Training for Business women in Wales - Aspiration and perspiration – a proactive approach to career planning, sponsored by Odgers Berndtson

In response to the lack of women at board level positions in Wales and the fact that women only ever account for around 10% of the Insider’s Power 100 compiled by the Western Mail’s Movers and Shakers in Business. A training day has been organised by Welsh women’s networking group Superwomen run by Bethan Darwin of DarwinGray, a Cardiff based law firm. The initiative is being sponsored by Odgers Berndtson, global executive search firm with an office in Cardiff.

The training day is aimed at providing women with some formal training and guidance on how plan a careers and put in place the building blocks that will support women to reach the most senior executive positions and, later on, non-executive positions.

It involves four presentations and workshop sessions on the following topics:

• Managing and developing your career to make sure you get where you want to be;
• Personal profile – how to develop and promote your own personal brand and manage your profile;
• Understanding accounts – how to really read profit and loss statements and balance sheets
• Business in Wales – how it works, who works in it, why it doesn’t work as well as it might, public vs private sector and the role of entrepreneurship

At the end of this training day, every delegate (numbers limited to 30) will have drafted their own personal career route map identifying where they want to go and how they intend to get there.  

The training day will be on Thursday 22 March 2012 and will take place at Bluestone Resort in Narberth, Pembrokeshire.

Day attendance only:  £100 per person (accommodation options are also available)

Please contact chazell@darwingray.com for more information. 

Odgers Berndtson is one of the top global executive search firms with 51 offices in 29 countries covering a wide range of industries and functions. Jemma Terry is the managing partner of the Wales office which is based in Cardiff.

Read more about the Odgers Berndtson approach to diversity and the latest paper on Boardroom diversity “Thinking independently together, making Board diversity work”