WELN: UAE - Leadership Summit 2024

Save the date to join us for the WELN: UAE’s inaugural event!

• A day of keynote speakers, panel discussions and workshops about leadership.
• For existing and aspiring women leaders in education, from the UAE region.
• An opportunity to connect, to be inspired and to be empowered.

Hosted: at Hartland International School

The Opportunity:

• To attend
• To speak
• To exhibit
• To sponsor

Tickets:

• Early bird (before 1st July) = 200 AED
• Full price (sales close 20th September) = 250 AED
• Free attendance for confirmed speakers

Your ticket gets you:

• A day’s dynamic learning
• A community of new connections
• A lovely lunch

Our Schedule:

8.30-9.00am - Registration

9.00-9.15am - Welcome and housekeeping, WELN: UAE Organising team

9.15-10.00am - Opening Keynote: Fatma Belrehif, CEO of the Dubai Schools Inspection Bureau (DSIB)

10.00-10.15am - Transition time

10.15-11.00am - Workshop carousels:

• Natasha Parikh - Building Bridges: Your Network is your Net Worth
• Priya Mitchell - Building Bridges: Fostering an Inclusive Culture
• WISE - Building Bridges: The Impact of Mentoring
• Hannah Cunningham - Breaking Barriers: Unlocking a ‘Good Girl Mindset’
• Julie Keyes - Breaking Barriers: Silence - Your loudest leadership skill
• Youlande Biosah - Breaking Barriers: Intersectionality - The Story of my Superpower!
• Emma Shanahan - Women in Leadership: How to use coaching and mentoring to empower and inspire
• Lauren Brennan - Women in Leadership: Building your personal brand/identity as a female leader
• Michelle Hinds - Women in Leadership: Shaping Tomorrow: The influence of technology on the future of educational leadership
• Building Bridges Panel - Moderator: Leisa Grace Wilson; Panelists: TBC

11.00-11.15am - Transition time

11.15am-12.00pm - Workshop carousels:

• Kemi Oluyinka - Building Bridges: Bridging the Gap Between Diversity & Inclusion
• Rebecca Graves - Building Bridges: Interconnectivity in the Female Leadership Landscape
• WomenEd MENA - Building Bridges: Supporting Leadership Journeys
• Cliona McMenamin - Breaking Barriers: For Women in Careers and Career Guidance in Schools
• Jane Clewlow - Breaking Barriers: Flexible and Adaptive Leadership to Empower Women
• Leisa Grace Wilson - Breaking Barriers: How to use your voice online to build a personal brand
• Ola ElKhatib - Women in Leadership: Transform Your Wellbeing - PERMAH
• Suzanne Watson - Women in Leadership: Empowering Authentic Leadership: Brené Brown’s Components of Effective Leadership
• Zoubiya Ahmed - Women in Leadership: Strengthening women leaders to withstand disadvantage and complexity
• Breaking Barriers Panel - Moderator: Hannah Wilson; Panelists: TBC

12.00-12.15pm - Transition time

12.15-1.00pm - Workshop carousels:

• Berna Bouwer - Building Bridges: Mentoring the next generation of inspirational leaders
• Dr Catherine O’Farrell - Building Bridges: To the Third Sector
• Tracy Moxley - Building Bridges: Into the Era of Agile
• Hannah Wilson - Breaking Barriers: Courageous Conversations
• Rachael Wilding - Breaking Barriers: Pivoting in Failure
• Victoria Hopkin - Breaking Barriers: The Hegelian Dialectic of Women in Education
• Emily Folorunsho - Women in Leadership: Leverage & strategic leadership as a Middle Leader
• Emma Downie - Women in Leadership: Balancing life as women - can we give 100% to everything?
• Nicole Haynes - Women in Leadership: A Woman's perspective on Navigating School Leadership

• Women in Leadership - in Education Panel - Moderator: Suzanne Watson; Panelists: TBC

1.00-2.00pm - Lunch and neworking

2.00-2.45pm - Workshop carousels:

• Abi Fishbourne - Building Bridges: Developing a Whole School Wellbeing Strategy

• Jenna Sheehan - Building Bridges: Educator empowerment through coaching
• Viviane Imhof-Braun - Building Bridges: Mastering the Balancing Act - how to thrive in your career AND in parenthood
• Hayley Lamb - Breaking Barriers: Understanding the barriers we create for ourselves - inner voice and own judgement / limiting beliefs

• Sanam Yaqub - Breaking Barriers: Women Leading the Charge for Inclusive and Diverse Leadership
• Nabila Mahmoud Bashir and Rola Said - Breaking Barriers: She Leads: Overcoming Barriers through Mentorship and Coaching

• Anita Stewart - Women in Leadership: Changing the narrative: female representation in leadership
• Fiona Cottam - Women in Leadership: Leading with Values
• Kate Bradley - Women in Leadership: Lowering the Ladder

• Women in Leadership - beyond Education - Moderator: Rebecca Annand; Panelists: TBC

2.45-3.00pm - Transition time

3.00-3.45pm - Closing Keynote: Professor Yusra Mouzughi, Provost of University of Birmingham Dubai

3.45-4.00pm - Closing reflections and call to action: WELN: UAE Organising team

Optional Socials (additional to ticket price):

• Dinner the night before - details to be confirmed!
• Drinks following the event - details to be confirmed!

Co-organised by:

• Emma Downie
• Fiona Cottam
• Hannah Wilson
• Lauren Brennan
• Leisa Grace Wilson
• Paola Wingrove
• Rebecca Annand
• Suzanne Watson
• Tracy Moxley

Partner Organisations:

• Diverse Educators
• Infinite Learning
• KI-Global
• WISE
• WomenEd MENA

Find out more:

• LinkedIn Group - join here.
• Registration Page - purchase tickets here.
• EOI for Speakers - complete the Google form here.

For more information:

• Contact - Hannah Wilson hello@hannah-wilson.co.uk