05 Sep

Events

Written by NZBWN Organising Team.

UPDATE: September 5 2016

error Kia ora,

I'm sorry to say that we are having technical difficulties with our ticketing system and event bookings. We have taken this down until further notice to facilitate an upgrade.

If you wish to purchase tickets to one of our events please email info@nzwomen.co.uk stating the event and quantity of tickets. We will manually send you an email with a link to pay via paypal. Current events are listed below.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

NZBWN Organising Team

Current Events Include:

12 September - An Evening with Maggie Eyre

Time: 6:30-9:30pm

Venue: The Hospital Club, 24 Endell St, London WC2H 9HQ

Price: £28.50 pp .... Your ticket price includes: a welcome drink, nibbles, maggies talk, a copy of Maggies Book (Speak Easy). Maggie will be available to sign copies on the night.

The Event Details:

We are excited to host Maggie Eyre, author of Speak Easy, at The Hospital Club on 12 September.

Maggie will be in London for the launch of the third edition of her publication ‘Speak Easy, The Essential Guide to Speaking in Public’. Here Maggie shares the tricks, tips and life stories of her high-profile professional career teaching people around the globe to ‘shine on the stage’.

All attendees will receive a copy of ‘Speak Easy, The Essential Guide to Speaking in Public’ to take away on the night (RRP£12.95). Maggie will also be available to sign your copy.

Maggie is the Director of Fresh Eyre a niche training company specialising in teaching presentation and media skills. Her team of journalists, voice coaches, actors and camera operators provide Creating Presence programmes to help transform hesitant speakers into confident communicators.

This will be a memorable event and is an excellent opportunity to learn some tips on public speaking and how to feel more confident with presentations.

15 October - Business Book Brunch (Book Club)

Time: 10:00am-12:00pm

Venue: 11 Leonard St, London EC2A 4AQ

Price: £20pp .... Your ticket price includes: An awesome Kiwi-style brunch prepared by the talented chefs at Ozone, hand crafted hot drink (all
sourced with kindness) and freshly squeezed juice.

The Event Details:

BBB is a platform for conversation on a chosen book and its’ key concepts that relate to themes of business and professional/personal development. Members will meet bi-monthly at a kiwi-owned cafe to discuss an inspiring piece of non-fiction chosen to inspire connection and learning. They will be written by business and personal development thought leaders who bring current thinking, new dimensions and fresh perspectives to these areas.

A group-led discussion will allow the opportunity for attendees to share key learnings, explore key concepts, ask questions and share transfer of knowledge into real-life experience.

So, lovers of Business Books and Brunch pick a cosy corner and get started on:

“Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance” by Angela Duckworth

Why do naturally talented people frequently fail to reach their potential while other far less gifted individuals go on to achieve amazing things? The secret to outstanding achievement is not talent, but a passionate persistence. In other words, grit.

MacArthur Genius Award-winning psychologist Angela Duckworth shares fascinating new revelations about who succeeds in life and why. Based on her cutting-edge research, Duckworth shows how many people achieve remarkable things not just by relying on innate natural talent, but by practising what she calls grit. She then offers a Grit Formula to help anyone to become more gritty, focusing on six key factors: hope, effort, precision, passion, ritual and prioritisation. She reveals:

Why people who test high for talent often fail to achieve their potential, and why people who do not test high for talent often overachieve
How grit can be learned, whatever your IQ or circumstances
Why stubbornness is a key characteristic of gritty people
When to be stubborn and when giving up is the grittiest thing you can do
How gritty people found their passion, and you can find yours
How gritty experts practise, and how you can do the same in your own life
What the people who care about you can do to boost your grit when you need it most
How grit is cultivated in the highest-performing sports teams, companies and schools

Leaping past clichés such as"success is all about hard work", Grit offers a fresh and motivating way to climb to heights far beyond what natural talent would predict.

22 Aug

An evening with Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas DBE

Written by NZBWN Mentor Programme Team.

Boards Information Evening with Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas DBE

** SOLD OUT ** Last few tickets available for a special event to accelerate your journey into a boardroom

We are delighted to offer this special event with highly-experienced board member Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas DBE.

This not to be missed evening will be packed with information, insights, tips, and know-how from Dame Judith to help you build your knowledge and plan your next step towards your first non-executive director board position.

This session will suit anybody aspiring to become a board member in the future and wanting to benefit from Dame Judith's practical guidance on how to go about it. There will be an invaluable opportunity to put your questions to Dame Judith and to network with around 20 other Kiwi women also interested in this topic.

Date: Thursday 7th July 2016

Time: 6:15 - 9.15pm

Location: The Dental Surgery, 55 Mark Lane, London EC3R 7NE

Cost: £25 per person, including drinks and nibbles on arrival

** SOLD OUT ** Last few tickets available - RSVP here to book your ticket now!

Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas is a New Zealand-born British lawyer and academic who brings a brings a wealth of first-hand experience gained with heavyweight board roles. Dame Judith was the founder Chairman of London & Partners, Chairman of the New West End Company, and is a Special Adviser to the US property company, Tishman Speyer. A City lawyer, she was the Leader of the City of London Corporation for 6 years and was on the main board of Merrill Lynch and the Wealth Management Advisory Committee at Barclays Private Bank. She was deputy Chairman of the London Development Agency and was on the board of London First and London First Centre. She has served on and chaired numerous arts and educational institutions including being the first woman to chair The Royal Opera House, and currently chairs the Regeneration Committee of The Imperial Museum. She also chairs the British Dutch Dialogues and the London New York Dialogues.

22 Aug

Our Stories: Melissa Clark-Reynolds

Written by Zoe Stapleton.

With her entrepreneurial spirit and relentless drive, Melissa Clark-Reynolds is in a league of her own. Melissa has had a global outlook since an early age, spending her formative years in the US, completing postgraduate study abroad and working in Papua New Guinea, Vietnam and the UK.

Melissa is an experienced entrepreneur with a history of successful start-ups - she established her first company in 1992 and hasn’t looked back. She also contributes widely in the international accelerator community, with founder / mentor roles in London, Singapore and NZ. This has led to her representing NZ at the Global Accelerator Network meeting and at the APEC forum to ‘encourage women entrepreneurs’.

02 Aug

Business Book Brunch: Time to Think

Written by Lauradanna Radesic.

Time to Think at Ozone 3 'There is only one thing on which virtually everything else in our lives depends. That is the quality of our thinking. Everything stems from this. Including the passionate bursting of our hearts and the inward non-movements of contemplation. The human being begins each action, each feeling with a thinking process. When that is gone, we are gone. Nothing deserves our care, our time, more than this.' Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind'.

A group of twenty or so network members recently met up at old street's Ozone Cafe to discuss our latest read, Nancy Kline's, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind.

We started off the session with a round of what the network and bookclub means to each of us. Having utilised the networkfor various purposes over the years (networking, advice, learning), I always love to hear how other woman have been impacted and helped by the network too.

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