28/06/2008 - MEETS: Mid-Career Enterprise Education for Technology and Science
Increasing the number of women becoming senior managers and starting businesses is a key challenge facing the UK economy. Recent research suggests that if women started businesses at the same rate as men, the UK would have 150,000 additional start-ups each year. This inequality is even greater in the field of Science, Engineering and Technology, which traditionally has had a relatively low level of participation from women. Equally, there are still very few women who become senior managers in their company.
Overview
The MEETS course (Mid-Career Enterprise Education in Technology and Science) was designed by a team at the Cambridge-MIT Institute, specialising in enterprise, innovation and leadership education for organisations, students and mid-career women. The programme combines presentations, practical workshops, small group sessions and individual project work, preparing delegates to take the next step in their career.
This popular course, now in it's third year, is sponsored by the Cambridge-MIT Partnership Programme. The Programme will be held over two Saturdays in June 2008 (7th and 28th) at Girton College, University of Cambridge.
The course is aimed at professional women who have completed their second degree, and have an interest in exploring enterprise opportunities within the science and technology sector.
Topics include:
What it takes to become more enterprising
Presentation and networking skills
Negotiation and organisational skills
Career anchors and self assessment
Business planning and finance
The course offers participants the opportunity to meet and network with a variety of successful female entrepreneurs and executives in science and technology businesses from the UK and the US.
Programme Directors
Shirley Jamieson- Head of Marketing, Cambridge Enterprise Ltd
Shirley worked in executive search for 15 years and then in the mid 1990s, she ran her own consultancy firm. In 1999, Shirley co-authored the successful bid on behalf of the University of Cambridge to create the Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre, which has now become part of Cambridge Enterprise. In 2002 she was the Cambridge Evening News “Business Woman of the Year.” She has been a Governor of Anglia RuskinUniversity since 1993.
Rochelle Weichman- Executive Director, Office of Executive Education, MIT Sloan School of Management
Rochelle Weichman is responsible for helping corporate clients define their educational needs, and then designing and delivering a customised educational programme with MIT faculty. Prior to this position, Rochelle was responsible for entrepreneurship within the Cambridge-MIT Institute, helping to establish the CMI Enterprisers programme for undergraduates and the MEETS programme for mid-career women.
7 June: Am I / Can I be an entrepreneur?
Speakers
Rochelle Weichman, Executive Director, Office of Executive Education, Sloan School of Management, MIT: Introduction to day and to eachother and Personal leadership in teams;
Working Together
The course is designed and led by Shirley Jamieson and Rochelle Weichman. Both have extensive experience in entrepreneurship and enterprise education. Furthermore, they have a deep commitment to helping women become entrepreneurs and reach senior levels of management, and designed the MEETS programme to help make this vision a reality.
The Outcomes
The course was established in 2005 and has had over 40 delegates. They were drawn from universities across the UK and high-tech companies; all harboured ambitions to develop their career and some had ideas to start a company. Many have now started new careers.
“I'm currently very involved with a new company.I’m able to use my MEETS 'Enterprise' training and experience the teething problems of running a new business first hand.”
Jackie Roberts, MEETS 2006
“The MEETS course was quite fundamental in my preparations for the next stages of my career.” Amanda McMurray, MEETS 2005
Dates
Day 1: Saturday 7 June 2008
Day 2: Saturday 28 June 2008
Registration
There is no cost to attend this event. If you would like to register your interest in attending, please email Jackie Ouchikh.
Accommodation costs are not included. For information on where to stay, please see the Visit Cambridge website.
The Venue
Girton College was established in 1869 as the first residential College for women, Girton occupies spacious grounds about two and a half miles northwest of the centre of Cambridge next to the village of Girton. It became mixed in 1977 with the arrival of the first male Fellows and male undergraduates have been admitted since 1979.
