Amy Reeve | ExxonMobil
I joined ExxonMobil in 2009 straight from University.
For the next 12 years I have moved jobs and locations with the company including working within Sales, Marketing, Finance, Project Management and Strategy and in the UK, Belgium and the US. I am currently in the UK as a Business Development Manager.
Throughout my career I have mentored other women across cultures and regions. I have also been involved in our Women’s Interest Network chairing the mentoring committee in Belgium and the Newsletter committee in the US.
I am also involved in our Women’s Leadership Team supporting our current female directors and executives support snd guide the female pipeline within ExxonMobil.
Outside of my day job I volunteer at Isabel Hospice supporting their commercial and Marketing teams. Recently I led a strategy refresh for the organisation during the COVID 19 crisis, at a time when fundraising snd donor support is at an all time low and demand is at an all time high.
I also run a coaching business, supporting women going through divorce or separation rise from feeling lost and broken to powerful and complete. So many women’s confidence gets dented irreparably during the break down of relationships and my goal is to support women to thrive in their new life.
Natasha Turner | National Grid
I was born in 1977 in Chatham Kent, the eldest of 3 children.
I grew up in a small Village in North Kent and attended the local primary school, middle school, and upper school. The village lays between two Power Station’s, both of which I visited with the school, I was inspired, and I knew then I wanted to be part of the Energy Sector.
I left school in 1993 to work as commercial Trainee at one of the Power Stations, I studied Business and Finance at college. My careers advisor at school had laughed when I told her I wanted to become and Engineer, she said that girls couldn’t be Engineers, so I had settled for a desk job.
I met my husband in 1995, he also worked at the Station so I guess you could say the Electricity flowed between us. We were married in 1997 and our first son was born in 2001, followed by a second son in 2003 and a daughter in 2004.
I moved to National Grid in 1998 as an Overhead lines section assistant and after a restructure became Overhead Lines Business support. In 2010 I moved to the operational Role of Substation attendant for filling my desire to get out from behind the desk and beginning my road to Engineering. Being a substation Attendant gave me opportunity to get up close and in amongst the Substation equipment. I was hooked. I needed to know more.
In 2012 at the age of 35, with my three children in tow I enrolled in Mechanical Engineering open learning, and in 2016 I was promoted to Substation Field Technician a role that was retitled Substation Engineer in 2018.
In November 2019 I joined National Grid’s Capital Delivery department as a Construction Project Supervisor. My first project being a complex asset replacement project in heart of London.
I am proud of my achievements and the journey I have been on, I may have started late, but it is never too late to step up and fore fill your dreams.
Peny Lantzouni | Shell International
Currently, as the Chief Product Manager for Analytics and Insights, Peny drives the strategic roadmap for analytics projects across Shell’s Global B2B businesses.
Peny leads the delivery of digital products that enable data driven decision making for a business that is the market leader for 12 consecutive years and sells 5bil litres of product to over 1300 commercial customers in 100 countries.
Prior to this Peny worked as Technology Manager for Shell Retail, leading digital projects that transformed the B2C business from a fuel to a mobility retailer, including loyalty, CRM and digital marketing.
Peny holds an MPhil in Technology Policy from the University of Cambridge, a Diploma in Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science and a Management and Information Systems degree from Athens University of Economics and Business.
Peny is passionate about women career development in technology roles and has organised multiple events about Women in Tech. Peny has also been involved in graduate development since the beginning of her career, actively mentoring early career professionals and students in Greece, the UK and India.
Natalie Cheung | Reed In Partnership
Natalie Cheung is passionate about promoting career opportunities for all, with a particular focus on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths).
She currently works to deliver the Enterprise Adviser Network in London by working with schools, local authorities, employers and more.
Natalie Cheung started her career as a civil engineer working in the transportation industry for a global design consultancy. While still a student, she realised civil engineering and other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) were not always considered by young women and girls. She led a team of student volunteers to run STEM events with robotics to inspire local children and teenagers to consider STEM in their future studies.
While working as an engineer and delivering railways projects, she continued her volunteering and enthused colleagues to volunteer in her role as Corporate Social Responsibility representative in the UK Headquarters.
Natalie is now focussed on using her engineering industry background and volunteer management skills to promote employer engagement in the education sector, with roles at STEM Learning and now at Reed In Partnership. She develops relationships with business volunteers to support their work with local school staff to provide valuable employer engagement for children and teenagers. With more exposure to different careers available, young people are can make informed decisions about their next steps and future careers.
Outside of work, Natalie is passionate about utilising her education knowledge and skills to boost industry engagement with schools. Her roles include:
• Women Engineering Society (WES) Council Member and Membership Committee
• WES London Cluster Committee where she has written blogs, chaired a panel on Sustainability, championed International Women In Engineering Day and support
• Institution of Civil Engineers Inspiration Panel Member
• Institution of Civil Engineers communication and video campaigns
Natalie also volunteers in other youth work relating to opportunities and international development. As an award-winning YMCA volunteer, Natalie was nominated to deliver a TED-style talk at the YMCA175 event in 2019 and chose the topic of Women In Engineering. She shared the volunteer work she has led in communities overseas to develop vocational skills and mathematical literacy to vulnerable young women. Her TED-Ed talk was to an audience of over 3000 leaders across the YMCA youth movement from over 100 countries – as well as further viewers on the live-stream. Through this talk Natalie reached a diverse and international non-STEM audience who were then inspired to consider engineering in their everyday lives and to consider science in their activism. With this TED-Ed talk, Natalie was able to connect to community groups where the role of engineers is not well known. She has also holds career talks to school children as a STEM Ambassador volunteer, the highlight being a Tomorrow’s Engineers Week 2019 “Big Assembly” on engineering careers live-streamed to 50,000 attendees.
Natalie is founder and host of podcast “Yellow Bee Pod” to highlight under-represented voices from diaspora communities with East and Southeast Asian descent. Through this platform, she advocates the community for topics including Anti-Asian violence, media representation and equality in the workplace. She gives a platform for members of the community from the worlds of arts, activism, healthcare and more.
Natalie also supports gender equality and those in education through her freelance work. Her most recent speaking engagement was for The University of Warwick’s panel on Intersectionality for International Women’s Day 2021. Natalie has also partnered with a University employability site to give talks on transferable employability skills during a speaking tour of 5 UK universities. She spoke about anti—racism for a social media campaign with indie beauty brand, Superfluid, and represents the British Asian community on podcasts. To support awareness of diversity in science, Natalie was the Team Captain in a University Challenge style quiz competition held at The Royal Institution where all the quiz questions were about scientists from minority groups.
Natalie is a passionate advocate for equality of opportunities in education and careers, with a wide variety of experience in inspiring students of all ages.
Kiran Satti | Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust
Baptism of fire was the phrase coined. I was bullied as an NQT - I have written about the importance of kindness in What They Didn't Teach Me On My PGCE, as this was where my strength came from to get through the first three years of my career.
End of my third year, I had a TLR for Pupil Voice and Art and was ready for progression. 4 more schools later, I am currently on secondment as an Assistant Principal as a way to enable me to further progress. I am in the privileged position to be able to enable even more children and a larger staff team.
Throughout my career (which is coming up to 11 years now), kindness and nurture are the two the strengths I have ensured define me as a class teacher and now as a leader.
In April 2018, I joined the Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust and became English Leader of the first primary school that joined the Trust. In 2019, the school was ranked the best for progress and improvement in the local area because of our Reading results, under my leadership of the subject. During this time, I have developed many English threads that have been translated across the Trust. Now in 2021, I have enabled the development of writing, reading and early reading across three primaries in the trust and am translating the success of the first school to the biggest primary setting of the trust. A real privilege.
As my passion and expertise has strengthened over time, I have been fortunate to become a Regional Leader of WomenEd (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NnJwonhdL_74IVTlj317JeOaXtn72xbZ/view?usp=sharing), a reviewer of books for Just Imagine and Tiny Owl Publishers. I have spoken at many edu-events, including OUP events, sharing reading practise and pedagogy.
Fiona Yelland | Queen Mary University London
Fiona is responsible for the administration and coordination of Teaching Recognition and Student Engagement within Queen Mary Academy.
To date, this has included acting as the administrator for a national week-long online Festival of Education, encouraging both staff and students alike to think about the way education is changing as a direct result of the COVID-19 Pandemic. She also works to recognise the work of both teaching staff and students through her role within the Queen Mary Academy, who deliver university-wide support and development of education and research. We work with staff and students to develop and enhance their practice in teaching, learning, and research.
Prior to joining, Fiona managed Educational programmes for social enterprise Code First Girls, working to address gender parity in the tech industry by training women for free in a variety of tech skills. In this role, Fiona was responsible for coordinating and working with 25+ universities across the UK and Ireland to provide free education and training for c.1000 women every month of 2020, leading CFG to hitting our target of teaching 20,000 women to code for free before the end of 2020 early in September of that year.
Alongside this, Fiona holds an MA in Education in Arts and Cultural Settings from King’s College London, where she specialised in museum learning provision for young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Through this work, Fiona partnered with numerous Museums and Cultural Heritage sites to grow and develop their offerings for those with ASD.
Meera Chudasama | Oakgrove School
My name is Meera Chudasama and I have 3 exciting roles.
• English, Media and Film Studies Teachers at Oakgrove School, Milton Keynes
• Research Lead, Oakgrove School, Milton Keynes
• Editor, Innovate Journal
In each role I am privileged to develop strong teaching and learning practices for other practitioners and myself. For myself, I have developed students as researcher who have taken part on research; this has lead to students leading and presenting their own findings to their peers. Such presentations have provided further evidence for the role of students academic research. Furthermore, I have been able to support students achieving their target grade; 70% and above for English and 98% for Film Studies coursework.
My love of teaching and learning led me work with a growing network of global practitioners. At the core of this network is Innovate Journal. I re-invented this journal and curate it by myself. As a result, I have grow an in-house teacher-research journal to an international platform that shares best teaching practice.
Alongside the journal, I connect with a (put a number in here) teachers to support their investigations into their practice; as well as working on a one-to-one level with teachers to develop their own action research in their unique contexts.
Victoria Selwyn | Norwich Medical School/Headucate UEA society
Hi there! My name is Victoria, and I am a fourth year medical student at the University of East Anglia, Norwich Medical School.
Its been a long journey to get to where I am, having achieved a first class bachelors in Physiology at Liverpool University in 2017. Since I was a school student, the only career I could see myself truly embarking on, what that of becoming a doctor. Now I’m only a year away from officially taking on this role with our NHS, although I feel I’ve been part of this team since joining medical school, spending a day a week in General Practice and 3 months of the term spent within the local hospitals.
I joined Headucate when I first arrived at medical school over 3 years ago now… its been heartwarming to see the society grow so much in this time.
I took over as President of Headucate: University of East Anglia, UEA’s mental health awareness society in 2019. Headucate has grown leaps and bounds from less than 80 members, to over 150 in the time I have taken over.
Since COVID-19 took us all by surprise and shortened the year and prevented our planned mental health conference from taking place in May 2020, I nominated myself to lead Headucate through the COVID pandemic too. I'm proud to have led a number of projects, including our Mind & Melanin, Black and Ethnic Minorities Panel discussion; two 24-hour livestream mental health TV show fundraisers, the most recent of which was endorsed by Stephen Fry; our Suicide Prevention and Awareness evening that reached worldwide; and our the Night of Wonders extravaganza in February 2020 raising over £1,000 for Beat with over 10 performing societies and over 200 guests just to name a few!
I definitely couldn’t have succeeded in growing Headucate without my supportive society family. I feel I have accomplished immensely as President of Headucate...Whilst also juggling the penultimate years of medical school, a part-time job online tutoring school students and peer support volunteer work for Beat, the UK's leading eating disorder charity!
Francisca Rockey | Black Geographers CIC
Francisca Rockey is a geographer, campaigner, influencer, advocate and activist who is regularly involved in social campaigns, and charity fundraising.
She is also a blogger, writer and public speaker featured in mainstream and online media. She founded Black Geographers, a community interest company working to tackle the erasure of black people in geography by creating a platform for black geographers to network and connect. The platform has a global audience of over 10,000 members.
Tanya Howden | Heart of Midlothian FC
Tanya Howden is the Digital Education Programme Manager for the Innovation Centre at Heart of Midlothian FC.
Originally from the Highlands, she is a Computer Science graduate from Heriot-Watt University where she took her first steps as a mentor for other women and girls in technology through lab helping and co-founding the Women@CS group at the university. Since graduating, she has stepped into STEM education, working to show young people from all backgrounds how exciting and creative these subjects are whilst breaking some of the stereotypes held by young people, especially girls, about these industries.
She joined Edinburgh based start-up, Robotical, who are the creators of Marty the Robot – an eye-brow wiggling, walking, and dancing robot that brings coding to life and supports students with exploring the world of technology.
Meanwhile, Tanya was volunteering outside of work to run code clubs around Edinburgh to continue to spread the word to young people about how creative and exciting coding and engineering is. Through this voluntary work, she met the team at Heart of Midlothian FC who were looking to set up an Innovation Centre, that is the only one of its kind in the UK, with the aim to provide digital education classes for young people and families in the underprivileged community of Gorgie to learn vital skills for any future. She then went on to join the team full-time to manage the digital education classes using sport and football as a magnet to attract young people to try out coding for the first time and explore how they could use their interests to create using technology for good.