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Dear subscriber
It's International Women's Day!
A question for all the men in our network as well the women, what will you #ChooseToChallenge this year? Hit reply and let me know!
In the eBook below you can read about the 100 women that NatWest bank have chosen to celebrate for Challenging 2020 including me and a few other women you may recognise (and thank you for all the comments about me being challenging whatever year it is - I'm perversely proud of that!)
An IWD gift to Premium Members
Portrait photographer Regina Ray was brought up in a communist country and International Women's Day has always been very important to her so she is marking this year with a gift to all Premium Members of Drive. The gift is a complimentary portrait photography session valued at £200 plus £200 towards the purchase of prints. We're looking forward to seeing some snazzy new profile pictures! Thank you Regina! Here's a recent portrait Regina did of Drive member Dennis Harhalakis.
Welcome to our newest Premium Member
Gesa Grabis is an outsourced HR Director, who started her business HR Influence six years ago to help resolve challenges, improve performance and maximise people potential. Gesa advises leaders with 10 to 150 staff who have aspirations to grow or improve their companies through talented people.
HR Influence
Members' News
Annabel Harper has been selected as an official UN Women UK Delegate to the United Nations Conference - Commission on the Status of Women and her book: "Shujaa'ah: Bold Leadership for Women of the Middle East" has been SHORTLISTED in the Diversity, Inclusion and Equality category for the prestigious 2021 Business Book Awards!
Fay Strange is holding a Pinterest for Beginners Masterclass on 23rd March at 10am, covering everything you need to know to create an optimised Pinterest account that will drive quality traffic and generate leads for your business. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pinterest-for-beginners-masterclass-tickets-142015719841
ClubHouse
Just in case you're wondering, Drive will not be holding any events on the "hot new social media platform" ClubHouse. We left Facebook because its values are at odds with the way we believe businesses should behave and ClubHouse is already being heavily criticised for racism, misogyny, unmoderated toxicity, lack of assistive tech that excludes whole communities and data breaches.
There are some interesting developments in the social media world with creators building in tech that reduces trolls, bots and hate speech so it possible to do!
If we don't demand better we'll keep getting what we deserve.
Zoom Meetings
If you like to have a quick drop in / catch up chat join us on Tuesdays.
For more in depth but subtle networking Thursdays meetings are the thing.
On Fridays we have fun with our 'ED (not quite TED) Talks
And we're still beating all expectations with our written check-ins on LinkedIn every Monday and Friday that make it easy to connect however little time you have.
Our first Business Brainstorming was a big success so we'll be holding more. Watch out for dates coming soon!
And finally ...
Drive events always had an on-line element, even before the pandemic and we'll continue to be on-line for the foreseeable future, so if you're a bit anxious about "getting back out there", rest assured you won't miss out on the great opportunities our meetings provide.
Ann Hawkins
MD and Founder
www.drivethenetwork.com
Drive challenges bigotry and discrimination wherever we see it. We actively enable collaboration over competition and openly share expertise and knowledge. If you believe these things are important and you'd like to join us, you'll be very welcome.
