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Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners – Beata Preis-Hryniewicz
Veterinary science’s loss was HR’s gain: Meet Beata Preis-Hryniewicz, animal lover and HR specialist at Accord Poland/ AltoPartners East and Central Europe. What was your childhood career dream? I...
Read More → October 2022The AltoPartners Guide to Diversity and Inclusion: Microaggressions in the workplace: How to identify them and how to overcome them
Oprah Winfrey was once told, “You’re not really black”, by one of her wealthy neighbours, who was trying to make her feel better about being in a minority in her neighbourhood. The story may be...
Read More → October 2022Our ESG specialists unpick the link between leadership and sustainability
The recent news that the Chouinard family, the founders of Patagonia, had given away their $3-billion company to fight climate change produced the sort of headlines that the organisers of COP27...
Read More → October 2022Ask Alto: What are the laws and regulations HR professionals should know?
Did you know that it is illegal in South Africa to force an employee to work unpaid overtime, no matter what their contract says? That’s because the country’s labour laws are based on a...
Read More → October 2022Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners – Claudia Allwißer
Cool and calm, with an enviable grace-under-fire disposition, Claudia Allwißer is one of Jack Russell Consulting/ AltoPartners Germany’s most versatile team members, with over 20 years in the...
Read More → October 2022The Director’s Dilemma – October 2022 Edition
Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Jaco Kriek, Managing Director of...
Read More → September 2022The AltoPartners Guide to Diversity and Inclusion: When diversity is neural
Autism. Asperger’s syndrome. Dyslexia. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Tourette syndrome. These are not the first things that spring to mind when thinking about diversity in the...
Read More → September 2022Ask Alto: What is BANI and should people care?
“For so many around the world, things are too strange, too out of control, too immense, and too fragile to even begin to imagine appropriate responses.” So says futurist Jamais Cascio, writing in...
Read More → September 2022Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners – Valentina Flores
Meet Valentina Flores, an industrial and organisational psychologist from Vienna and our talent manager and senior consultant for AltoPartners Austria with a knack for forecasting HR trends. What...
Read More → September 2022The AltoPartners Guide to Diversity and Inclusion: What your LGBTQIA+ employees wish you knew
Practical advice on delivering on your DE&I commitments This week we spoke to peers who identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ community. This is what they told us about their experience of feeling...
Read More → September 2022Preparing and Positioning Yourself for a Corporate Board Role: Top Ten Tips
This article was first published on the Diversified Search Group website. To access the full article, click here by Sonya Olds Som As an executive search consultant, I am regularly asked for advice...
Read More → September 2022Ask Alto: What is a Chief Happiness Officer, and does my company need one?
One of the first Chief Happiness Officers appears to have been clown character Ronald McDonald who was jokingly “promoted” to the post of McDonald’s’ Chief Happiness Officer in 2003. In 2021,...
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