Key points
- Different backgrounds as well as gender composition are important to senior leadership teams.
- There are common requirements of leaders but individuality is important.
- Interview styles have to take into account the individual’s respective attributes.
- Women can use their position as leaders to act as role models to influence the potential leaders of the future.
The year 2023 marks my 30th year in our profession although strictly speaking it’s only my 27th as a tax adviser since I spent the first three years in audit while I worked out what I really wanted to do. Back in 1993 there were women in leadership roles both within the firm I worked for and in the businesses of the clients I was advising but they were noticeably fewer in number than their male counterparts. In particular the people around the ‘top table’ tended to be men....