Overview
Join us for this exciting event featuring career development and the IWFM Rising FMs Network Annual General Meeting (AGM).
You’ll hear from Sodexo Director Deborah Rowland, who will describe why she launched the Scholarship with IWFM and how she has blazed a trail in workplace and facilities management (WFM). Discover practical insight, like the qualifications she took and how her career has progressed over four decades. Find out how the Scholarship gives the next generation the opportunity to compete at a higher level, no matter the starting point.
Joanna Harris, Hard FM ambassador for Sodexo will describe how to grow your WFM career and how EDI is supported within Sodexo.
The IWFM Rising FMs Network AGM will follow, which will cover both the activities of the last 12 months as well as plans for the year ahead.
Agenda
17.30 Arrival
18.10 Deborah Rowland - The Scholarship and my WFM career
18.40 Joanna Harris - Growing your WFM career
19.10 AGM presented by the Rising FMs Committee
19.30 Q&A
19.50 Refreshments & Networking
20.30 Close
Refreshments and networking courtesy of Sodexo.
Sponsors
Sodexo
Speakers
Joanna Harris
Jo's role at Sodexo is developing best practice Hard FM in the UK&I region. Responsible for promoting, programme managing and embedding best practice in maintenance and technical services.
She is a technical author of industry guidance including the last 2 updates for CIBSE Guide M and working with BSI supporting the development of FM standards.
She is passionate about closing the gap between construction and operations, delivering best practice maintenance, and embracing technology to increase asset reliability and availability.
Deborah Rowland
Deborah is a strategic and operationally experienced property and FM professional with over 20 years practice in private and public sectors, as a client, consultant and supplier. An industry thought leader demonstrating best practice in workplace management, joining up property/FM/construction/HR/IT and raising the bar in FM professionalisation.