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Women in Investment Festival: Top tips from female leaders for women climbing the career ladder

Tales from The Top panel highlights

19 March 2020 • 1 min read

Speakers from our Tales from the Top panel at the Women in Investment Festival give their advice on how women can succeed at work including be confident, don't apologise and get yourself known in your organisation.

Our panellists were Katrina Lloyd, editor-in-chief at Incisive Media; Ruth Handcock, CEO of Octopus Investments; Gretchen Betts, managing director of Magenta Financial Planning; and Emma Douglas, h...

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