…but you won’t remember the meeting you missed if for. Holding true to your values is not just for Christmas, it’s for life, writes Nicola Kemp.

Media leaders are in danger of perpetuating inequality and eroding employee trust with heavy-handed statements on which desk is best.

Media’s’ ME-EO’ mentality is at risk of using the feelings of the powerful few to kill this once in a generation opportunity to reshape the workplace for the better.

Gendered ageism is killing women’s careers and stifling innovation in the media industry, so what are we going to do about it?

In our workplaces we have normalised crisis culture, where any given request is urgent. It’s time to rewrite the rules and recognise that always being busy is rarely the path to effective, happy careers.

Nicola Kemp reviews ‘The Blend’, in which OMD UK’s managing partner and head of global growth Tobi Asare explores the first-person stories of ambitious, creative, and resilient women.

Leaders risk being more concerned with protecting their office footprint than promoting and retaining female talent, warns Nicola Kemp.

According to the latest All In Census, over half of women believe parental leave has negatively impacted their career progression; now is the time to recognise and remove structural barriers to women’s success.

Trying to succeed as a mother in the media industry is like trying to put a seatbelt on a swarm of bees. What are we going to do differently, asks Nicola Kemp. 

If we want to stop women from being edited out of the media industry, we must be honest about addressing burnout, overwhelm and fake flexibility, writes Nicola Kemp in her new column for The Media Leader.