Edinburgh: Managing Your Career: Preparing for your Senior Role

Kate Grussing, MD of award winning executive search boutique Sapphire Partners, will share her top tips on managing your career and preparing for your senior role. Kate has been a long-time supporter of WIBF and is one of the best networked and generous head-hunters in the UK. She will share her insights gained from her many years as a search consultant and a former banker with a keen interest in diversity. It will be a highly interactive talk in which she will touch on: getting feedback, finding a mentor and sponsor, using a coach, leveraging your network, negotiating compensation and flexible working, managing maternity leaves/career breaks and building your profile and relationships with recruiters and head-hunters.

Timings:

17:30 Drinks on arrival

18:00 Speaker – Kate Grussing

20:00 Close

Getting there: Travel & Parking: Good public transport: buses or tram on Princes Street, Train at Waverley Station.

Street parking on George Street and nearby, NCP Car Park at Castle Terrace.

Kate Grussing, Founder and Managing Director, Sapphire Partners

Kate is the founder of Sapphire Partners, a London based executive search consultancy well known for its pioneering work promoting diversity in the UK. She has worked internationally in senior positions at JPMorgan, McKinsey & Co. and Morgan Stanley. Kate’s career and functional expertise is in strategy, corporate governance, talent management, broad-based financial services, professional services and diversity and inclusion. She is a regular commentator on women’s careers and advancement in executive and non-executive roles. Kate has an MBA with honours from the Tuck School at Dartmouth, a BA with honours from Wellesley College and has studied at the London School of Economics. She is a Trustee of the new London Institute of Imagination and was a Board Director of the Prader-Willi Syndrome Medical Charity for 17 years. She is also an active member of the British Association of Women Entrepreneurs and Women Corporate Directors. She was recently made a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute.