Neetu Khosla | Social Value Manager and Multicultural Chai | Amey Consulting
The majority of my career has focused on being an Executive Assistance (Manager) – including for senior leadership and Managing Directors.
As life changed after COVID I became more and more passionate about driving culture change in our industry, particularly regarding diversity and inclusion. Last year I took a leap of faith and moved into Social Value, with the aim to support our teams in delivering positive economic, social and environmental wellbeing in both our workplaces, and within the communities we operate.
Louise Nolan | Assistant Civil Engineer | Mott MacDonald
In 2015, I began reading Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, Wadham College.
This is where my passion for sustainability started. I specialised in environmental and civil engineering and my thesis focused on contaminated ground remediation to unlock unused freshwater resources for human use. Alongside my degree, I spent my time playing football and raising the profile for women’s sport; I played football for Oxford’s Blues and captained Wadham Women to their first promotion in 7 years. These years were transformative for women’s football (and my own confidence as a female football-playing-engineer!). Women’s football in the UK turned professional in 2017, and I lead the Oxford-Cambridge varsity match at the 6500 capacity Hive stadium in London as president of the University Football Club in 2017/18.
In 2019 I graduated with a Master of Engineering and joined an engineering consultancy as a Graduate Engineer. My career to date has involved a range of projects, from infrastructure design to decarbonisation studies. I have been responsible for analysis models for complex transport infrastructure projects, (building a technical background), as well as working on-site project managing refurbishment schemes for existing railway assets. I’ve progressed rapidly and I’m on course for chartership in 2024. Alongside this, my drive for embedding sustainability internally (I’m my division’s sustainability lead) has led to a variety of opportunities such as delivering the literature review for technical deep dive on the decarbonisation of bridges, or co-authoring the Decarbonising Transport, Let’s get moving Interchange Report for the London Transport Museum.
Lauren Luck | Regional Engineer | John Sisk & Son Ltd
I am a proud Civil Engineer with over 10 years of experience working in the construction industry.
Born in Northern Ireland and raised by my single mother, I quickly learnt that women can do anything. I was delighted by big structures and inspired by the creation of largescale infrastructure. This led to a first class degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Ulster in 2012.
I initially worked as a Site Engineer with Graham Construction and was given the opportunity to work on a wide range of civil engineering projects including railways, highways, nuclear infrastructure and the beautiful Lagan Weir Bridge in Belfast. I quickly became involved in the technical management of projects and moved into Design Management and temporary works design which is where my passion still lies.
Having relocated to Manchester in 2017, I began working with John Sisk & Son and was promoted to Regional Engineer for the UK Civils Business on return from maternity leave in 2022. In my role, I have refreshed the Sisk approach to design management and have strengthened relationships through the upskilling of engineers at all levels. I take delight in empowering colleagues to improve in fields of technical innovation, safety through design and I am involved with coaching colleagues with responsibility for temporary works on site. Despite my involvement in the more technical side of contracting – I still get the opportunity to get my boots muddy and to be part of the physical transformation of our landscape as our projects progress.
Katie Mason | Events Manager | Railway Children
I have 23 years of experience with Railway Children and in that time I have set up a successful programme of events that generates income of over £500k annually.
I have also established excellent relationships with individuals and companies across the rail industry that have led them to be closely associated with the charity and raising hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Hayley Magorian | Service Delivery Manager | Transport for London
As Chair of TfL’s Women’s Colleague Network Group, Hayley is an inspirational and transformative leader actively promoting gender equity and inclusion across the UK Transport Sector.
Appointed Chair in 2021, Hayley has spearheaded an ambitious agenda and worked closely with Senior Sponsors and colleagues across the business to drive progressive change and promote greater diversity and inclusion. She has contributed towards policy changes, advocated for menopause in the workplace training, contributed to guidance for line managers on approaching conversations around menstrual health and menopause, and worked with colleagues to set up support groups including a menstrual health group and monthly menopause hub accessible to all 28,500 colleagues. Hayley has led the network group to organise over 100 events reaching 2,000+ colleagues on important gender related topics including: domestic abuse, zero tolerance to sexual harassment, White Ribbon, designing inclusive transport, closing the gender pay gap, infertility and menstrual health, among other topics.
All this has been achieved in addition to delivering her day job, demonstrating her dedication and passion to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. An accredited Project Manager, Hayley has extensive project and portfolio management experience, as well as change management experience working in fast paced, operational environments. Hayley has led multi-disciplinary matrix teams and worked on complex transformative projects to drive performance improvements, benefiting millions of customers who travel TfL’s network every day. Since joining the Project Management Graduate scheme in 2015, Hayley has risen to join the London Underground Sub-Surface lines leadership team as a Service Delivery Manager.
Giulia Marzetti | Senior Carbon Management Consultant | Mott MacDonald
A female in engineering and an engineer in consulting, Giulia has crafted a portfolio career as a consultant, project manager and policy officer in sustainable transport, energy storage, decarbonisation and technologies applied to cities and industry.
As a UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) advocate, Giulia is passionate about using technologies to build a more sustainable and equitable world.
Her expertise in sustainable infrastructures and climate change has brought her to be a delegate and speaker at UNFCCC COP26, COP27 and a delegate at the 12th Conference of Youth as part of COP22 in Marrakesh, a delegate to the 2019 UN Regional Forum on Sustainable Development for the UNECE region, a delegate at the Obama Foundation Town Hall Europe, 2019 Goalkeepers Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation a Talent of the UN Innovation Lab for Sustainable Development Goals and a Delegate at the Yunus Social Design Lab in Bangladesh and C40 Women4Climate programme in Glasgow.
Ferhin Master | GWS UK Supplier Partner Operations Coordinator | CBRE
I have worked in customer facing and supply chain relationship roles for 17 years.
Beginning my career at Barclays, I spent eight years working in a customer facing role, I then worked for TfL on their social enterprise venture for Hackney Community Transport. I now work for global commercial real estate and investment company CBRE as a Supplier Partner Coordinator. CBRE is the world’s largest real estate and investment firm with over 100,000 employees worldwide.
Throughout my career, I have always had a passion to help others and, as a result, have given a lot of time as a volunteer. Whilst volunteering, I’ve been involved in holding awareness events within CBRE with the aim of creating a more diverse, equitable and inclusive working environment. In CBRE, I have led and been part of several Employee Business Research Groups (ERBGs).
Belen Jorda | Senior Manager | EY
I am a Senior Manager in EY’s People Consulting practice.
I have a proven ability and passion to shape and deliver complex technology-enabled change programmes, specialising in large scale infrastructure.
Being a part of major transformations in the infrastructure sector is what gives me purpose. Every day, I see my job as an opportunity to have a positive impact on society by solving complex issues – involving people and technology – while helping colleagues to thrive and reach their goals. When people ask me about my dream job, I respond that this is my dream job. I bring this passion to my teams and clients.
I grew up in Spain and studied Law, Economics and Journalism at the University of Valencia. My vision for my education was to build a well-grounded foundation in these fields in order to tackle complex issues in society, including the ability to articulate and communicate them in an effective way.
Motivated by the societal impact of improving railway safety, my focus client for the last 4 years has been Network Rail. Over this period, I have led diverse/high performing teams to deliver safety-critical technology-enabled change, including Network Rail’s largest and most complex transformation to date to help save lives on the railway.
As a woman in a male-orientated industry, I have focused on acting as a role model for women in rail by leading from the front, mentoring colleagues and inspiring by example to empower women to make their way in an industry that I love.
Alice Graham | Senior Chartered Surveyor | Faithful+Gould
Alice is a diligent senior chartered surveyor, passionate about making a difference through her work in the built environment.
Since entering industry in 2018, Alice has worked on high profile flagship projects for public and private sector clients.
Alice graduated from Heriot-Watt University with a first-class degree in Quantity Surveying in 2018. After graduating, Alice joined Faithful+Gould as a graduate quantity surveyor. In her nearly 5 years at Faithful+Gould, Alice has had the opportunity to work on a variety of projects and programmes for public and private sector client. Alice became a Chartered Quantity Surveyor in 2021 and continues to deliver a range of cost management services.
Outside her technical role, Alice has been engaged in the following activities:
- Alice is a STEM ambassador and regularly undertakes activities to promote the uptake of construction careers by young people.
- Alice is a member of the Building the Future Young Persons' Advisory Panel. The panel of 14 people under the age of 35 will help the Building the Future Commission harness the knowledge of the next generation of leaders in the construction sector.
- Alice is a Trustee of the Cambridge Forum for the Construction Industry. In this role, Alice works with other trustees to promote the construction industry in Cambridge.
Sonam Kohli | Global Strategy Manager | IHG
After a few years as a management consultant, I knew I wanted to be part of an industry that I loved as a consumer, and this is how I begun my career in hospitality.
To date, I have worked in 3 different firms, from a UK based apart-hotel firm, to a fast growing start up now on NASDAQ leading to my current role as Global Strategy Manager within the Office of the CEO at IHG Hotels and resorts. My breadth of experience is quite unique, sitting across portfolio development and asset management, operations, brand/ product and now strategy. My deep understanding across this variety of functions has enabled my to bring a different lens to each role I am in.
My proudest moments within my career so far include securing a flagship asset that restored a dated hotel within a grade II listed to an award winning apart-hotel; transforming the operational processes within a firm working across 14 countries and developing the platform for all product standards to enable the brand to scale and ultimately making access to accurate information easier for all in the business, from housekeepers to senior leadership.