Events
Women in Climate Breakfast
We recently hosted a Women in Climate Breakfast in partnership with Just Climate. Positive takeaways from the session; ✔ Find all the commonality you can. Engage with people on the wavelength they’re actually on rather than where you wish they were. ✔ Leave the self-righteousness at the door. Not everybody shares your passions and they…
Read MoreManaging Difficult Conversations
On Tuesday 21st February IMPACT joined forces with Ninety One’s Inspire network to ‘Manage difficult conversations’; a very topical event for right now, with falling compensation and tough decisions being made. We had a great turn out and the session was led by Ninety One’s Duncan Coombe. Here are his TopTips for difficult Conversations:
Read MoreGrowing Up in Asset Management: Making a great impression in your early career
Your early career is full of choices, questions, building reputations and deciding on the direction you ultimately want to take your life in. This event was for those who wanted to ensure they get the most out of the first few years in asset management. We covered how to build a mentor/mentee relationship, how to…
Read MoreGrowing up in Asset Management; Managing your Career in your 40s, 50s, 60s and Beyond
In partnership with Ninety One and the Return Hub, we invited our networks to connect and listen to stories about regaining confidence, coping with menopause, ageism and staying relevant. It was an opportunity to learn from women across the industry and to share our own experiences. The aim was to leave guests feeling inspired and…
Read MoreIndustry Leaders Round Table
We recently had the pleasure of hosting industry leaders from Ninety One, Legal and General, Vanguard, Generation, Wellington, Barings and Schroders and observing the Chatham House Rules had a great discussion surrounding: The future of the City Clients wanting more ESG Product Development Transformation Is D&I stalling? It was a brilliant and engaging evening with lots…
Read MoreInternational Women’s Day 2022
This International Women’s Day the Leverton Team spent the day at Ninety One to focus on social diversity and introduce Investment Management as a career path to female 6th form students. We gave them interview advice and ran a CV Writing workshop. It was brilliant to work with such enthusiastic young women and it is…
Read MoreIMPACT Newsletter – November 2021
It has been another busy month for Leverton and IMPACT and I can’t quite believe the Christmas period is very nearly upon us! I hope you enjoy reading my pick of articles from the month below! Working from home; worry about it damaging your career and how to negate? This is a huge topic and…
Read MoreIMPACT & Capital Group’s Virtual Event on Self Advocacy
We had a great session this morning with Capital Group’s European Women’s Community. We heard from Alexandra Haggard on how she had perfected speaking up and being heard. If you would like to join our future events focusing on gender diversity within Investment Management, please do get in touch. Rachael.Ferguson@levertonsearch.com Here are our top takeaways:…
Read MoreIMPACT Newsletter – September 2021
This week is National Inclusion Week and October is Global Diversity Awareness month, we thought in this month’s newsletter we would share with you key takeaways for you and your networks. Last week we attended the NLI Diversity & Inclusion Webinar, focusing on ‘active inclusion’. If you are not actively including, you are probably…
Read MoreWebinar with Dr Hannah Barham-Brown, Deputy Leader, Women’s Equality Party
Yesterday we had an engaging and insightful discussion with the wonderful Dr Hannah Barham-Brown. Dr Hannah is a woman of many talents and wears a variety of professional hats – she is a GP, Deputy Leader of women’s equality party, a disability consultant, a speaker, charity ambassador and an ambassador for the UK design…
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