Womentor- International Conference 15-18th Oct 08

Inova ConsultancyCelebrating Diversity

Marina LariosDirectormlarios@inovaconsult.com

Womentor- International Conference 15-18th Oct 08

Inova ConsultancyCelebrating diversity

Inova provides consultancy services to organisations and individuals on aninternational level in the area of diversity and equal opportunities.

WiTEC

European Association Secretariat in Austria Set up in 1988 – 20 years! 10 EU National Co-ordinators More than 2000 women supported

Services

Organisational Development & career coaching

Mentoring programmes for women (entrepreneurship and women returners)

Research and evaluation Project Management Bid Writing Policy development- gender & diversity

International Assignments

UK representative at the United Nations- Expert Meeting on Trade and Development

Panel Member, Women in Engineering Expert Panel, Unesco, Paris

Co-chair for Europe for the World Federation of Engineering Organizations in Tunisia

Guest Speaker at the Gender, ICT and Education: Removing Old Barriers with New Technologies conference, United Nations, New York.

Iceberg- Transformational Change

Self esteemWays we see lifeConfidenceSelf-efficacy

Mentoring Interventions

Mentoring Circles www.mentoringcircles.org.uk One to one Peer mentoring Target audiences: female

entrepreneurs, asylum seekers, unemployed; returners, women in SET, girls and young women

Examples of projects Mentoring programmes for female

entrepreneurs & Mentoring CirclesTM

Change management programme in a UK university to increase the representation of women in SET

Development of a database of women experts in SET

Research - looking at web 2.o to develop programmes to promote EO

Geographical Spread

UK (focus on regional & local)Europe MexicoGhanaUSANew: Orbita

What’s next

Accreditation for Mentors & Coaches New tools: personality profiling;

solution focused coaching, psychometric testing

Intercultural skills Integration Mentor Training: Action Learning Using new technologies eg.web 2.0

Resources

www.inovaconsult.comwww.witec-eu.netwww.mentoringcircles.org.uk