RISE is a wonderful not-for-profit, advocate group for gender diversity within the broadcast manufacturing and services sector. I was lucky enough to represent the IET at their breakfast event on Tuesday 10th March.
Out keynote speaker was Tiffany Hall CIO of Cancer Research. Tiffany started out studying Maths and university. Before working for Shell, BBC and now Cancer research.
She covered wide range of topics. Starting out with the fact that this inspirational lady who has clearly "made it" sometimes suffers from Imposter syndrome. The differences between the way that carers who work in the private and charity sector behave when a meeting overruns and they are asked, "does anyone need to go?".
In her role as CIO she has successfully reduced turnover at Cancer Research from 34% to 17%. A great achievement especially when you realise that the charity sector is well known for having high staff turnover.
It was clear from her talk (and also talking to her before the event) that she is a very approachable lady which I'm sure is one of the reasons for her success. She goes out of her way to make sure that Cancer research doesn't work alone and has partnerships with companies such as Tesco to tackle obesity which is one of the main contributory factors to people getting cancer.
There was also an opportunity before and after the speech to mingle with other attendees to discuss every issue under the sun with the other fascinating attendees. Having worked in Engineering all of my working life I only notice if I'm not the only lady in a meeting. It was therefore wonderful to be in a room (almost) full of women.
Thanks to Carrie Wootten of RISE for the invitation to their International Women's day breakfast event and Phoebe Hussain for arranging my attendance at the event
Lynda Murchie
Member IET Media Network
March 2020
Out keynote speaker was Tiffany Hall CIO of Cancer Research. Tiffany started out studying Maths and university. Before working for Shell, BBC and now Cancer research.
She covered wide range of topics. Starting out with the fact that this inspirational lady who has clearly "made it" sometimes suffers from Imposter syndrome. The differences between the way that carers who work in the private and charity sector behave when a meeting overruns and they are asked, "does anyone need to go?".
In her role as CIO she has successfully reduced turnover at Cancer Research from 34% to 17%. A great achievement especially when you realise that the charity sector is well known for having high staff turnover.
It was clear from her talk (and also talking to her before the event) that she is a very approachable lady which I'm sure is one of the reasons for her success. She goes out of her way to make sure that Cancer research doesn't work alone and has partnerships with companies such as Tesco to tackle obesity which is one of the main contributory factors to people getting cancer.
There was also an opportunity before and after the speech to mingle with other attendees to discuss every issue under the sun with the other fascinating attendees. Having worked in Engineering all of my working life I only notice if I'm not the only lady in a meeting. It was therefore wonderful to be in a room (almost) full of women.
Thanks to Carrie Wootten of RISE for the invitation to their International Women's day breakfast event and Phoebe Hussain for arranging my attendance at the event
Lynda Murchie
Member IET Media Network
March 2020