About the author

Marianne Abib-Pech has led a highly successful international career in finance. She left France, her home country, in her twenties to study Finance and Business Organisation at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. She then worked for some of the most admired corporations of the past twenty years, from Arthur Andersen and Motorola to General Electric and finally Shell, as Global CFO of one of their downstream divisions. She was the only woman ever hired externally at this level of the finance organisation in Shell.

Throughout her career, she has been exposed to the best leadership training possible and always demonstrated a keen interest in developing leaders within and outside her own teams.

Marianne is the Founder of Leaders!, a global leadership consultancy and think tank operating in Europe and Asia. Leaders! specifically focuses on leadership emergence, leadership transformation and cognitive diversity – gender, cultural and generational – to create business value.

Marianne is a regular columnist in The Huffington Post, The Independent and Global Corporate Venturing. The Financial Times Guide to Leadership is her first book.

She currently splits her time between Hong Kong, London and Paris.