Women at Work Scotland Conference

Heather Currie, MBE, MB BS, FRCOG, DRCOG, MRCGP
Gynaecologist with special interests in Menopause, PMS and Cervical screening. Past Associate Medical Director Dumfries and Galloway NHS.
Past Clinical Lead for Gynaecology Modernising Patient pathways Programme for Scotland. Clinical Advisor Scottish Government for Women’s Health Plan.
Trustee and past Chair British Menopause Society, Co-Editor Post Reproductive Health, the journal of the British Menopause Society. Author of many review and original articles in peer-reviewed journals and of the books: Menopause, answers at your fingertips, and Menopause Essentials. Founder and MD of Menopause Matters which runs the award winning website and publishes the award winning quarterly magazine, Menopause Matters.
Awarded MBE June 2021 for services to healthcare.

Louisa Macdonell joined BITC from the SCVO (Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations) Employability team and is Entrepreneur-in Residence at the University of Edinburgh Business School. She supports and mentors small business owners, especially those run by women and social enterprises. Louisa sits on the Board of Social Investment Scotland, the responsible finance provider, and the Strategic Board of Interface, the knowledge connection for business.
Louisa was the CEO of the Development Trusts Association Scotland (DTAS), the membership organisation for community-led businesses and was previously Head of Economic Development at the UK Government’s Scotland Office, delivering Borderlands, the UK’s first rural and only cross-border regional growth deal.

Stephanie Stubbs is the Managing Director at Hickory, one of Scotland’s largest independently owned award-winning caterers. Steph develops the company’s business plans and strategy, monitoring and measuring performance against clear goals and objectives. She drives the vision for Hickory, to be the market leader for delivering bold and exciting food and drink experiences, setting the standard for our industry. Fusing her many years of experience across marketing and hospitality, she has led the business to win multiple awards, including employment and industry excellence awards. She is the driving force on change management, ensuring our quality and excellence mandatories are met. Her passion and drive for the industry and the business is evident every day, in every way. She is also on the Board of Women in Tourism and is a passionate advocate of women succeeding in business.

Deborah Garlick is the CEO of Henpicked: Menopause in the Workplace, founder of Henpicked.net and author of Menopause: the change for the better. Her team have been working with UK-wide and international organisations for over 7 years to make it easier for them to introduce the right training, policies and practices to raise awareness, education and support of this critical area.
In 2021, she supported the launch of Menopause Friendly Membership and accreditation. The membership is now supporting leading employers to achieve Menopause Friendly Accreditation. With over 300 members, and 35 who’ve actually achieved the award including HSBC UK, John Lewis and Leicestershire County Council.
On 22 September 2022 the industry-recognised Menopause Friendly Employer Awards took place to highlight and celebrate best practice, and to recognise those employers who are leading the way in supporting their colleagues. Also raising vital funds for menopause charities and research.

Rosie Tyler-Greig is  Equality and Diversity Advisor at Healthcare Improvement Scotland, the organisation which works to promote the best quality of health and social care for everyone in Scotland. Rosie’s role is part of the Community Engagement Directorate and she works across the organisation to provide advice on equalities issues and support teams to ensure the right people and communities have a say in the work of HIS and NHS Scotland. Before joining the NHS in early 2020, Rosie worked in a range of policy, research and engagement roles within the third sector. She is driven by a passion for equality and rights and brings a combination of personal and academic experience to her work. Rosie is a disabled woman and member of the LGBT+ community; she has an MSc in Human Rights, a PhD in Politics and is a trustee of the Human  Rights Consortium Scotland.

Karen has over 25yrs experience working in the children and youth work sector. For the past 15years focussed on working with girls and women. Karen set up SHE Scotland CIC in 2017 to meet the increasing needs of girls and women. Developing her network, partnerships and opportunities to improve and extend provision in Edinburgh and Scotland wide is her lifelong goal. SHE aims to support girls and women to be empowered, supported, aspirational and improve their life chances.

Karen and SHE Scotland are a driving force future generation of girls and women, supporting them to realise their potential and positively impact on their community. She is also a strong advocate for females’ voices to be heard at a community and national level.

Nikki Slowey is the Co-Founder and Director of Flexibility Works. She is one of Scotland’s leading experts in flexible working and has dedicated the past seven years to directly supporting and encouraging employers to create flexible workplaces. She is a regular media commentator, public speaker and has contributed to research and books on flexible working.

Nikki’s background is in marketing and communications, previously running her own communications consultancy. Her career started in the finance and property sectors but as a true social entrepreneur, Nikki has been drawn to working with, and for, non-profit organizations.

Bronwen has over 20 years’ experience creating and managing digital propositions, including marketing and brand strategy, for businesses ranging from SMEs to global corporates.  She has delivered award-winning marketing for international financial services firms and directed corporate re-branding projects across digital, and print media.

While working in the banking sector, she built strategic partnerships with global organisations, providing customers with innovative solutions for logistics, finance, and business services to assist their growth. She is a talented negotiator and specialises in bringing together teams and propositions to create the best outcome for clients.

Bronwen is now Chief Operating Officer at Women’s Enterprise Scotland. This role includes the strategic development of the innovative digital Women’s Business Centre, to enable more women and girls to fully realise their business potential and play a leading role in Scotland’s economy.

Dickson is a Partner and Chair at Morton Fraser, specialising in personal injury and professional negligence. Jenny became Morton Fraser’s chair in 2021 and immediately set out to put in to place a vision for a more inclusive industry. She is an advocate for social inclusion within the Scottish legal sector, starting with Morton Fraser. She is particularly impassioned about breaking down barriers to social mobility, and the financial and social barriers to gaining a legal education.

Read more: https://www.morton-fraser.com/our-people/jenny-dickson

Susie sits on the Private Business Leadership Team for the UK and is also Head of Private Client & Private
Office Services for the UK firm.

She has worked with entrepreneurs, privately owned and private equity backed businesses throughout her
20 plus year career in tax. Susie specialises in all aspects of corporate and personal taxation for private
businesses and their owners/senior management. She is a qualified tax lawyer and joined PwC 14 years
ago following 5 years of experience in law firms in London and Edinburgh.

Susie’s clients include private business owners and their businesses across the full spectrum of business
sectors. Susie’s day job is to bring them tax services through their whole lifecycle. Susie also coordinates
the services provided to them (from consulting to deals and finance to investment) by the firm as a whole.
From real estate to international sovereign wealth and from newly established family offices to large FS
funds – Susie acts for a large number of high net worth, private individuals and their families based across
the UK.

Susie also works closely in a voluntary capacity with the Institute of Directors in Scotland. She is Lead
Ambassador for ED&I for them which allows her to pursue her passion for seeking to secure a fully
diverse workplace of the future across all her clients/contacts in Scotland and beyond.

Carole-anne Wilkinson is a UK Director of W. L. Gore & Associates. She has worked for Gore, based in Scotland, for almost 26 years covering a variety of technical and product roles. She is currently part of Gore’s Enterprise Sustainability Leadership Team responsible for a global team of Product and Chemical Stewards.  She holds a PhD in Polymer Chemistry from Durham University and a Diploma in Sustainable Business from Cambridge University.  She is an Iyengar yoga teacher and an enthusiastic sourdough bread maker.

I am Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Gender and Politics in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. I received my dual Ph.D. in Political Science and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University in August 2016. Prior to joining the University of Edinburgh, I taught at Newcastle University, Smith College, and Penn State.

Stephen’s experience over the past 31 years has always been exclusively with retail financial services clients.   This included over 6 years in the South African firm where he worked with retail financial institutions, being based in both Johannesburg and KwaZulu Natal, where he was latterly a partner in the South African FIST team.

He is the Chair of the Deloitte UK Regulatory Board, a member of the Audit Governance Board, and has just rotated off as a member of the Deloitte NSE Board where he also chaired the Audit & Risk Committee.  He has recently also been appointed to be the partner responsible for the UK Deloitte WorldClimate team.

Stephen’s experience has always been exclusively with retail financial services, including having been the external audit engagement partner on a number of listed businesses including Lloyds Retail Bank, and recently was the Reporting accountant for what was at the time the largest SPAC transaction listing in the NYSE