As organizations navigate the Great Resignation of 2021, all eyes are on an essential — but historically undervalued — workforce. Recent events have thrust frontline workers into the spotlight. Now it’s time to open up the floor to them, too.
We asked five of the travel and hospitality industry’s top women technology leaders what are some emerging technologies that they believe will have the biggest impact on their businesses and the industry as a whole in the next 12 months. They responded with thoughtful and articulate insight. “I believe there will be more on-demand and...
Women in the Workplace is the largest study on the state of women in corporate America. In 2015, LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company launched the study to give companies insights and tools to advance gender diversity in the workplace. Between 2015 and 2021, over 750 companies participated in the study, and more than a quarter...
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, travel and tourism represented more than 10 percent of the global economy, powered by 56X growth in international travel from 1950 to 20192. But as travel boomed, so much of it became the same — all the same places at all the same times. Then in 2020, it came to a...
As organizations prepare to have their employees return to corporate offices and headquarters, go fully remote, or some hybrid of the two, childcare is at the forefront of employees’ concerns. A new report by sister brands Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC) and Women Leading Travel & Hospitality analyzes employer trends in back-to-office strategies, including issues...
As organizations prepare to have their employees return to corporate offices and headquarters, go fully remote, or some hybrid of the two, there are still many questions that need to be answered and concerns to be addressed. As such, sister brands Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC) and Women Leading Travel & Hospitality asked executives...
Just a couple of weeks ago, I had the honor of being back in person with the Women Leading Travel & Hospitality and Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC) team for the first time in over a year. It was such a great reunion. In fact, I had the opportunity to meet for the first...
In 2020, the world came to a standstill. Data from the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) shows that 93 percent of companies stopped international travel, and 72 percent canceled domestic travel last year. At Uber, all business travel was halted unless deemed critical by leadership. We spoke with Physititia Grant, Uber’s global lead of travel and expense, and Terrence Donovan, travel supplier manager at Uber. They weighed in on what the future of business travel might look like as the world recovers, and how Uber is navigating the landscape.
We asked Anna Wenngren, chief people officer, SafetyCulture, about bringing employees back to corporate offices post-COVID. Among other points, Wenngren addressed maintaining a strong corporate culture regardless of where employees are located. The interview with Wenngren was part of Women Leading Travel & Hospitality’s latest report, Back-to-Office Checklist: Executives Navigate the Challenges, Unknowns, and Plans...
When roughly 94 percent of Fortune 1000 chief executive officers are men, what qualities drive the 6 percent who are women to the most elite reaches of corporate leadership? To find out, Korn Ferry Institute studied 57 women who have been CEO — 38 currently and 19 previously — at Fortune 1000-listed companies and others of similar size. We analyzed structured interviews with all 57 women as well as the results of psychometric assessments taken by two-thirds of them.
