Building a network of contacts, developing leadership competences, planning and managing change, self-awareness and agency – these are just some of the topics raised by the participants of the EIT Food #WELead Polska workshop.
„We invited over 30 talented, creative and active women from our region to the #WELeadFood workshops. Women who carry out scientific research, manage their own business, create and implement regional policy, support the development of innovation, work in the education sector and non-governmental organizations or head departments in large corporations, especially in the agri-food industry. They are the leaders who manage, build R&D strategies, set goals for themselves and their teams, organize resources and take care of relations with partners”, say Iwona Kieda and Justyna Banasiak, organizers of the event from the Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Is change a fundamental factor in achieving key leadership positions? Do contacts help break the glass ceiling? Should organizations invest in mentoring? How to run #impact #business? How to increase the participation of women in science? And finally, how to find a balance in an active professional life that will „ground” us at the moment when we need it most?
We answered these and other questions during a panel discussion with Anna Borys, Impact Director at McDonald’s Poland; Dr. Magdalena Weidner-Glunde, head of the Microbiology and Molecular Virology Laboratory at our Institute and Matilda Szyrle, CEO of Future Friendly Farm startup.
The training part of the workshop was about discovering our own resources, setting goals and planning their achievement with the trainers: Marzena Radzka-Wiśniewska and Lidia Willan.
The finale of the meeting was a networking session in the form of culinary workshops with elements of molecular gastronomy, led by scientists from our Institute, Dr. Marta Kopcewicz and Dr. Sylwia Machcińska-Zielińska.
The workshop took place on May 31 in Kuźnia Społeczna.
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