Chemistry: Careers Programme: (CP9) Consultancy (I) (1L)

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Drs Zoe Hollowood, Joan van den Brink and Julian Lomas

Session Summary: This session will illustrate how it is possible to develop careers that are very different from the traditional routes followed by science and technology graduates and why it is important that some science and technology graduates pursue these careers.

Speaker Biographies: Joan van den Brink is the owner of Araba Consulting, a boutique consultancy that works with organisations to enable their people to be more effective. Joan has had a varied career that enables her to understand how organisations work and what people need to do so that they and their organisations are successful. After graduating with a PhD in Organic Chemistry from Cambridge University, Joan decided to enter the commercial world in a marketing capacity. She soon realised that she relished the challenge of being creative and handling multiple projects simultaneously and moved into operations management whilst retaining her focus on commerciality. After >13 years working for manufacturing companies, Joan switched careers again, going into management consultancy. She worked with senior leaders and their teams in a wide range of organisations and fields of expertise include strategic HR, talent strategy, leadership, organisational development, performance management, change leadership and client relationship development. After 12 years as a consultant, Joan joined a speciality chemicals company as EVP HR & Communications where she led the development of both functions. In 2014 Joan established Araba Consulting. Julian Lomas is the owner of Almond Tree Strategic Consulting, a specialist consultancy for the not-for-profit sector specialising in strategy and planning, fundraising, governance and change management (together with a growing international development practice). After graduating with a PhD in physical and theoretical chemistry from Cambridge, Julian had a varied 11-year career in the public sector, starting in the research councils and finishing as a local government director. During this time Julian developed a passion for the not-for-profit sector and became a Trustee of a number of charities. In 2007, seeking a change of direction from public service, it was a natural progression for Julian to follow his passion and start a business supporting charities, social enterprises, universities and public sector bodies to be more effective and make a bigger difference for the communities they serve. He works with organisations ranging in size from zero employees and a few thousand pounds annual income to hundreds of employees and tens of millions of annual income, helping them to be more sustainable, to grow and to operate more effectively, legally and efficiently.

Postgraduates in the Department of Chemistry

Number of sessions: 1

Lecture

1 hour