The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be bringing you a session with Dr Suzanne Doyle-Morris. Suzanne will be talking about the lessons from her latest book: ‘The Con Job: Getting Ahead for Competence in a World Obsessed with Confidence’.
In her work advising companies and individuals, she noticed that not progressing at work is often blamed on ‘lack of confidence’ but she felt this excuse was a total con job.
It misses genuine competence, conveniently rewards the status quo and distracts us from understanding the context of what really drives confidence. This hoax means we fail to get the right people in the best jobs.
In the session, Suzanne will be exploring:
● Capitalise on what you are doing well to silence the ‘imposter’.
● Convince others to value your hard-earned experience.
● Redefine confidence so it doesn’t continue to advantage the ‘status quo’.
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
Dr. Doyle-Morris’ doctorate from the University of Cambridge looked at the experiences of women in male-dominated fields.
Over the last 25 years, Doyle-Morris has helped organisations improve their gender balance, particularly at a senior level. She has helped women move into senior roles at 50 organisations in the UK, Europe and the US.
In that time, she has also written two other books - ‘Beyond the Boys’ Club: Achieving Career Success as a Woman Working in a Male-Dominated Field’ and 'Female Breadwinners: How They Make Relationships Work and Why they are the Future of the Modern Workplace’.
Before the event, you can also check out some of her best tips from the stellar careers of her clients on her YouTube channel.
The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be bringing you a session with Dr Suzanne Doyle-Morris. Suzanne will be talking about the lessons from her latest book: ‘The Con Job: Getting Ahead for Competence in a World Obsessed with Confidence’.
In her work advising companies and individuals, she noticed that not progressing at work is often blamed on ‘lack of confidence’ but she felt this excuse was a total con job.
It misses genuine competence, conveniently rewards the status quo and distracts us from understanding the context of what really drives confidence. This hoax means we fail to get the right people in the best jobs.
In the session, Suzanne will be exploring:
● Capitalise on what you are doing well to silence the ‘imposter’.
● Convince others to value your hard-earned experience.
● Redefine confidence so it doesn’t continue to advantage the ‘status quo’.
This event will also include a discussion with some fantastic panellists:
Silka Patel is a strategic marketing expert with 19 years’ experience of working within the technology industry and is currently the Senior UK Marketing Manager at Leidos. Silka set up Scotland Women in Technology which is now in its 11th year, championing women and girls in the technology sector.
Silka has a number of external roles including as a Non-Executive Director at the Glasgow Women’s Library, Non-Executive Director at Technology Scotland and a member of Changing the Chemistry which seeks to improve board effectiveness and quality through the Diversity of Thought.
Married and a mother of two boys, she enjoys the gym and cooking whilst juggling life and would not have it any other way!
Our next panellist, Manira Ahmad has had a varied career history spanning both private and public sectors. She has worked across the financial industry, involved in global workforce planning and investment in offshore trading. Manira joined the public sector in 2015, and was appointed to lead the deployment of Local Intelligence across Health & Social Care. Supporting Integration Authorities in Scotland in co-designing linked data across multiple care accountable for developing the intelligence and informatics offering across Primary Care to support the newly formed GP Clusters. More recently Manira has also been leading the analytical collaboration in Regional Planning across Scotland.
In her personnel time Manira sits on the Board for a number of local charities and community organisations.
Our final panellist, Pritam Chita is a lecturer and programme leader for the MSc in Project and Programme Management at Edinburgh Napier University.
He researches and consults in learning and development within project management and recently he has published in the area of Expansive Learning and Agile Delivery Methods. He is currently investigating Agile Maturity Models. He is a Certified PRINCE2 and Agile PM trainer and has
previously been seconded to the Scottish Government as a Project and Programme Management consultant. Before joining the University, Pritam was a senior project manager and consultant with groupware and internet consultancies.
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
Dr. Doyle-Morris’ doctorate from the University of Cambridge looked at the experiences of women in male-dominated fields.
Over the last 25 years, Doyle-Morris has helped organisations improve their gender balance, particularly at a senior level. She has helped women move into senior roles at 50 organisations in the UK, Europe and the US.
In that time, she has also written two other books - ‘Beyond the Boys’ Club: Achieving Career Success as a Woman Working in a Male-Dominated Field’ and 'Female Breadwinners: How They Make Relationships Work and Why they are the Future of the Modern Workplace’.
You can check out some of her best tips from the stellar careers of her clients on her YouTube channel.
The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be bringing you a session with Dr Suzanne Doyle-Morris. Suzanne will be talking about the lessons from her latest book: ‘The Con Job: Getting Ahead for Competence in a World Obsessed with Confidence’.
In her work advising companies and individuals, she noticed that not progressing at work is often blamed on ‘lack of confidence’ but she felt this excuse was a total con job.
It misses genuine competence, conveniently rewards the status quo and distracts us from understanding the context of what really drives confidence. This hoax means we fail to get the right people in the best jobs.
In the session, Suzanne will be exploring:
● Capitalise on what you are doing well to silence the ‘imposter’.
● Convince others to value your hard-earned experience.
● Redefine confidence so it doesn’t continue to advantage the ‘status quo’.
This event will also include a discussion with some fantastic panellists:
Silka Patel is a strategic marketing expert with 19 years’ experience of working within the technology industry and is currently the Senior UK Marketing Manager at Leidos. Silka set up Scotland Women in Technology which is now in its 11th year, championing women and girls in the technology sector.
Silka has a number of external roles including as a Non-Executive Director at the Glasgow Women’s Library, Non-Executive Director at Technology Scotland and a member of Changing the Chemistry which seeks to improve board effectiveness and quality through the Diversity of Thought.
Married and a mother of two boys, she enjoys the gym and cooking whilst juggling life and would not have it any other way!
Our next panellist, Manira Ahmad has had a varied career history spanning both private and public sectors. She has worked across the financial industry, involved in global workforce planning and investment in offshore trading. Manira joined the public sector in 2015, and was appointed to lead the deployment of Local Intelligence across Health & Social Care. Supporting Integration Authorities in Scotland. Co-designing linked data across multiple settings through a whole systems approach. Manira has also been developing the analytical collaboration and user-led service design for local, regional and national strategies. More recently Manira has been responding to the current pandemic and is now working across Scotland to support a multi-agency approach to our nations recovery.
In her personnel time Manira sits on the Board for a number of local charities and community organisations.
Our final panellist, Pritam Chita is a lecturer and programme leader for the MSc in Project and Programme Management at Edinburgh Napier University.
He researches and consults in learning and development within project management and recently he has published in the area of Expansive Learning and Agile Delivery Methods. He is currently investigating Agile Maturity Models. He is a Certified PRINCE2 and Agile PM trainer and has
previously been seconded to the Scottish Government as a Project and Programme Management consultant. Before joining the University, Pritam was a senior project manager and consultant with groupware and internet consultancies.
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
Dr. Doyle-Morris’ doctorate from the University of Cambridge looked at the experiences of women in male-dominated fields.
Over the last 25 years, Doyle-Morris has helped organisations improve their gender balance, particularly at a senior level. She has helped women move into senior roles at 50 organisations in the UK, Europe and the US.
In that time, she has also written two other books - ‘Beyond the Boys’ Club: Achieving Career Success as a Woman Working in a Male-Dominated Field’ and 'Female Breadwinners: How They Make Relationships Work and Why they are the Future of the Modern Workplace’.
You can check out some of her best tips from the stellar careers of her clients on her YouTube channel.
