On Monday 22nd March, our new GLG attended a Leadership Day delivered by inspiring members of alumnae community, who are all leading professionals in their sectors.
The morning began with a workshop led by Rose Gledhill (née Lane, DAHS 1979) of Face HR, an experienced HR Director and Executive Coach. Rose delivered a workshop with a theme of female empowerment. The morning concluded with a session focused on public speaking and effective communication. This was led by Ros Ball (BHS 1996), an accomplished public speaker, who has worked for the BBC on current affairs and political programming including reporting and presenting for BBC Parliament. She is an author as well as a policy maker at the Government Equalities Office.
The GLG had two further sessions in the afternoon before breaking off to work as a team on their campaign for the year ahead. The first was with Liz Macfie (BHS 2002), Head of Data Science at Century Tech, who provided a session on achieving effective leadership and team work, building on skills and strengths and sharing some stories of what she had wished she had known earlier. Secondly, they were joined by Fiyin Fayeye (BHS 2002), an experienced recruiter, who spoke about their individual and group responsibilities and how it the experiences can help them build their personal statements and CVs for the future.
Masooma Sultana (Head Girl) said: “After a week of becoming accustomed to our new roles, the 12 members of the GLG took part in a leadership day filled with activities to help us become the best team we can be. We had a variety of talks and presentations from valued alumnae who provided us with advice on leadership, public speaking and how we can develop as individuals within the GLG. The day provided us with the opportunity to bond as a team and establish our campaign for the year; which we cannot wait to present to the school!”
The team also enjoyed a heart-warming video from previous members of the BGS GLG, sharing what they had learnt about themselves during their GLG years and offering their good wishes and words of encouragement. As ever, we are enormously grateful to our alumnae community who involve themselves with school life and help our students flourish.
