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Access the Women in STEM Network’s on-demand training library featuring expert-led workshops across leadership, communication, data,  project management, and research. Build the confidence, capability, and connections to advance your STEM career anytime, anywhere.
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Leveraging Neuroscience to Feel Alive at Work and Thrive in STEM Careers
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This comprehensive session bridges theoretical neuroscience with practical career and leadership growth, emphasizing self-knowledge, brain-based frameworks, and the importance of finding and expressing one’s unique gifts to feel fully alive at work.
Thriving Through Change and Uncertainty
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Change is inevitable, but uncertainty doesn't have to hold you back. In this practical webinar, Padmasini Dayananda shares proven strategies to help you navigate change with confidence, strengthen your resilience and make better decisions when the future feels uncertain.
Mastering Your Own Leadership Style
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Understanding yourself is the first step towards understanding others. In this engaging webinar, Ali Stewart explores how greater self-awareness can transform the way you communicate, collaborate and lead, using practical personality insights to help you build stronger relationships and maximise your impact.
Creating a Personal Roadmap for Long-Term Success
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Success rarely happens by chance. In this practical webinar, Nancy Batterman introduces a simple one-page planning framework to help you align your personal and professional goals, stay focused on what matters most and take consistent action towards the future you want to create.
Building Confidence and Authority in Male-Dominated Industries
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Develop the confidence, presence and influence to thrive in male-dominated workplaces. In this practical webinar, executive career coach Yvonne Akinmodun shares proven strategies to overcome self-doubt, communicate with authority and build a successful career while remaining authentic to yourself.
Beyond Compliance Building Ethical Power as Women in STEM
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Ethical leadership is about more than following rules. In this thought-provoking webinar, Dr Elizabeth Gilbert explores how women in STEM can lead with integrity, build influence and navigate complex workplace challenges while staying true to their values.
Leading with Emotional Intelligence Under Pressure
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High-pressure situations don't have to undermine your performance. In this practical webinar, Lauri Cozart shares a neuroscience-based framework to help you stay clear, calm and influential by regulating your emotions, reframing challenges and leading with confidence under pressure.
Finding Your Zone of Peak Performance
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Discover how identifying and applying your strengths can increase your confidence, energy and performance at work. In this practical masterclass, executive coach Sarah shares evidence-based strategies to help you recognise your unique strengths, avoid burnout and thrive in your career.
How Strategic Curiosity Helps Build Influence
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Curiosity is more than asking questions, it's a leadership skill that strengthens relationships, improves decision-making and helps you influence others more effectively. In this practical webinar, Jill Fahlgren shares how becoming more strategically curious can transform the way you lead, collaborate and navigate complex workplace challenges.
Building a Powerful Personal Brand for Women in Male-Dominated Fields
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This workshop by Carolyn Brand, a personal brand consultant with nearly 30 years of experience, focuses on empowering women, especially in tech and male-dominated industries, to develop and leverage authentic personal brands. Carolyn highlights how a strong personal brand acts as a strategic career tool, unlocking leadership potential, influencing perceptions, and overcoming common challenges women face in the workplace.
Courage Over Comfort
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Leadership growth rarely comes from staying within your comfort zone. In this inspiring webinar, executive coach Diane Thompson shares practical strategies to overcome self-doubt, build confidence and take courageous steps towards the leadership career you deserve.
Managing Conflict at Work
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Executive and leadership coach Amanda Davie leads a practical discussion on managing conflict at work, exploring different responses to disagreement, healthy and unhealthy conflict, difficult conversations, psychological safety and workplace power dynamics. The session also considers when to speak up, when to set boundaries and how we can approach conflict more constructively.
How Women Can Stand Up for Themselves by Setting Healthy Boundaries
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This video features Elizabeth, a psychologist and boundaries coach, sharing her personal journey from chronic people-pleasing and burnout to empowering women to set boundaries that honor their own needs. She explains what boundaries truly are, why they matter, common challenges women face in setting them, and a practical step-by-step process to establish boundaries confidently and authentically. The session includes mindset work, communication strategies, and ways to navigate resistance and guilt.
Space To Breath
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Becs Winterborn shared her journey from NHS vascular surgeon to coach, exploring how trauma, burnout and the pressure to keep going led her to reconsider the way women manage their energy. She discussed moving beyond the “superwoman” ideal, recognising personal rhythms and creating space for rest, clarity and a more sustainable way of working.
Putting Emotion to Work
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Emotional intelligence is more than a soft skill, it's a powerful driver of collaboration, innovation and effective leadership. In this thought-provoking webinar, Sharon Kuhn explores the neuroscience of emotion and shares practical strategies to help you build stronger relationships, communicate more effectively and lead with greater impact.
Expanding Leadership Influence Through Trust, Connection, and Curiosity
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This session underscores that leadership influence is a skill grounded in relational trust, intentional connection, attentive listening, and genuine curiosity. By moving beyond surface-level persuasion into deeper dialogue, leaders can develop lasting impact and foster collaborative environments that elevate individuals and organizations alike.
Take Back Your Power
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Your biggest obstacle to success may not be external, it's often the voice in your own head. In this practical webinar, Dr Mary Jean Vignone explores how to recognise and overcome your inner saboteur, manage imposter syndrome and use emotional intelligence to build greater confidence, resilience and leadership effectiveness.
Empowering Women in Negotiation: Overcoming Internal Barriers and Reframing Mindsets
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This session with Caroline Brand, an experienced impact strategist and leadership consultant, explores why many women hesitate in negotiations, particularly for themselves, and offers practical insights on shifting internal narratives to foster confidence, assertiveness, and mutual value creation in professional settings.
How Our Narratives Influence Success and Happiness
Alyssa Gioscia explores how internal narratives shape our decisions and success. Limiting beliefs, stories about who we are and what's possible, often stem from past experiences or unquestioned rules. Through her example of hesitating to ask for a promotion, she shows how these unconscious stories keep us stuck. The path forward: identify these narratives, question their truth, and rewrite them to align with your authentic values. When you operate from limiting stories, you struggle to advocate for yourself, but you have the power to change this.
Take Control of Your Career: Join Maureen Adams’ Career and Executive Coaching Webinar
Maureen Adams explores how greater self-awareness can help people make more deliberate career choices. Rather than drifting into roles or following a path that no longer suits them, she encourages people to understand their strengths, motivations and preferred working environment.
Returning To Work With Confidence
A practical session exploring how to return to work with greater confidence after parental leave. It covers recognising the skills gained through parenthood, managing guilt and workplace pressure, preparing for challenges, understanding your values and using empathy, curiosity and self-awareness to navigate the transition back into your career.
Harnessing Intuition and Personality for Effective Decision-Making
Claudia’s webinar offers a rich blend of psychological insight, practical coaching tools, and embodied learning activities designed to enhance decision-making capabilities. By understanding one’s personality-driven default styles and learning to embrace intuition critically and creatively, individuals and groups can navigate complex decisions more effectively. The session’s combination of theory and practice encourages ongoing reflection and peer learning as the foundation for enhanced self-coaching and leadership in dynamic environments.
Formula for Feel Good
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What does success really look like if it doesn't feel good? In this practical webinar, leadership coach Laura Dewey shares simple strategies to help you manage your mindset, overcome self-limiting beliefs and build a more sustainable, fulfilling approach to success. Packed with practical insights and real-life examples, you'll leave with tools you can apply immediately in both your career and personal life.
How to supercharge your career
Sharon Baker explores what motivates us to take action and why we sometimes procrastinate, even when we genuinely want to achieve something. She explains how goals, values, personal needs and a sense of purpose influence our motivation.
Making an impact at work
A practical session exploring how body language, communication style and mindset can influence how women are perceived at work. It covers physical presence, confident language, reducing unnecessary apologies and hedging, owning your expertise and making sure the way you communicate reflects the knowledge and experience you already have.
PhET Simulations as a STEM Resource in the Classroom
Claudia Amaya, educational technologist and founder of Tiamatics, explores how FET Interactive Simulations can make science and mathematics more accessible, interactive and easier to understand. She looks at how virtual experimentation, real-time feedback and intuitive design can help students explore complex concepts, while considering the continuing importance of teachers as technology and AI develop.
The Secret Power of Slowing Down
In a world that rewards constant action, knowing when to pause can be one of the most powerful leadership skills. Executive coach Phyllis Sarkaria shares practical strategies to help you slow down with purpose, think more clearly, make better decisions and lead with greater confidence and impact.
Strategies For Success In The Perimenopause To Post Menopause Transition
Perimenopause and menopause represent a pivotal biological and psychosocial transition for women, affecting health, career, and identity. Through education, self-tracking, lifestyle modifications, workplace advocacy, and personalized health interventions, women can successfully navigate this phase with resilience and vitality. Holistic approaches integrating exercise, nutrition, sleep, stress management, and mindset shifts offer a roadmap to transform midlife challenges into a period of empowerment, well-being, and sustained professional contribution.
Takling Imposter Feelings and Self-Doubt
This session explores why capable women can experience imposter feelings and how to manage the self-doubt that can accompany career progression. It examines perfectionism, the pressure to know everything, reluctance to ask for help and the expectation to do it all, with practical strategies for recognising your abilities and setting more realistic expectations.
Understanding Change Empower Yourself to Take action
Seona Thomson, a former pharmaceutical scientist and project manager with more than 30 years’ experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, shares her own experience of significant career and life change, including her transition to executive coaching. She explores the psychology and neuroscience behind motivation, mindset and behaviour, and considers how aligning goals with personal values, reframing unhelpful thinking and understanding our responses to risk and uncertainty can help us make meaningful and sustainable changes.
Put Yourself Under New Management
This presentation explores how internal beliefs, habits and assumptions can influence behaviour and the results people create in different areas of their lives. The central idea is that each person operates from an internal “blueprint” made up of beliefs, values, habits and perceptions about themselves and what is possible.
How to thrive when you are the only woman in the room
Explore how women can navigate male-dominated meetings and workplaces by understanding the people in the room, adapting their communication, making their contributions heard and approaching challenging situations with greater confidence.
Learning to Embrace Your Flawsome Self
Michele Molitor, a certified coach and clinical hypnotherapist, explores toxic perfectionism and how it can affect confidence, wellbeing and our ability to move forward. Drawing on her own experiences, she examines the relationship between perfectionism, fear and self-criticism, and shares practical ways to recognise unhelpful patterns, manage unrealistic expectations and move towards a healthier pursuit of excellence.
Finding Your Unique Voice In A Noisy World
This presentation explores introversion, particularly the experience of introverted women working and socialising in environments that often reward more extroverted behaviour.
Understanding the Hidden Psychology Behind Workplace Behaviour
Why do intelligent, capable people become defensive under pressure? In this fascinating webinar, Julia Rogers explores the unconscious defence mechanisms that shape how we respond to feedback, conflict and uncertainty, helping you better understand yourself and those around you.
Creating More Joy, Balance and Purpose in Your Life
Explore how to reassess your priorities, understand what genuinely matters to you and create a clearer direction for a life with greater balance, purpose and enjoyment.
how to perform at your best in all areas of your life
Georgeta Vlase-Harvey explores how managing our time is closely connected to managing our energy, priorities and stress. She considers why productivity is not simply about doing more, but about deciding what genuinely matters, questioning the expectations we place on ourselves and creating space for rest. The session also examines stress, working motherhood, career ambition and how our goals can change as our lives and understanding of ourselves develop.
How to Get Seen by Senior Management
This presentation explores practical ways women can increase their visibility and influence with senior management, particularly in male-dominated workplaces.
How to become the activist of your own career
Explore how to take greater ownership of your career by focusing on high-impact work, increasing your visibility, building strategic relationships, advocating for your achievements and taking deliberate steps towards your career goals.
Mindful Drinking for Better Health (1)
Adriana Cloud, a certified life coach and grey area drinking coach, explores what it means to develop a more mindful relationship with alcohol. Drawing on her own experience of becoming alcohol-free, she looks at the effects drinking can have on sleep, health, mood, confidence, relationships and productivity, while also examining the cultural pressures that make alcohol feel like a normal part of everyday life. She encourages people to move beyond labels and instead ask whether alcohol is genuinely helping them live the life they want.
How to Ditch and Thrive
This presentation challenges the idea that working harder and for longer is always the route to greater success. It explores how a persistent “hard work mentality” can lead to overworking, perfectionism, reduced creativity and difficulty maintaining a healthy relationship between work and the rest of life.
The Stem Leaders Guide To Auditing Your Workplace Support Network.
Explore how to build a stronger personal and professional network by identifying the support you already have, recognising gaps and developing meaningful relationships that can support your career and wider life.
5 Game-Changing Strategies
Career progression isn't just about working hard. In this practical webinar, career coach Sheila Starr shares five proven strategies to help women increase their visibility, communicate their value and confidently take the next step towards leadership.
Finding Your Motivation For This New Year Ahead
This presentation explores what motivation is, why it changes and how it can be strengthened when working towards personal or professional goals.
From Mindset to Method
This session emphasizes that negotiation is not about confrontation but creating mutually beneficial outcomes through clarity, preparation, and collaboration. Confidence comes from knowing your value, understanding the other party’s needs, and engaging in well-structured dialogue informed by clear strategies.
Public Speaking: Ditch the Fear and Speak with Confidence
Explore how to manage the fear of public speaking, challenge unhelpful thoughts, focus on your audience and message, and build greater confidence each time you speak.
Redefining Leadership Adding A Woman
Sonia explored how leadership can move beyond traditional stereotypes and reflect the strengths, experience and natural qualities women bring to their many roles. She encouraged participants to identify the skills they already use in their personal and professional lives, recognise their preferred leadership style and consider the areas they would like to develop. The session also examined the need for caring and adaptable leadership in an uncertain, multigenerational workplace.
Three secrets to a confident returnity
A practical session exploring how to prepare for a confident return to work after maternity leave, with guidance on reconnecting with the workplace, flexible working, keeping-in-touch opportunities and managing the mindset challenges that can accompany the transition.
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This framework offers a holistic and validated approach for STEM professionals and others to embrace their unique strengths, communicate their value, and contribute meaningfully to innovation and change. It champions a shift from one-size-fits-all roles to dynamic team-based contributions, maximizing personal potency and organizational success.
Tame your inner critic!
Leadership and transformational coach Sharon Baker explored why the inner critic becomes louder when people move beyond their comfort zones. Rather than treating it as an enemy, she encouraged participants to understand its protective purpose, question the beliefs behind it and reduce its influence through curiosity, compassion and practical self-awareness.
Pursue Your Career Without Compromising Your Personal Life
A practical session exploring how women can manage the competing demands of career, family and personal well-being. It examines the myth of perfect work-life balance and offers strategies for managing the mental load, building confidence, setting boundaries, reducing perfectionism and making choices that reflect your values and priorities.
Owning Your Story: How to Be the Leading Lady of Your Life and Career
This talk delivers a compelling blend of personal narrative, psychological insight, practical advice, and motivational call to action designed to help ambitious women dismantle limiting beliefs, cultivate self-confidence, and become proactive architects of their careers and personal lives.
Navigating New Horizons: Finding Your Spark Beyond Science
The talk encourages women to recognise the value of their existing skills, reconnect with what gives them energy and take greater ownership of where their careers go next. Career change does not always mean abandoning everything that came before. Experience, knowledge and transferable skills travel with us.
Quiet Power
Being an effective leader doesn't require the loudest voice in the room. In this inspiring webinar, Dr Martine Abboud explores how introverts can embrace their natural strengths, challenge traditional leadership stereotypes and build influence through authenticity, empathy and thoughtful action.
What Are You prepared to do to get the success you want?
A practical session exploring how women can define success on their own terms and take a more active role in shaping their careers. It covers confidence, strengths, networking, role models, negotiation, career planning and the importance of asking for development, recognition and opportunities rather than waiting for them to happen.
Empowering Women to Discover Their Best Selves Through NLP and Mindful Awareness
Raina Kalhan, an NLP life coach and hypnotherapist, explored how established beliefs, internal dialogue and past experiences can influence the way women see themselves and respond to challenges. She introduced NLP, discussed the impact of limiting beliefs and shared practical approaches including visualisation, realistic goal setting and greater awareness of habitual thought patterns.