BA Slash #13 event: Progress your career with confidence (Ian Bower)
Channel: BA Slash
Date: 2021-08-03

🤔  Topic:  Progress your career with confidence 💬

Description
We discuss a few of the pitfalls we often fall into and how others have overcome them as they grew professionally and personally.
The 3 top-voted topics to be covered are:
1️⃣ How to get more things done with limited time
2️⃣ How to transform from a do-er to a leader
3️⃣ How to improve my visibility in the organisation
We invite Ian Bower, a Senior Manager at NTT Data UK, to share his personal experience of hitting the glass ceiling and how he craved change. Now, he coaches Business Analyst colleagues for their career development.

[Note: You may see some frozen screens during the playback. ❄️
We experienced some technical issues, but the audio was fine. Thank you for your patience!]

Speaker bio
Having started his career in Financial Services in South Africa, Ian found himself progressing up the commercial ladder. He moved to the UK to gain a more global perspective as well as try his hand in consulting. Currently, he helps clients in the telco media industry to transform and innovate through technology, organisational and product shifts.
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ian-bower-9156b61b 

Event date/time: 22 July 2021 (Thu) 7:15pm BST
#BASlash #Agile #BusinessAnalysis #BusinessAnalyst

About BA/
BA Slash (BA/) is a community for all, encouraging insights and techniques sharing on business analysis and other related disciplines, preparing you for the evolving needs of roles.

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Launching this group during the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be a wrong time. However, BA/ are determined to launch the first community event as it means even more to us to reach out to you during this critical time 👥 😃

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