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Episode Links:
What Makes Millennial Networking Different
Networking Tips: How to Meet, Greet, and Connect Your Way to Success
Networking: an opportunity or an obstacle for women?
Beyond the Boys’ Club: How Women Are Networking Their Way
New Study Reveals 6 Barriers Keeping Women From High-Power Networking
Network effects: How to rebuild social capital and improve corporate performance
Self employed loneliness | Marmalade Trust
HR Interim Networking Community
A WhatsApp community for women in L&D, HR, and People teams
Employee resource group – Wikipedia
Master Networking: Tips & Strategies for Success
Networking: tips to help your career
This week’s guests are Sharon Green is a professional interim, qualified coach and consultant at Chiara Consultancy. Sharon runs projects that focus on people change, people technology and people experience. Sharon is passionate about lifelong learning, connecting, building communities and a fan of taking pictures; especially of doors! Sharon has worked across the NHS, the Dept of Health, not-for-profit membership bodies, a private bank, financial services firms, games and media, and events, branding and marketing companies.
Sharon’s main #payitforward passion project is running the HR Interim Networking Group, a global LinkedIn community providing peer-to-peer support for people professionals working as interims, coaches, consultants, contractors, solo entrepreneurs and freelancers.
Sharon is on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram (SharonGChiara) and LinkedIn
Helen Marshall – Head of Learning at THRIVE – her role like THRIVE, is multifaceted. She leads their team of content designers, and oversees the content they create as they strive to be responsive to the needs of their clients. Helen also works very closely with their Content Club and platform customers to figure out exactly how the content, campaigns and pathways can be used in the flow of customers’ work to support their people. She’s worked vendor-side for around 8 years now, prior to which she started and never finished an Art History PhD – instead she was distracted by numerous tech-based projects, teaching, and writing about stuff that wasn’t her research, and accidentally fell into the world of digital learning. She likes to get stuff done and believes that change always starts with you.
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/helearning/
Women In Community: https://womenin.community/
Rhonda Martin’s work sits across talent development, mentoring, coaching and inclusive leadership. She leads on client relationships and stakeholder management, and she uses that commercial grounding to design and run mentoring, coaching and senior leadership programmes that actually work inside organisations, not just on paper.
Her portfolio is broad but connected. Rhonda supports leaders to build capability, she trains sales and business development teams to strengthen their client practice, and she mentors people stepping into more complex roles. A lot of her recent work focuses on the realities of sales and client growth in a post-Covid environment, where teams need confidence, clarity and better conversations.
Rhonda is also a subject matter expert in diversity and inclusion, with a particular focus on gender diversity. She’s helped global organisations move from intent to strategy to concrete action, making inclusion part of how they operate rather than a standalone initiative.
Alongside her consultancy work, Rhonda serves on the board of City Women Network as Chair for Corporate Relationships. Before that, she chaired the mentoring programme for Women in Telecommunications, building a cross-industry network for the telecoms, media and technology sectors.