UQ Ventures LeadHers: Recent Episodes
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LeadHers is a program at The University of Queensland (UQ) targeted at all female-identifying students, staff and alumni across all disciplines who are, or want to become, managers, entrepreneurs, researchers or academics. The program aims to support female-identifying professionals to become more confident in their leadership capabilities while exploring common challenges most professional leaders face in their career. For more information, please visit our Ventures website: ventures.uq.edu.au/programs/leadhers
Australia- India Celebration of Women Entrepreneurs Panel, hosted online on the 6th of March 2021. This two-hour event was organized in collaboration with DFAT India and CII India to celebrate IWD. The event has two parts: a one-hour panel and a one-hour workshop.
To celebrate Women’s Entrepreneurship Day on the 19th of November 2020, The University of Queensland (UQ) brought together an online panel of female founders and leaders to discuss their successes, some of the challenges they have faced, as well as ideas, strategies and policies that could be implemented to close the gender gap within the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Check out the pannelists on this link: https://ventures.uq.edu.au/mind-the-gap
As a background on the event:
The Gender Gap The under-representation of female entrepreneurs in startups is well-documented, and while the recent Startup Muster report showed a slight increase in female founders in Australia in 2019 — at 22.3%, with male founders at 77.1% — there is clearly a long way to go.
At UQ, we believe that the Australian higher education sector is an important pipeline that the ecosystem could tap to level the playing field and increase participation and contribution from women. UQ Ventures strives to foster the sense of community among female identifying founders, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs.
Through raising the profile of women in entrepreneurship and creating opportunities for female-identifying entrepreneurs, we hope to inspire and create change.
More resources: https://ventures.uq.edu.au/article/2020/11/foundhers-celebrating-uq-women-entrepreneurship
In this episode, Anita Siek, founder of Wordfetti, talks about the importance of putting yourself out there with confidence. Whether you are presenting yourself on social media or at networking events, finding your style and your voice - staying true to your values is really important.
To listen to Anita's podcast, Brandfetti, please visit: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/brandfetti/id1464154049
Find out more about UQ LeadHers: ventures.uq.edu.au/programs/leadhers.