Women In STEM Career & Confidence

Inspiring Stories 052 - Dr Lauren Mullin - Client Story (Part 1) Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Lauren is Lead Analytical Scientist at Arxada and founder of ChemHerstory blog, which is dedicated to communicating the stories of the lost women in the history of STEM. Over the next three episodes we will meet one inspirational wom...

Inspiring Stories 051 - Dr Antigone Marino Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Antigone is a research lead at the Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (ISASI) at the Italian National Research Council (CNR). She also holds many leadership positions from President of the IEEE Photonics Society Italy Chapter, member of...

Inspiring Stories 050 - Anna Fuller - Client Story Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. With more than 20 years' experience in scientific research and management, Anna is now the Operations Manager at star* scheme in Cardiff. In this episode we talk about: Not letting other people's advice and opinions knock your confidence or dictat...

Anna Fuller – Client Story With more than 20 years'experience in scientific research and management, Anna is now theOperations Manager at star* scheme in Cardiff.   In this episode we talk about: Not letting other people's advice and opinions knock yourconfidence or dictate your choices. The different stages of the Intentional Careers™ Journey and how Anna went from unfulfilled tofeeling purposefu...

Inspiring Stories 049 - Dr Helen Bridle - Client Story Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Helen is an Associate Professor in bioengineering at Heriot-Watt University and Director of Let's Do Engineering, an EPSRC funded engagement project designed to tackle stereotypes around engineering with interventions for children aged 3-7 yea...

Inspiring Stories 048 - Professor Melissa Gladstone - Client Story Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Melissa is a clinician and a professor in international child health and neurodevelopmental paediatrics at the University of Liverpool. In this episode we talk about: Managing the guilt of multiple different competing areas of life...

Inspiring Stories 047 - Lily Satterthwaite Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Lily is a Regional Lead at Microsoft, the Global Technical Women Committee Lead and a Board Member of the Asian & Social Mobility ERG. In this episode we talk about: Lily's top tips for negotiating salary and compensation packages Developing a team charte...

Inspiring Stories 046 - Dr Joanna Martin Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Jo is founder of One of Many™, the fastest growing women's leadership and empowerment organisation. It is a real privilege for me to interview Jo because her description of superwoman was the catalyst to me becoming a certified coach and she has also been m...

Inspiring Stories 045 - Professor Angela Davies - Client Story Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Ang holds a dual role at The University of Manchester as a Professor in Healthcare Science & Education and as an academic leadership position within a strategic cross-institutional change programme, leading on transformational lifelong...

Inspiring Stories 044 - Debbie Neiteler Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Debbie is a mother of two children and a Partner at Austin and Carnley Solicitors . At heart Debbie is a humanitarian and is constantly seeking ways in which she can make impact through her work both for the planet and its inhabitants. In this episode we tal...

Inspiring Stories 043 - Dr Alice Redmond Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Dr Alice Redmond is the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at CAI with over 30 years' experience. Alice is a founding member of Women in Technology and Science (WITS) and is on the ISPE Women in Pharma (WIP) committee. In this episode we talk about: The theme of...

Inspiring Stories 042 - Dr Lucy Fernandes - Client Story Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Lucy is a Senior Customer Success Scientist at Protein Metrics and has a really interesting career journey that completely makes sense when you connect the dots looking backwards. In this episode we talk about: Making the shift from superwom...

Kate Marshall – Client Story After 17 years working at GSK, Kate made the big bold move to join Protak Scientific Limited and is now their Technical Director. In this episode we talk about: How Kate believed so much in the technology it enabled her to take the leap to Protak. Overcoming her fear of public speaking and now it is an integral part of her role. Understanding her personality profile wh...

Inspiring Stories 040 - Dr Margaret Dominguez Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Margaret grew up on a pig farm in Mexico and her love for Physics fuelled an incredible meteoric journey to becoming an optical engineer at NASA. In this episode we talk about: A serendipitous moment enabled her to apply for an internship at NASA. How...

Inspiring Stories 039 - Becky Adlington OBE Becky really does not need an introduction because her amazing track record precedes itself. I had a bit of a fan girl moment interviewing her because she is an English former competitive swimmer who won two gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the 400 and 800m freestyle. She was Britain's first Olympic swimming champion since 1988, and the first...

Inspiring Stories 038 - Dan Fenwick Dan is on a mission to standardise 'a life-enhancing recruitment experience'. His experiences as a child and transformation becoming a parent himself have led to the emergence of a man committed to finding purpose, in passionately and joyfully pursuing his potential – and carving a path for others to do the same. Growing up in the UK seaside town of Morecambe re...

Inspiring Stories 037 - Dr Faezeh Gholami I'm thrilled to introduce my next inspiring stories guest, Dr Faezeh Gholami. Fae has worked at IBM for nearly 7 years and is currently the STSM – Chief Architect for IBM zSystems I/O Development and Data Centre Connectivity. Fae was one of over 70 attendees at Optica's Level Up Leadership 4-day event in March 2023 which I facilitated and I was struck by h...

Inspiring Stories 036 - Nir Eyal Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Nir Eyal  writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of  psychology , technology, and business.  Nir previously taught as a  Lecturer in Marketing  at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford.   Nir c...

Inspiring Stories 035 - Professor Alexandra Knight I'm thrilled to introduce my next inspiring stories guest, Professor Alexandra Knight. Alex is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Fellow of the Women's Engineering Society. After a career of over 15 years in Industry working in engineering consultancy and innovation, she founded STEMAZING – a social enterpr...

Inspiring Stories 034 - Dr Madison Rilling I'm thrilled to introduce my next inspiring stories guest, Dr Madison Rilling, Executive Director of Optonique based in Quebec. In this episode we talk about the changes required to move from learning leadership to implementing them. Using your voice as a platform for leadership and advocacy, even if you don't feel like the expert. Madison is also such a...

Inspiring Stories 033 - Dr Emma Beale - Client Story Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. In today's episode, I interview one of my clients Dr Emma Beale, a Postdoctoral Researcher at Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in Switzerland. We talk about her career pathway, and what led her to embark on the Career Design Mastermind programme. How...

Inspiring Stories 032 - Dr Lucy Woods - Client Story Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Today on the Women in STEM Career & Confidence podcast, I interview one of my clients, Dr Lucy Woods. She joins us from Singapore where she recently started a new role at Bruker as the Commercial Director of APAC. Lucy has always been very inten...

Inspiring Stories 031 - Dr Alice Holly - Client Story Today I am joined by Dr Alice Holly, Technical Sales Manager at Cambridge Bioscience. In today's episode we talk about: - How Alice went about asking work to pay for her coaching, and to her surprise, just how delighted they were to support her. - The result of reordering her life values, so that vitality is now in top spot, instead of career....

Inspiring Stories 030 - Dr Kasia Zmarzly - Client Story Subscribe to the Women In STEM Career & Confidence Podcast on your favourite platform and stay tuned. Today on Women in STEM Career & Confidence I'm joined by Dr Kasia Zmarzly, Programme Manager at LGC supporting management of NIHR and NHS England funding calls. During this episode Kasia talks about her coaching journey: And how she learnt th...

Inspiring Stories 029 - Dr Mihaela Taranu - Client Story Today I am joined by one of my clients, Dr Mihaela Taranu, a psychologist specialising in metacognitive therapy and a postdoc at Aarhus University Denmark. We talk about how making a shift in your career also changes your identity. The more we cling to our old identity, the more we will ignore evidence it is not a match for us. This is why t...