1. Inova Consultancy Celebrating Diversity Marina Larios Director mlarios@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!  11 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. International Assignments  UK representative at the United Nations- Expert Meeting on Trade and Development  Panel Member, Women in Engineering Expert Panel, Unesco, Paris  Co-chair for Europe for the World Federation of Engineering Organizations in Tunisia  Guest Speaker at the Gender, ICT and Education: Removing Old Barriers with New Technologies conference, United Nations, New York.

6. Iceberg- Transformational Change Self esteem Ways we see life Confidence Self-efficacy

8. Mentoring Interventions  Mentoring Circles  www.mentoringcircles.org.uk www.mentoringcircles.org.uk  One to one  Peer mentoring  Target audiences: female entrepreneurs, asylum seekers, unemployed; returners, women in SET, girls and young women

9. Examples of projects  Programmes for long term unemployed and migrant workers  Mentoring programmes for female entrepreneurs & Mentoring Circles TM  Change management programme in a UK university to increase the representation of women in SET  Research - looking at web 2.o to develop programmes to promote EO

10. Geographical Spread  UK (focus on regional & local)  Europe  Mexico  Ghana  USA  New: Orbita

11. New programmes  Accreditation for Mentors & Coaches  New tools: personality profiling; solution focused coaching, psychometric testing  Intercultural skills  Integration  Mentor Training: Action Learning  Using new technologies eg.web 2.0

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