Download (6MB) A little postscript to the interviews we did on International Women’s Day. Before we went off to sit in the National Theatre kitchen and have some tea (I had some chips, I think Helen had some soup, but I was too tired to remember clearly) we sat and talked over what had gone…
We’ve been round this one before for consulting, soon after we did the work with the British Council. Where I think we got was that we needed to pitch it to lots of people, take it round and refine the pitch. Our Fridays are full of conversations making sense of new waves of technology. We…
Once upon a time, early in 2006, I sat on the floor in Debbie Davies’s flat in Dolphin Square, cradling a cup of tea and explaining to her that I wanted to start a videoblog and that I thought she should be in it too. I explained what it would entail, that we’d make a…
We ended our International Women’s Day dash around London with an interview with the Director of the National Theatre, Rufus Norris. Here, Rufus talks about the importance of a national institution representing the nation through the people who work there. [Disclosure: Rufus is an old pal so forgive us some giggles at the start…
Download (20MB) Gillian Hughes of Veoo talks about her experience of going into engineering after being at a Dublin girls boarding school and her career afterwards with mBlox, WWE and Facebook. She talks about being able to do whatever you want, doing things people didn’t expect her to do and ignoring social limits. Helen and…
Download (8MB) We bundled Muki into the back of our cab and drove her round the block, asking her about what IWD means to her and what’s good about it. She talks about the challenges of sexism and being judged adversely at work. But her hope for the future is rooted in her recent mentoring work…
Dowload (10MB) Tracy and Russell talk about their investments and how they run the partnership based on the belief that diverse teams deliver better results. As far as we know, they’re the only gender-balanced venture firm at partner level. They share their experience of gender balance in entrepreneurs getting funding. Helen Keegan and I spent…
Download (7MB) Thanks to mobile technology we were able to be flexible on our journey across London on Tuesday and that meant being able to arrange on the fly to intercept Sue Black on her way to the IWD debate at the House of Commons later in the afternoon. We got to flick through a…
Download (15MB) Jane started in nursing and healthcare management and then changed course to join CabApp to do business development. Nathalie worked at Accenture, KPMG and Apple before founding her social enterprise EduKit which helps school find youth service support for pupils. You’ll hear about their journeys in their respective careers, their experience of pay…
Download (5MB) Cathy talks to us about the importance of including and attracting more women in building the future; the importance of support from family and teachers; actively explaining what an exciting career engineering can be; she also tells us about the work of the Future Cities Catapult Helen Keegan and I spent International Women’s…