As part of its well-established portfolio of high-level diversity events, many of which have enjoyed government support, City & Financial Global is delighted to be organising the 4th edition of the Annual Women in Finance Summit organised in partnership with Women in Banking & Finance and held in central London on the 12th of February 2020.

This high-profile forum builds on the success of the previous related events that City & Financial Global and its partners have held. For instance, the inaugural Women in Finance Summit, which took place on the 24 January 2017 and attracted 250+ senior FS industry delegates, government officials and regulators from the UK and beyond. For further information, I kindly refer you to the following video link. Another example is The Vote 100 Women Summit, held in London in last April, at which a member of the British Royal Family, Prince Edward’s wife, the Countess of Wessex, was a keynote speaker and participant.

What will be discussed this year?

• Why gender balance is a business imperative for the City. What are the key components for a successful career in the financial services industry?
• How to balance and adapt cultures and systems to meet the needs of 21st century employees and markets
• The progress made since the launch of the Women in Finance Charter and the Gender Pay Regulations – what the reports are showing and the impact these initiatives have had on the financial services sector
• Delivering balance: What works and what doesn’t? What more can be done to identify the barriers to women entering and progressing in the financial services sector?
• The Buck stops here: The role of leadership. Leadership by innovation
• Why talent is an issue today. Talent & agility: Upskilling for tomorrow
• Recruitment practices. Understanding unconscious recruitment biases. How to make the business case for investment in people
• Best practice in effectively engaging men in implementation of gender diversity programmes and driving permanent and sustainable change across the financial services industry

Our previous speakers include:

HRH The Countess of Wessex, GCVO, Chair of The Women’s Network Forum and Global Ambassador of 100 Women in Finance’s Next Generation initiative; Rt Hon Nicky Morgan, Chair, Treasury Select Committee, MP for Loughborough; The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury; Simon Kirby MP, Economic Secretary, HM Treasury; Jayne-Anne Gadhia, CEO, Virgin Money; Brenda D.H. Trenowden CFA, Global Chair, 30% Club; Ann Cairns, Executive Vice Chairman, Mastercard, Helena Morrissey DBE, Head of Personal Investing, Legal & General Investment Management; Megan Butler, Executive Director of Supervision – Investment, Wholesale and Specialists, Financial Conduct Authority; Dr Helena Pankhurst, International Development, Women’s Rights Activist and Writer, Catherine McGuinness, Chairman, Policy and Resources Committee, City of London Corporation; Dame Cilla Snowball DBE, Group Chairman and Chief Executive, AMV BBDO; Chair of The Women’s Business Council; Bob Wigley, Chairman, UK Finance, Nausicaa Delfas, Executive Director of International and Executive Board Member, FCA, Yasmine Chinwala, Partner, New Financial and many others

Standard Delegate Fee: £495.00 + VAT* (*Use code “WIF4WATC” to get 20% off the standard price and early bird fee available until 20^th Dec)

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On 2nd March 2020, Women Ahead welcomes back the Gender Balance Summit for the second year running.

This year we have joined up with the 30% Club and Diversity Project to celebrate the power of stories, diversity and inclusion.

We are joined by over 25 subject-matter experts, storytellers and performers, including Clare Balding OBE, Elif Shafak, and Hannah Graf MBE who will all be offering their insights into gender balance in celebration of International Women’s Day #EACHFOREQUAL

How to get involved

Live audience tickets: enabling up to 15 of your colleagues or clients to join the live audience. Some organisations hold prize draws or competitions for colleagues to win tickets, and some thank network leads by inviting them to join us on the day.

Digital access (event broadcast): our summits are all professionally filmed and provided as a full event broadcast to share with your organisation, at an office screening or for colleagues to watch individually.

Digital access (film collection): all the talks are edited into TED-type films that your colleagues can watch any time, anywhere, and as part of events

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Celebrating International Women’s Day: From Bias to Thriving: Women, Leadership and Better Wellbeing

True change starts with genuine and intentional collaboration. That’s why we are inviting company leaders, advocates for women, and students to lend your voice and experiences to a conference dedicated to raising the bar for women’s mental wellness, promoting equity at work, and eliminating the gender-wage gap in London on International Women’s Day.

Join GW4W and our distinquished guests, speakers, partners and allies to gain greater resilience for you and your organisation. Our strength is bringing together unconnected segments to accelerate positive change for women through our data, network and alliances.

We’ve carefully curated a group of cross disciplinary voices that include top business leaders, academics, and research-based experts who don’t just “talk” about wellbeing and gender equity but will bring actionable solutions to help female leaders thrive. Our speakers include Dr. Dale Atkins, Chetan Bagga, Dr. Verity Brown, Daniel Hajjar, Tangy Morgan, Oana Neumayer, Leo Nicholas, Dr. Susan Nicholson, and Asif Sadiq.

Why is this conversation important?

Less than 6% of all health research funding goes specifically to women’s health. Proceeds from this event will be used for much needed health research and development of more strategic solutions to address this gap and to deliver resources to business and community leaders. Sponsoring partners will be listed as contributors. Our research partner is SHINE, The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

World Health Organisation – Mental Health/Wellbeing and the Gender Gap

Gender is a critical determinant of mental health and mental illness. The morbidity associated with mental illness has received substantially more attention than the gender specific determinants and mechanisms that promote and protect mental health and foster resilience to stress and adversity.

Gender determines the differential power and control men and women have over the socioeconomic determinants of their mental health and lives, their social position, status and treatment in society and their susceptibility and exposure to specific mental health risks.

Depression is not only the most common women’s mental health problem but may be more persistent in women than men. More research is needed to better understand why.

Agenda:

17:00 – 17:30 – Registration & Networking
17:30 – 20:30 – Formal Programme
20:30 – 21:00 – Celebration & Continued Networking

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In 2020 we mark the tenth anniversary of WOW – Women of the World festival, and to celebrate the WOW Foundation presents the biggest and bravest festival yet.

Over three days, WOW’s line-up of world-class speakers, activists and performers are joined by thousands to explore the state of gender equality across the globe and tackle the subjects that matter most to women and girls across the world today.

This year’s festival features Naomi Wolf, Deborah Frances-White (The Guilty Feminist), Scarlett Curtis, Sandi Toksvig, Emma Dabiri and Shazia Mirza.

We also welcome the return of WOW Speed Mentoring, WOW Bites and the WOW Market.

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Join us to celebrate International Women’s Day at our networking breakfast on 6th March.

Come and meet other local women in business from South-west London and Surrey. Enjoy some top networking event for women in business, female entrepreneurs and career-led women in a supportive and nourishing environment.

Our fabulous guest speaker for the morning is Esther Stanhope, author of Goodbye Glossophobia – banish the fear of public speaking. She’ll be sharing her top tips from her fabulous new book which is a must-read for anyone who hates public speaking or wants to be a great public speaker. She has tonnes of tips: tantalising, talented, tricksy, triumphant, teasers, tongue-in-cheek and tenacious.

Confidence is a key issue for many women in business. Women often experience imposter syndrome, avoid public speaking and shy away from social media. Esther has mentored many successful women. Her book will help you learn how to speak up and get that promotion. Most of all we love her because she totally understands why women struggle with confidence and speaking in public. She was once that person who didn’t want to ask a question at a conference or present to her team. So she understands all those fearful feelings and most importantly how to overcome them.

“Many women avoid it and point blank refuse to put themselves through the ordeal of public (speaking) humiliation.”

Esther Stanhope

If your fear of public speaking is holding you back achieve your goals, join us to celebrate, have fun and learn some great tips about how to overcome them.

With Esther’s sassy #eyesandteeth slogan she will entertain and get us workshopping to build our public speaking confidence. Join our networking breakfast and give your career and business a boost. So that next time you’re in a position to address a group of people.

Time & Leisure is committed to supporting women in business. Our networking event is being held at San Lorenzo, Wimbledon in partnership with Merton Chamber of Commerce. You’ll have the opportunity to meet the teams and find out about the benefits of joining your local Chamber of Commerce. A continental breakfast including pastries and coffees and teas will be provided.

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Join us March 6 at etc. venues County Hall, for the 20^th Anniversary LBS Women in Business EQUALL conference.

EQUALL is the leading forum in Europe for the next generation of leaders, promoting the exchange of information, ideas and experiences at the forefront of gender equality in the workplace. The agenda promises access to influential individuals and practical steps that will inspire and guide those future leaders and the wider business community to build an equal future, in business and beyond.

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Come and meet the investors. We’ve gathered a panel of investors to share their knowledge with you, and give you the chance to pitch live.

For every £1 of VC investment in the UK, female-founded start ups get less than 1p, yet women generate twice the revenues as their male counterparts.

Here at The Bigger Pie we’re looking to change those statistics, and we’re not alone.

Hosted at the fantastic CMS offices, come and meet and learn from our panel of female positive investors, from pre seed through angel and VC.

They’re willing to share their knowledge with you, help you get investment ready, and there’s even a chance to pitch your business to these investors.

Not only that – but we’re giving you the opportunity to let us review your pitch deck before the event, so you have the chance to make any edits offered to you from our panel of investors before you pitch for real!

We’ll be intelligently matching founders to investors so you can have a chance to meet on the day, even if you’re not part of the public pitches.

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Freedom4Girls celebrates International Women’s Day with a Games Night Extravaganza!

March is the annual month where we don’t need an excuse to scream about all things women! Our trials, tribulations but also our incredible achievements in spite of this #whoruntheworld

So why not help us do this whilst enjoying the hilarious tones of comedian Katie Tracey, some team games, a variety of performers and hearing more about how you can support Freedom4Girls’ continued work in the fight against period poverty?!

Join us any time after 6.30pm for our annual International Women’s Day event, at the Marquis Cornwallis!

Tickets payable on the door, (£10 per person, payable on the door, and team sizes under 6 please).

If you’d like to enter a team or showcase your work on one of our stalls, please email [email protected]

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What better way to welcome the arrival of spring then to celebrate women as they are: spontaneous and ever changing, impossible yet lovable.

We are celebrating the International Women’s Day!

Join us for our 3rd party at our beautiful local palace, Charlton House, Greenwich.

We are having live music, so get your dancing shoes out.

Organic seasonal food made by Pavlina and drinks will be available to purchase on the evening.

Our parties are an opportunity to break out from daily routines and put ourselves first by getting together, enjoying food in good company, loosen up and have fun.

Entry: £10

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Join Fawcett Society and Funny Women in Manchester on International Women’s Day for the comedy showcase as part of the launch of their Feminist Roadshow!

Funny Women is delighted to announce their new partnership with the Fawcett Society, which will see them travelling the country as they come to a region near you to talk feminism, activism and what you can do to make a stand in your area. These daytime workshops and panel events will be followed by a showcase in the best of women’s stand up, brought to you by Funny Women.

The first of these events is happening in Manchester at the famous Frog and Bucket comedy club.

Join us during the day for a special announcement on what Fawcett Society will be doing in the area in 2020, a panel discussion on how Greater Manchester can work better for women, and workshop with Funny Women to ensure you walk out the door ready to make a difference.

Daytime tickets are very limited and are only available on a first come first served basis.

Daytime agenda:

13:30 – Registration and coffee
14:00 – Fawcett introduction by sam Smethers, CEO
14:30 – Is Greater Manchester Working for Women (panel TBC)
15:45 – Refreshments break
16:00 – Know Your Worth with Funny Women

Know Your Worth in this workshop with Funny Women by telling your own story, creating your own material, interpreting body language, and becoming more confident and memorable.

17:00 – Closing statement
17:30 – End of day session

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Join Fawcett Society and Funny Women in Manchester on International Women’s Day for the comedy showcase as part of the launch of their Feminist Roadshow!

Funny Women is delighted to announce their new partnership with the Fawcett Society, which will see them travelling the country as they come to a region near you to talk feminism, activism and what you can do to make a stand in your area. These daytime workshops and panel events will be followed by a showcase in the best of women’s stand up, brought to you by Funny Women.

The first of these events is happening in Manchester at the famous Frog and Bucket comedy club.

Join us for an evening of comedy with:

Jayde Adams – Funny Women Awards 2014 Winner

Celya AB – Funny Women Awards 2019 finalist

Jane Postlethwaite – Funny Women Awards 2015 finalist

Sarah Mann – Funny Women Awards 2019 finalist

Sian Davies – Funny Women Awards 2019 Runner Up

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Welcome to a massive SheSays evening of inspiring talks and networking with four fantastic speakers. Come and celebrate their successes, hear about their challenges and learn creative solutions on International Women’s Day 2020.

We’re honoured to hear from Bethanie Mardon, who began her career in PR and journalism at the Boots press office. She later ran her own award-winning PR agency and publishing her book: The Modern Girl’s Guide to Fabulousness. After a decade of consulting, launching global brands in fashion and beauty, Beth is now Marketing Director at Brighton agency RocketMill. @BethanieLunn

We’re very excited to hear from Myra Appannah, the immersive tech and virtual reality specialist and director of BRiGHTBLACK. Myra runs workshops all over the world, on this new technology and its impact. She is also an amazing skateboarder. @myraappannah

A very warm welcome to senior digital strategist Catherine McPherson. Having had a glittering career with London agencies such as Grey and Razorfish, Catherine is now an expert freelance strategy director with Havas, Iris and VCCP. She also lectures on advertising at University of Arts London. @cathinlondon

And we are honoured to hear from equality & diversity expert Sarah Pickthall. With 25 years experience across arts, culture, creative media and education, Sarah is known for galvanising inclusive best practice globally. She has received international recognition for her leadership expertise and is now studying for an MSc with a focus on Disabled and Deaf leadership. @SarahPickthall

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Love from Rifa and the SheSays Brighton team

This event is part of Spring Forward Festival and open to all backgrounds, ages and genders. Trans and non-binary people are very welcome at all our events. And men.

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GANT is supporting International Women’s Day 2020 by championing female ambassadors and entrepreneurs, highlighting empowered women who unapologetically take up space in their field and have inspired others to do the same.

Entrepreneurial, passionate, and eager to challenge the status quo, these are the women of now.

On Tuesday 10 March, Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE – the youngest graduate with a Master’s degree from Oxford; CEO of Stemettes, a social enterprise promoting women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics); and producer of the Women Tech Charge podcast – will be in conversation with Amelia Heathman, senior tech journalist at the Evening Standard, discussing female equality and empowerment.

The free event will take place at GANT’s flagship store at 184-186 Regent Street with drinks and nibbles from 6pm – the talk will start at 6.30pm. Spaces are limited and available on a first come, first served basis.

Guests on the evening will also receive 15 per cent off GANT’s Femme League capsule collection, which is available in stores and online now.

To find out more about the event and to shop GANT’s Femme League collection, visit www.gant.co.uk/women-of-now 

To RSVP, email [email protected]

Learn from some of the UK’s most successful female business leaders on 10th March. They are CEO and Managing Director of the biggest companies in their sector.

Combined they operate in over 100 countries and are part of business’s which have over 35,000 employees.

Our Speakers include:

• Alison Kaye, Managing Director, STMA & Colour at CPI UK

• Caroline Frankum, Global Chief Executive, Prifles Division at Kantar
• Alexia Latortue, Managing Director for Corporate Strategy at European Bank of Restructuring and Development
• Emma Kane, Chief Executive of Newgate Communications (UK) and Deputy CEO of SEC Newgate S.p.A

“A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.”

In celebration of International Women’s day, Generation Success is proud to present a panel of today’s top female business leaders to share their career stories. The theme of the talk is “belonging on the table”.

The event will involve inspiring talks from our female business leaders, how they managed to get to the successful position they are now and guide you through how they tackled any barriers within the workforce.

You will build a professional network, leave feeling inspired and ready to take a leap!

What you will gain:

• Inspiration and confidence that will increase your aspirations

• Learn techniques on how to tackle any problems or barriers within your career choice
• Guidance on how you can incorporate techniques into your life, career and business choices

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Join us on Wednesday 11th March for a learning and networking event designed to equip you with the right tools to create a supportive working environment for all employees.

You’ll hear from a mix of subject matter experts and HR practitioners as they share their knowledge of the employee experience from start to finish- what’s worked, the challenges they’ve faced, and how they’ve learned from them.

Speakers

Asif Sadiq, Head of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging, The Telegraph

Jessie Scheepers, Head of People Ops, Pleo

Ash Dey, Founder, Openmind Wellbeing

Neta Meidav, Co-founder, Vault

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In celebration of International Women’s Day, we are hosting an exclusive ticketed dinner and panel discussion with influential women in business.

Hosted on Wednesday, 11 March from 6.30pm to 9.30pm, the evening will touch upon the countless achievements of women in business as well as cover a range of topical issues.

This panel of extraordinary women will be led by Vanessa Vallely OBE, Managing Director of WeAreTheCity and one of the UK’s most prominent figures in gender equality. Our second panellist is Caroline Graham, one of Barclay’s female directors and Head of Legal External Engagement, having held a number of roles within the bank since 2007. The remarkable Priscilla Baffour, Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion at the Financial Times has a wealth of experience in helping to increase diversity in media. Lastly, Julia Streets; City entrepreneur, advisor, podcaster, investor and founder/CEO of Streets Consulting is a champion of fintech innovation, diversity and inclusion. With a background in stand-up comedian, Streets is an engaging speaker.

This exclusive event will see the panellist speak candidly about their careers; how they have overcome barriers and resilience, their top tips for success, self-care and mental wellbeing, and the importance of giving back.

On the night, guests will be welcomed with a glass of Champagne on arrival as well as enjoying a delicious three course meal of asparagus with truffle hollandaise, blackened cold fillet and vanilla cheesecake, served with wine.

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This year’s Fraud Women’s Network Annual Event is on the topic of internal fraud: “Are our Employees our Biggest Threat?”

The last time we covered this topic was 7 years ago, have the landscape and enablers changed?

We will be debating the topic with our panel of experts from the banking industry, law enforcement, legal and retail industry.

Panellists:

Tony Blake, Head of Fraud Prevention for the Dedicated Card & Payment Crime Unit (DCPCU): Tony works for UK Finance, seconded to the DCPCU as Head of Fraud Prevention. Prior to this appointment he was a serving Police Officer with the Metropolitan Police, retiring after 30 years’ service. He was a career detective, ending his career as an operational Detective Sergeant on the DCPCU. He works closely with industry members, businesses, retailers, community groups and law enforcement providing education and awareness about the current trends within payment fraud and cyber enabled crime. His key objectives are changing customer behaviour and preventing individuals from engaging in payment crime. Tony also represents both DCPCU and UK Finance as a spokesperson in the media discussing fraud related matters.

Nicki Clayton, Investigation Manager, BT: Having spent over 16 years in Law Enforcement as a Detective specialising in child protection and sexual exploitation, Nicki went on to create the first North West Online Covert Investigations Department and trained others in the field.  Nicki successfully campaigned and presented at the Home Office for law changes around this subject. Nicki then went on to specialise in long term infiltration covert policing, working on many successful operations across the UK, Europe, Asia and Africa. She also trained Law Enforcement from the UK, Europe, The Security Services and the FBI in this tactic. After leaving Law Enforcement Nicki worked on a Government Artificial Intelligence programme as an SME in order to change the way Law Enforcement identify and investigate sexual offences against children. In 2018 Nicki joined BT as an Investigation Manager specialising in Retail Fraud, Acquisitive Crime and Insider Threats to the BT Group.  Nicki is now also working on internal projects around insider threats, behaviours and wider intelligence gathering.

Toni Sless, Chair and Founder of the Fraud Women’s Network and Fraud Risk Management Consultant: Toni is a Fraud Risk Management Consultant who provides strategic and advisory services to FTSE 100 organisations relating to all aspects of fraud prevention and fraud risk management.  Toni is also the founder and Chairwoman of the Fraud Women’s Network, which celebrates its 13^th Anniversary in 2020 and was listed as one of the Awesome 100 Networks and shortlisted as Inter-Sector Network of the Year by Inclusive Networks.  Toni also sits on the Editorial Board of the Public Sector Counter Fraud Journal providing guidance and oversight to the Cabinet Office’s Centre of Expertise for Counter Fraud. In her spare time, Toni mentors many women in various disciplines including cyber security and fraud prevention and continues to drive the Fraud Women’s Network to support women working in the arena. Toni also works with her local community promoting local interests, improving housing conditions, amenities, security and the environment.

Timings:

17:30hrs to 18:30hrs – Registration and Networking Reception
18:30hrs to 19:45hrs – Panel Discussion with Q&A
19:45hrs to 21:00hrs – Networking Reception

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To celebrate International Women’s Day 2020, join us for this unique opportunity to learn more about The Migration Blanket.

The artwork was created by migrant and refugee women in the UK in 2018 and the founder of ARTconnects, award-winning artist and peace activist, Salma Zulfiqar FRSA. The Migration Blanket shows more than 60 stories of struggles of integration, and the hopes and dreams of women who have moved country in search of safety. The women are originally from Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, India, Senegal and the West Indies.

The artwork was exhibited during the Venice Biennale in Italy in 2019, at Europe’s largest library in Birmingham, and in Manchester, and was featured in the #Artivism for gender equality exhibition displayed at the official Regional Review Meeting on Beijing+25 (Beijing Platform for Action) in Geneva, Switzerland, in October 2019.

There will be a presentation of The Migration Blanket and a Q&A with the artist.

Speakers:

• Salma Zulfiqar – Salma Zulfiqar’s work focuses on migration, empowering women, peace building in communities and preventing extremism. She was voted one of the most inspirational women to hail from Birmingham in a book called Women Who Dared to Dream, published to mark the centenary of the vote for women. She is also a finalist for the national Asian Women of Achievement Awards 2019.
• Matthew Saltmarsh, Senior Media / External Relations & spokesperson for the UN Refugee Agency.
• Lucy Lamble,  Executive Editor of the Guardian’s global development desk.

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In these extraordinary circumstances, businesses are preparing for the need to enforce temporary homeworking for large parts of their workforce to contain the spread of Coronavirus.

To help support businesses through this transition, we have invited our very own Flex Expert, Ursula Tavender to host a webinar with businesses that have already implemented remote working procedures.

Joined by Jane Garnsey, People Operations Director of Talk Talk and Catherine Murphy, One Firm Talent Pool Lead at PWC they will be revealing the key components of a successful remote working culture and the critical actions leaders and managers must take to support your people and ensure continuity.

They’ll place special focus on the role of strong trust and exceptional communication and how to weave them into your company response so you can purposefully create a calm, reassuring environment that remains motivating and engaging for employees through a period of emergency home working.

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Coronavirus is dominating the world’s attention and to some degree it’s affecting us all.

It’s critical that as a leader you create the space to understand your own fears and emotions and have the best tools to help you cope with a rising tide of change and uncertainty.

As humans we are built to adapt and respond to the reality of the present moment and have an innate resilience, inner wisdom, and a capacity to survive. But anxiety, stress and outside influences can weaken our immune system and test our mental agility and inner calm.

When we feel stressed we make irrational decisions or become so paralysed that we don’t make decisions at all. Our clarity gets lost and our wellbeing goes out of the window.

This one hour webinar will help you understand your core emotional responses and gain insight into the beliefs that are driving them. It will help you move from feeling overwhelmed, powerless, in panic or reaction, into a place where you can address your natural fear and anxiety and respond to the current crisis in a positive and productive way.

It will help you to:-

• Understand the 3 types of anxiety and let go of what you can’t control
• Learn simple ways to shift the tension in your body
• Access your own resilience and address the uncertainty you feel

Leaders often feel they have to hide their emotions but suppressing them only serves to make us inauthentic, unrelateable and unhappy. Learning ways to turn towards your feelings without collapsing into them will boost your resilience, creativity and connnection with others, helping you to lead well and thrive.

How can I help you?

Everything I’ve learnt until now as a coach, mentor and entrepreneur has taught me that resilience comes from within and is intrinsically linked with our sense of identity and self-belief.

After a 3 year journey through cancer and a 20 year career as an entrepreneur, I’ve first hand experience in how to develop the emotional awareness needed by leaders today to face the unknown and have proven success with a tool-kit that builds resilience to improve performance. (Over 100,000 women have tried and tested these techniques).

These are unprecendented times but we have the tools to help us.

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Join PES for an exciting webinar inspired by International Women’s Day in March.

We’ll be hosting a panel of experts discussing a range of issues affecting women’s wellbeing at work, including the M-word – yes, the menopause!

Date & Time:

Thursday 19th March 9.45-11.00am

Speakers

Gill Simpson, Executive and parent coach at Chapter Forty Four

• Importance of looking after our own needs as well as our children’s
• The business and social imperative: why supporting working parents matters
• How organisational culture may support/hinder working parents

Debbie Kleiner, Head of Workplace wellbeing, PES

• Mental health key facts
• Gender and mental health
• Promoting positive mental health for all genders
• Creating mental health strategy

Sarah Davies, Co-Founder and Director, Talking Menopause

• Menopause Key facts
• Who is affected?
• What are the symptoms and how they can be recognised
• Impact for individuals, and in the workplace
• Practical solutions to manage menopause at work including case studies

If you’re responsible for the wellbeing of your workforce, book now to hear from expert speakers and get practical takeaways for your business.

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WeAreTechWomen would like to invite you to join them to learn about the Power of Mentoring with Vanessa Vallely OBE, MD, WeAreTheCity.

This event is the first in the series of quarterly learning events for WeAreTechWomen’s community.

About this event

Success in your career isn’t just about the ability to do your day job and do it well. Success is often achieved by pushing your boundaries and learning/benefiting from the advice and experience of others. Mentoring is becoming an increasingly popular way of leveraging skills, however if your mentoring relationships are not structured and there are no measurements for success, then these sessions are likely to reap reward in the long term. If you are interested in seeking mentors in the future and/or want to turn up the heat on an existing mentoring relationship, then this hands on learning session is for you.

Throughout this interactive and practical session Vanessa will share her top tips having mentored over 100 individuals during her 25 year career in Finance. She will also share her reflections of being a successful mentor for programmes such as Parligender, a House of Parliament Mentoring campaign and the hugely successful CRUK Women of Influence mentoring programme.

Attend this session to

• Learn the basics of a successful mentoring relationship, who does what and why!
• Learn how to drive success from your mentoring relationships to achieve optimum results
• Map out a skills framework and relationship plan to identify your long term and short term outcomes
• Identify and plan to approach potential mentors
• Learn how to be the best mentee!
• Practice your mentoring pitch
• Gain access to templates to get your mentoring engagement off to a flying start
• Find out who else you might need in your career, e.g. coaches and sponsors
• Learn how to turn your mentors in to sponsors

REGISTER HERE

About the speaker

Vanessa is one of the UK’s most well-networked women and has provided keynotes on on a variety of career related topics for over 500 companies worldwide. Vanessa is also one of the UK’s most prominent figures in gender equality and often provides guidance and consultancy to both government and corporate organisations who are seeking to attract, develop and retain their female talent. Vanessa was awarded her OBE in June 2018 for her services to women and the economy.

At the height of her successful 25 year career in the financial services, Vanessa launched the award winning WeAreTheCity.com in 2008 as a vehicle to help women progress in their careers. WeAreTheCity.com now has over 120,000 members and provides resources/conferences/awards/jobs to women across the UK. Vanessa is the also the -founder of UK wide diversity forum Gender Networks. Gender Networks (formerly The Network of Networks) brings together diversity leaders from 85 cross sector firms to share best practice on a quarterly basis. In 2017, Vanessa launched, WeAreTechWomen.com as a resource hub for women working in tech.  WeAreTechWomen now has over 15,000 members and hosts its own annual Women in Tech conference and TechWomen100 awards.  To date, through the awards and her events, Vanessa has shone a spotlight on over 750 future female leaders and provided learning opportunities to over 5,000 women.

Vanessa is also the author of the book “Heels of Steel: Surviving and Thriving in the Corporate World” which tracks her career and shares 13 chapters of tips to succeed in the workplace.

Over the past ten years, she has been named Women in Banking & Finance’s Champion for Women, Financial News Top 100 Rising Star, The International Alliance for Women Top 100 Women globally & Brummells Top 30 London Entrepreneurs. In 2015 Vanessa was in GQ UK’s Top 100 Connected Women and the Evening Standard’s 1000 Most Influential Londoners. Vanessa is a regular guest on TV and radio and also sits on the Government Digital Services advisory board.

A virtual, interactive bi-monthly roundtable to discuss issues impacting female entrepreneurs in these times.

In these unstable times, we believe in two things; 1) That we are resilient. We are nothing if not creative and innovative! Let’s make the best out of this situation; and 2) We can get through this if we collaborate, communicate, and help each other out. By doing this we will successfully navigate our business and ourselves through this uncertain period.

This will be the first of a series of roundtables, held every bi-monthly, to discuss important issues affecting female entrepreneurs.

Format:

A. We will begin with questions from members: please email in advance to [email protected]

B. Open forum for any questions: ie concerns over managing cash flow, investors, term sheets

C. All sessions will be recorded and posted on the Hive Forum

The first discussion will be led by Akoni and Hive founder and CEO, Felicia Meyerowitz-Singh, Innovate Finance’s Women In Fintech Powerlist.

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Many people have a narrow definition of power and believe you either have it or you don’t.

In fact, power is multifaceted, carrying both positive and negative connotations, and shapes every interaction we have with people and within our organisations.

In this webinar, Antoinette Dale Henderson will share insights from her new book, Power Up: The Smart Woman’s Guide to Unleashing Her Potential, including what it is, how it is evolving and how CMI Women members can access their personal power for the good of all.  As part of her webinar, Antoinette will explore ‘the new power paradigm’ and the Power Up Model© that’s central to her book. She’ll explore power dynamics and how traditionally female powers such as emotional intelligence and intuition are increasingly being recognised as vital skills that benefit everyone in the workplace. Packed with powerful techniques on powering up your potential, her message is that when everyone is able to access the full power spectrum, from quietly compelling magnetism to strongly voiced assertiveness, organisations and society as a whole will become more powerful.

You can find CMI’s programme of webinars here.

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In the currently climate we all need to adapt and change.

Many of us work from home on a regular basis and have built strategies and working patterns that help us to succeed. Working from home can be great, but as lack of social contact increases our ability to self manage and stay positive will be the differentiator in how we thrive.

What the talk will cover?

• Manage the challenges of working remotely, individually and as part of a virtual team
• Build an effective environment, routine, time and exercise
• Implement quick wins to help you stay focussed
• Explore ways that virtual teams can become high performing
• Make a positive impact in virtual meetings
• Manage motivation, stress and resilience

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About Mairi

Mairi is a Personal Impact Expert and CEO of Scene Change Creative Consultants Ltd, global providers of bespoke people development initiatives across the sectors. Founder of the UK Houses of Parliament cross sector Mentoring Programme, Storytelling Expert for the European Women In Leadership Programme at Coca Cola and founder if the Graduate Professional Consultant Programme for Oracle.

Mairi specialises in face to face and online coaching sessions on Communication Skills, Resilience, Confidence and Body Language, Impact and Influencing, Presentation Skills, Coaching, Managing People Through Change, Unconscious Bias, Emotional Intelligence and delivers high level role-play sessions on Client Relationship Building – enabling delegates to credentialise themselves and their firm and confidently position themselves as a trusted advisor.

As a trained professional actress and BBC TV presenter, Mairi uses her skills to enable individuals and groups to communicate and present better, increase visibility and align personal branding to organisational values. She is passionate about helping others to unleash and harness their confidence, supporting them to step out of their comfort zones, move past barriers and be the best expression of themselves. As a motivational speaker she gives practical sessions on confidence and influencing skills combining her theatrical training with modern business psychology.

Mairi has been a judge on the BBC Apprentice Final as part of a team of business experts and is a judge for the prestigious WeAreTheCity.Com Rising Stars Awards for pipeline talent across. She is a mother of two young boys, a School Governor and occasionally dabbles in stand-up comedy.

Hosted by Alterna Savings and Credit Union Limited, you will learn how to overcome barriers which could be preventing you from moving your business forward; find out about business support that works to help scale your business; and, hear about financing options and tools specifically for women entrepreneurs who want to scale their businesses.

We will focus on overcoming the barriers that traditionally hold women back from scaling/moving their business forward including unconscious biases, flexibility, tools, networks, financing and other money issues.

Hosted by:

Susan Henry, Alterna Savings Manager of Community Microfinance Program and the Community Loan Funds Partnership Programs

Susan Henry has over 25 years’ experience in the microfinance arena. She is an acknowledged leader in the field of Community Economic Development in Canada and has advised policymakers and practitioners in the area of microfinance. She continues to consult and lend her expertise to organizations starting Community Loan Funds with a focus on small business and social enterprise development.

12pm – 1pm ET / 4pm – 5pm GMT

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Many of us are experiencing mass remote working for the first time and this has a significant implications for inclusion.

Join us on this webinar about Virtual Inclusion, to look at:

• Why inclusion is more important now, than ever
• Some of the barriers to inclusion in a virtual world
• How organisations can foster inclusion remotely

To register, please email [email protected]

This webinar will focus on the importance of sustainability in the workplace.

CMI is committed to being a purpose-led organisation that is aware of its environment impact. Managers and leaders are vital to driving change when it comes to tackling sustainability, whether that’s water conservation or using less plastic, we can all do our bit to make a difference.

Communicating and influencing are key to sustainable management.

How we communicate with our staff about complex issues such as sustainability can have a huge impact on whether people engage or not.

In this webinar, we will hear from one of our partners, University of Leicester, on how they are supporting implementing the UN Sustainable Development goals with businesses across Leicestershire and influencing organisiations to develop their sustainability.

You can find CMI’s programme of webinars here.

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We are pleased to announce the first of our series of digital events.

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WeAreVirtual would like to invite you to join them for a webinar of learning and networking, You And Your Mental Wealth – A Master Class In Self-Care And Building Resilience with Ruth Cooper-Dickson, Positive Psychology Practitioner, Coach and Managing Director of Champs.

When we set out to achieve our goals and objectives sometimes other parts of our life can drop by the wayside. Often life throws curveballs, or events do not manifest how we planned them. This leaves us derailed or feeling like a failure in our own eyes. This session will light up your superpower of calm, help explore your individual career self-care and equip your toolbox with tips and strategies to support your mental wealth.

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About our speaker

Ruth Cooper-Dickson is a Positive Psychology practitioner, coach and Managing Director of Champs: a global wellbeing consultancy for forward-thinking businesses ready to demystify mental health at work.