1. Inova Consultancy Celebrating Diversity Emma Parry Occupational Psychologist emparry@inovaconsult.com

2. Inova Consultancy Celebrating diversity Inova provides consultancy services to organisations and individuals on an international level in the area of diversity and equal opportunities.

3. WiTEC  European Association  Secretariat in Austria  Set up in 1988 – 20 years  10 EU National Co-ordinators  More than 2000 women supported

4. Services  Organisational Development & career coaching  Mentoring programmes for women (entrepreneurship and women returners)  Research and evaluation  Project Management  Bid Writing  Policy development- gender & diversity

5. Geographical Spread  UK (focus on regional & local)  Europe  Mexico  Ghana  USA

6. Examples of projects  Mentoring programmes for female entrepreneurs & Mentoring Circles TM  Change management programme in a UK university to increase the representation of women in SET  Research project into BAME attitudes towards employment  Workshops for BAME women to support entry into employment- Job centre plus

7. Successes: Nov 08-Oct 09  New project Training the Trainers:  Training HR staff in how to match mentors and mentees University of Sheffield  New project Mentoring Programme:  Developing new mentoring programme for post-docs in University of Sheffield  New project Coaching Programme:  Delivering coaching to individuals in Yorkshire starting up in business with personal barriers

8. Successes: Nov 08-Oct 09  New project Women@Business:  Training the trainers and delivering Mentoring Circles to female undergraduates to foster entrepreneurship  New project BiG Sheffield:  Mentoring circles, personality profiling and workshops  New project in Active Citizenship – Turkey (Grundtvig)

9. Geographical Spread  UK (focus on regional & local)  Europe  Mexico  Ghana  USA

10. Resources www.inovaconsult.com www.witec-eu.net www.mentoringcircles.org.uk