Our Keynote Speaker this year is Dr Glenda Stone, previous European Businesswoman of the Year, founder and CEO of the 30,000 strong Aurora Businesswomen’s Network and Co-chair of the government's Women's Enterprise Taskforce. Glenda has won numerous business awards and is regularly cited in the media regarding her views on women and work related issues. A straight-talking Australian, she says her top priority at the Conference is to convince more women to be ambitious, take risks and expand their businesses.
Glenda started out as a teacher in the Australian outback before working in the Queensland Cabinet Office and the Treasury. After moving to the UK, she worked in international trade and investment before embarking on her own venture. In 2000, Glenda founded London based Aurora, an impressive 30,000 strong women’s business network which also provides direct recruitment for blue-chip companies at wheretowork.com. Glenda is married with one son, holds a Dip. Teach; a B.Ed; a M.Ed and an honorary doctorate from Leeds Metropolitan University.
Main Conference Speakers
Welcome Introduction (am) and Convergence Update (pm) with Carleen Kelemen, Patron of the SMART Women Project
The Partnership Office for Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly has been at the heart of the European economic regeneration programme for Objective One since July 2000.It has overseen the local investment progress and emergence of successful projects such as the Combined Universities of Cornwall, The Peninsula Medical School, actnow broadband, and many forms of business support, including skills and job training.
Peter Drucker, one of the greatest management thinkers of our time said "The most important and indeed truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the manual worker in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of Knowledge Work and the Knowledge Worker." Hear from Carleen Kelemen, Director of the Partnership Office for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly , who will explore this concept in the context of the Cornish economy – “How can the new European investment programmes Convergence” help Cornwall to be in the best shape to face the challenges and opportunities of the world today?”
Vital Statistics, a SMART Women Update - Cornwall College Research
Hear about the impact SMART Women has made on the women of Cornwall during the last 18 months.
With Magic in Mind - Alan Jones and Associates
Our minds create illusions for us all of the time. Some of those illusions can be empowering, some limiting. This short motivational session will explore the nature of belief (self-belief and otherwise) and how it filters perception and shapes our behaviour.
The material and the approach will be taken from the ‘Magical Motivation’ programme which integrates Neuro Linguistic Programming coaching with conjuring for team building, improving communication skills and therapy.
Dr Alan Jones is an ‘edu-tainer’ who conveys key ideas and approaches in engaging and entertaining ways. He specialises in NLP training, De Bono thinking skills, creativity, emotional intelligence (EQ); leadership, interpersonal communication and team building.
