Events – Balance in Business

Inspiring keynotes, practical advice and open roundtable discussions. Our event series offers learning and networking opportunities

Event Spotlight

Balance in Business: Who leads? Who (still) cares? The Board Perspective

Digital Event via Zoom
Thursday 11 March 2021, 18:00-19:30 (GMT)

At this event, panellists Beatrice Hamza Bassey, Byron Loflin, Helen Pitcher OBE, Stanislav Shekshnia, will discuss the gender balance questions from the Board perspective:
Why care? Is everyone on board and broadly accepts the ‘why’? Or are most in the camp of ’why but’ not my problem, no availability of talent, not my sector.
What’s going on? What are boards doing to oversee balance in business?
How to Balance? What measures can the board take to ensure that balance in business is in the heart of a company’s strategy/value proposition?
When will we move beyond the talking?

Flagship event | Open to all | Webinar | Ticketed

Upcoming Events

Connect, Learn and Share: Interactive Mentoring Workshops - Mentors Only

We are offering all mentors a series of 4 x 90mins interactive workshops exclusively developed with Jane Lewes , aimed at developing more advanced mentoring skills and techniques to help expand their mentoring skills.
All workshops are digital events and run from 18:00-19:30 GMT.

24 February 2021: Exploring individual learning styles and their impact on the mentoring process
14 April 2021: Developing your listening skills
20 May 2021: Developing more insightful questioning skills
14 September 2021: Promoting decision making in mentoring

Spaces limited to 20 per session. First-come, first-served.

Impact Mentoring series | Mentor only | Free to attend

Mentees Only Event – Managing Career Change with Sonal Bahl

Digital Event via Zoom
Tuesday, 16 March 2021, 18:00 - 19:30 (GMT)

Once a banker, always a banker. Once a lawyer, always a lawyer. Correct? Not anymore. In this session, Sonal Bahl, Career Coach will share seven tips on how to navigate career change, and 2 of these 7 tips are related to resetting your mindset, without which the other tips will not really work.

Bring your notebook and let’s get to work!

Impact Mentoring series | Mentees only | Free to attend

Previous Events

Where Event Summaries are available – click through to read the content

Connect, Learn and Share: Mentor Masterclass

Digital Event | 10 and 17 September 2020

Mentoring Masterclass hosted by Jane Lewes. Jane is an international mentoring expert and runs The Learning Consultancy. The masterclass, which was run twice following positive feedback, allowed mentors to connect, share and get the latest insights on mentoring.

Mentee Evening: How to get the most from your Mentor

Event @ Freespee, London | 27 February 2020

Evening for mentees to connect and share their experiences with each other and get the most from the Impact Mentoring programme. Four seasoned mentors will discuss the recent paper written by Helen Pitcher OBE about the benefits of mentoring; and share their own perspectives.

Connect, Learn, Share: Mentor's Eventing

Event @ Target Global, London | 14 November 2019

An evening with Avivah Wittenberg-Cox (MBA’84J, mentor) on the Four Phases of Women’s Careers. The dual perspectives Avivah has garnered from CEOs and global executive teams on building gender ‘bilingual’ organizations as well as her insights from decades of coaching individual executives.

Event summary available

Mentee Evening: Building Presence

Event @ Freespee, London | 19 June 2019

An exclusive mentees’ evening of networking, exchanging experiences and hearing from Fiona Hathorn, CEO and founder of Women on Boards (WoB), on Building Presence.

Event summary available

Connect, Learn and Share: Leadership in Gender Inclusion

Event @ Institute of Directors, London | 5 March 2019

A special evening focused on Leadership in Gender Inclusion with Emer Timmons, Co-chair of Men as Change Agents (MACA); Anna Thompson, Government Equalities Office and Helen Pitcher OBE, Chairman Advanced Boardroom Excellence.

Event summary available

Balance in Business: Who leads? Who (still) cares? The CEO Perspective

Digital Event via Zoom | Wednesday, 25 November 2020

The CEO perspective. Sharing research and hard facts on Balance in Business as a value creation lever as well as compelling practical examples from recognised leaders on the success (or not) of gender balancing initiatives. First of three part series: Perspectives of the Board and HR-Talent to follow.

Events Summary available

Connect, Learn and Share: Cocktail Evening with Dean Mihov

Event @ AppNexus, London | 16 October 2018

An evening to say thank you to the tremendous support we have received from mentors to the iW50 Impact Mentoring Programme. With Dean Ilian Mihov, Sadia Khan, President of the Alumni Association and Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO and founder 20-First.

Event summary available

Mentee Evening: Developing Political Savvy

Digital Event | Wednesday 18 November 2020

Course led by Janes Lewes. Develop and apply “political savvy”. Political behaviour is increasing and research shows this leads to a reduction of trust in management – over 70% of people associate ‘politics’ with a negative experience. Come and learn more about organisational politics. What is it, the tools to help you develop the skills necessary to address aspects of your working relationships, hone your influencing skills and develop more useful networks.

Jane is an international mentoring expert, Senior Practitioner EIA from European Mentoring and Coaching Council; ESIA Supervisor accreditation. EMCC. Owner of The Learning Consultancy.

Connect, Learn and Share: Mentor Evening: Immersive and interactive

Digital Event| 2nd February 2021

This event was an immersive online experience, which gave everyone the opportunity to share one’s experiences and learn from one another. The session kicked- off with the panel, briefly sharing their experiences as long-standing mentors and coaches and opening it up to the assembled audience.
Our outstanding panellists were:
Helen Pitcher OBE, Steven Parker, Ali Farquhar.
Event summary available.

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