewing this as some kind of tick-box exercise, will organisations be able to see beyond the 33% representation target set by the Hampton-Alexander Review.

 

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Alison Gill is a behavioural psychologist, triple Olympian and the co-founder of Bvalco, a board evaluation consultancy focused on helping boards become fit for the future.

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