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WOMEN IN POWER CONFERENCE 7


KEY SPEAKERS & SPECIFIC TOPICS DURING THE WOMEN IN POWER 2018 EVENT


JUDITH PACKER - C Eng MIMechE chairs Women in Power and will be heading up the Women in Power (WIP) conference area. Over the past 30 years she has been a Project Manager, and an Engineering Director for the Power, Energy, Oil & Gas, Manufacturing Construction and Develop- ment sectors. She is a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (MIMechE) and is a Member of the Institution of Diesel and Gas Turbines.


M&A). Teresa has extensive expertise in providing support to Executive Boards and their organisa- tions, focusing at all times on providing pragmatic advice to her clients which enables lasting change. Teresa is known for her passion concerning the Diversity and Inclusion agenda and, in particular, Women in Leadership. Teresa is on the All Party Parliamentary Group for Women in Enterprise. Her management experience includes the role of Project Director for Strategic Business Transformation project across Europe, resulting in cost savings of €1.5 million. DR. JAN MASKELL CPsychol is a registered Occupational Psychologist from Training & Develop- ment


Solutions. TOPIC: Jan will be dis- cussing: “Personal


AMI MCQUARRIE - TOPIC: Task Orientation focuses attention on delivery rather than corporate talk, and enables you to remain effective when under negotiation pressure or personal attack. Ms. McQuarrie shows how Task Orientation® focuses attention on delivery rather than corporate talk, and enables you to remain effective when under negotiation pressure or personal attack. TERESA BOUGHEY - M.A. FCIPD is the Founder & CEO of Jungle HR Ltd. She is well-known for her ongoing role as a commercially- focussed, strategic, energetic Senior HR Professional. Her particular areas of expertise are Women in Leadership, Strategic HR development and Leadership Alignment. She lectures on key Change Management, Organisational Design and performance improvement (including


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Training & Development Issues.” POONAM SAKARSUDHA - TOPIC: Professional Development. Ms. Sakarsudha (L & G) will explain how Task Orientation provided a pivotal foundation for professional progress. She also outlines other key aspects of complementary professional development.


WHY IT’S IMPORTANT THAT WE GAIN MORE


FEMALE ENGINEERS Women account for only 7% of the


professional engineering workforce in the UK, and less than 4 % of engineering technicians, according to IET figures. This underrepresentation is far


greater than in other European countries. Engineering is a well-paid career, so this gender gap represents a missed opportunity to reduce pay inequality in the workforce. With projections showing that the UK will experience a serious shortage of engineers in the coming years, it also represents a threat to the industry, and to the economy more generally.


Such a huge gender imbalance


detrimental to UK industry and bad for gender equality, but it also has wider negative implications for the economy. The IET, which has 163,000 members across 127 countries, has an ongoing initiative to help promote engineering and the sciences to women. Just 9% of the UK’s engineering workforce is female but the country requires an extra 1.82m engineers to meet demand over the next seven years. The UK is in great need of more


engineers: an additional 87,000 graduate-level engineers are needed each year between now and 2020, but the higher education system is producing only 46,000 engineering graduates annually, which suggests that the UK still has a long way to go. One way to address this looming skills shortage is to tackle the gender imbalance within the industry. This is the key Conference message.


Worldwide Independent Power January - February 2018


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