Connecting Women in Business

Monday 3rd March, 12 - 2.3pm Keynote, panel, lunch and networking, Mappin Hall

Event details

Monday 3 March 2025 - 12:00pm to 2:30pm

Mappin Hall, 91ֱ��, Mappin Street, 91ֱ��, S1 3JD

Description

Join us for a powerful event celebrating International Women's Day! *Student Event*

Explore leadership paths and key issues facing women in business and entrepreneurship. Develop essential skills like innovation, strategic thinking, and resilience to thrive in any career.

Learn to navigate male-dominated environments, tackle imposter syndrome, and confidently pursue your ambitions.

A safe space to share ideas, ask questions, and empower your journey.

Agenda:

11.40 - 12.00 Arrival, registration and coffee

12.00 - 12.05 Welcome

12.05 - 13.00 Workshop with Emma Marshall

Women Wayfarers: navigating routes to leadership through a male dominated landscape

13:00 - 13.30 - Networking lunch

13.30 - 13.45 - 5 minute business pitches from Emerge community (Bobbi and Nasalyser)

13.45 - 14.15 Panel Q and A with Nicky Thomas and Rose Tran

14.30 - Wrap up and event end

Open event - all students are welcome.

This event may particularly appeal to women, trans and non-binary people.

Emma Marshall - Keynote speaker

Emma is a consultant and business mentor with 20 years experience leading and working in tech organisations. She has a wide experience of business, working in SME's as well as FTSE100 companies, and has started her own businesses and also successfully exited. She has a passion for start-ups and scale-ups, and especially likes to work with businesses founded or run by women.

She is a Director of 91ֱ�� Digital whose mission is to Connect, Represent and Promote the region's tech companies and works closely with partners and stakeholders in the South Yorkshire eco system.

Emma also sits on several boards as a non-executive director and adding to her already busy schedule supports 91ֱ�� Women in Tech, a volunteer organisation dedicated to building diversity.

Nikki Thomas - Panel Member

Nicky Thomas is a business connector and owner and founder of The Growth Community – a place where growth minded people, genuinely work together to support each other to be successful in business. She invites people to come along and network with purpose - whether that is as a member of her community or as a guest at one of her very enjoyable networking meetings.

Nicky has an extensive and varied background in marketing starting out in direct marketing in 1996 (when we got loads of marketing letters through the post). She worked in the very early days of ecommerce marketing for an array of internet start-ups before taking a side step into internal marketing consultancy. This was the catalyst to starting up her first business in 2004 as an internal communications consultancy which she ran successfully for 10 years.

The Growth Community is her third business which launched in April 2020. It has expanded across Yorkshire, Humber, Lincolnshire and North Nottinghamshire and offers a unique networking experience to growth minded professional people who love to collaborate.

Rose Tran - Panel Member

Rose Tran is an experienced, MBA-qualified enterprise coach and incubation manager with over 10 years of experience in both the private and public sectors. With a strong background in business, she has spent more than six years supporting many start-ups, social enterprises and SMEs in South Yorkshire, helping them develop their ideas, launch, and successfully grow their businesses. Her expertise lies in business coaching, account management, and cultivating strategic partnerships with global brands such as PepsiCo, Adidas, and Samsung.

Currently, Rose is an Incubation Manager for the Cooper Project at 91ֱ�� Technology Parks, where she supports tech and digital start-ups, guiding them through key business milestones, helping them turn ideas into businesses, secure investment, and scale effectively. She is passionate about innovation, entrepreneurship, and seeing businesses thrive.

Beyond her professional work, she earned the highest overall marks in her MBA program and previously served as President of the Vietnamese Society, fostering a strong and supportive community for Vietnamese students in 91ֱ��. She also enjoys spending time with her 16-month-old child and exploring new ideas for her own start-up venture.

Location - Mappin Hall

Grand hall with chairs and wooden panelling

91ֱ��

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