Advancing Women in Tech Network

The future of work is increasingly complex, uncertain, and dynamic.  To succeed you need to clearly define your leadership brand, position and promote yourself and navigate this challenging and changing environment while designing a career that you love. Advancing in a male-dominated industry requires that you continue to be inspired, innovative, and enterprising.  Explore career strategies with female startup founders and innovators!  Prototype your career and learn how to pivot to seize exciting opportunities.

The Advancing Women in Tech Network provides: 

• A supportive community to help you create your ideal career paths
• Career prototyping skills and authentic leadership strategies
• An opportunity to increase confidence in designing and managing careers
• An opportunity to create unique career prototype

The pilot was delivered from September 2019 to April 2020 and included the following workshops:

Workshop 1: Find Your Fingerprint for Success

Featuring female founders and focusing on their entrepreneurial journeys, this workshop will enable women in a variety of career stages to:

• Assess, accelerate and advance career goals and strategies
• Join  a network of dynamic women, mentors and role models
• Learn which of your mindsets are correlated with venture and career success.
• Identify entrepreneurial strengths and blind spots through Fingerprint for Success
• Develop confidence in personal leadership styles

Female Founders and Innovators

• Annie Luu, Head of Asia Investible
• Michelle Duval, Founder and CEO of Fingerprint for Success
• Jeri Childers, Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, UTS Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

Read more about these founders and innovators.

Workshop 2: Designing your future of work

Learn how to create purpose-driven career plans that are high impact and how to engage networks, mentors, coaches, and sponsors for your career success.

Featuring female founders and focusing on their entrepreneurial journeys, this workshop will enable women in a variety of career stages to:

• Determine their level of ambition and impact that will frame and guide career designs
• Build career designs based on strengths, mindsets, and authentic leadership strategies
• Practice designing navigating and pioneering planning
• Design their future of work to avoid being invisible, missing opportunities, or having a career that is less than satisfying 

You will have the opportunity to meet the following founders and innovators:

• Amanda Blesing, Founder, Author of From Invisible to Invincible and Step up, Speak Out, Take Charge and creator of Women of Impact Program.
• Jeri Childers, Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, UTS Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

Workshop 3: Designing your Career Pivot Point

Research shows that most women do not have a career strategy yet we know that having a strategy enables us to seize opportunities or pivot into career paths that are satisfying and fulfilling.

This workshop is designed to integrate the career insights you developed earlier the Advancing Women in Tech workshop series into a career dashboard and compass that will point the way to achieving your career goals. 

In the workshop you will design career prototypes for three new career paths aligned with your purpose, values,  and authentic  beliefs about yourself.  You will leverage your mindsets to maximise your fit in the changing future of work.

With your career paths sketched you can test your assumptions and the feasibility of your career design with you network, mentors and champions.  Come to the workshop and lean into your 'career pain points' to design a career and life that you will love.

Workshop 4: Build Your Personal Brand: 4 Steps to Career Sponsorship

Successful leaders create a support team to help them achieve their goals.  This session will provide you with 4 steps to career sponsorships.  Participants will learn:

• The difference between mentors and sponsors
• The positive impact of career sponsorship
• The role of sponsors and the actions they can take to advance your career
• The role and qualities of the protégé
• What you must do to build your leadership brand and visibility strategy
• Key questions to consider before approaching sponsors

“The most valuable part of the series was hearing similar experiences from other women across the industry and gaining advice in tackling similar issues” 

For more information about the Advancing Women in Tech Network and Series, contact jeri.childers@uts.edu.au