An early start for the BOHD team to catch the train from Southampton to London Piccadilly to attend the Marie Claire at work Live event.
On arrival at BAFTA at 9.30am on a Saturday morning we were warmly welcomed with coffee and pastries and a chance to look at the new A/W15 Karen Millan collection. We at BOHD obviously enjoyed a bit of retail therapy while sipping coffee making a note of what’s hot and what’s not on the office wear list. We like to keep up with our trends….
The day kicked off with a key-note session hosted by Editor of Marie Claire Trish Halpin and a question time with a panel that included Claudia Winkleman, true to from a very interesting and witty lady. The session discussed technology, is it a friend or foe. With interesting points on when and when not to use in the workplace.
The second lecture BOHD attended was How to Grow your business from A-B with key speakers such as Sarah Curran (Very Exclusive), Divinia Knowles (Mind Candy and Claire Hopkins ( Balance Me). This was followed by a lovely lunch and complimentary manicure. We were feeling suitably well fed and pampered by the time we walk in to the next session. Melanie Nicholas, MD of The Lighthouse Company, hosted this session. It was an extremely interesting talk on CV’s in a Social World, we all took away valuable tips on how to update our Linked In profiles (some of us still yet to do).
The day drew to a close with a speech by Miriam Gonzilez Durantez, here she spoke about campaigning on behalf of Inspiring the Future. It was an inspirational, funny, interesting speech and I’m pleased to say we have signed up to give our time up to go into a state school in Hampshire to talk to children about our own personal experiences and career paths taken to be in the jobs we are doing now and have done in the past.
After feeling extremely motivated by the day we were wished fare well with a lovely glass of bubbly and a chance to talk to others there at the day and given a wonderful goodie bag each.