A series of inspirational talks by high-profile business women is to be launched next year by Bristol Business School in conjunction with one of the region’s top hotels.
Called Phenomenal Women, the bi-monthly events will be staged from February to November at the five-star Gainsborough Spa Hotel in Bath with the aim of celebrating, supporting and inspiring. 
Each speaker has achieved recognition and made a significant impact in her field. Delegates will find out about their experiences and the challenges they encountered on the road to success.
The Phenomenal Women programme will include:
- February 21: Liv Garfield, CEO, Severn Trent Water. Liv joined Severn Trent in 2014 as one of the youngest ever FTSE 100 chief executives and one of only four female chief executives. Prior to that she was CEO of BT Openreach where she was responsible for delivery of fibre broadband.
- April 26: Carole Mundell, head of physics, Bath University. Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy, Carole was awarded the prestigious ‘Women of the Year 2016’ FDM Group Every Women in Technology award celebrating the most inspirational women in technology.
- June 14: Dr Jacqueline Cornish OBE, national clinical director for children, NHS England. Jacqueline provides senior clinical leadership in NHS England and gives clinical advice on children and young people nationally across all the health-related arm’s length bodies, the royal colleges, government departments and the voluntary sector.
- August 12: Laura Marshall, MD, Icon Films. Over 27 years Icon Films has produced factual and award-winning TV and films both in the UK and overseas, working with household names such as Carol Vorderman, Joanna Lumley and David Attenborough.
- November 1: Katherine Bennett OBE, senior vice-president, Airbus. Katherine is responsible for leading the company’s strategy and external relations in the UK, and reports directly to the global CEO. Airbus has 15,000 employees and its UK operations lead on engineering for wing design and manufacture, satellites and cyber activity.
Tickets for each talk cost £15 and include prosecco and canapés. Each guest talk will be followed by a facilitated discussion based on leading-edge business and management research with a member of the Bristol Business School.
The series takes its name from the poem Phenomenal Woman by US poet Maya Angelou.
The 99-room Gainsborough Hotel, which opened two years ago, was recently named as the number one hotel in the UK outside of London, number two in Europe and number three in the world by readers of the upmarket Condé Nast USA Traveler magazine. It is the first UK hotel to be opened by YTL Hotels, part of the giant Malaysian YTL conglomerate that also owns Bath-based Wessex Water.
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