Gill Hardy

Gill is Head of Executive Talent EMEA at WPP. In 2015, she co-founded and launched ‘WPP Stella’, to tackle barriers to Women’s career success through extensive programing. Gill also led WPP Propeller, a coaching-led program for WPP’s high potential Women. In 2022, Stella became an open community for all WPP Women and allies, which increased women’s representation in senior managers and executive leaders’ roles globally. WPP ranked sixth in the FTSE 100 for gender representation among senior leaders and at the board level and was recognized in the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index for the fifth year in a row. Through WPP Stella’s programming, Gill also leads the corporate membership of Women on Boards, a not-for-profit aiming to increase the representation of women on all types of boards.