Our founder is interviewed in The Telegraph

November 27, 2016

The Telegraph interviewed our founder Katharine Hibbert in advance of her appearance in the “Women and Resilience” event earlier this month.

The event was hosted by The Telegraph Women and The Women’s Chapter, in association with Investec Private Banking, and was in support of the charity Smart Works.

The discussion focused on the theme of Resilience and how women can develop it as a skill to better cope with setbacks in work and life and Katharine shared some of her experience and advice with The Telegraph:

Do you have a business philosophy?

Be kind. That doesn’t always mean being nice, but it does mean being fair and honest, rather than trying to pull any fast ones in the hopes that you’ll get away with it. Integrity is the best strategy in the long run, and even if it wasn’t, it’s still good to get to the weekend and feel as if you’ve made the world slightly better – rather than slightly worse.

Read the article in full on The Telegraph website.

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