Being an intrapreneur; bringing your passions to work: Vanessa Vallely OBE, Founder, WeAreTheCity

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Celebrating International Women’s Day and the 2023 theme, #EmbraceEquity, Vanessa shares the steps in her career that led her to create WeAreTheCity – which helps progress female careers.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Suggesting ways that can best advance gender balance and inclusion at work, Vanessa recommends considering an equity (rather than equality) model and a focus on sponsorship - describing what best practice sponsorship looks like.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Vanessa shares ideas on how to be ‘intrapreneurial’, how to start and grow an area of work that you feel passionate about – turning it from ‘a side of the desk’ project to an embedded part of your role, highlighting collaboration and self-belief as two important ingredients.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Topics in Vanessa’s episode:</span></p> <ul> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 11.0pt;">#EmbraceEquity – an equity model approach</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Sponsorship and male allyship</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 11.0pt;">Intersectionality</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">AI, HR tech and being human</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Being an intrapreneur by bringing your passion to work</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The importance of identifying and trying to remove bias</span></li> </ul> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Thank you to our sponsor for this week's episode, The Talent Keeper Specialists. Their brilliant podcast, COMEBACK COACH is the podcast for people coming back from maternity and other work breaks recommended by HR professionals.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 225.5pt;"> <strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Referenced resources <span sty