This International Women’s Day we shine a spotlight on men supporting women as a force for social change.
We’re inviting three panels of men from a range of industries and backgrounds to join us at this free event to discuss how, together, we can make this year’s International Women’s Day theme of “An Equal World is an Enabled World’ a reality.
Jake is co-director of HEART CIC – which delivers healthy emotions and relationships training in secondary schools.
How diverse is your current leadership team – and/or what initiatives are in place that you support?
The leadership team is made up of myself and my wife Kelly Mattison. Hannah Goulding also contributes to delivery and course material decisions and we have another director Shifa Chowdhry.
Diversity is really important to us as we are a company that deliver educational programmes and training courses – we do not deliver to one type of person from one type of background, so experiences from, and contribution from a leadership team that come from a broad demographic, is essential for us to deliver best practice.
What career advice would you give your younger self?
The best career advice I could give to my younger self would be ‘finish things’!
Innovation is only part of the job. I’m still giving myself that advice everyday and dealing with the uncomfortable task of being patient and persist and crossing the T’s.
Have you any role models that have inspired you during your career to date?
I have lots of role models and each for different reasons, most of them seem to have mastered the art of allowing things to happen, not forcing them, being passionate and authentic and enjoying their journey to their goals. I’m working on that and trying to not pay to much attention to negative thoughts regarding potential hurdles in the future.
