How to find your voice and give a TED talk with 1.3m view
At 105 centimetres or 3' 5" tall, Sinéad Burke has become a booming voice in the global fashion world. Talking equality with US Vice Preside...
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What makes a great CEO and how can they transform a culture?
Ruth Curran knows the answer to both of those questions. Ruth travels the world to find the best CEOs, CFOs and CIOs for a whole range of hi...
How I manage 2,000 employees
Managing a team of 2,000 employees is a huge responsibility, but Anne O'Leary takes it all in her stride. As chief executive of Vodafone Ire...
Left a good job in the city and started a €6m business
When entrepreneur Nikki Evans quit her well-paid management consulting job in London to move home to Ireland during the recession and start...
"If we have to pay for this dinner we don't have it"
It was an awkward dinner and a "make or break" moment. Louise Grubb, co-founder and CEO of TriviumVet was going to have to explain how her w...
The tricky business of funding for female founders
Andreea Wade is famous on the start-up scene and she is also intimately acquainted with the boardroom tables of venture capital firms. That'...
Where have all the women gone?
She'd just become partner at Accenture, and Vivienne Jupp assumed she'd be joined by lots more women in the partnership ranks. She wasn't. T...
From social housing to VP of Walt Disney
Trish Long is the General Manager and Vice President of Disney in Ireland. She's also worked with Oprah. How did she do it? She shares her r...
Trish Long, general manager of Disney in Ireland and vice president of The Walt Disney Company
Trish Long, general manager of Disney in Ireland and vice president of The Walt Disney Company Trish Long has worked for Disney for more tha...
From food truck to a 40-job food business
Newly married, a 10-day-old baby and newly redundant, 2008 was an interesting year for Sara Mitchell and Gavin McCarthy. But 2009 was an eve...
"People just don't trust women with money"
Especially in Hollywood, but actress and filmmaker Naomi McDougall Jones is proving them wrong. She reveals to Margaret E Ward how she not o...
A groundbreaking scientist on adjusting to motherhood
Professor Aoife McLysaght discovered a totally new human gene. Her day job is as a genetic scientist, but there was a time when she was goin...
15 November 2017: Elva, Aine and Pamela - GirlCrew
GirlCrew - it's a global online platform and app that helps women make new friends, wherever they are in the world. It all started when a yo...
From call centre agent to Google's head honcho in Ireland
Fionnuala Meehan had "no clear career path" after her arts degree. So she took a job in a call centre where she was regularly pranked by Ger...
An accidental entrepreneur on the importance of "why"
Dr Ciara Clancy, accidental entrepreneur, physiotherapist, and 20-something CEO, has just been named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. She pla...
The secret to selling from the man who built an empire
Businessman Feargal Quinn's first book Crowning the Consumer sold more than 100,000 copies and was translated into 14 languages. It came aft...
Leading in a crisis when you've just lost £24.3bnÂ
Ellvena Graham, OBE, is currently chairman of ESB, Ireland's electricity supply board, but in 2008 she was a director in the Royal Bank of S...
"We did something during the recession which saved us"
When the recession hit in 2008, Bobby Kerr's national chain of more than 100 coffee shops, Insomnia, was on the frontline. "We were a luxury...
Women can have it all and how introverts can succeed at work
Ireland's first female private investigator (PI) Sandra Mara, cracked her first case at 9. She found not only her passion but also fulfilmen...
How the serial entrepreneur of global start-ups silences her self doubt
"I need help" - the 3 most powerful words any manager or entrepreneur can say. Aine Kerr is a serial risk taker. She left her permanent pens...