We hope all the mentors and mentees in our Women in Transport Asset Management Mentoring Program had a great day on Saturday with it being International Mentoring Day! Since our pilot program is focused around progressing Women in the Transport space, we thought it apt to revisit a webinar the AMCouncil’s special interest group, Women in Asset Management (WiAM), hosted last year.
Read the latest Women in Engineering newsletter out which includes articles about Women of the Month, Victoria Dodds, WIE representation at the National Schools Science Week and also an interesting recount of the WIE Senior Women in Engineering Lunch feating Dr Collette Burke, Victorian Chief Engineering, who were were lucky enough to have speak at our recent Asset Management in Government symposium. A great read and can be downloaded here.
We were excited to officially launch the 2018 Women in Transport Asset Management Mentoring Program yesterday. It is one of the outcomes of a strategic partnership between the Asset Management Council and Transport for Victoria.
The AMCouncil is delighted to announce that Lucie Mitchell has been elected as the Women in Asset Management SIG National Chair. The AMC would like to extend its sincere thanks to Felicia Tristanto, outgoing WiAM National Chair, for all her time and effort over the last three years.
A great chance to get to know more about Lucie is to join her in next Tuesday’s webinar. If you haven’t already, make sure you register to join Lucie for a webinar discussion moderated by Helen Carroll around Value, and its Role in Successful Organisations.
The Asset Management Council is seeking a practitioner in asset management to serve as its National Chair for the Women in Asset Management (WiAM) Practitioners Group. The following credentials and qualities are desired:
AMCouncil members Dr Carla Boehl and Dr Yvonne Power were recently honoured to receive an invitation from Dr Marguerite Evans-Galea, PhD and Executive Director of the Industry Mentoring Network in STEM (IMNIS), to share their entrepreneurial experiences and career advice to a selected group of PhD students.