Empathy, the Organisational Superpower

Interactive talk exploring empathy as a crucial business skill that increases retention, drives innovation and supports employees’ wellbeing

We’ll look at the importance of empathy as an organisational superpower, and aim to provide a series of tools that can help you access empathy within the workplace and create a more caring culture.

How To Take Control of Your Finances

Understanding our finances and building financial knowledge is the foundation to giving ourselves more freedom and more choice in life.

In this workshop, we’ll focus on the key milestones across women’s lives. You’ll learn the practical tips and tools to help you maximise financial wellbeing at each life stage, helping to make you feel more empowered and more in control of your money.

Working Girls Network Goes Speed Mentoring

Speed mentoring is a WGN member favourite and we were delighted to be able to do it in person this year! Attendees were mentored at speed by a group of inspiring women who shared advice and stories from their varied careers.

How to Get The Best From the People You Work With

A workshop on Tuesday, 6th Septemer led by Emma Brookes, a People Director at Sky

Working Girls’ x Grocery Girls' International Women’s Day Event

Grocery Girls and Working Girls Network joined forces to host an online event to mark International Women’s Day.

PANELISTS:

Rebecca Adlington OBE, four-time Olympic medallist swimmer

Daisy Barlow, Global Head of Marketing at KIND

Simone Sargeant, Digital Director GB at Diageo

Eve Yankah, Founder & CEO BEPPS Snacks

Working Girls’ Invites the Boys to Explore: The Confidence Gap

A panel discussion that explored how the confidence gap affects women and their careers, the different ways confident behaviours are perceived between men and women, and how we can close the gap.

A workshop with Business Leader and Coach Alex O’Rourke

We are very pleased to partner with Alex O’Rourke, business leader & coach, to run a workshop on how to build your own personal brand of confidence. We’ll explore how own your personal style of confidence, why it’s important and the 3 steps to building a strong personal brand.

An interactive workshop with Executive Coach Deena Gornick.

Difficult conversations have always been, well, difficult, and the last year certainly hasn’t made them any easier. As the world opens back up, we all have our sights on a richer and fuller work life and home life. The move toward a more hybrid mix of working between home and the office means that we need to define for ourselves what we want (and don’t want!) from work, and need to know how to ask for it.

A working from home masterclass from Harriet Minter

Virtually every industry is making lasting changes that will open doors to a more flexible working week. So how do we adjust, thrive and excel in an environment where glitchy daily video conferences are the norm? How do you build a working life that works for you?

Virtual speed mentoring over Zoom with industry-leading women: Syl Saller, CBE: former Chief Marketing & Innovation Officer at Diageo; Pippa Glucklich: former CEO of Amplifi (part of Dentsu Aegis) and Starcom Media; Safiya Karsan Michel: EVP, Operations at Pollen; Kam Pearce: CEO at Coldr and Founder of the UK Black Comms Network.

This incredible group of women shared advice, tips and tricks on how to navigate the changing landscape of work. Attendees got the opportunity to speak to each mentor in small groups as part of a break out room.

A virtual event with Instagram sensation Clare Seal of ‘My Frugal Year’

At WGN’s first virtual Zoom event we heard Clare’s story and financial journey from being deep in debt to being debt free. We learned ways to manage our finances and feel more empowered to save, pay off debt and feel more confident about our financial wellbeing.

Uncommon Borough, 1 Long Lane, London, SE1 4PG

Uncommon Borough, 1 Long Lane, London, SE1 4PG

Campfire Shoreditch, 81 Paul Street, Old Street, London, EC2A 4NQ

Jones Knowles Ritchie, 30 Oval Road, London, NW1 7DE

Campfire, 81 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NQ

1 Mark Square, Shoreditch, EC2A 4EG London

Prince Philip House, 3 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5DG

This year marks Working Girls Network's second birthday - we can't quite believe how far we've come in that time and so to celebrate we're throwing a summer birthday party!

Timmy Green, 11 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1E 5DJ 

JKR (Jones Knowles Richie) – Design Agency, 30 Oval Rd, Camden Town, London NW1 7DE

The British Council, 10 Spring Gardens, London SW1A 2BN

Conde Nast, Soho, London W1D 4DR

Imperial College, London NW1 7DE

JKR, 30 Oval Road, London NW1 7DE

AMV BBDO, Bankside 3, 90 Southwark St, London SE1 0SW

Zone Digital, Kings Cross, London N1C 4AB

100 Baker St, Marylebone, London W1U 6WG