Management & leadership, Personal development
Women in Leadership - Online conference on Thursday 25 September
Join us for the 2025 Women in Leadership Conference, where celebration and skills are the focus.
Women in leadership roles serve as role models for other women and girls, inspiring them to pursue leadership positions. This helps create a pipeline of future female leaders and promotes gender equality. By embracing and supporting women in leadership roles, we create more effective, inclusive and impactful organisations at the heart of our sector.
At this year’s event you will gain valuable insight from those who have ‘been there and learned lessons.’ You’ll also leave with practical, actionable points for managing priorities and workload, making sense of the numbers, strategic thinking and working with your board.
Inspiring keynote and panel speakers, practical skills sessions and lots of opportunity for engagement and participation make this a must attend event for Women in Leadership.
Who should attend?
- Long-standing, emerging and inspiring leaders
- Those on their way to and those already in senior management or leadership roles
- Everyone welcome!! Allies encouraged to attend.
What’s included in the price?
- Attendance to the online conference, keynote sessions, session talks and networking sessions
- Recordings of keynote sessions and breakout sessions
- Access to all presentation slides and handouts
Agenda
09.20 – Welcome from the Conference Chair
Join us for introductions and housekeeping.
09.30 – Opening Keynote
Leadership is challenging. We are facing particularly tough times in our sector. People are stressed and burned out. What does this mean for leaders? Our Keynote Speaker will share how we rise, with resilience, innovation and commitment.
Speaker to be announced.
10.00 – Effective Working Practices
Stress, demanding workloads and competing priorities are not uncommon for those in leadership positions. How do you manage the realities of your highly pressured role while avoiding burnout and poor well-being? In this highly practical session Eileen Browne will share some helpful time and workload management tips, ways to prioritise the demands and guidance for managing stress. We’ll include 15 minutes for your burning questions so do bring them along on the day.
Speaker: Eileen Browne, Training Consultant, DSC
10.45 – Coffee break
11.00 – Skills Surge
This session is a quick-fire skills development hour. 3 senior leaders will help with some ideas around those topics which can give us the wobbles: Strategy, Numbers and People.
- Thinking Strategically: What it means in practice
Speaker to be announced.
- It’s a Nightmare with the Numbers: Make Finance Meaningful
Speaker: Caron Bradshaw OBE, CEO, Charity Finance Group
- Working with People: The Pleasure and The Pain
Speaker: Eileen Browne, Training Consultant, DSC
12.00 – G.O.V.E.R.N.A.N.C.E Matters Matter
A fast-paced, jam-packed session, highlighting 10 tips for keeping governance in mind and working with the Board.
Speaker: Cathy Shimmin, Senior Training Consultant, DSC
12.30 – Networking and Lunch break
13.30 – Nurturing Emerging Talent
How do leaders of today support and nurture the leaders of tomorrow? In this session you will hear from panellists who will share lessons learned from personal journeys, give guidance on how we shift our focus to support young emerging leaders, and how you can remove barriers and ceilings for women coming through the sector.
Speaker: Kadeema Woodbyrne, CEO and founder, Go-Forward
Other speakers to be announced.
14.30 – Coffee Break
14.45 – EEDI Matters Do Matter
How gender messages affect behaviour in leadership and what to do about it. How to ensure policies are gender inclusive.
Speaker to be announced.
15.45 – Closing Keynote – We’re not Imposters! We’re the Drivers of Change!
Speaker: Debra Allcock Tyler, CEO, DSC
16.10 – Closing remarks from the Conference Chair
16.15 – Conference ends
Speakers
Find out more about your speakers here.
Ticket prices
Early bird: deadline end of Thursday 31 July 2025
- Band A: £119
- Band B: £129
- Band C: £149
Regular price bands from Friday 1 August 2025
- Band A: £129
- Band B: £139
- Band C: £159
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