Weighing Up the GAP Performance Approach to Achieving Balance

We all know that balance is key in business – balancing supply and demand, balancing the books, achieving a work/life balance and ensuring you have the right balance of skills and expertise to deliver the requirements of your customers or clients – all of these are fundamental to success. In addition, the subject of gender balance has been the hot trending topic in recent years. Since women represent an equal share of the world’s population we at GAP Performance are fully behind the movement and not simply because our MD and founder is a woman but because we, like those behind International Women’s Day 2019 believe that balance is not simply a women’s issue, it too is a business issue. Of course, we fully support the gender-balanced boardroom/government/media coverage/wealth (the list goes on) but more so because we agree that ‘gender balance is essential for economies and communities to thrive’.*

Happily we’re already ahead of the curve. Managing Director, Julie Pelych, has been at the helm of GAP Performance for over 25 years and her team includes a host of strong women. Furthermore she practices what she preaches and believes firmly in continuous development for herself and her colleagues, delivers Development Programmes themed around building confidence, developing positive beliefs, silencing the inner critic and developing a strong and authentic personal brand – often, but not exclusively – for women, and accommodates her team working from home to boost productivity, where practical. 

Tasneem Siddiqi, BBC broadcaster and leadership consultant