Progressing Women into Leadership 2023
Online Conference 8 March 2023, 9:00am - 3:00pm
9:00am
Online Registration
9:30am
Chair’s Welcome Address
Dr Jennifer Martin, Executive Director for the Executive MBA programme, University of Cambridge’s, Judge Business School
9:40am
Keynote Address: Start With What Works
- Three reason why women struggle to excel
- Why the quest for more data is damaging
- Three big improvements we can make now
Jurga Zilinskiene MBE, Founder and CEO, Guildhawk
10:00am
Keynote Address: Charting The Progress Towards Equal Representation For Women In Top Jobs Across The UK
- Outlining the findings of Fawcett’s Sex and Power 2022 Index which show that fewer than 1/3 of the UK’s top jobs are filled by women
- Striving towards achieving equal representations by breaking down the barriers that hold women back from achieving their full potential
- Setting targets to increase the number of women in positions of power and putting action plans in place to ensure they are met
- Improving pay gap reporting by reducing the threshold for reporting to employers with 100+ employees
- Making flexible working the default for all job roles wherever possible
Alesha De-Freitas, Head of Policy, Research and Advocacy, The Fawcett Society
10:20am
Keynote Address: Are We Overlooking The Obvious?
Eva Echo, Activist, Ambassador, Blogger, Educator and Public Speaker
10:40am
Question And Answer Session
11:00am
Break and Networking
11:40am
The 40%: Tracking and Reporting Leadership Gender Disparity through the FTSE Women Leaders Review
Denise Wilson White, Chief Executive, The FTSE Women's Leaders Review
11:50am
Case Study: Dyslexic & Proud
- Positive message
- Dyslexic & Proud
- No barriers to Success
- Live your dreams, don’t settle for second
Samantha Rapp, Senior Crown Prosecutor Lawyer, Crown Prosecution Service
12:10pm
Keynote Address from The World With MNR
Maryam and Nivaal Rehman, Co-founders, The World With MNR
12:30pm
Question And Answer Session
12:40pm
Lunch And Networking
1:40pm
Keynote Address: Is Flexible Working The Key To Gender Equality In The Workplace
- Government has announced enactment of the right to request flexible working from day one, and the Employment Relations (Flexible Working) bill will make it easier for employees to make requests, but this falls far short of many calls in the government consultation for default flexible working and advertisement of jobs as flexible, so although the move has removed significant exclusions it is unclear how far it will change practices
- The Covid-19 pandemic led to the spread of flexible working arrangements, and more employers have adopted flexible working practices in recent years, but take-up remains highly gendered, and there is a risk of stigmatisation
- What can we learn from good practice? .e.g. need for whole-organisation policies; monitoring; leading by example
- Taking flexibility seriously requires thinking seriously about the job itself (not just where it is done or during which hours) and what it takes to do it, and about organisational culture
Professor Susan Milner, Professor, Politics, Languages & International Studies, University of Bath
2:00pm
Leadership In The Voluntary Sector - Key Barriers And Solutions
Sarah Vibert, Chief Executive, The National Council for Voluntary Organisations
2:20pm
Case Study from the University of East London
Vanessa Varvas, Chief Marketing Officer, University of East London
2:40pm
Question And Answer Session
3:00pm
Chair’s Summary And Close
*programme subject to change without notice