Amanda Riley, Author at TS Grale Executive Search

Executive Isolation: It’s (still) Tough at the Top

11th July 2023

It is six months since our Managing Partner, Jason Saunders first highlighted the dramatically increasing instances of Executive Isolation we were seeing in the workplace. Being a modern leader facing the daily challenges of running…

Recruitment Advertising – How the World has changed!

4th April 2023

By Amanda Riley Over the weekend, a friend of mine shared a ‘jaw dropping’ advert from the 1930’s with me. Entitled: ‘They Mustn’t Marry. Hefty Girls Wanted For Police Force’, the short article was an…

The Evolution of Leadership Assessment

22nd March 2023

By Amanda Riley Now here’s a scary thought (well it is for me!), I’ve been recruiting now for over 3 decades. During that time there have been a lot of changes: from manually posting letters…

The resilience of UK Manufacturing

16th February 2023

By Amanda Riley Around this time last year, I commented on an encouraging survey by Make UK/PwC that optimistically predicted UK Manufacturing growth of +3.3% in 2022. COVID seemed to be in its final throes,…

Leadership Through and Beyond COVID – We asked, you answered

27th January 2022

At the end of 2021, we asked a group of senior leaders what were some of the key challenges and changes they had experienced over the last 2 years living with the uncertainty and impact…

Gender Equality: why more women on the board makes business sense

1st August 2019

Gender equality in the workplace has long been a hot topic of conversation, and in recent years the gender diversity of the board of directors for all organisations has been thrust into the limelight. While…