18 Feb

SOLD OUT: Celebrating International Women's Day

Written by The NZBWN Crew.

24/02/2014: UPDATE: Event sold out - email info@nzwomen.co.uk to go the waitlist.

To celebrate International Women’s Day the New Zealand Business Women’s Network, in collaboration with Kea, would like to invite you to 'Women in Leadership – a bright future?'

Join us along with panel members Dale Murray, Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas, Paddy Austin, Carly Arnold and Louise Chunn as we discuss the future of women in leadership. Each panel member will provide insights from their own experience, discuss the future and provide helpful advice and what has helped them along their journeys.

Our evening will begin with a welcome drink of NZ Wine and the chance to meet with other women from NZBWN and Kea while canapés are served. We will then take a seat to hear from the panel.

The Leadership Panel Includes;

Dale Murray CBE, is a successful technology entrepreneur turned award-winning angel investor. She holds many Non-Executive Director roles and is a Government Advisor. New Zealand-born Dale was part of the founding team that launched Vodafone NZ in 1992. She then relocated to the UK and co-founded mobile pioneer Omega Logic, launched prepay top-ups and built gross turnover to £450m within five years. After exiting, Dale turned to investing in start-ups and after early success, was awarded British Angel Investor of the Year in 2011. Dale advises many growing businesses and she is also a Non-Executive Director at the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS), UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) and Sussex Place Ventures. She is an Advisor to Seedrs and the Centre for Entrepreneurs and currently serves on the Business Taskforce on EU Redtape for the Prime Minister.

Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas DBE is Chair of The New West End Company and of London & Partners. She originally trained, lectured and practised in law, at first in New Zealand and then in London, rising to become Special Adviser to the Chairman at Clifford Chance (2000-2003). Her career has also included many distinguished roles in public life. She was Leader of the City of London Corporation between 1996 and 2004, has served on the board of the London Development Agency and was Chair of The Independent Schools Council. She is a Governor of Westminster School and has previously been a Trustee of The Geffrye Museum, the Natural History Museum, and The British Museum Development Trust. Until 2008 she was Chair of The Royal Opera House. Dame Judith was awarded DBE in 2002 for services to the City of London. She is Chair of the Regeneration: IWM London Committee.

Louise Chunn was born and brought up in Auckland, New Zealand and came to London in 1982. She has worked as a journalist for a wide range of newspapers (Evening Standard, The Guardian) and monthly magazines (Vogue, Elle) and was editor of Good Housekeeping, Just Seventeen, Psychologies and In Style, where she won the magazine editor of the year in the industry's prestigious PPA awards. She is now launching welldoing.org, a website devoted to wellbeing, self-development and mental health, with a directory dedicated to finding the best therapist for each individual user.

Carly Arnold graduated from the University of Auckland with two degrees in Engineering and Business, Carly has spent the last decade in senior roles in the aviation industry in the UK. Starting her career at Air New Zealand, Carly moved to easyJet where she was General Manager for their home base in London, managing over 500 pilots and cabin crew and an annual budget of £30m. She has since gone on to roles at Infratil Airports and most recently Heathrow Airport. Carly's experience spans the full breadth of aviation, from airline to airport in Operations, Finance, IT and HR. Carly lives in London with her husband, son and daughter, and she is now Commercial Director with Aviate, a small independent aviation sector consulting company.

Paddy Austin has a long history of governance and senior management, primarily in the public sector. Paddy is an Executive Director of Francis Group and leads its governance, strategy and stakeholder engagement practice. With over 20 years’ experience as a company director for public sector companies, she brings a wealth of experience to governance structure, process and evaluation. She has conducted reviews of governance policies and procedures, board evaluations, director evaluation, and has led board-level strategic reviews. She has chaired companies, from a $NZ2b infrastructure company to a metropolitan Museum and a range of charities. Paddy is a former Christchurch City Councillor, having served in that capacity for 6 years. Prior to that, she held senior executive positions in the education, local government and arts sectors.