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Read insights from our champions for action on gender diversity. Dr. Anna Zaroda-Dąbrowska, creator and leader of Think Tank Diversity Hub, shares her expertise on how to promote female leadership.

A skilled worker shortage means that businesses are turning to technology and mobility as options for finding talent.

Global business concerns over a shortage of skilled workers hit a record high in the second quarter of 2018, according to research from Grant Thornton’s International Business Report.

Record levels of companies are set to give workers a pay rise over the next 12 months as global optimism hits an all-time high and business productivity is buoyant,

Grant Thornton is pleased to launch our annual Women in business 2018 report: beyond policy to progress on International Women's Day. The research focuses on the landscape of business and government policy and explore the drivers of what creates change in gender diversity in business leadership across the world.

Are businesses focused on ticking the ‘diversity’ box to avoid an all-male leadership team, rather than creating an inclusive culture that leads to a genuinely diverse senior management team?

Grant Thornton International’s diversity snapshot, explores the diversity of senior teams around the world by ethnicity, age and gender, ahead of our 2018 Women in Business report.

The gender diversity issue has been on the business agenda for many years now, yet a third of businesses still have no women at a senior management level. Somewhere there is a disconnect.

India’s young, growing workforce and China’s ageing population put Asia’s two great economies at either end of the age dividend. Partners at Grant Thornton discuss the consequences for each of their countries.

Comparison with evolution of women in Downton Abbey shows companies lagging behind society in terms of gender diversity.

Francesca Lagerberg explains why we continue to call for greater gender diversity in business and explains how our 2015 report - The path to leadership - adds to the debate.

Businesses in the world’s three biggest economies, the United States, China and Japan, are increasingly feeling the heat when it comes to recruiting skilled staff. Given that these countries together represent over a third of global output, a deficit of skilled staff could have a significant knock-on effect on economic growth not just in these economies but beyond.

Crowdsourcing is not a new concept. I see it as the guiding principle underpinning democracy; the wisdom of the crowds pick a better leader than any individual could (we hope!) But what about using crowdsourcing to develop business strategy?

Do leadership styles differ around the world? This is one of the questions explored by our recent International Business Report. We asked 3,400 business leaders working in 45 economies to tell us how important they believe certain attributes are to good leadership.

The real estate and construction sector continues to make steady progress as it recovers from a financial crisis in which investors, developers and homeowners were disproportionately hit.

Poland’s economy avoided recession during the 2009 financial crisis,and rebounded strongly in 2010-2011. Poland: dynamism at the heart of Europe.