Success In Focus
Coming in at number 18 on Forbes annual list of most powerful women, GlaxoSmithKline’s CEO, Emma Walmsley, is the first and only women in the world to head up a major pharmaceutical company.
Walmsley started her career at cosmetic giant, L’Oreal, where she worked for 17 years in a variety of management and marketing roles in London, New York and Paris, before spending her final three years at the company in Shanghai, as General Manager of Consumer Products for L’Oreal China.
Moving to GSK in May 2010, she was appointed the company’s President of Consumer Healthcare Europe, before quickly being promoted to head its global consumer healthcare division in 2011. In 2015, Walmsley became CEO of Consumer Healthcare, where she lead GSK’s sales drive into emerging markets.
In 2017, Walmsley took over as the GSK’s CEO and since being in the top position, has initiated a global restructuring programme, with an aim to save the company $500mil a year by 2021. She has stated that the savings made from this restructuring will be invested into R&D.
She is noted for being a leader with a focus on developing talent, however, one that doesn’t tolerate underperformers. She is speculated to be the highest paid female CEO of a FTSE 100 company, after receiving a £1m pay rise earlier this year, making her total remuneration package total nearly £6m.
Attention Seeker
In this cluttered life of technology, social media, and the digital world, distractions are everywhere. Not only do we find ourselves procrastinating while working, we also often allow ourselves to stay behind the screen while in social situations as well. The skill of staying focused is now highly sought after in this fast-moving world. Best-selling author and behavioural design expert, Nir Eyal, knows how powerful a distractor technology is, and his latest book, Indistractable, tells readers how take back control of their own attention and use technology to their advantage. His four-step, researched-backed model, shows readers how to get the best out of technology, without it taking over. With a positive and empowering approach, Eyal shows us how to stay focus and overcome distractions in this demanding world.
A Journey to Diversity
You may have heard of our M2woman Journey to Excellence Live Forums; an immersive event where a panel of successful people in business talk about the issues and solutions to achieving diversity in the workplace. Currently up to its seventh series, our October panel promises to be another inspiring and informative event with practical steps discussed to take home and implement into your own workplace. Following the panel discussion is a networking hour where attendees will have the opportunity to discuss themes with other like-minded people from a broad range of industries.
If you are interested in attending with your colleagues or clients, visit journey-to-excellence.co.nz for more details.
