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IWF UK 2020 Annual Festive Season Breakfast
Chronicle of a super festive and reflective event. A wonderful start of the festive season with breakfast hampers, video clips, piano and carols, a review of the year and a vision for 2021!
Wellbeing and the Boardroom in Covid-19 Times
How Are You Doing? A banal greeting between people. Right? Not according to our three brilliant speakers, who put these four words at the heart of wellbeing: a matter of great interest and concern to all of us. As one of the 33 participants put it, the event provided “important insights and rich food for thought”.
2020 IWF UK Annual Lecture in memory of Jean Denton
There was a definite buzz of excitement as we adjusted our seats and tuned in for the Jean Denton Lecture. The celebratory energy was strikingly equal in admiring the past, rejoicing in the present and anticipating the future. There was a real sense of collectiveness here. Together we can and do make things happen.
Leadership Stories: Judy Piatkus – a self-made entrepreneur and founder of Conscious Café
Judy Piatkus has been a member of IWF UK for more than thirty years. Her business memoir, Ahead of Her Time: How a One-Woman Startup Became a Global Publishing Brand will be published in Spring 2021. She completed her MA in Creative Leadership as a mature student and she founded Conscious Café to bring people together in thoughtful conversations.
Perseverance, Passion and Pivoting: The keys to preserving the future of the arts during a pandemic.
The creative industries are doing what they do best – being creative. Sally Doganis, IWF UK member and Co-Chair of the Arts and Culture group, brought together four esteemed experts to share their experiences of the pandemic and what is on the horizon. More than 100 IWF UK members and guests registered for the event on 28 October.