Podcasts about tech talent charter

So many good reasons to dip in to the archive and bring this podcast episode with Debbie Forster back to the top of the list. One reason is to promote again the work of Tech Talent Charter. In this episode, Richard sits down with Debbie Forster, CEO of the Tech Talent Charter. Debbie is an American who has lived in England for over 30 years. Her fascinating career is full of twists and turns, from being a head teacher to her current high-profile role. She tells Richard about her eventful journey, and explains how all her experiences have influenced her public speaking and have helped her create her career. Debbie gives us her insights into why it's important to always bring yourself into your performance, and how to deal with and learn from negative speaking experiences. She goes through an interesting history of diversity (or lack of it) in tech and explains why transparency around this issue is so important. All of this ties in with the Tech Talent Charter, a UK-based initiative that drives organizations to commit a set of undertakings that aim to deliver greater diversity in the tech workforce (Voxgig has taken the pledge, as have many other tech companies). And Debbie's background as a teacher and her determination to help others is another reason to bring this episode back to the top of the list. It's timely. Education is a thread that connects the two speakers at the next DevRel meetup, details below. Reach out to Debbie here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/forsterdebbie/ Find out more and listen to previous podcasts here: https://www.voxgig.com/podcast Subscribe to our newsletter for weekly updates and information about upcoming meetups: https://voxgig.substack.com/ Join the Dublin DevRel Meetup group here: www.devrelmeetup.com

Hear from Debbie Forster MBE, CEO of Tech Talent Charter, an industry collective that drives change to include diverse talent throughout the Tech field. We learn about burnout, imposter syndrome, and the steps that we need to be taking to create a diverse and inclusive workplace. Be sure to listen to the very end of the episode for bonus material.You can find out more about Dr Marc Reid's book on Imposter Phenomenon and get involved with his research:Website: https://www.dr-marc-reid.com/bookYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0iVmFi_gciK--K8_lgmBFVMlwDm3f2BRYou can follow Debbie and Tech Talent Charter:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/forsterdebbie/Twitter: https://twitter.com/debbieforsterWebsite: https://www.techtalentcharter.co.uk/homeA transcription of each episode, as well as guest profiles and much more, is available on our website www.sondership.comCreditsTitle music - Buddha by Kontekst https://soundcloud.com/kontekstmusicCreative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0Free Download or Stream: http://bit.ly/2Pe7mBNMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/b6jK2t3lcRs Support the show

This week, we talked to Debbie Forster, CEO of Tech Talent Charter about how authenticity can help you stand out in the crowd. It's really important to know yourself and to be yourself in your career rather than trying to be someone else.   Here are the highlights from the episode: {3:04} Why women feel pressure to be something they’re not in the workplace {8:39} Finding your authentic self at all the different stages of your life. {13:04} Feeling able to acknowledge and talk about being a Mum at work {18:32} Getting comfortable in our skins. heads and hearts {21:13} How to question the criticism you receive  {23:38} Why employers need to support women to be who they want to be {31:54} How organisations are now looking more actively at equality in the tech industry {33:25} Treating your interview like a first date and ask the right questions {37:16} The support charter can give to organisations and women in tech   Connect with Debbie at: https://www.techtalentcharter.co.uk/home   Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org   Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/   Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/

My guest is Amali de Alwis. Amali is responsible for Microsoft’s strategic and commercial direction across Microsoft’s startup and scale-up activities in the UK. Prior to this she was CEO of Code First: Girls - a multi award-winning training company focused on increasing diversity in tech.“It’s never a fait-accomplis… you never get a badge saying you’ve reached your maximum level of good communication. Different things are needed at different times, you need to wear different hats for different conversations… just making sure you give yourself that time to self-reflect when things either do go well or they don’t go well, what are the kinds of things that could have happened differently.”She was a founding member at Tech Talent Charter, was named the ‘Most Influential Women in UK Technology’ and was awarded an MBE in 2019 for services to diversity and training in the technology industry. She is a board Member at the Raspberry PI Foundation, Ada, National College for Digital Skills; and D&I Board at the Institute of Coding.Click here for full show notes and more episodes of Better Conversations with Sehaam Cyrene.

Nadia is joined by the incredible Debbie Forster MBE, CEO of Tech Talent Charter, for this episode of Women of Fintech. Why should we flip the conversation from 'Diversity and Inclusion' to 'Inclusion and Diversity'? Can we fix diversity through recruitment? Debbie charts her inspiring journey in Tech and shares her thoughts on why a greater understanding of Inclusion will catalyse the change we need to see in the industry. Remember to leave a review to add your voice to the Diversity and Inclusion Discussions.

The dilemma of diversity in the tech industry has persisted for a couple of decades, but there are groups of people and organizations who have created real and sustained progress against this issue. In this episode, Emma Payne - Head of Global Talent Acquisition at SHL, and Debbie Forster - CEO of the Tech Talent Charter, discuss how organizations took tangible steps to increase the presence of women in the tech industry, and now are building strategies to increase the diversity of race and ability.

This episode continues our releases from our #BeMoreDigital conference back in March. With everything happening in the world currently and the ever-important Black Lives Matter movement, we’re revisiting a pertinent panel discussion centering around inclusion, diversity and equality in the charity sector.   The charity sector needs to be doing more to be inclusive and diverse across all areas. We must hold ourselves accountable and start implementing real changes now so that we can achieve permanent difference. Movements such as #CharitySoWhite have been incredible eye-openers for the sector, but there is still a long way to go before we can call ourselves inclusive.   Our panelists each offer a fresh perspective from the range of charities and experiences they represent.  The conversation isn’t about why inclusion and diversity work, we already know they do. It is about how we as organisations and as individuals can ensure that change is made.   For this conversation our panel host, Debbie Forster (CEO at Tech Talent Charter), is joined by Ursula Dolton (CTO at the British Heart Foundation), Danny Attias (Chief Information Officer at Anthony Nolan), Tiffany Hall (CIO at Cancer Research UK) and Monica Shafaq (Chief Executive at The Kaleidoscope Plus Group) to discuss where the sector is currently at and the actions that need to be taken by charities everywhere to achieve all aspects of diversity. 

On this week's show we’re looking at the release of the Tech Talent Charter report. In short, if you’re a woman in tech, everything is still crap. We’ll also be looking at Nicky Morgan’s 5 principles to make tech work for everyone. Principle 1, is probably - “there’s no such thing as a principle worth sticking to”, and Principle 2 is, “let’s all eat the poor”.  Hera Hussain is on hosting duties, she’s joined by TFGL team members Greg Ashton and Producer Paul. Our guest this week is Dan Sodergren (Flock / The Landing). Dan is a serial startup founder and a digital marketing and technology expert with over 20 years experience in the Manchester technology sector. This week’s topics… Stat of the week:  Tech Talent Charter Report And Baroness Nicky Morgan outlined 5 principles to make tech work for everyone Charity news of the week: Virtual Reality Rehabilitation Tech news of the week: In the light of rising racial tensions Facebook takes a proactive and out of character step Whilst taking a very incharacter step in the same week A Rant or Nice of the week? Good or bad, what do digital IDs hold for the future: https://digitalid.theengineroom.org/  https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/03/kenya-halts-biometric-id-scheme-discrimination-fears ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We’d love to hear your thoughts. Get in touch on twitter @techforgoodlive or Email at hello@techforgood.live  We’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your mates about this podcast! If you want to get more involved in our community, you can join our Slack channel. Just visit the Tech for Good Live website to find out how. Thanks to the wonderful podcast.co for hosting us in a beautiful mirrored studio. Which you can’t see. But it is pretty. If you want to create a podcast, you can find everything you need at podcast.co.  We’d also like to thank Happy Porch for their sponsorship which will allow us to have our episodes transcribed, helping us be more inclusive and accessible. Happy Porch provide strategy, technology and development for purpose driven organisations. You can find out more about them at happyporch.com

Why is Twitter banning political ads when Facebook insists it will keep on carrying them? Plus, some tech products aimed at women have been called "femtech". Does the label help or hinder inclusivity? DeepMind's AlphaStar artificial intelligence has reached the top league of one of the most popular esport video games Starcraft 2. We talk to a top player of the game who has competed against it. And why the co-founder of Netflix is not worried by Apple's new streaming TV service. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC North America tech reporter Dave Lee, and special guest Debbie Forster, co-founder of the Tech Talent Charter and member of the Institute of Coding's diversity board. (Image: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaving a meeting with Irish politicians to discuss social media and transparency in political advertising, Credit: Getty Images).

There are far too few women in the computing and digital sectors. Chaired by Dr Darren Dancey of Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), this session presents an analysis of the data followed by a series of invited speakers who share their experience of addressing gender inequality. Featuring: Dr Darren Dancey, MMU Prof Edmund Robinson, QMUL Katie Gallagher, Managing Director, Manchester Digital Gillian Arnold, Managing Director, Tectre, and member of the IoC Diversity & Inclusion Board Panellists include Debbie Forster MBE, CEO, Tech Talent Charter, and member of the IoC Diversity & Inclusion Board and Nadia Johnson, Undergraduate Apprentice, Thales To find out more about the IoC and to stay up to date on IoC activity, visit our website and follow our Twitter.

In this episode, Matt Alder talks to Sinead Bunting about The Tech Talent Charter and the initiatives to improve the gender balance in the tech workforce

Jump to 12.34 to hear what the 4 barriers to getting underrepresented people into tech are. Debbie is the CEO at Tech Talent Charter. Originally an English teacher Debbie was an early adopter of computers in the classroom. This quickly saw Debbie becoming in charge of the schools IT department. Working her way up the school career ladder she saw tech as a great enabler. For some of the children, she was teaching she saw how tech could become a way into careers they might not be able to consider otherwise. As a head teacher, her school piloted and championed a new scheme called Computer Club for Girls. After a career as a teacher, Debbie joined E-skills UK. She was the Head of Education which meant she was working with policymakers like IBM & Microsoft trying to figure out how they could make a tech curriculum fit for purpose. Having a hand in policy was very important for instigating change, but it wasn’t Debbie's first love. While she was at E Skills she came across a company called Apps for Good. Which teaches students digital skills via an app. Debbie took the company from two schools and 41 students to reaching around 75000 kids. Debbie saw again how this app caught the eyes of girls and she was drawn back into discussions about diversity in tech. As time went on Debbie was heading to more and more diversity based events. Evidence was showing more diverse workforces were better for business. Whilst she was still at Apps for Good, Debbie was approached by Sinead Bunting with an offer of creating a group that’s focused on increasing diversity in tech. This was the beginning at the Tech Talent Charter.

How do you create a more diverse tech industry with greater numbers of empowered women? According to Debbie Forster, you stop talking about it and take action by engaging companies to recruit women to tech, collect data, and share best practices. Debbie co-founded Tech Talent Charter which now includes 300 organizations of all sizes and sectors intent on achieving greater diversity. Best practices allow these organizations to learn from one another and improve the diversity of their workplaces. Sectors represented include companies from entertainment, traditional tech, engineering companies, and government. Tech Talent Charter also works in partnership with the Department of Digital, Media, Culture and Sport which provided initial seed funding and helps recruit signatories. In 2019, many of these companies are focused on retraining programs, conversion programs, and other efforts to persuade women to reconsider pursuing tech careers. These companies are making concerted efforts to be positive, professional, welcoming, and inclusive workplaces.  Listen to the Activate World Podcast Follow Activate World on Twitter  Follow Activate World on LinkedIn 

Tech Talent Charter CEO Debbie Forster MBE spoke to CIO UK Editor Edward Qualtrough following the launch of the 2019 Tech Talent Charter benchmarking report during episode 13 of the CIO UK podcast. Forster had earlier presided over the launch of the report at an event at The Gherkin in London, bringing together signatories of the initiative to share data and best practice in how they are driving inclusion and diversity in their organisations and the UK tech sector. During the CIO UK podcast Forster shared how hundreds of large companies, government departments, startups and SMEs were moving from the ‘why’ to the ‘how’ of diversity, what organisations need to do to get started, and how focusing on diversity initiatives was helping organisations tackle the IT skills gap.

In this episode, Richard sits down with Debbie Forster, CEO of the Tech Talent Charter. Debbie is an American who has lived in England for over 30 years. Her fascinating career is full of twists and turns, from being a head teacher to her current high-profile role. She tells Richard about her eventful journey, and explains how all her experiences have influenced her public speaking and have helped her create her career. Debbie gives us her insights into why it’s important to always bring yourself into your performance, and how to deal with and learn from negative speaking experiences. She goes through an interesting history of diversity (or lack of it) in tech and explains why transparency around this issue is so important. All of this ties in with the Tech Talent Charter, a UK-based initiative that drives organizations to commit a set of undertakings that aim to deliver greater diversity in the tech workforce (Voxgig has taken the pledge, as have many other tech companies). Learn more about Debbie here. To get a weekly dose of public speaking tips, information, videos of great talks, conference news, book reviews and more, sign up to the Voxgig newsletter. View all show notes, links, and more brilliant public speaking resources at voxgig.com. If you like what you hear on Fireside with Voxgig, don’t be shy―tell everyone! Use  #firesidewithvoxgig on your social media.

In this episode, Richard sits down with Debbie Forster, CEO of the Tech Talent Charter. Debbie is an American who has lived in England for over 30 years. Her fascinating career is full of twists and turns, from being a head teacher to her current high-profile role. She tells Richard about her eventful journey, and explains how all her experiences have influenced her public speaking and have helped her create her career. Debbie gives us her insights into why it's important to always bring yourself into your performance, and how to deal with and learn from negative speaking experiences. She goes through an interesting history of diversity (or lack of it) in tech and explains why transparency around this issue is so important. All of this ties in with the Tech Talent Charter, a UK-based initiative that drives organizations to commit a set of undertakings that aim to deliver greater diversity in the tech workforce (Voxgig has taken the pledge, as have many other tech companies). Learn more about Debbie here. To get a weekly dose of public speaking tips, information, videos of great talks, conference news, book reviews and more, sign up to the Voxgig newsletter. View all show notes, links, and more brilliant public speaking resources at voxgig.com. If you like what you hear on Fireside with Voxgig, don't be shy―tell everyone! Use  #firesidewithvoxgig on your social media.