Event details
In today's economic climate what are our options to achieve true work life satisfaction and what can we learn from female leaders to reframe the way we think about our careers, goals and personal lives.

A balance of work and life simply doesn't feel achievable at times, in a climate of restructuring, limited pay increases, the wage divide between men and women increasing, rising costs of living and longer hours, we will often end up compromising on some of the goals we would wish to achieve. There are more innovative ways of working and by setting our own standards for achievement we can gain a sense of fulfilment without having to add to what appears, at times, to be an ever growing number of spinning plates. By reconsidering the options available and how to tackle some of the obstacles, we can progress into leadership, manage our aspirations outside and inside work or perhaps transition in career. Countering fears to take risks and act boldly to cease opportunities to change is fundamental to moving forward. Increased satisfaction and fulfilment is key to sustaining high performance of both individuals and companies but it relies on innovation and change in our working practices.

“Lessons in True Work Life Satisfaction” is a female leadership panel Q&A that seek to explore the careers of women and the pathway they have taken to manage their personal and professional goals. Our speakers fulfil a wide range of categories in terms of personal experience, work experience and career level – the aim of this event is to provide a forum to represent a range of issues that women face. This event seeks to represent all categories of women and aims to discuss career and changing ways of working, managing women as a leaders, negotiating a better deal with your employer, lifestyle change, achieving goals with young children, starting your own business, becoming a contractor, moving into leadership from a junior level, achieving work life balance at senior levels and career breaks.

Panelists:
1. Change your career direction – making the transition from science to commercial
Dr Penny Attridge - Investment Director - SPARK Impact Ltd.

2. Many Ways of Working – permanent to contractor, founding your own business
Stephanie Hall – Managing Director - Uptake Strategies

3. Leadership - early stages of your career
Dr Kath Mackay - Lead Technologist Regenerative Medicine - Innovate UK (Technology Strategy Board)

4. Leadership – changing organizations and innovation
Jacqui Hall - MedImmune - Vice President, RandD Skills, Training and Standards

5. Work Life Balance – managing women through life changes and career breaks
Ffyona Dawber - Managing Director and Founder - Synergy Vision

6. Chair
Mandy Garner – Editor - Workingmums.co.uk

Learning objectives
1. Compare career paths of leading women and the variety of options that exist when looking to achieve your goals professionally and personally
2. Examine the concept work/life satisfaction, what it means to you and how you can achieve it
3. Ask leaders at different stages in their career how they tackled achieving their goals and explore some of the choices they made in their personal lives and career
4. Examine innovative ways of working, examine how you feel about change and explore the obstacles you can face as a women in today’s economy

Agenda
5:30 PM - 6:20 PM     Event registration, drinks and canapes
6:20 PM - 6:30 PM     Welcome - Cristina Rondinone, Medimmune VP and head of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases
6:30 PM - 6:40 PM     Chair introduction to the panel - Mandy Garner
6:40 PM - 7:40 PM     Questions (submitted prior to the event)
7:40 PM - 8.10 PM     Audience Q&A
8:10 PM - 8:20 PM     HBA close - Victoria Barry-Woods
8:20 PM - 8:30 PM     Event close

Event location
MedImmune
Milstein Building
Granta Park
Cambridge, CB21 6GH
44 (0) 1223 471 471

Directions    

Special instructions:
We encourage participants to submit questions anonymously to ukhbachapter@gmail.com that they would like answered by the panel, we will also open to the floor for questions during the event.

Sponsors




Speakers
Penny Attridge, PhD
Investment director, SPARK Impact Ltd.

Stephanie Hall
Managing director, Uptake Strategies

Kath Mackay, PhD
Lead technologist regenerative medicine, Innovate UK (technology strategy board)

Jacqui Hall
MedImmune, Vice President, R&D skills, training and standards

Ffyona Dawber
Managing director and founder, Synergy Vision

Mandy Garner
Editor, Workingmums.co.uk

Registration information
Event is open to: HBA members and nonmembers
Online Registration deadline: January 9, 2015
Onsite (walk-in) registration: Is NOT allowed

Member rate:
$8.07

Nonmember rate:
$15.83

Capacity
Is capacity limited? Yes
Space is limited to 50 registrants.

Cancellations/refunds
Is this event refundable? Yes
If yes, must be submitted in writing to events@hbanet.org by January 9, 2015; no refunds are available after this date.

Event questions/support
- Program contact for event details: Email ukhbachapter@gmail.com and/or call 07734115916
- Membership questions: membership@hbanet.org or 973-575-0606 ext 1
- Trouble with online registration: events@hbanet.org or 973-575-0606 ext 3

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