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Inge Woudstra
MSc, Gender diversity Consultant, Trainer, Speaker, Author, Researcher
Inge is a principal consultant and COO at Voice At The Table, a leading diversity and inclusion consultancy.
Inge has over 11+ years of experience working in diversity and inclusion. She is passionate to help those leading ED&I to find easy and practical ways to increase their ED&I impact. She often helps business leaders or D&I teams and champions to design D&I strategy, action plans and effective initiatives. In addition she leads projects on re-designing the employee life cycle, so it is offering equality of opportunity for all.
Clients she has worked with include: Technip Energies, ENGIE, TalkTalk, EDF Luminus, Total, Taylor Hopkinson, Navigant, Edwards, and a range of small and medium sized organisations in professional services, finance, tech and engineering.
Participants in Inge’s training programmes value her down-to-earth style, practical examples and wealth of knowledge.
Inge regularly works sector wide. She is actively involved with TechUK and TechTalentCharter, guiding solutions to achieve a more balanced workforce. Relevant projects include: Royal Academy of Engineering Gender Pay Gap Research, UAE Best Practice Guide for Gender Balance, and ED&I Best Practice Guides for the UK Offshore Wind Industry as well as the Global Data Infrastructure Industry.
Inge is the author of, ‘Be Gender Smart – The Key to Career Success for Women’.
She has a background in organisational change, working for nearly 2 decades in organisations such as Siemens, Shell and Ashridge Business School. She has lived and worked in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, India and the Middle East.
Session 1 — How to attract a candidate pool with good quality female candidates?
Inge Woudstra Many organisations find it hard to attract female applicants. Typically, they would say, ‘I just don’t get any CV’s from women. They are just not interested in these types of roles and in this type of industry’. Or they believe that there may not be enough women that take Science, Tech or Engineering qualifications.
Session 2 — How to ensure women have an equal chance of being selected, and secure the best candidate for the role?
Once you are attracting a wider range of candidates, they need to be offered the role by the hiring manager and accept your offer. Recruitment firms find that when they offer a gender balanced shortlist, in 80 % of cases clients still choose a male candidate.