The IET Women’s Network Facilitated Peer Coaching -
In collaboration with Sagent Recruitment.
The IET Women’s Network is pleased to announce the start of monthly peer-group sessions, facilitated by Greet Brosens of Sagent Recruitment.
About Greet Brosens
Greet has worked in leaderships positions in the recruitment industry for the last 18 years, both in the UK and mainland Europe. She has been able to follow many professionals and executives as they change jobs and develop careers. She is passionate about people and their development, and has been fortunate to work with some amazing professionals from the start of their career to executive positions. Greet has a degree in Economics from Leuven University and a Masters in Law and Economics from Oxford University. Greet is also an accredited senior coaching practitioner.
About Sagent Recruitment
Michele Garrigan and Greet Brosens set up Sagent Recruitment in 2012 to offer a different recruitment service to engineering professionals. They believe that at its heart, great recruitment requires gravitas, insight and the ‘art of conversation’. The newest technology and most extensive database are useless without the skill to engage with candidates at a personal level. Standing out in what has become an often blandly uniform, numbers-driven industry, the team at Sagent make sure that candidates are treated as unique individuals who have something to say.
About the Session
Sagent Recruitment would like to invite 10 female IET members to a series of facilitated peer coaching sessions, held in Savoy Place, London. Each session will be 2 hours.
NB: Numbers are strictly limited to foster a confidential and respectful environment.
“The lack of women in general, and the lack of women mentors make engineering a lonely field for women to want to stay in.”
This is the answer one female engineer gave when asked the question: “Why do women leave engineering?”
Around 15% of all engineering graduates in the UK are female, yet only 6.9% of all practising engineers are women. Why do women leave the profession?
Some of the reasons suggested in the available research:
· Lack of confidence in their engineering ability
· Lack of ability to juggle multiple life roles
· Lack of clarity regarding work goals, objectives and career prospects
· Lack of corporate support for training and development
Through peer coaching, female engineers working in different organisations can share ideas, learn from each other and build a network of peers. In a supportive, inclusive coaching environment, participants learn to ask incisive questions of each other and reflect on their behaviours and challenges in the work place.
Whilst it is recommended that you attend all six sessions, to gain the most benefit, there is no strict commitment and you will not lose your place if you are unable to attend one of the sessions.
Timings and Location
The coaching sessions will run once per month, for six sessions, with the first in the series starting on Tuesday, May 7th 2013 from 18:00 – 21:00 at The IET: London, 2 Savoy Place WC2R 0BL
Registration Whilst the event is free to attend, registration is still required, to secure your place.
to register, please contact womensnetwork@theiet.org
All of the sessions are free of charge.
