Company: The Sussan Group, owner of retail brands Sportsgirl, Sussan and Suzanne Grae.
What: Retailer
Claim to acclaim: Sussan Group CEO and company founder, Naomi Milgrom, is passionate about getting more women into leadership position.
Sure, it helps that she’s got a strong base of woman to start with: 95% of her 4500 staff are female, but it’s in the leadership ranks of her company where Milgrom proves the pipeline continues all the way to the top.
Milgrom’s personally mentored two of her female CEOs into their leadership roles. “The CEOs of both Sussan and Sportsgirl were able to choose flexible work arrangements after their maternity leave,” she recently told Women’s Agenda sister publication Leading Company. “Other people in management, including myself, joined together to support these CEOs through this time.”
More importantly, Milgrom notes that flexible work is not a favour, but a business strategy. “We measure work performance in results, not in time at the office, creating a relationship of trust that actually increases productivity.”
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