It only seems like yesterday that we were arguing about the name, looking for an office and taking on our first clients…  Going through our diaries it has been quite a trip! Talk about white water paddling… Click here to find out more about the rapids travelled over the last five years

Congratulations to our head of research Claudine Provencher on gaining her PhD in social psychology from the London School of Economics. She has spent the last 6 years researching how people make complex decisions in ambiguous circumstances, using the MMR vaccine as her field work. Drop her a line to find out more…

Claudine will now divide her time between her new role as Tutoring Fellow at the LSE and our research, including our Balanced Leader survey (more below).

Communication and diversity expert Helen Goodier joins WWS to help companies retain and significantly improve the number and diversity of women in senior management positions. Having managed worldwide communications for Unilever, Helen has been advising multinationals on diversity for over 10 years. We have worked together to design our new WWS Coaching Women Towards Senior Management programme, a combination of workshops and coaching to help companies retain women and progress them to more senior levels.

Find out more about Helen and this ground-breaking programme here

Heartfelt thanks to all of you who have completed our online survey on Balanced Leaders. We are still analysing the results: watch out for a special issue of Rapide soon. Meanwhile, as promised, we are making a £1250 donation to charity on your behalf. We have chosen to help young carers who look after their sick or disabled parents, often from a very young age. Read profiles of young carers here.

Millnet operates in a niche market processing documents for the financial and litigation markets. It was born out of the financial printing sector, traditionally covering IPOs, M&A documentation and Report and Accounts. It is now 11 years old and has grown from two desks and two people to over 200 staff operating from modern 12,000 sq ft premises in The City. As one of WWS’s first clients, Millnet continues to uses coaching and psychometric testing to this day.

Find out why and how

Few would argue that Ethics have a place in modern business but post Sarbanes-Oxley et al we still don’t seem to know what that place is: Moral Compass or heavy regulation? John Reynolds is both the Chief Executive of specialist investment bank Reynolds Partners and the Chairman of the Church of England Ethical Investment Advisory Group. He obviously has a view…

Click to find out John's views on ethics and complex investment decisions

We take a break from reviewing other people’s books to proudly launch our latest tome…

It’s another congratulations, this time to Averil on burning the midnight oil (including writing a daily chapter on holiday, as well as playing plenty of tennis!) to achieve the tough deadlines set by the publishers of the Dummies series. Her new book, Performance Coaching for Dummies, co-written with Gladeana McMahon will be available from February 2008. The publisher’s dedicated pages provide a full description. Reserve your copy now!