Women Who Make It Happen

Women Who Make It Happen

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  • Mental Wellbeing: Looking After Yourself & Your Workforce

    In 2021, it is important we continue the conversation around looking after our mental wellbeing and also the mental wellbeing of those in our businesses, our teams and outside of that, of course our friends and family.


    We will discuss looking after yourself and your workforce in this webinar with:

    Rob Stephenson, CEO, FormScore

    Rob Stephenson is an international keynote speaker, campaigner and wellbeing consultant who is on a missionto help create happier, healthier and higher performing workplaces. He experiences bipolar disorder personally.

    Rob is the founder of InsideOut, a social enterprise with the mission of smashing the stigma of mental ill-health in the workplace by showcasing senior leader role models with lived experiences of mental ill-health.

    This is done by virtue of a published annual list – The InsideOut LeaderBoard. As a consultant, Rob works with Boards and
    senior leadership teams on the design and implementation of an integrated wellbeing strategy.

    Rob is the CEO of FormScore, a revolutionary technology start up helping people to monitor their mental health using a score out of ten with a mobile app to help friends, family and colleagues support each other.

    Rob is co-founder of the InsideOut Awards and G24, the world’s first global 24-hour mental health summit.

    In his keynote talks, Rob inspires audiences to think differently about mental health and wellbeing.

    Tali Shlomo, Head of Inclusion & Wellbeing, Shearman & Sterling

    An internationally recognised HR Director, Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) and Wellbeing thought leader whose achievements were recognised in the 2020 Insurance Business Global 100 influential people for creating inclusive workplace cultures. Winner of “Ambassador of the year’ 2020 Women in Finance Awards. Highly Commended for Diversity Champion of the Year 2020 - Financial Adviser Diversity in Finance Awards.

    Tali is a member of the advisory board for several diversity and inclusion organisations ranging from age diversity and mental health.

    An acknowledged D&I specialist who has sat on several insurance and financial services market led diversity, inclusion and wellbeing advisory groups and committees', a regular spokesperson at events and panel sessions. Adviser to CEO and Board, leading organisational design requirements to ensure profitable and strategic business targets are met. Led a multi-discipline HR function including organisational design, reward, learning & development, employee relations, engagement and culture.

    Successful track record in business and cultural transformation having set up global operations across AsiaPac, South Asia and Middle East ensuring operational and cultural alignment through a cohesive people strategy. Creates a progressive, agile and commercial people strategy to ensure an enriched, inclusive culture.

    50 min
  • How To Provide Our Workforce With Purpose & Happiness

    2020 made us stop, think and re-prioritise our lives. Which means your workforce may have different priorities now compared to what they had 12 months ago.


    So, as a business, how do you tap into these new values and priorities to ensures your people are invested in working for you?

    How do we ensure the happiness of our workforce? How do make sure they feel an authentic sense of purpose?

    All this and more, with our two speakers:

    Abigail Wilmore, Chief People Officer, Stella McCartney

    As Chief People Officer at Stella McCartney, Abgiail defines and implements the people strategy, bringing the ethical, sustainable and responsible elements of what the brand stands for into their people and culture agenda. As a breaker of tired outdated HR ‘rules’ Abigail operates with the values of trust, respect, integrity and compassion to create a heart centred global community.

    Rohan Kallicharan, HR Director, BenevolentAI

    Rohan is HR Director at BenevolentAI and an ambassador for Mind, the mental health charity. He has advised a number of high profile companies on their mental wellbeing strategy, as well as involvement in national campaigns to raise awareness around mental health.

    Recently, he has worked with the FA, Heads Together and Kensington Palace, speaking to Sky News, the BBC and ITV about his own journey from severe mental illness and homelessness to advocacy, and championing the significant role of sport and football in breaking down barriers in talking about mental wellbeing, especially for young men.

    He has, in 2020, been named as a role model on the InsideOut Leaderboard, celebrating workplace leaders who are open about their experiences of mental ill-health.

    Away from work and mental health campaigning, he is happily married to Claire and has also run 37 marathons, mostly to raise awareness around mental health and homelessness."

    52 min
  • IR35: What Does Your Business Need To Do & Prepare For

    That time of year has rolled around again when we must discuss and prepare for IR35. What does you need to think about? What do you need to do? How do you protect your business.


    We invite Kingsbridge, a specialised insurer with an expertise in IR35, to dissect this disruptive change in the contracts market.

    Get all the answers right here!

    Kingsbridge

    Kingsbridge are specialised insurers for contractors who in recent years have expanded their services into the world of IR35. Kingsbridge offer an IR35 Status Determination Tool and an IR35 Tax Liability Insurance to insure any outside determination. Kingsbridge’s IR35 Consultancy Team is headed up by Andy Vessey (ATT) who is widely renowned as the leading IR35 expert in the UK. Kingsbridge now work with hundreds of Recruitment Agencies and End Clients over the UK on their IR35 Strategy and continue to insure over £60,000 LTD company contractors. As well as access to their IR35 Tool and Insurance, Kingsbridge also offer guidance and support through their dedicated IR35 Consultancy Team.

    50 min
  • Women In Technology: Part One

    Despite all the pushes on increasing the average percentile (15%) of females in teams in the UK, the numbers are still largely the same. As such, we must continue to drive conversations and actions around this topic.


    In 2021, each month we will dedicate one of our weekly episodes to Women In Technology. This week, we will feature Maia Nikolova and Ana Söderström Persson, as we discuss their own journeys into senior positions, challenges, obstacles, advice to those looking to take their journey into technology and advices for businesses looking to add more diversity to their tech teams.

    Maia Nikolova, Head of Business Analysis @ News UK

    Maia is the Head of Business Analysis at New UK, the home of the well-known media brands like The Times, The Sun, Virgin Radio and talkSPORT. Her main focus at News UK is to build and develop a great team of BAs who work across Technology and to ensure business analysis needs across the company are covered. She has been a BA for more than 6 years initially starting as a product analyst at Dun & Bradstreet but quickly realising that her true calling was to prevent issues from happening in tech projects thus starting in her adventure as a BA. A firm supporter of Agile practices and with experience in the financial, online gambling and media sectors Maia is a key advocate for the value of the role of the Business Analyst within News UK and in the wider tech industry.

    While an avid supporter of careers in Technology, she quickly noticed the minority representation of women in this ever expanding sector especially at the top levels. At News UK, she is part of the organising committee for the Women in Technology network whose goal is to provide a forum for the women in the tech teams to connect so that they can all collectively help make News UK Tech an amazing place for women to work and grow their careers.

    Anna Söderström Persson, Technical Product Area Lad, KRY/LIVI

    Anna is Technical Product Area Lead for the Growth teams at KRY/LIVI, a Swedish digital health care start-up.

    As Tech Area Lead she works to enable teams to have the capacity, technology and working environment that they need to fast-forward the future of healthcare.

    With a long experience from leading product and tech teams from Fintech, Telecom and now Health tech she has a passion for and a firm belief in self-leadership, growth and equal opportunities.

    48 min
  • Building Culture & Values In Your Business

    How do you build and evolve the culture & values in your business? We talk through all the strategies, successes and pitfalls with Geraldine Butler-Wright, who have been there and done it!


    Geraldine Butler-Wright, Chief People & Culture Officer at Your.MD

    Geraldine has developed her People career across multiple geographies to include EMEA and The United States. Most recently, her focus has been in the start-up and scale-up world, building and leading People functions in FinTech companies such as YoyoWallet and PayPal. Geraldine is also an executive coach who enjoys supporting the leaders and founders of tomorrow - both in the workplace and through her advisory role with global VC and start-up generator, Antler. Creating and driving innovative People programmes is a constant feature of her work and was core to her role leading transformative People initiatives at Imperial College.

    Geraldine is originally from the North East of England and now lives in south west London with her husband, daughter and two spaniels. She adores swimming with her daughter, skiing and running with the dogs.

    50 min

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