Alison MaitlandAlison is a writer, speaker and conference moderator who specialises in leadership, women in business, and the changing world of work.

A former Financial Times journalist, she is co-author of the Wiley bestseller Why Women Mean Business. She regularly writes articles and columns for the Financial Times, The Conference Board Review and other media.

Alison directs The Conference Board’s European Council for Diversity in Business and is a Senior Visiting Fellow at Cass Business School, London.

She speaks frequently at public conferences and internal events. Based in the UK, her speaking engagements in the past two years have taken her to the U.S. as well as European cities including Athens, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Cologne, Brussels and Copenhagen, as well as London. She has been widely interviewed by national and international media on gender and work.

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Now out in paperback

Why Women Mean Business

First published in 2008:

Why Women Mean Business
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Hardcover, 2008

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Paperback, 2009

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