Leadership in Resilience: Thriving in Your Early Career
21 November 2024, 6:30 pm–8:00 pm
Join us for an evening of networking and a panel discussion on navigating common career challenges while building a professional network in your early career.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction
Location
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Jeremy Bentham RoomUniversity College LondonGower StLondonWC1E 6BT
Join us for an empowering event designed to provide essential guidance and recommendations for resilience professionals, students, recent graduates and academics in existential crisis as they embark on their early career journeys. This event will bring together leaders from industry, academia and non-governmental organisations to share invaluable insights and strategies.
Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the key skills and attributes needed to excel in the competitive job market. Through an interactive panel discussion and networking session, attendees will learn how to navigate common career challenges, develop a strong professional network, and harness opportunities for growth and development.
Topics will include developing a clear vision of your career pathways, how to stand out in job interviews, leveraging social media for personal branding, and cultivating resilience and adaptability in dynamic work environments. Our expert speakers will also address the importance of continuous learning, mentorship, and creativity.
This event is an unparalleled opportunity for early career individuals to gain actionable advice and connect with like-minded peers and mentors. By the end of the event, participants will be equipped with the tools and confidence needed to thrive in their chosen careers. Don’t miss this chance to unlock your potential and set the foundation for a successful professional journey.
Please note: If you can no longer attend, please email us to cancel your ticket.
About the Speakers
Gianluca Pescaroli (Chair)
Associate Professor at UCL Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction
Dr Gianluca Pescaroli is Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Business Continuity and Organisational Resilience at University College London (UCL). His research investigates how to build and improve the continuity of operations during disruptive events, how to minimise their impacts, and how to increase the resilience of the public and private sectors. This includes managing complex challenges such as cascading risks, critical infrastructure failures, systemic and compound dynamics.
More about Gianluca Pescaroli (Chair)Richard Fitzhugh
Head of Business Resilience at Holcim Group
Richard is Head of Resilience at Holcim, Switzerland. He undertook his MPhil in parasitology with a specialisation in the lower gut, at which point he decided to move swiftly into the world of resilience. He has been the head of resilience with Rio Tinto, the mining conglomerate and now works with Holcim who operate in 60 countries in the world. In the context of managing many hundreds of crises from kidnap to Covid, to conflicts and civil disturbances, he has generated an encyclopedic knowledge of mistakes to avoid. He will be sharing some of these mistakes, how to make them, and most importantly how to get yourself into a position of sufficient responsibility where making them can have a material impact.
More about Richard FitzhughKristen Guida
City Resilience Manager at London Resilience Unit, Greater London Authority
Kristen has been head of the City Resilience Team at the Greater London Authority since March 2022. Before that, she worked for more than 15 years coordinating partnerships supporting climate change adaptation, as Manager of the London Climate Change Partnership, Director of Climate South East, and Chair of Climate UK. Her major interest is in bringing together people and ideas from across sectors to respond to social and environmental resilience challenges. In particular, she is interested in the social justice issues raised by climate change and the need to incorporate equity in resilience policy and planning. Previously, she worked on human rights, as a Senior Researcher on political rights, civil liberties and press freedom at Freedom House in New York.
More about Kristen GuidaKirsty Johnson
Head of Maritime Resilience at UK Department for Transport (DfT)
More about Kirsty JohnsonEugene Washington Walker
Lecturer (Education) at UCL School of Management
Eugene Washington Walker is a lecturer at the UCL School of Management and both Head of Careers and Immersion Coordinator for the UCL MBA. Eugene brings diverse public, private and third sector experience as a corporate trainer and facilitator for business and professional programmes, an executive coach, and a professional actor of stage and screen. Eugene is a member of the Academy of Management (AoM), and the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD). As an actor, Eugene has starred in productions for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Netflix. He has also worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre and toured theatre shows in more than 20 countries including America, China, Japan, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and across Europe.
More about Eugene Washington Walker