Direction Autumn 2023 - IoD Scotland members magazine
Business advice, information. IoD events. Directors' technical briefings
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DIRECTION | EVENTS<br />
www.iod.com/scotland<br />
Mind the gap: How to<br />
ensure gender fair pay<br />
Date: 19 October<br />
Time: 6pm — 7:30pm<br />
Venue: Wheatley House, Cochrane St<br />
Glasgow G1 1HL<br />
Cost: Free<br />
<strong>IoD</strong> <strong>Scotland</strong> and Close the Gap invite<br />
you to join them at Wheatley House in<br />
Glasgow as they launch their joint<br />
‘Gender Pay Gap Briefing for Directors<br />
and Leaders’.<br />
The Gender Pay Gap Briefing has been<br />
specifically designed to be a practical<br />
tool for directors and leaders to use to<br />
play your part in closing your<br />
The happy leader<br />
Date: 31 October<br />
Time: 9am — 10am<br />
Venue: Online<br />
Cost: Member, Free; non-member, £10<br />
Happy leaders are<br />
better leaders; join this<br />
virtual workshop to<br />
equip yourself with the<br />
tools to be a happier<br />
leader.<br />
Happiness fuels success. It makes our<br />
brains work better, boosts performance,<br />
and can help leaders build more<br />
engaged, energised, and resilient teams.<br />
This interactive online workshop will<br />
explore happiness tools and mental<br />
fitness techniques that will help you and<br />
your organisation thrive.<br />
Audrey Mason from workplace<br />
happiness consultancy Happies Hour<br />
Club will lead the session, sharing proven<br />
tools from positive psychology, coaching,<br />
mindfulness, and neuroscience. Discover<br />
simple, science-backed practices you can<br />
build into your working day to help you<br />
feel happier, more energised, and more<br />
able to rise to the everyday challenges of<br />
leadership.<br />
At the end of the session, you’ll be<br />
invited to commit to your own personal<br />
happiness challenge, so you can put<br />
everything you’ve learned into action.<br />
Event Organiser<br />
<strong>IoD</strong> Events Team<br />
e: events@iod.com<br />
organisation’s gender pay gap.<br />
Hard copies will be available on the<br />
night, but attendees will also be emailed<br />
an online copy in advance of the evening.<br />
Join us to hear more about the<br />
background context for the briefing and<br />
an enjoyable evening of connecting and<br />
networking with peers in central<br />
Glasgow.<br />
Event Organiser<br />
Patricia Huth<br />
t: 0131 557 5488<br />
e: Patricia.Huth@iod.com<br />
Trio of visionary leaders – and a<br />
stunning lunch at Gleneagles<br />
Date: 6 November<br />
Time: 10am — 3pm<br />
Venue: The Gleneagles Hotel<br />
Cost: Members, FREE*.<br />
Non-<strong>members</strong>, £120<br />
Join us for a Exclusive lunch event at The<br />
Gleneagles Hotel, hosted by <strong>IoD</strong><br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> Chair Julie Ashworth, featuring<br />
visionary leader talks.<br />
The event will bring our <strong>Scotland</strong><br />
<strong>members</strong> together in one of <strong>Scotland</strong>’s<br />
iconic settings to connect, catch up and<br />
hear from some of <strong>Scotland</strong>’s truly<br />
visionary leaders.<br />
Over lunch, three leading Scottish<br />
directors will share their passions via a<br />
series of ‘<strong>IoD</strong> Director Shorts’ – talks that<br />
aim to inspire, inform and give insight<br />
into their successes.<br />
Speakers<br />
Gill Erskine is the co-founder and<br />
Director of WildStrong. Before starting<br />
WildStrong, Gill founded, scaled and sold<br />
a food production business and was<br />
Managing Director of a locally grown<br />
baby food company in Sierra Leone.<br />
A natural community builder, Gill<br />
started WildStrong as she wanted to<br />
create space for people to spend more<br />
time outdoors and meet others who<br />
lived very locally.<br />
Robin Watson CBE has more than 35<br />
years of engineering, industry and<br />
business experience, with the past 20<br />
years spent in executive positions across<br />
a variety of market sectors around the<br />
globe. A breadth of executive and<br />
non-executive board experience in both<br />
the UK and US public markets.<br />
He has previously served as Wood Plc<br />
chief executive for seven years,<br />
transforming it into one of the world’s<br />
foremost engineering and consultancy<br />
companies, having started a professional<br />
career with ExxonMobil.<br />
Vivienne McLaren joined the Scottish<br />
Women’s Football board in June 2014<br />
and led its re-brand and grew awareness<br />
in order to attract commercial partners.<br />
She was appointed Chair in 2016. An<br />
avid supporter of women’s football for<br />
over 25 years, Vivienne is determined to<br />
play her part in raising the profile of the<br />
game further, as well as playing a key<br />
role in growing player numbers.<br />
*Please note that we expect this event to<br />
be very popular and will be operating a<br />
waiting list. Members who book a place<br />
and do not inform us if they are unable<br />
to make it with at least 72 hours notice,<br />
will be invoiced in full for their place.<br />
Event Organiser<br />
Patricia Huth<br />
t: 0131 557 5488<br />
e: Patricia.Huth@iod.com<br />
30 AUTUMN <strong>2023</strong>
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