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Successful Career Networking for Women in Technology. Held in association with Merrill Lynch - Thursday 28th February 2008.
What a fantastic evening! We'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who contributed towards the "Successful Career Networking for Women in Technology" event that we co-hosted with Merrill Lynch on Thursday 28th February 2008. The evening was a great success and I think all of the participants had a great night.
We started off with a welcome from Maggie Berry, womenintechnology's Director followed by a welcome from Merrill Lynch by Jane Phillips, Global Head of Service Assurance. Jane shared some of her personal experiences of networking as well as her own top do's and don't and welcomed the audience to Merrill Lynch.
Our first presenter was Preethi Nair, author and public speaker who told the fascinating story of how she gave up work as a management consultant to follow her dream to write her first book, Gypsy Masala. During an enthralling 30 minutes, Preethi explained how, having been rejected by a number of publishers, she set up her own publishing company and PR agency to publish and promote the book. She gained substantial coverage and subsequently signed a three-book deal with HarperCollins - her experiences showed clearly how networking was and is integral part of her success. She has won the Asian Woman of Achievement award and was also short listed as Publicist of the Year. Her latest book, The Colour of Love, has just been released with a reissue of Gypsy Masala and she has also set up a new business, Kiss the Frog. Preethi's website is www.preethinair.com
Our second presenter was Steven D'Souza, Vice President, Leadership and Talent Management at Merrill Lynch. He speaks at conferences and events throughout the world on subjects as wide as diversity, networking and organisational effectiveness and shared some practical networking tips with the audience. Steven then led an interactive 'speed networking session' which saw everyone talking to people they didn't know about different topics in two minute bursts - a few people complained that the two minutes weren't long enough!! Steven is the author of “Brillian t Networking” as well as the best-selling book “Ma de in Britain” which was sponsored for schools throughout the UK to inspire positive role models. If you would like to contact Steven directly or start to receive his free newsletter, please go to www.brilliantnetworking.net
So the evening ended amongst a buzz of networking which was super for an evening focussing on how networking can help you achieve career success!
Thank you's go to Jane Phillips, Preethi Nair and Steven D'Souza for presenting and a big thank you once again goes to Merrill Lynch for sponsoring this, our third networking event with them. Merrill Lynch are long term sponsors of womenintechnology.co.uk and if you would like to find out more about them and working there, please go to www.womenintechnology.co.uk/merrilllynch or contact Kelly Davidson - kelly_davidson@ml.com
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Political Savvy for Women in IT. Held in association with Société Générale - Thursday 31st January 2008
We'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who came along to the "Political Savvy for Women in IT" event on Thursday 31st January 2008 which we co-hosted with Société Générale. The evening was very well attended - it was a full house - and the networking both before and after the event was animated and busy.
The evening started with a welcome from Maggie Berry, Director of womenintechnology.co.uk who gave an introduction to the evening's presentation and an update of what's been going on at womenintechnology. Greg Cousland, HR Director SGCIB welcomed the audience on behalf of Société Générale.
The key note speaker was Michelle Brailsford of the Jupiter Consulting Group who presented "Political Savvy for Women in IT". Her interactive session was extremely well received and she gave an overview of political savvy and shared some practical tips to consider when in the workplace. A copy of her presentation can be found here and a copy of her handout of career derailers can be found here. The book she referenced was Survival of the Savvy by Rick Brandon and Marty Seldman. If you would like to contact Michelle directly her email address is michelle@jupiterconsultinggroup.com
After Michelle's presentation there was a lively Q&A session with Michelle and Greg Cousland of Société Générale - the questions were varied and interesting and included:
How can one be sure one is powerful enough to be paid what one is worth?
How can you understand how you're perceived, how to look more powerful and how to deal with hard people/difficult situations?
How should you respond to a male colleague who dismisses you as a neurotic female when you raise serious concerns with something, rather than addressing the issues raised?
Should I, as a woman, worry about being perceived as too sexy to be intelligent and if so, how do I overcome that?
After the Q&A, there was a lively networking session where attendees got the chance to talk further to the evening's presenter and representatives from Société Générale as well as the chance to network amongst themselves and catch up with people.
A copy of the evening's agenda can be found here.
So we'd like to say a big thank you to Michelle for her presentation and to Greg for his participation and contribution to the Q&A. An even bigger thank you goes to the Société Générale team for their help and support in putting this event together.
If you would like to find out more about Société Générale or would like to look at current opportunities with them, please go to www.womenintechnology.co.uk/sg
A final thank you goes to Société Générale for co-hosting this event with us and for their sponsorship of womenintechnology!
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Aiming for the Top - How to be a Successful Women Working in IT. Held in Association with JPMorgan - Tuesday 6th November 2007
We'd like to extend a big thank you to everyone who came along to the "Aiming for the top - how to be a successful women working in IT" event on Tuesday 6th November 2007 which we co-hosted with JPMorgan. The evening was a great success with an audience of about 220 so the networking both before and after the event was busy.
The evening started with a welcome from Maggie Berry, Director of womenintechnology.co.uk who gave an introduction to the evening's presentation and an update of what's been going on at womenintechnology. The key note speaker was Helen Duguid of Do-Good Consulting Ltd and formerly Head of Great Leaders at Microsoft whose inspirational presentation looked at women already achieving success in technology and the key things people need to be considering to take their careers to where they'd like them to be. A copy of Helen's presentation can be found here.
Stephanie Talbot, IB Credit Hybrids Programme Manager Lead at JPMorgan then spoke briefly giving an insight into her technology career to date and how she has achieved success. The Q&A with representatives from JPMorgan followed: Phillip Carter - Chief Business Technologist EMEA Credit Hybrids, Fiona Rodd - Global Technology Infrastructure Production Assurance Manager and Maxine Varney - Head of Client Technology, EMEA participated along with Helen and Stephanie. Some sound advice and interesting anecdotes came of out of the Q&A such as "success takes perseverance", "push yourself out of your comfort zone", "network externally and internally within your organisation" and "go shopping - dress for success".
If you would like to see some of the audience's top tips on achieving success, please click here.
After the Q&A, there was a lively networking session where attendees got the chance to talk further to the evening's presenter and panellists as well as the chance to network amongst themselves and catch up with people.
So we'd like to say a big thank you to Helen for her presentation and to Stephanie for her talk as well as another big thank you to Philip, Fiona and Maxine for their participation in the Q&A. An even bigger thank you goes to the JPMorgan team for their help and support in putting this event together.
If you would like to find out more about JPMorgan or would like to look at current opportunities with them, please go to www.womenintechnology.co.uk/jpmorgan
A final thank you goes to JPMorgan for co-hosting this event with us and for their on going support of womenintechnology!
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How to Manage Your Manager. Held in association with UBS - Tuesday 18th September 2007
We'd like to extend a big thank you to everyone who came along to the How to Manage Your Manager event on Tuesday 18th September 2007 which we co-hosted with UBS at their offices near Liverpool Street - the evening was a great success with around 160 attendees. The event topic was obviously very popular as we also had over 100 people on a reserve guest and we'll certainly be putting some thought to running a one day training session on this topic.
The evening started with a welcome from Maggie Berry, Director of womenintechnology.co.uk who gave an introduction to the evening's presentation and an update of what's been going on at womenintechnology. The key note speaker was Rebecca Watson of Brompton Associates, a corporate and executive coach who led the session on How to Manage Your Manager. Her presentation covered several key areas including common management types and how to manage them, how to get to know your manager, understanding your role in the relationship, a quick guide to self-promotion and top tips to increase your effectiveness.
Rebecca's session was followed by an interesting and open Q&A with representatives from UBS - Nick Barker, Global Head of a number of functions including IBD IT, Business Technology Services and IT Diversity, Catherine Campbell, Global Head of Infrastructure, Equities & Prime Services and Clare Playfair, SAP Project Manager, Finance IT. The Q&A covered questions such as "If your Manager is a very dynamic, gifted person and likes to take control of all situations, how can you win/manage their trust?", "How do you sell a different leadership style to senior management, from the ones they have traditionally accepted?" and "How do you manage a disorganised yet controlling Manager?"
After the Q&A, there was a lively networking session over drinks and canapés where attendees got the chance to talk further to the evening's presenter and panellists as well as the chance to network amongst themselves and catch up with people.
So we'd like to say a big thank you to Rebecca for her presentation, another big thank you to Nick, Catherine and Clare for their participation in the Q&A and an even bigger thank you to the UBS team for their help and support in putting this event together.
If you would like to find out more about UBS or to look at current opportunities with them, please go to www.womenintechnology.co.uk/ubs
A final thank you goes to UBS for co-hosting this event with us and for their on going support of womenintechnology!
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Positive Career Management for Women in IT. Held in association with Accenture - Wednesday 27th June 2007.
We'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who came along to the "Positive Career Management for Women in IT" event which we co-hosted with Accenture on Wednesday 27th June 2007 at their offices on Fenchurch Street, London. There was a great turnout with only a couple of spare seats left in the room and if you attended, we hope you enjoyed the evening.
We'd like to say a special thank you to our keynote speaker - Laurel Herman, Managing Director of Positive Presence - 'the intelligent image consultancy for intelligent people' - who presented You Are Your Own Best Business Card - Steps to Positive Career Management for Women in IT. It was an interactive session with the audience having to think about how others perceive them as well as about how they would like to be perceived.
We'd also like to thank our two Accenture panellists, Anju Elmes and Divya Sampath, for taking part in the lively Q&A after Laurel's presentation!
A copy of Laurel's handouts can be found here.
If you would like to find out more about Accenture or to look at current opportunities with them, please go to www.womenintechnology.co.uk/accenture
And a final thank you to Accenture for co-hosting this event with us and for their on going support of womenintechnology!
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We'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who came along to the "Raising Your Profile for a Successful Career in IT" event which we co-hosted with Microsoft on Thursday 24th May 2007 at the Great Eastern Hotel in central London. Once again we had a fantastic turnout and if you attended, we hope you enjoyed the evening.
We'd like to say a special thank you to the Microsoft speakers: Eileen Brown, Manager IT Pro Evangelist Team, Paul Norris, EMEA Director and Kate Isler, Online Services Group Chief of Staff. And thank you to our panellists – Salma Shah, Director of SN Training and Terry Thorpe, Chief Transformation Officer at the Centre for Integral Transformation.
Eileen presented the results of the Microsoft / womenintechnology survey that was undertaken earlier this year. A full version of the survey can be found here and a copy of Eileen’s presentation can be found here.
Paul spoke about what women are looking for from their IT careers and about the importance of networking to help you raise your profile – both at work and outside of work. A copy of his presentation can be found here.
And Kate’s presentation focussed on three key areas: communication, confidence and support as well as the importance of building and maintaining your profile whilst still being yourself. A copy of her presentation can be found here.
After the presentations, there was a 30-minute Q&A with our speakers as well as Salma Shah and Terry Thorpe. Terry highlighted the variety of ways you can raise your profile from being a member of a professional body, writing articles for in-house/external magazines and websites, entering award competitions and keeping a blog through to having a mentor and creating a persona on Second Life. Salma spoke about defining your own personal brand, being aware of it and using it to help increase your profile in a work situation.
The networking after the presentations and Q&A was as busy and as lively as ever with people having the chance to talk to the speakers, panellists as well as members of the Microsoft recruitment team.
If you would like to find out more about Microsoft and look at current opportunities there, please go to www.womenintechnology.co.uk/microsoft
Alternatively, you can contact Caroline Buckingham, Recruitment Manager at Microsoft directly -
v-carolb@microsoft.com and 01189 095 799
A copy of the evening’s agenda can be found here.
And a final thanks goes to Microsoft for co-hosting this event with us and for their on going support of womenintechnology!
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We'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who came along to the "Powerful Conversations - Successful Negotiation Skills" event at JPMorgan on Tuesday 24th April. We had a fantastic turnout of nearly 250 and there were only a handful of spare seats in the house so it was busy and we hope you enjoyed the evening. We'd like to say a special thank you to the JPMorgan speakers Ellen Bishop (Chief Technology Officer for Worldwide Security Services Technology EMEA and APAC) and Slim Baccar (Chief Technology Officer for IB Technology Exotics and Hybrids) and to the JPMorgan panellists Alison Gurd, Kritika Shekar and Julian Cork. Their hints, tips and advice as well as explanations of their own personal experience of negotiating were very valuable. And of course we'd like to say a big thank you to Elizabeth Kuhnke for presenting Powerful Conversations. I hope you enjoyed her talk and were able to take away some top tips on negotiating. As well as negotiating skills, Elizabeth also runs courses on Powerful Presentations, Personal Impact, Vocal Impact, Body Language and NLP (e.g. modelling excellence, anchoring, visualisation). If you would like more information on Elizabeth, please do look at her website: http://www.kuhnkecommunication.com/ The networking after the main presentation was as busy and as lively as ever - people had the chance to talk to the speakers and Elizabeth as well as members of the JPMorgan recruitment team. If you would like to find out more about JPMorgan and look at current opportunities there, please go to www.womenintechnology.co.uk/jpmorgan Alternatively click here - http://www.womenintechnology.co.uk/resources/JPMorgan_Live_roles.xls - and you'll see a selection of current technology roles at JP Morgan. To find out more about a specific opportunity please call or email Georgina North on 020 7325 1894 / georgina.x.north@jpmchase.com If you have a more general recruitment enquiry, you can contact Sam O'Neil on 0207 325 4188 / sam.x.oneil@jpmchase.com And you can also browse their careers website at www.jpmchase.com/careers And final thanks go to JPMorgan for co-hosting this event with us and for their on going support of womenintechnology!
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We'd just like to say a big thank you to everyone who came along to the Showcase for Technology Careers at Merrill Lynch on Wednesday 28th February 2007. We do hope you enjoyed what was a great evening - we had some super feedback on the night and afterwards including: "I was impressed by the way everything was set up, the speakers, the info, the drinks, networking, etc... really good stuff and I was also very impressed with Merrill Lynch as a company to work for, they sound great!" "Congrats on a fantastic event last night, it was really brilliant." "Thank you for the event last night. It was very informative, professional and fun! " The evening started with a welcome from Maggie Berry, womenintechnology's UK Communications Director followed by the Showcase which was introduced by Jane Phillips, who is Global Head of Service Quality at Merrill Lynch. The key note speakers were Stewart Carmichael, Managing Director for Global Technology Infrastructure and Adrian Pearce, Managing Director for Global Business Technology who gave valuable insights into what it's like working at Merrill Lynch. Richa Rustagi a Senior Specialist in End User Computing and Carolyn Jones, Vice President in Global Business Technology both spoke about their personal experience of being a Merrill Lynch technologist. The formal part of the evening ended on an informal note with a quiz hosted by Angle Le Mar with prizes for the winning table. A copy of the presentation can be found here. As ever the networking at the end of the evening was lively and people had the opportunity to talk with the presenters as well as other members of the Merrill Lynch Technology Team. So all in all, it was a great night! So a big thank you go to our speakers as well as the Merrill Lynch Team involved in all the planning to make the evening a success. If you are interested in finding out more about the roles that Merrill Lynch are currently recruiting for, go to www.womenintechnology.co.uk/merrilllynch if you would like to talk to one of their recruitment team, you can contact: We would also like to hear your feedback about the evening and/or if you have ideas for other events - please do email Maggie Berry mberry@womenin.co.uk with your suggestions - many thanks!
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We'd just like say a big thank you to UBS and to everyone who came along to the Positive Impact and Influencing Tools event on Wednesday 11th October 2006. We really hoped you enjoyed the evening - we've had some great feedback and will certainly be looking to run similar events in the future. We had a fantastic turnout of nearly 200 people, there wasn't a spare seat in the house and we even had to turn a few latecomers away as there just wasn't any space left! The evening started with a welcome from Maggie Berry of womenintechnology, followed by the Positive Impact and Influencing Tools session and then a Q&A with UBS representatives. The evening finished off with some lively networking over a few glasses of wine! The event's agenda which includes a profile on our guest speaker, Viki Crocker, and the UBS panel can be found here. So thanks again to Viki who led the Positive Impact and Influencing Tools session. A copy of her presentation can be found here and a full version of the word profile questionnaire can be found here. If you would like to contact Viki, her details are as follows: Viki Crocker, MD of XL-erate Coaching for Excellence If you do attend one of her courses in the future, please do let Viki know that you heard about the event via womenintechnology. A big thank you again to UBS for co-hosting the event - their hospitality was super and particular thanks go the UBS panel who took part in the Q&A session after Viki's presentation: We would like to hear your feedback about the evening and/or if you have ideas for other events, so please do email Maggie Berry mberry@womenin.co.uk with your suggestions - many thanks!
Positive Impact Agenda (1.5mb)
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Many thanks to everyone who came along to our Mentoring for Success event on Monday 26th June 2006. The evening was kindly hosted by Citigroup at Citigroup Centre in the Docklands - there was a great turnout and the debate certainly generated lots of interesting discussion about mentoring! So a big thank you to Citigroup and to our guest speaker, Louise MacInnes from Jive - a copy of Louise's presentation can be downloaded by clicking here. We would also like to say thanks to our panel for their contributions and insights into how mentoring and being a mentor and/or a mentee has impacted upon their careers: Rachel Barton, Senior Manager in Customer Contact Transformation at Accenture Gary Kendall, Director at CDO2 Terry O'Leary, Region Head, Citigroup Technology Infrastructure EMEA Reena Pau, PhD Student from the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton Helen Watt, Chief of Staff EMEA Global Transaction Services Technology at Citigroup More information on our guest speakers and panel can be found in the agenda for the evening which can be downloaded by clicking here. A final thanks goes to Barry Rogers of liberare for facilitating the debate and networking session afterwards and of course to everyone who attended. And as ever we're always interested in your ideas for future events so do please email Maggie Berry with any suggestions - mberry@womenin.co.uk. Thank you very much for attending our Mentoring for Success event on the 26th June 2006 - we hope you enjoyed the evening and were able to take away some top tips about mentoring. We are very interested in your opinions on the event and hope you will spend a couple of minutes completing this on-line feedback survey - Please click here to complete
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We'd like to thank everyone who came along to the event on the 15th February. The evening was well attended and we hope that everyone who came along was able to take away some top tips about flexible working. We'd like to say a big thank you to our key note speakers - Eileen Brown of Microsoft and Ray Testa of Lehman Brothers. Eileen's presentation can be viewed by clicking the link below and if you would like a copy of Ray's presentation, please email Maggie Berry on mberry@womenin.co.uk And we'd also like to say thanks Gillian Arnold of IBM and Chair of Intellect's Women in IT Forum for facilitating the debate and to our panel: Ide Hughes from Merrill Lynch, Dawn Paolino from Goldman Sachs, Joelle Price from Accenture, Kate Silver from the IT Profession (eGovernment Unit) and Helen Watt from Citigroup. The agenda for the evening which includes a bio for each of our panel can be viewed by clicking the link below. We'd also like to extend our thanks to Merrill Lynch for co-hosting the event and for their excellent hospitality. We've had several compliments on the food as well as the venue and facilities. We're currently in the planning stages for our next event but would be keen to hear about ideas for future meetings - please email Maggie Berry with your thoughts - mberry@womenin.co.uk
Merrill Lynch podcast of the Flexible Working in Technology event
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The womenintechnology Summer Networking Event - Thursday 8th September 2005We'd like to say a big thank you everyone at womenintechnology and from our colleagues at McGregor Boyall to all of you that attended the womenintechnology networking event on Thursday 8th September. It was great to see so many women at our first networking event - over 200 people turned up which was superb. From the feedback we've had so far, people definitely thought it was a worthwhile evening and enjoyed being able to speak to other like-minded women working in the IT profession. We know people are keen for a follow up event so keep an eye on the womenintechnology events page for news of what we'll be doing next. If you would like to share any additional feedback or ideas with us, please don't hesitate to contact Maggie Berry on 020 7422 9214 or mberry@womenin.co.uk Thanks again from the womenintechnology team Here are some photos from the evening below... | ||||||||||||
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The womenintechnology launch party - Tuesday 8th March 2005
womenintechnology.co.uk was launched at a lunchtime drinks event in Tower 42 on Tuesday 8th March 2005 - International Women's Day.
The event was kicked off with a presentation from Maggie Berry, UK Communications Director, who introduced the audience to the womenintechnology website and gave the background to the project and why the website was launched. Maggie's speech was followed by talks from Deborah Howard of IBM and Carolyn Edwards of BritWIT. Deborah took the opportunity to explain what IBM do to promote women within their organisation as well as sharing some of her own experiences of working in technology. Carolyn spoke about the benefits of networking and indeed got the audience involved in some impromptu networking there and then!
The presentations were followed by canaps and drinks and many guests spent a good part of the afternoon networking and chatting amongst themselves. The event had a full turn out (100+) and the guests, as well as being able to hear the presentations and participate in the networking, were able to enjoy the fantastic view out of the windows of Tower 42!
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