The Mentor will be able to offer valuable knowledge, empathy and insight due to their own many years of experience. Mentors will be supported, through training and have the option to complete an ILM in Coaching.
Anne can provide support and advice as a mentor on: your leadership, your personal effectiveness & resilience, developing & engaging & motivating people, influencing stakeholders, relationship building, leading change.
Anne can provide support and advice as a mentor on; business start-ups, project management, problem solving, organisation and planning.
Ashleigh can provide support and advice as a mentor on: marketing strategy and planning, using social media to make an impact and how to raise your profile online.
Brigid can provide support and advice as a mentor on: taking your business to the next level and ensuring sustainability. Her key services include business planning, strategic development, Financial management and securing funding, b2b sales and marketing and business development.
Catherine can provide support and advice as a mentor on; career development, business development, building networks, increasing career/business confidence, resilience, problem solving, managing relationships, organisation and planning.
Claire is an accredited executive coach who provides leadership and career coaching. She supports with leadership challenges, career dilemmas, clarity on career direction, and builds leadership and career confidence.
Claire can provide support and advice as a mentor on; people management, career development, confidence, management relationships, and business start-up/growth support.
Claire can provide support and advice as a mentor on; financial management, business start-up, organisation, planning and using cloud technology to advance your business.
Elaine can provide support and advice as she has has two decades of experience in personal life coaching and successful business/ charity performance (project development and management). Elaine reconnects women to their powerful life force, helping heart centred business and charities be successful.
Fiona is a qualified and accredited Life and Executive Coach with 25 years of experience in Project Management. She can provide support with career and business development, building confidence and resilience, problem solving, managing relationships, organisation and planning.
Heather can provide support and advice as a mentor on; project management, problem solving, marketing and communications.
Helen can provide advice and support on strategic thinking, team building, performance improvement, leadership, presentations and public speaking.
Jennifer can provide advice and guidance on: start up, marketing & public relations, business development and building networks.
Jill can provide support and advice as a mentor on; career development, recruitment & training, people management skills, resilience, problem solving, managing relationships, organisation & planning, profile & visibility and interviews.
Karen can provide support and advice as a mentor on; career development, building networks, increasing career/business confidence and problem solving.
Linda can provide support and guidance as a mentor on: business development. Marketing and communications, customer relations, presentations and public speaking.
Louise can provide support and advice as a mentor on Google ads, web presence, business start-up and can act as a confidential sounding board.
Louise can provide support and advice as a Mentor to individuals such as new entrepreneurs/ business start-ups with little HR experience or individuals new to large organisations.
Lucy can provide support and advice as a mentor on: leadership, people management skills, managing relationships and career development.
Lynsay can assist as a career progression sounding board, managing teams, branding and marketing, problem solving management and finance planning.
Mairead can provide support and advice as a mentor on strategy, leadership & corporate social responsibility.
Michelle can provide support and advice as a mentor on; leadership development, change management, organisation, design, restructuring, recruitment and selection.
Nichola can provide support and advice as a mentor on; project management, people management, problem solving, managing relationships, profile and visibility.
Patricia can provide support and advice as a mentor on; career development, business development, building networks, recruitment, training, people management skills and resilience.
Paula can provide support and advice as a mentor on: leadership, international business, problem solving, solution design, digital transformation, relationship management, sales, social branding, profiling, networking.
Paula can offer advice and support in a wide range of areas including career development, how to seek out opportunities to increase your profile, building & managing effective relationships, people management skills, building resilience & confidence.
Roseann can support and help a mentee grow their network and make valuable connections. Roseann has vast business experience and has also supported many women in their entrepreneurial journey.
Rosemary can provide support and advice as a mentor on; business development, business start-up, building networks, marketing, communications, organisation and planning.
Roslyn can provide support and advice as a mentor on; managing relationships, presentations, public speaking, profile and visibility.
Sandra can provide support and advice as a mentor on career development, people management skills, presentations, interviews, pitches, resilience, business confidence etc and has delivered Women’s Leadership Programmes/initiatives on a global level.
Sinead can provide support and advice as a mentor on; career development, business development, project management, increasing career/business confidence, organisation and planning.
Sinead can provide support and advice as a mentor on coaching, leadership development, change and culture management, corporate performance management, interview skills and personal confidence enhancement.
Sophie can provide support and advice as a mentor on; people management, problem solving career development, learning and development (including facilitation), organisation and planning, managing relationships, as well as acting as a confidential sounding board.
Stephanie can provide support and advice as a mentor on getting out of your own way by getting to know and appreciate yourself first. Stephanie has designed and delivered leadership programmes across the UK on agility, innovation, reducing stress and conflict, and works with professionals to develop themselves through coaching. She brings all of her experience to the mentoring relationship.
Stephanie can provide support and mentoring on: working in technology, project management, team leadership, relationship management and career development.
Vicki can provide support and advice as a mentor on; career development, people management skills, confidence, presentations, public speaking, profile and visibility.
Vivian can support and assist a mentor with; identifying and removing decisions and negative emotions that may be holding you back, business start up, resiliency and all aspects of becoming the very best version of you.
After achieving a BSC Hon in Computing from the University of Ulster Carly started her career working in data and analytics for a utilities company. After 10+ years in the IT industry she now sits in the commercial team for Version 1s Financial Services division building and managing business relationships with senior executives from the global investment banking and broker community. Carly’s provides a diverse insight into the IT services industry having had a varied career covering many different roles from data developer to BA, Scrum Master, Delivery Manager and Sales Consultant. She also has experience working in multiple industries having delivered projects for clients in the Public Sector, Utilities, Insurance, Financial Services and Pharma. Making her uniquely positioned to provide support for the diverse career opportunities available after the programme.
After graduating from Queen’s University with a Maths degree, Ciara started her professional life with First Derivatives working as a consultant. Throughout her career, Ciara has fulfilled many varied roles within IT such as software developer, Business Analyst, Scrum Master and Project Manager and has had the opportunity to travel and work with many global clients within the Pharma, Insurance and Financial Services industries. Most recently Ciara has worked as Head of Delivery for Capital Markets at Neueda and has now moved into a commercial role as a Business Development Director working for Version 1.
Catherine was appointed as Energia Group’s Chief Digital & Information Officer (CDIO) in 2011 with responsibility for Technology & Digital Strategy, Strategic IT Project Delivery and Technology Operations. Her 100-strong team span the full breadth of technology resourcing – from architecture to software development to cybersecurity. She also has responsibility for the Group’s Data & Analytics Office developing Data & AI-era capabilities to support Ireland’s drive to Net Zero. Prior to being appointed CDIO, Catherine was Head of Operations for Energia and has held several other management positions within the Group since joining in 2000. She holds a MBA and BSc in Information Management.
With a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics and a PhD in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Maeve is now a Senior Consultant Data Scientist within the Data, Decisions and Discovery department that branches across the Allstate enterprise in NI and in the US. Maeve has been working for Allstate since January 2019, analysing Telematics data to understand how driving behaviour influences insurance losses. In her current role, Maeve is primarily involved in building predictive models and automated solutions for customers with telematics policies, which means processing and manipulating GPS data. Maeve is also involved in Allstate’s Women in Technology employee resource group, where she is analysing and producing results around Allstate’s employee diversity. This year she included the data analysis that helped the company become the first company in NI to win a Silver Diversity Charter Mark award. In addition, she has helped to set up a mentoring programme for females in Allstate to help them achieve their career goals.