Bethany Woolley | Insurance Broker | Marsh
I thought I would use 3 words people sum me up by, positive, loyal and friendly.
If you know of me, I am seldom down and pride myself on positive attitude and a smile; I am friendly and approachable so people feel at ease and know I am willing to help them, which is commended. Loyal, once I have faith and trust in someone or something I am committed to it – like progressing in the same organisation, despite the norm in our industry to move around regularly. I think these traits are key to finding my feet and establishing myself as a women in insurance. So where did it start? Straight from graduating University with a first class Business degree, I returned to my previous employment at Boots in a consulting role. However, within a few months, I wanted a challenge and I applied for a broker role at Marsh. I have been in Marsh Finpro Management Liability practice since 2016 and have experienced working in Norwich and London – both great exposure. My role goes between insuring the client gets the best T&C's by maintaining relationships with underwriters and then presenting and building a rapport with the client to provide updates (good or bad). I have been promoted twice in my career, now VP; I have actively taken up development opportunities whilst still providing assistance to grow the team and help new colleagues conduct the role - when I started the team was 4 individuals, now it is 17.
Alessandra Wood | Senior Web Data Analyst | DirectLine Group
I'm Italian and migrated to the UK when i was 18 with only £150 in my pocket and a one way ticket.
I've built myself up from nothing. After a few years gaining working experience and confidence with my English, I started working at eFinancialCareers as a Marketeer in the Recruitment, Banking and Finance sector. After a few years, I fell in love with Web Analytics and quickly succeeded in many projects, including migrating from Adobe Analytics to Google Analytics and leading a team of 4 across Sales, Marketing and Product Development and really transforming the company to a data driven organisation. After having my 2 beautiful children I decided to leave and found a job at DirectLine in September 2016 as an Senior Digital Analyst in the Marketing Effectiveness team. There, I've looked after Motor, Home, Rescue across both Direct and PCW channels, mainly serving the Marketing floor for digital effectiveness but also during econometrics led tests and studies. After a few years, I have moved to the Digital Department and started working for the PCW hub as an analyst in a Agile space which i have really enjoyed. I am now a Senior Data Analyst for the Pet, Travel and Private products and i am also volunteering as an Agile Advocates for the entire Data, Pet, Travel and Private communities, to help our teams adopt Agile behaviours to achieve effectiveness and efficiency, raising the whole departments as a result. I love my job.
Tracy Smith | Principal Landscape Architect | Amey
Tracy is a qualified horticulturist, holding a BSc. (HONS) in Horticulture from the University of Strathclyde and West of Scotland Agricultural College, Auchincruive (now SRUC Auchincruive).
She has been working as a Landscape Consultant for Amey, a leading infrastructure services and engineering company, for nearly 15 years where she previously led the UK Landscape Team and was Technical Lead for Landscape, designing and managing major landscape contracts. Having recently moved to Transport Infrastructure she is involved in design, management and maintenance of half of Scotland’s Trunk Road Network landscape.
As well as being a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute she continues to increase her knowledge and has achieved Professional Membership with the Arboricultural Association and also a Member of the Chartered Institute of Horticulture and the Women’s Leader Association.
Tracy has had a varied career from working and studying horticulture at SRUC and as landscape design officer with South Ayrshire Council. She has also worked in environmental and outdoor education, working alongside The Prince’s Trust and Duke of Edinburgh Award participants, supporting young people within Ayrshire in raising their knowledge, skills and self-confidence.
She is committed and passionate about developing and supporting others in work and within her community and has qualified in First Aid, Mental Health Aid and is a Wellbeing Ambassador and Life Coach. She is particularly interested in biodiversity, sustainability and innovation, having co-authored research with the University of Leeds and collaborating with other universities researching landscape management and maintenance processes to increase biodiversity and sustainability.
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).
