Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation Forum 15th September 2025
September 2025
Supporting Organisations
Overview
This unique event, specifically designed for female digital transformation professionals, is an extension of Empowering You's award winning "Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation" leadership development initiative. Launched in 2021 as a cross-sector partnership with government and industry to try and address the lack of gender diversity in leadership within the sector, our alumni network now includes nearly 200 empowered and empowering female digital professionals across the UK.
Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation - Forum 2025 fuses agenda setting discussions on some of the key technological developments and challenges in the sector, presented by some of the leading digital experts from across Scotland and the UK, alongside inspiring and immersive leadership development workshops, led by our expert facilitators. These leadership masterclasses will be built around some of the most pressing challenges facing leaders as they develop and grow into the role, as well as the most common themes for development that we hear from our work with hundreds of female technology professionals across the country every year.
Most importantly, Forum 2025 provides an invaluable, supportive and empowering environment to deepen your industry knowledge, develop your leadership capabilities, create valuable new connections and, ultimately, realise your potential.
Delegate Experience
The Empowering Women to Lead Digital Digital Transformation Forum is not just another conference.
The entire day has been specifically designed to blend agenda setting technical discussions, presented by some of the leading female voices in the digital transformation profession from across Scotland and beyond, with interactive leadership development workshops, led by our expert facilitators and themed around some of the most pressing challenges that we hear from our work with hundreds of female technology professionals every year.
Throughout the day, delegates will be informed, challenged, inspired and strengthen their networks with likeminded peers from across the cyber eco-system.
Attendees will:
- Hear from some of the leading digital professionals on the issues shaping the sector
- Develop your leadership capabilities in a supportive and immersive environment
- Take part in interactive discussion forums
- Listen as established digital leaders share their journey
- Build your network with an established community of empowered and empowering peers
- Engage with some of the leading tech employers in Scotland
- Connect with potential mentors
Sponsor Experience
If you're tired of just being the exhibition backdrop to yet another tech conference, the "Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation Forum" could be the answer.
Building on the success of our established "Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation" programs across the UK, Forum 2025 provides a vital opportunity for female tech professionals to gather, advance their industry knowledge, stretch their development as leaders and deepen their connections with a growing community.
Your support makes something special and valuable possible.
Sponsors Will:
- Connect with emerging and aspiring digital leaders from across the public and private sectors
- Align your brand with an award-winning gender diversity in tech initiative
- Support the personal and professional development of tomorrow's industry leaders
- Showcase your organisation as an employer which recognises, celebrates and supports diversity
Pricing & Registration
Tickets are priced at £90 + VAT for the full day and includes access to all main stage presentations, 2 x leadership workshops, 1 x panel discussion and drinks reception.
Please Note:
Group Bookings: If your organisation is booking a number of places on the Forum, please email events@empowering-you.co.uk referencing "Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation - Group Booking" in the subject title and a group booking order form will be issued.
This event is specifically designed for women working within the digital transformation professions. Whilst Empowering You completely understands and believes in the valuable role which male allies play in creating a more diverse and inclusive tech eco-system, the immersive nature of our workshops means that we respectfully request that men do not register to attend.
For any queries regarding the Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation Forum, please email events@empowering-you.co.uk
Leadership Stream Workshop Information:
Leadership Workshop A:
Taming Your Internal Impostor:
with Charley Gavigan
Have you ever had the feeling that one day you’re going to be found out?
Have you ever felt like a fake? A fraud as a leader?
Symptoms include self-doubt, overthinking your leadership performance, a constant nagging fear you don’t know enough.
Sabotaging your own success, shrinking yourself away from opportunities and general lack of self-confidence.
If so, don’t worry you’re not alone.
A KPMG study tells us 75% of women executives have or do experience Imposter Syndrome.
In this workshop we get under the skin of the Imposter and consider how to reconcile the different versions of ourselves while crucially turning something that feels like a guilty secret into a hidden superpower.
Together we’ll explore and takeaway :
1. The truth and definition of Imposter Syndrome
2. Celebrate flaws, fears and mess-ups
3. Embrace the power of vulnerability and self-acceptance
4. Create a daily toolbox of techniques to tame and overcome your Imposter
Leadership Workshop B:
Self-care as Key to Effective Leadership - Managing stress and burn-out:
with Debbie Anderson
OVERVIEW
The mind and the body are intrinsically connected. If you are not feeling well physically it will affect your mental state and vice versa. Whilst we will have the best of intentions, we may not look after ourselves as well as we could; life pressures, work priorities and family commitments can get in the way. If we are not practising self-care we are not putting ourselves in a good position to manage our health let alone support others.
In this interactive workshop we will explore the following:
- How we define mindset, resilience and wellbeing and how they affect how we operate at work.
- Simple principles for setting boundaries and what it means to us when we say ‘Yes’ or ’No’.
- Using coaching techniques challenge each other on whether our resilience balance is right.
- The connection between stress and performance.
- The difference between real self-care and faux-self care and how to get the flow back into our lives.
Leadership Workshop C:
Harnessing the Power of Networks
Further details to follow
Leadership Workshop D
Managing Difficult Conversations and Conflict Resolution:
with Steve Cliff
Do you avoid difficult conversations that you know are much needed? Perhaps a sensitive topic? Or an area of disagreement? It may be with your line manager, a team member or anyone in your personal life (who doesn’t have a family conflict?!)
In this active and practical session we will explore how to navigate tough discussions with confidence and clarity. We ask participants to come ready with a real-life scenario to work on, in pairs or small groups, all in confidence.
PLEASE NOTE: Delegates will be contacted in advance of the Forum for you to select your workshop preferences.
Speakers
