Speakers4Schools
Students from Year 10 welcomed Kate Lander, CEO, Ivy House, London
to our school on Monday to talk about her life as a Chief Executive Officer for
a large Financial Institution.
The talk came about through our long-standing partnership with Speakers
for Schools, a charitable organisation, founded in 2010 by ITV’s Political Editor Robert Peston. The aim of
the Charity is to end educational inequality by giving all young people access
to the same prestigious
networks available to the top fee-paying schools in the UK. Through talks
from today’s influential figures via their Inspiration programme, their work experience programme linking state
school students to industry-leading companies and networked support partners, they are helping to level
the playing field for young people of all backgrounds.
Kate spoke in the Discovery Centre
about her early years growing up in the Midlands and how she developed a set of
personal values that has made her incredibly appreciative of the things she has
achieved. She gave our students an insight into what it was like working in the
Finance sector in 2008 when the banking crash occurred and Lehman Brothers bank
failed.
She linked her love of Sport with
her own personal success in finance, explaining that Sport gave her a real
sense of her own identity and enabled her to be much more self-confident.
She encouraged our students to make
themselves memorable, by creating a clear identity for themselves and living
within those personal values, telling them that when they find something that
they are passionate about, the world will be a much happier place in which to
live.
In a lively Q&A, she spoke at length about the role of women in the financial world and how women are taking on more leading roles than ever before within a wide range of FTSE 100 companies
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