Vanessa Vallely
Award winning author and expert in personal branding, networking, progression of women in the workplace in business and technology.
Reasons to book Vanessa Vallely
- As the visionary behind influential diversity forums and awards, Vanessa has championed inclusivity and recognition for outstanding individuals, catalyzing positive change in workplaces across sectors.
- Vanessa Vallely, an award-winning advocate for gender equality, stands as a beacon of inspiration, recognized for her unwavering commitment to empowering women.
- Through her acclaimed book "Heels of Steel," Vanessa shares her remarkable journey from humble beginnings to corporate success, offering invaluable lessons and inspiration to aspiring professionals.
Discover Vanessa Vallely, a powerhouse in gender equality and career advancement. With 25 years in banking, she’s helped 40,000+ women globally through keynotes and initiatives like WeAreTheCity. Recognized with 26 awards, including an OBE, her insights transform organizations. From best-selling author to media personality, her impact resonates worldwide. Partner with Vanessa for inspired leadership and impactful change.
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Keynotes
Speaker Vanessa Vallely Keynote Topic: The Power of Profile
Personal profile can be one of the most powerful elements in your business armoury, but you have to know what tools and techniques will help you build it and protect it in order to drive success. Culturally, many people are brought up not to “toot your own horn” or “shout about your success”, but in today’s highly competitive world if you don’t stand out, you’re likely to watch those with profile pass you by on their way to the top.
Throughout this interactive and practical session, Vanessa will share stories from her career about how she started in Banking in the City at 16, worked for nine different banks and rose to the C-suite. Vanessa will provide the top tips she’s picked up in corporates, as an entrepreneur and as a network leader and encourage your audience to become comfortable with raising their profile. This session works for both women and men at all levels of the organisation.
Keynote includes:
How to stop feeling like an imposter - What is imposter syndrome, how it surfaces and how to keep it in check.
How to focus on your personal brand and exhibit leadership behaviours to your peers.
The importance of networking and building relationships for the the future and why you must create your own people plan.
Networking - Why networking is important and how to build authentic relationships.
Speed networking and aha moments – A chance to break the ice and form relationships amongst guests.
Optimising your digital footprint - what is your story online?
Coach, Mentor, Sponsor – Who can help you drive your career and how to build your career army of advocates.
The importance of giving back - Engaging in extra curricular activities to help others, enhance your skills and grow your network.
Vanessa will provide guidance on a wide array of profile-raising opportunities that are easy to implement straight away. Through this talk Vanessa helps individuals to take the next steps towards raising their profile and attracting opportunities to progress in their careers and help others too. This session is ideal for organisations who want to encourage their staff to grow their own careers.
Throughout this interactive and practical session, Vanessa will share stories from her career about how she started in Banking in the City at 16, worked for nine different banks and rose to the C-suite. Vanessa will provide the top tips she’s picked up in corporates, as an entrepreneur and as a network leader and encourage your audience to become comfortable with raising their profile. This session works for both women and men at all levels of the organisation.
Keynote includes:
How to stop feeling like an imposter - What is imposter syndrome, how it surfaces and how to keep it in check.
How to focus on your personal brand and exhibit leadership behaviours to your peers.
The importance of networking and building relationships for the the future and why you must create your own people plan.
Networking - Why networking is important and how to build authentic relationships.
Speed networking and aha moments – A chance to break the ice and form relationships amongst guests.
Optimising your digital footprint - what is your story online?
Coach, Mentor, Sponsor – Who can help you drive your career and how to build your career army of advocates.
The importance of giving back - Engaging in extra curricular activities to help others, enhance your skills and grow your network.
Vanessa will provide guidance on a wide array of profile-raising opportunities that are easy to implement straight away. Through this talk Vanessa helps individuals to take the next steps towards raising their profile and attracting opportunities to progress in their careers and help others too. This session is ideal for organisations who want to encourage their staff to grow their own careers.
Speaker Vanessa Vallely Keynote Topic: The Power of Mentoring
Success in your career isn’t just about the ability to do your day job and do it well. Success is often achieved by pushing your boundaries and learning/benefiting from the advice and experience of others. Mentoring is becoming an increasingly popular way of leveraging skills. However, if your mentoring relationships are not structured and there are no measurements for success, then these sessions are unlikely to reap rewards in the long-term. If you are interested in seeking mentors in the future and/or want to turn up the heat on an existing mentoring relationship, then this hands-on learning session is for you.
Throughout this interactive and practical session Vanessa will share her top tips - having mentored over 100 individuals during her 25 year career in Finance. She will also share her reflections of being a successful mentor for programmes such as Parligender, a House of Parliament Mentoring campaign and the hugely successful CRUK Women of Influence mentoring programme. Vanessa has also run mentoring programmes for Oracle, MUFG, Nationwide and Squire Paton Bogg.
Keynote includes:
Learn the basics of a successful mentoring relationship, who does what and why!
Learn how to drive success from your mentoring relationships to achieve optimum results.
Map out a skills framework and relationship plan to identify your long-term and short-term outcomes.
Identify and plan how to approach potential mentors.
Learn how to be the best mentee!
Practise your mentoring pitch.
Gain access to templates to get your mentoring engagement off to a flying start.
Find out who else you might need in your career, e.g. coaches and sponsors.
Learn how to turn your mentors in to sponsors.
Throughout this interactive and practical session Vanessa will share her top tips - having mentored over 100 individuals during her 25 year career in Finance. She will also share her reflections of being a successful mentor for programmes such as Parligender, a House of Parliament Mentoring campaign and the hugely successful CRUK Women of Influence mentoring programme. Vanessa has also run mentoring programmes for Oracle, MUFG, Nationwide and Squire Paton Bogg.
Keynote includes:
Learn the basics of a successful mentoring relationship, who does what and why!
Learn how to drive success from your mentoring relationships to achieve optimum results.
Map out a skills framework and relationship plan to identify your long-term and short-term outcomes.
Identify and plan how to approach potential mentors.
Learn how to be the best mentee!
Practise your mentoring pitch.
Gain access to templates to get your mentoring engagement off to a flying start.
Find out who else you might need in your career, e.g. coaches and sponsors.
Learn how to turn your mentors in to sponsors.
Speaker Vanessa Vallely Keynote Topic: Speed Mentoring
Speed mentoring is a great low admin way to for organisations to help people share skills, get tailored career advice to leaders at all levels and bring visibility to more sources of potential career support for individuals. This session matches participants during a series of short interactions to discuss the issues/opportunities they have as mentees and how they can support as mentors.
As part of this speed mentoring event, Vanessa will also give an overview of mentoring best practices and follow ups. This session works well to introduce emerging talent to senior leaders or where companies wish to form introductions for mentoring programmes.
Session includes:
10 minute overview of the importance of mentoring, including why you need a mentor, Identifying and approaching mentors, and what good mentoring relationships look like.
Explanation of the speed mentoring process.
Time management of the speed mentoring session (30-40 minutes dependent on number of attendees/table hosts).
10 minute summary, including aha moments in the room, top tips on how to follow up with potential mentors and how to keep mentoring relationships going.
Mentoring Q&A.
As part of this speed mentoring event, Vanessa will also give an overview of mentoring best practices and follow ups. This session works well to introduce emerging talent to senior leaders or where companies wish to form introductions for mentoring programmes.
Session includes:
10 minute overview of the importance of mentoring, including why you need a mentor, Identifying and approaching mentors, and what good mentoring relationships look like.
Explanation of the speed mentoring process.
Time management of the speed mentoring session (30-40 minutes dependent on number of attendees/table hosts).
10 minute summary, including aha moments in the room, top tips on how to follow up with potential mentors and how to keep mentoring relationships going.
Mentoring Q&A.
Speaker Vanessa Vallely Keynote Topic: Speed Networking
Speed networking , or matching participants on a one-on-one basis through a number of short interactions, has been one of the fastest-growing forms of networking over the last few years. During your speed networking event, Vanessa will facilitate the speed networking interactions and also top and tail the session by sharing networking tips and experiences that have enabled her to become one of the most well-networked women in the UK.
Participants will learn about the benefits of networking and how to network both internally and externally. They will also get top tips for creating impactful introductions and growing their networks through social media.
Session includes:
10 minute overview of the importance of networking, including creating your impactful introduction, the benefits of networking, and what 'good' looks like.
Explanation of the speed networking process.
Time management of the speed networking session (30-40 minutes dependent on number of attendees).
10 minute summary, including aha moments in the room and top tips on how to follow up, keep relationships warm and network via social media.
Networking Q&A.
By the end of the session, participants will have learned about the art of networking and had the opportunity to put those skills into practice. This interactive and energising event will enable your participants to meet new people, create opportunities and have a lot of fun!
The session is ideal for a client event or to help build better relationships between individuals/departments who need to collaborate.
Participants will learn about the benefits of networking and how to network both internally and externally. They will also get top tips for creating impactful introductions and growing their networks through social media.
Session includes:
10 minute overview of the importance of networking, including creating your impactful introduction, the benefits of networking, and what 'good' looks like.
Explanation of the speed networking process.
Time management of the speed networking session (30-40 minutes dependent on number of attendees).
10 minute summary, including aha moments in the room and top tips on how to follow up, keep relationships warm and network via social media.
Networking Q&A.
By the end of the session, participants will have learned about the art of networking and had the opportunity to put those skills into practice. This interactive and energising event will enable your participants to meet new people, create opportunities and have a lot of fun!
The session is ideal for a client event or to help build better relationships between individuals/departments who need to collaborate.
Vanessa Vallely
Empowering Women in the Corporate World
Vanessa is one of the UK’s most well-networked women and has provided keynotes on a variety of career related topics for over 600 companies and 40,000 women worldwide. Vanessa is one of the UK’s most prominent figures in gender equality and often provides guidance and consultancy to both government and corporate organisations who are seeking to attract, develop and retain their female talent. Vanessa was awarded her OBE from King Chrles in June 2018 for her services to women and the economy.
Vanessa is renowned for her groundbreaking work in championing gender equality and fostering female talent development. With over 25 years of experience in banking and finance, Vanessa brings a unique perspective to the table, one that resonates deeply with organizations striving to create inclusive and equitable workplaces. Her acclaimed initiatives, including WeAreTheCity and Gender Networks, have impacted thousands of women globally, providing them with the resources and support needed to thrive in their careers.
Vanessa is also the Pearly Queen of The City of London, a tradition that has been in her family for over 100 years. She is an avid charity worker and has sat on various boards, including Prostate UK and Cancer Research UK as one of its Women of Influence. Vanessa is currently a trustee for MS Together, a charity that supports 18-35 year old's who have been diagnosed with MS.
When you book Vanessa Vallely for your event, you're not just getting a keynote speaker; you're investing in transformative change. Vanessa's dynamic presentations inspire audiences to challenge the status quo, embrace diversity, and drive innovation. Her insightful talks leave a lasting impression, sparking meaningful conversations and catalyzing positive action within organizations.
Vanessa is renowned for her groundbreaking work in championing gender equality and fostering female talent development. With over 25 years of experience in banking and finance, Vanessa brings a unique perspective to the table, one that resonates deeply with organizations striving to create inclusive and equitable workplaces. Her acclaimed initiatives, including WeAreTheCity and Gender Networks, have impacted thousands of women globally, providing them with the resources and support needed to thrive in their careers.
Vanessa is also the Pearly Queen of The City of London, a tradition that has been in her family for over 100 years. She is an avid charity worker and has sat on various boards, including Prostate UK and Cancer Research UK as one of its Women of Influence. Vanessa is currently a trustee for MS Together, a charity that supports 18-35 year old's who have been diagnosed with MS.
When you book Vanessa Vallely for your event, you're not just getting a keynote speaker; you're investing in transformative change. Vanessa's dynamic presentations inspire audiences to challenge the status quo, embrace diversity, and drive innovation. Her insightful talks leave a lasting impression, sparking meaningful conversations and catalyzing positive action within organizations.
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