Interactive workshop 4.15pm – 5.30pm
Speed networking 4.15pm – 5.30pm
Careers with purpose Room 0.02
Knowing me, knowing you Room 0.04
From Unilever to Tesla, purpose statements are everywhere, and at their best can energise a firm, creating shared value by innovating around specific SDGs. But how about our own passions? What SDGs matter most to us as individuals? And do these align with the priorities of the organisations we work for? This interactive workshop will explore how we can use the idea of purpose statements to focus our careers and add meaning to our work.
Break the ice with ease as our facilitator guides you through activities designed to spark meaningful conversations. Exchange insights, best practices, and innovative ideas with like- minded individuals eager to collaborate and grow.
Professor Hugh Wilson Professor of Marketing
Karen Barker Director of Stakeholder Engagement
Professor Hugh Wilson joined Warwick Business School as a Professor of Marketing in 2019, having previously held a similar position at Cranfield School of Management, UK. After degrees in mathematics at Oxford and computer science at Cambridge, Hugh spent a number of years in management roles with IBM and Xerox, among other firms. He now teaches and researches on sustainability marketing, B2B relationships and customer experience management, and works on these issues with companies such as Unilever, Mercedes Benz, Pfizer and Nestlé. Hugh initiated Cranfield University’s carbon programme which has reduced the university’s carbon emissions by 32% so far. He is listed in the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s “Guru Gallery” of “50 leading marketing thinkers alive in the world today”, alongside such names as Jack Welch and Bill Gates. He has also been honoured by Tim Berners-Lee as one of the hundred “Internet Decade” individuals who had most influenced the development of e-commerce. Hugh is passionate about leveraging marketing theory to achieve sustainability in business and society.
Karen is a highly driven, positive and pragmatic recruitment, coach and career management specialist, with a rich mixture of experiences spanning the Higher Education, Investment Banking and Actuarial Consulting sectors. As Director of Stakeholder Engagement at Warwick Business School, Karen is part of the senior management team with ultimate leadership responsibility for the Recruitment, Marketing, Careers+ and Employer Relations, Executive Education and Global Alumni Engagement sections. Prior to this she worked as the Director of Recruitment and Marketing at WBS driving the Schools growth strategy and leading a multi- disciplinary team of 65 specialists. In her earlier career she worked as the Careers Manager for the Full-time MBA at WBS and held various Graduate Recruitment roles within the financial services sector. Karen is a ‘coach’ at heart and is passionate about working with individuals and teams to identify their purpose and move forward with realising aspirations, transitions and goals with positivity and a growth mindset.
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