Good morning! As you know I set up this Power Network because I want to see more women in senior positions in tech. Over the several decades in my career I've started quite a few initiatives to get women into tech and help keep them there. This is the first initiative I've started with the aim of fast tracking women already in tech into as senior positions as possible. As I'm moving towards, probably, the last few years of working full time, I really want to ensure that I help as many women as possible get into senior positions, positions of power, to ensure that we get the tech products and services that we deserve, but also to make sure that we have as many women as possible in senior decision making roles. I want to ensure a continuing and *growing* flow of women at the top. You are all the pioneers in this initiative, thank you all so much for that ❤️ To have the impact that is needed we need to grow this network, to bring in more members. We need more women joining who have the potential to be senior leaders, who will value what we do here and will support other women to achieve. We don't want women who don't support other women, we want talented, friendly and supportive women who will work together to help everyone in the Power Network, and the tech industry to rise. I'll be posting on LinkedIn and other social media platforms to find those women and bring them into our network. The more that you share and post yourselves the bigger the impact that will have. Please help me to grow this network so that hundreds of us can rise together. As a group we can make a massive difference to the landscape and the more supportive, ambitious women we have in here the better and faster that will happen. You can help by commenting on and sharing my posts, by tagging or messaging women that are ambitious, supportive and friendly, and by posting yourself. ** Comments on the post make the biggest difference to how many people see it Together we really can make a difference 💥

Happy Friday you lovely lot! 💜 Time for another weekly leaderboard! 🎉 A massive well done to this week’s Top 10… 1. @Jane Fullman 2. @Gita Singham 3. @Kat Heywood 4. @Susan Walsh 5. @Sivasharmini Ganeshamoorthy 6. @Muthu Karunarathna 7. @Shereen El-Shennawy 8. @Amanda Parkin 9. @Karen Jones 10. @Cigdem Sengul Another brilliant week and it’s lovely seeing so many familiar names on there. Thank you to every single one of you who gets involved, whether you’re posting, commenting, asking questions, sharing advice or cheering someone else on. You all make this such a lovely place to spend my days. ❤️✨💃🏼😘 This week’s Member Spotlight is our fabulous @Sivasharmini Ganeshamoorthy 💃🏼✨🎉 I’m super excited to share Siva’s profile because she’s just landed an incredible new role, which is amazing news and so well deserved! 🥳🎉✨💃🏼 On a personal note, she’s also been an absolute superstar with my Finn. Siva has been tutoring him through his A Level Computer Science and we’re already seeing the difference in both his confidence and his grades….. I have watched him fall back in love with the subject & it’s been so warming!!! As a mum, I honestly can’t thank her enough. ❤️🎉✨💃🏼…. so keep an eye out for her spotlight over the next few days and make sure you show her lots of love when it goes live. ✨ Also… I have to share this because it made me laugh this morning. 😂 My manager messaged me to say most of this week’s work is done, we’ve got a busy week ahead next week, so I should take it easy today… then followed it up by saying if I needed some time off I should go and watch Gilmore Girls. 🤣😂🤣I don’t think I’ve ever had a manager who’s actively encouraged me to chill out so much in my life! Safe to say I’m still getting used to that, but I’m not complaining. 😂

It’s a bit of a late one from me because I’m on the train home after spending the day in London for a work event.…. What a day ✨💃🏼🎉❤️ Great weather, lovely people, loads of exciting conversations… and then they completely caught me off guard.…….. They’ve asked me to relocate to Barcelona in January 2027 to lead the community in the new office they’re opening out there. 🤯🇪🇸 I wasn’t expecting that conversation!!!!!! There’s obviously loads to think about. Finn will be in his final year of A Levels, so he comes first. I’m already trying to work out how I could make it work by travelling backwards and forwards until he’s finished because I don’t want to disrupt such an important year for him.….. It’s just mad to think where I was a few months ago.….. Now I’ve got Paris next week, I’m organising a Remobi - Women in Tech event in Germany later this year, travelling around meeting incredible people, helping grow communities across Europe… and now I’m being asked if I’d relocate to Barcelona.… what is my life?! 🤣….. there’s never a dull moment that’s for sure!!! I’m excited, a little bit terrified, and very very qvery grateful….. Sometimes life really does throw opportunities at you when you least expect them. Anyway… I’m absolutely shattered, so I’m going to get home, give Finn & Blacky-Chan a cuddle and let all of this sink in. ❤️…….i hope you’ve all had a lovely week xxx

A few weeks ago, when I joined the Women in Power network, I shared that one of my goals was to step back into FinTech and continue growing my career towards Head of Engineering. The encouragement, advice, and confidence from this community gave me the push I needed to stop waiting for the “perfect time” and start taking action. I’ve now taken that first step and started exploring leadership opportunities in FinTech. Whether this particular opportunity works out or not, I’m glad I’ve moved from thinking about it to doing something about it. Thank you to everyone who encouraged me to back myself. Sometimes the hardest part isn’t the interview, it’s having the confidence to put yourself forward in the first place. Here’s to taking the first step. 🚀

Hey you lovely lot……My whine this week is I ended up back in hospital with my stomach from Sunday through to Tuesday. The whole time I was there they couldn’t get me a bed, so it was a bit of a nightmare!!! Thankfully I was well enough to come home on Tuesday morning, I’ve had a proper sleep & I’m feeling much more like myself now ✨💃🏼 Now for the wins…Tomorrow I’m off to London for the day! 💃🏼 get there about 12 go straight for lunch with my managers & then to a company-wide event at a hotel… so technically it’s a work day, but not really any work…. I’ll take that! 😂 And of course… the countdown to RAISE is on! I can’t wait….I’m sooooo excited to catch up with everyone who’s going, see everything our gorgeous @Sian Kelly Guy has worked so hard on, and I’m super for the after-party too. 🤣💃 Right, over to you lovely lot…. What’s your win this week? Big or small, I want to hear it…..And what’s your whine? Get it off your chest… work, kids, life, technology behaving like technology usually does…