Helen Weir: Lloyds’s leading lady in search of the top job

Lloyds Banking Group, which is the leader in the mortgage and current accounts business in Britain, seeks to replace the outgoing chief Eric Daniels. Helen Weir is the leading candidate to take the helm at Lloyds Banking Group. How did she get so far?

Weir has got a lot of experience in different companies. After finishing Oxford university with a degree in mathematics, she started as a graduate trainee at Unilever. Then she obtained a MBA at Stansford. After that she was a consultant at McKinsey and then she joined Kingfisher as finance director of its B&Q division. They promoted her to finance director of the overall Kingfisher group and eventually she joined Lloyds as finance director. 

Her co-workers describe her as smart, energetic, driven, down to earth… Some of the main characteristics of successful people.

Weir herself said in an interview two years ago that you have to accept that you have to make compromises if you want to be successful as a woman. One of those compromises is working long hours. 

I think we can conclude Helen Weir is one of the main candidates to take the top job at Lloyds because of her major experience and hard working attitude.

Annelore Demaegdt

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/oct/03/helen-weir-profile-lloyds-banking-group