Diversity and Inclusion Archives

Scottish Government’s Head of Digital Transformation Final Speaker to Address Women in Digital Leadership Programme

“Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation”, an innovative new programme designed to address the issue of gender diversity in tech leadership, is coming to the end of its first 3-month cohort. The new initiative, led by industry coaching experts Empowering-You

“Empowering…” Initiative Receives Backing for Autumn Cohort and Launches new Programme for Women in Cyber Security

By updatesPosted on 2nd June 20212nd June 2021Posted in Diversity and Inclusion, ScotlandIS News, ScotlandISCyber

Following on from the success of the inaugural “Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation” Programme, a second cohort has now been confirmed to run in the Autumn and the call for applications from women who aspire to be the next

Deloitte’s Public Sector Lead to Share Leadership Journey with Digital Transformation Programme

By updatesPosted on 18th May 202119th May 2021Posted in Diversity and Inclusion, ScotlandIS News

The latest gathering of the “Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation” Programme takes place this week, at a session run by Deloitte’s Angela Mitchell. The new initiative, launched in April by Empowering-You and supported by ScotlandIS, The Scottish Government and

ScotlandIS team member appointed to digital charity board

By updatesPosted on 12th May 202112th May 2021Posted in Diversity and Inclusion, ScotlandIS News, Skills

Congratulations to ScotlandIS Head of Cyber, Ciara Mitchell, who is now a board trustee for ACE IT Scotland. ACE IT is an Edinburgh charity which helps older people learn and stay up to date on digital skills. Ciara has stated

MIT Solve Global Challenge: Digital Inclusion

By updatesPosted on 11th May 202111th May 2021Posted in Diversity and Inclusion, Opportunity

How can everyone have access to the digital economy? The pandemic has exacerbated the need to be connected in order to access jobs, training, and markets. However, the digital economy excludes over half of the world’s population who remain disconnected from the web,

PDMS Director to Share Leadership Journey as “Empowering…” Programme Gathers Pace

By updatesPosted on 3rd May 202130th April 2021Posted in Diversity and Inclusion, Member News, ScotlandIS News

The “Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation” Programme brought together its first cohort of aspirational digital leaders from across local and central government, financial services, health and industry last month. The new initiative, delivered by Empowering-You and supported by industry body ScotlandIS,

Gender Diversity in Tech Leadership Takes Centre Stage

By updatesPosted on 19th April 202119th April 2021Posted in Diversity and Inclusion, Member News, ScotlandIS News

A new leadership programme for inspirational women leaders in tech gathers its participants for the first time this month. The “Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation” Programme launched its call for applications to join the first cohort of participants in

Burness Paull ensures diversity and employee wellbeing is centre stage

By updatesPosted on 7th April 20217th April 2021Posted in Diversity and Inclusion, Member News

Leading independent law firm Burness Paull has underlined its commitment to diversity and the health of its staff by appointing a dedicated Inclusion & Wellbeing Manager. In what is believed to be a first for a corporate law firm in

LEAD SCOTLAND MAKING ONLINE SECURITY ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL WITH NEW ALTERNATIVE FORMATS

By updatesPosted on 24th March 202124th March 2021Posted in Diversity and Inclusion, Industry News, ScotlandISCyber

Lead Scotland is proud to be working with a range of partners commissioning and developing 16 new alternative formats of online safety and security messaging for people who might find current messaging inaccessible. The new formats will include text formats,

Deloitte Mark International Women’s Day by Partnering with “Empowering…” Programme

By updatesPosted on 9th March 20219th March 2021Posted in Diversity and Inclusion, ScotlandIS News

Deloitte is the latest company to partner on the “Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation” leadership coaching programme, as the first cohort of participants are confirmed. The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day was “Choose to Challenge”, calling on