1. Inova Consultancy
Celebrating Diversity
Marina Larios
Director
mlarios@inovaconsult.com
Womentor- International Conference 15-18th Oct 08

2. Inova Consultancy
Celebrating diversity
Inova provides consultancy services
to organisations and individuals on an
international level in the area of
diversity and equal opportunities.
Womentor- International Conference 15-18th Oct 08

3. WiTEC
 European Association
 Secretariat in Austria
 Set up in 1988 – 20 years!
 10 EU National Co-ordinators
 More than 2000 women supported

4. Services
 Organisational Development & career
coaching
 Mentoring programmes for women
(entrepreneurship and women returners)
 Research and evaluation
 Project Management
 Bid Writing
 Policy development- gender & diversity

5. International Assignments
 UK representative at the United Nations- Expert
Meeting on Trade and Development
 Panel Member, Women in Engineering Expert Panel,
Unesco, Paris
 Co-chair for Europe for the World Federation of
Engineering Organizations in Tunisia
 Guest Speaker at the Gender, ICT and Education:
Removing Old Barriers with New Technologies
conference, United Nations, New York.

6. Iceberg- Transformational Change
Self esteem
Ways we see life
Confidence
Self-efficacy

7. Mentoring Interventions
 Mentoring Circles
 www.mentoringcircles.org.uk
 One to one
 Peer mentoring
 Target audiences: female
entrepreneurs, asylum seekers,
unemployed; returners, women in
SET, girls and young women

8. Examples of projects
 Mentoring programmes for female
entrepreneurs & Mentoring CirclesTM
 Change management programme in
a UK university to increase the
representation of women in SET
 Development of a database of
women experts in SET
 Research - looking at web 2.o to
develop programmes to promote EO

9. Geographical Spread
 UK (focus on regional & local)
 Europe
 Mexico
 Ghana
 USA
 New: Orbita

10. What’s next
 Accreditation for Mentors & Coaches
 New tools: personality profiling;
solution focused coaching,
psychometric testing
 Intercultural skills
 Integration
 Mentor Training: Action Learning
 Using new technologies eg.web 2.0

11. Resources
www.inovaconsult.com
www.witec-eu.net
www.mentoringcircles.org.uk