Maths4Girls Event – online webinar

About the Business Leaders

These business leaders have been chosen because their companies are growing quickly. Combined they employ 4,138+ people.

About the teacher and students

The event was created by Sherry for 150 students at Dixons Fazakerley Academy aged Age 11 - 15.

Event description

Maths4Girls

In this 1 hour session, business leaders will share insights, lessons and tips to motivate and inspire your students to make informed decisions about their future.

Speakers will ‘tell a story’ about their career journey (up to 10mins):
• How maths played a part and how maths is relevant now
• What inspired them to choose their career path
• Their failures, as well as successes
• What their company does and why this is important
• What they enjoy most about their career
• Skills currently relevant in the jobs they are doing now.

Q&As will follow to end the session.

Speakers Profile:

Malar Velaigam - Director at finnCap Ltd. She started his life in corporate finance in South East Asia. Then, she moved to London and continued as a journalist, working as an investment writer - writing investment ideas in tech, media and telco stocks. Having done this for almost 5 years, she truly fell in love with tech, and moved to FT.com, to set up and run a start-up for them - a digital business.

Catriona McGill - Technical Development Manager at Desolenator. Desolenator is a clean technology venture based in central London. They are developing solar-powered desalination & water purification technology. Their company's mission is to provide sustainably-produced water to those who need it most.

Skylar Montgomery Koning- Assistant Vice President - Global Macro Strategy & Asset Allocation at Citi.

Notes:

Maths4Girls events feature role models who work within finance, investment and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths) industries to talk about how they use Maths Skills in their every day working lives.

• These events help students learn about a range of attributes to boost employability, to develop enterprise opportunities and to prepare for the world of work.


• In addition to this, students will gain an in-depth understanding of why skills such as resilience, conflict resolution, communication and independence are important within the workplace.

Age Appropriacy: This type of event is appropriate for any student aged 5 through 24. Refer to our white paper pages 9 and 11 for more details. This white paper summarizes more than 100 externally validated research papers on career pathways for students.