Plymouth Science Park hosts free Women in Business Networks
Plymouth Science Park hosted a sell-out free Women in Business Networking workshop designed to help businesswomen to address limiting self-beliefs and help their businesses to grow.
The course, run by coaching organisation In Good Company, encouraged delegates to identify and overcome elements that hold them and their businesses back.
It is the second free bi-monthly workshop being hosted at the park and was run by Joanne Wheatley and her business partner Zoe Hawkins from In Good Company (www.igcompany.co.uk) on Over Coming Self Limiting Beliefs.
Jo and Zoe train people to be professional coaches as well as coaching managers. They were shortlisted for CIPD's National Learning & Development Consultancy of the Year Award and nominated for a coaching award with the European Mentoring & Coaching Council.
They have over 2000 hours of group and individual coaching practice and work with organisations including Mars, Vodafone, Macmillan and Universities. They will be guiding delegates through activities used on their coaching training programme and leadership development programmes to assist in overcoming limiting beliefs holding people back from identifying and/or reaching their potential.
The sell-out afternoon event was attended by twenty businesswomen from across the city who attended through their membership of Plymouth Women in Business Networking group.
Plymouth Science Park is active in its support of Women in Business and Women in STEM and has joined the committee for Women In Stem Plymouth, a group launched in 2014 to promote the contribution of women in STEM professions and encourage girls to enter careers in manufacturing and science.
Merika Kindlon, Commercial Executive at PSP said: "It's important to us that Plymouth Science Park is involved in this local social network formed with the sole purpose of tackling gender stereotypes and imbalances within the STEM-related professions and careers.
"30% of PSP businesses are female-led and when you combine this with our requirement that businesses are in the science and technology sector, it is vital that we support and encourage more women to enter into professions within the STEM sector. We are STEM advocates and encourage that gender parity is taken seriously."
Plymouth Women in Business networking was set up in January of this year by Alexis Bowater of Bowater Communications and Claire Geraghty, Premier Market Development Manager at Barclays Bank.
The group meet at lunchtime on the first Monday of each month at The Treasury in Plymouth for networking and to hear an inspirational guest speaker. The event is free and anyone is welcome to attend.
The next workshop will be on September the 21st from 2pm to 5pm at the Plymouth Science Park with leadership trainers Sampson Hall and personal image trainer Jan Beveridge.
