This full-day event offers practical upskilling and networking opportunities for the female talent pipeline to progress and to position themselves for future leadership roles across a multitude of industries.
The conference is being sponsored by EDIT Development and MUFG. WeAreFutureLeaders is also proud to support its charity partner SmartWorks.
250 females will gather at Events Etc, St Paul’s, to hear from a range of renowned speakers and expert panelists. These include Harriet Minter, Journalist and TV Commentator, Natalie Reynolds, CEO, Advantage Spring, Vanessa Vallely, CEO, WeAreTheCity, Jenny Garrett, award winning coach and trainer, Catherine Schlieben, HR Director, Worldpay and David McQueen, Managing Director, Narratively Speaking.
A full list of our amazing speakers can be found here.
During the conference, we will be covering key topics to enhance your skills such as dealing with imposter syndrome, the importance of personal brand, how to build your network, exhibiting leadership behaviours, public speaking and negotiation and influencing skills.
After experiencing a morning full of inspiring keynotes and panels, in the afternoon, you can shape your learning by attending our electives. These sessions cover topics such as finding your strengths, the art of saying no and managing others. See here for full agenda.
Post electives, the day will wrap up with our senior leaders Q&A panel, an opportunity to be speed mentored by a senior leader and a chance to browse our marketplace stands.
Date: Friday 25th May 2018
Timing: 08.15 – 17.45
Location: Etc. Venues, St Paul’s, London, EC1A 4HD
A percentage of tickets to WeAreFutureLeaders will be gifted to women who are returning after a career break. To apply for a returners place, please email info@wearethecity.com for more information.
This interactive seminar will help you to build your visual, verbal and mindset toolkit to:
This seminar will comprise of discussion groups, physical posturing (standing or siting) and engaging with others to explore learning.
Mairi is an Impact Expert and CEO of Scene Change Creative Consultants Ltd, providers of bespoke people development and talent initiatives across the sectors. She is Director of Coaching Squared™, an award nominated cross organisational leadership development programme spanning the diversity strands which has been shortlisted for several diversity awards and is registered on the Civil Service Learning Framework.
She is founder of the House of Commons Women into Leadership (WIL) programme and has designed and delivered successful Presentation Skills workshops for their Senior HR Leadership Team. In 2018 she will again take up her role as Storytelling Expert for the Pan European Coca Cola Enterprises WIL Programme.
She is a senior trainer for Civil Service Learning and associate trainer for various global consultancies. As part of the core delivery team for the year-long PwC/ HMRC Module 48 programme, she led bespoke role-play sessions on the highest scoring elective “Communicating Confidently with Customers and Advisors”.
As a trained professional actress and BBC TV presenter, Mairi uses her skills to enable individuals and groups to communicate and present better, build confidence, increase visibility and align personal branding to organisational values.
As a sought-after speaker, Mairi regularly speaks across the City with practical sessions on confidence and influencing skills combining her theatrical training with the work of Harvard social psychologist, Prof Amy Cuddy.
Mairi has been a judge on the BBC Apprentice Final as part of a team of business experts assessing the market potential of a key product and is a judge for the prestigious WeAreTheCity.com Rising Stars Awards for female pipeline talent across industries. She is the mother of two young boys, a School Governor and occasionally dabbles in stand-up comedy.