By invitation of the LSE Alumni Association of London
Innovating Your Future
Linkedin martial arts | Career strategy | Crisis = Opportunity
A one-stop shop panel event & skills workshop to help students and graduates to build their ideal career and work life
1. Panel Discussion - The Why
A selection of panelists who have navigated their careers in different ways with the opportunity to hear their individual stories and insights. Discussions and advice on:
How to strategise towards your dream career
Gain insights from our expert panel on how they navigated and overcame challenges in their own career and working life
How to consider opportunities and risks in the current Covid economy
2. Skills workshops - The How
Innovating your job search and research
Making a business case in selling yourself
How to make connections and how to use LinkedIn like a pro
3. Q&A
Ask anything that’s on your mind via live audience Q&A!
Is it necessary to do a summer internship? Should you?
How important is it to start your career at a big name firm?
How important is networking?
Are all opportunities good opportunities?
Includes audience Q&A!
Meet with our virtual panel drawn from a wide range of sectors and career areas. Hear how they have navigated their careers in different ways, and how to change challenge into an opportunity along with audience Q&A.
Chair - Dr. Jonathan Ashong-Lamptey - diversity and inclusion specialist
A globally recognised authority on Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace leading a consultancy designing inclusive companies for the 21st century; advising global businesses and government policy makers while contributing to international research projects. His PhD from the London School of Economics gives him the academic rigour that his FTSE 100 clients expect. This unique background means he combines academic rigour with commercial expertise to work with world class organisations providing research, training, consultancy and much more.
Shaheen Sayed - Senior Managing Director | Accenture UKI Health & Public Services Lead
Leader of Accenture's Health & Public Services Business in the UK and Ireland. Responsible for providing transformational solutions to the public sector using new platforms and ways of thinking. Shaheen holds significant experience from her twenty-year career at Accenture where she has led complex technology and business transformation programmes for clients across the public and private sector, both in the UK and globally. As a ‘’hands on ’’practitioner, she has driven some of the most complex implementations in Justice, Health; Rural Affairs and Capital Markets. Most recently, she has been working as an advisor to senior Financial Services clients at the forefront of their digital transformation and driving first-in-kind innovation from inception to execution. Shaheen is a member of The Prince’s Trust Business in the Communities (BITC) Race Leadership team
Michael Healy - CEO Unit Ventures
Michael is the CEO of Unit.Ventures, focused on creating meaningful jobs and solving inequity. It connects providers and customers, as well as allows businesses and individuals to issue tokens for specific uses. He has digital design and video expertise which support in building useful products.
Michael has built several successful businesses with exits ranging from Chatride, an encrypted peer-to-peer video conferencing technology, Ratemash, once one of the UK’s largest student social networks, the Wikileaks Android app and many niche mobile apps used by millions of users worldwide. Michael was a finalist of the Thiel Fellowship by Peter Thiel and also awarded the Silver medal in the Mathematics Olympiad. Michael has served as Entrepreneur-in-residence at top pan-European Venture Capital firm, Wellington partners (€800 million under management).
He has done work for Google, KPMG, Founders Forum, Saatchi & Saatchi, L’Oreal, Imperial College, Unilever, London Business School and others.
Madeeha Ansari - Development professional
Madeeha Ansari is a Pakistani development professional, passionate about creating programmes protecting the rights and wellbeing of vulnerable children. She has worked with organizations across the development spectrum, from community and youth-based organizations in Pakistan to those with an international presence, like the Malala Fund. Her work with non-formal schools in urban slums in particular provided an understanding of the challenges faced by refugee and migrant children, living in urban poverty. They also led to her founding of the UK registered non-profit, Cities for Children, to support organisations working with street-connected children. Madeeha completed her Masters as a Fulbright scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and earned her undergraduate degree at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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