Taking control of your professional development

Advance is a mentoring programme designed for women in transport by women in transport. The pilot programme opened for applications in 2017 and we are now welcoming applications for a third year. Mentoring can be a powerful tool for your professional development but it does require work, dedication and commitment as shown by the experience of Josephe Dibaya, a mentee on Advance 2019.

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Putting the customer at the heart of what we do

On Thursday 12 September 2019 around 100 representatives from across the transport sector attended the Women in Transport Autumn reception hosted by KPMG at their offices in Canary Wharf. This year's topic was 'Creating the customer centric organisation of the future’. The panel discussion focused on what makes excellent customer experience (CX), challenges faced by specific sectors within the transport industry, the role of technology in CX and what transport organisations are doing to enhance their focus on the customer.

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Why is a lack of gender balance in transport planning an issue we must address to move forward?

Jo Ward is a Board Director of the Transport Planning Society and has written and spoken extensively about the need for more inclusivity in transport planning and its governance. In this guest blog, she discusses why a lack of gender balance in transport planning is an issue that we must address to move forward.

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Brighton & Hove Buses partners with Women in Transport

We are delighted to announce a new corporate partnership with Brighton & Hove Buses commencing 1 August 2019. The company has sponsored corporate membership for 30 women across the business providing access to our membership benefits including networking, events, mentoring and the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Women in Transport. They are also supporting next year’s APPG and joining our three incumbent sponsors to support our Advance 2020 mentoring programme.

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Member Insight - Becki Cox

Women in Transport member, Becki Cox tells us about her fascinating and unusual role as a Principal Technical Advisor aka “professional pedestrian” at Living Streets. As Becki is about to move to Glasgow to study for a PhD, Living Streets is seeking a replacement for her role, read on to find out more about her role and how to apply.

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Working together to support women in transport

Our CEO, Sonya Veerasamy, reflects on a month packed full of activity for Women in Transport. We kicked off June with our joint APPG Summer Reception, held our quarterly board meeting, Anna Delvecchio made history, a team took on the Big Transport and Logistics Challenge and we ended the month celebrating International Women in Engineering Day with a brilliant members event hosted by Atkins.

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