Alice Bowdery

PR and comms @PwC_UK ,
Social mobility
Opportunity via #Business 🔭🤳
#Equality & #Diversity

Views at mercy of data

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[Felicia Williams @cheersfelicia]

Yesterday, I held an all day summit w/ my @Google UX leadership team, where we focused on building our values and principles as leaders, tackling hot topics, expressing gratitude, and bonding. It was amazing.

Healthy teams are not the result of blind luck. They're purpose built.

[Alice Bowdery @AliceBowdy]

Really, really love this. "You're welcome". People with disabilities and differences to able-bodied people have contributed so much to improving our everyday environment and worlds. We should be able to talk about it. #DisabilityAwareness

[Katy Bennett @Katy_E_Bennett]

In collaboration with our Disability Awareness Network (DAWN) @PwC_UK has launched its #EnablingEveryone campaign ‘You’re Welcome’, to highlight the amazing, everyday things we benefit from that were invented for disabled and neurodivergent people.

[Alice Bowdery @AliceBowdy]

Third time in history a woman is announced as prime minister for the UK.

Hope is on relief packages for those who need it given rising costs and the astronomical price it’ll take to heat a home and feed a household as we head towards winter. Then the rest.

[Alice Bowdery @AliceBowdy]

@MCQPR The crow is loud in me at the moment…

[Alice Bowdery @AliceBowdy]

An example of #MentalHealth being a community effort and the important role carers take on. Not often made visible like this. Hope the treatment path helps💚

[Jake Kanter @Jake_Kanter]

Getting messages about my job being advertised, so here goes: it is with sadness that I have resigned from The Times. It was the dream job, but it has come at a nightmare time for my family. I'm taking some time off to put them first before getting back in the saddle.

[Alice Bowdery @AliceBowdy]

This is my favourite week at @PwC_UK

200+ 16/ 17 year olds, from lower socio-economic backgrounds, take part in a paid week of experience.

They get skills and insights from our leaders, including chairman @KevinJDEllis, head of legal @TOwusuAdjei_PwC and so many more🔥🔥🔥

[Kevin Ellis CBE @KevinJDEllis]

Today I had the opportunity to speak to our #NewWorldNewSkills work experience students about my journey from graduate to chairman. It's great to be able to offer these opportunities to students who might not otherwise have access to this type of work experience. #SocialMobility

[Alistair Fraser @crmnlgy]

22 years ago Glasgow Uni accepted me with lower grades than needed because of a widening access policy. My Dad, a teacher, was forever impressed. He didn’t live to see it but today they promoted me to Professor. This one’s for you Paw Broon, your hand at my back X

[Alice Bowdery @AliceBowdy]

@alex_janiaud Very interesting! Sounds like a promising approach. A gendered look at council or government spending would help show the reality. We do BBC’s 50:50 measuring of how many of our spokespeople are women. It shows us the balance and holds us accountable.

[Alice Bowdery @AliceBowdy]

Suddenly remembering this 2022 pay gap report that found Football was the only sector with a higher gender pay gap than financial services.

Hope the sponsor deals come rolling in for these players #EURO2022

https://t.co/EuKJvsrQeo

[Alice Bowdery @AliceBowdy]

More than two decades of watching football (since I was 7) and I never imagined getting to watch women play the same famous game. Thanks to the few who kept going and pushed it through to today, first game I saw and they brought it home. To many more! #euros2022

[Alice Bowdery @AliceBowdy]

Come on ENG! England goalie is super 🕸

#WEUROFINAL #WEURO22

[Alice Bowdery @AliceBowdy]

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[Lauren @lvallely24]

Delighted to be graduating with a First Class Honours degree alongside the rest of the PWC Tech Degree Apprentices 🥳

[Alice Bowdery @AliceBowdy]

Going live now - Return to the City Series: Hybrid Working

@PwC_UK experts discussing post-pandemic hybrid-working and what it means for work, office spaces and the surrounding community.

https://t.co/F7NiX1sc4X

[Alice Bowdery @AliceBowdy]

Song of the day 🖤

https://t.co/tUvf7VhziX

Not feeling 'The Times They Are A-Changin' for this week 😬

#SongOfTheDay #GenderEquality

[Alice Bowdery @AliceBowdy]

"Countless studies have shown that those who are happier at work also do a better job. Yet many companies have misunderstood what happiness at work means. It is not the same long hours, but with ping pong tables and free food." Productivity, retention, hiring all up for grabs🏓

[Lucy Burton @Lucymburton]

Today's column: The tiredness epidemic in the office is a sign of bureaucratic bloat https://t.co/WFaL7uwjVg @Telegraph

[Alice Bowdery @AliceBowdy]

Thanks @VhernieM for sharing your story of being a child refugee coming to London. The care and responsibility you took to tell this was admirable.

We need stories like this and actions to support #refugees in the challenges they face.

#RefugeeWeek2022 #RefugeesWelcome

[PwC UK @PwC_UK]

For Refugee Week, PwC UK Partner @VhernieM shares her story on becoming a refugee at the age of 6, and how she and her family found their way in London https://t.co/1iItI4zbCn #RefugeeWeek #RefugeeWeek2022 #Refugees #Resilience #PwC

[Alice Bowdery @AliceBowdy]

Good luck to @PwC_UK’s NewLaw team at the #FTInnovativeLawyers Awards! Nominated for the SmartESG blockchain app, created with @IntegraLedger, it validates companies ESG credentials and shares these between businesses, helping supply chains be ESG aware. https://t.co/uvtVP9IPoM

[Financial Times Live @ftlive]

LIVE: We have just started our #FTInnovativeLawyers FT Collaborative Innovation Award & Drinks Reception with @_RSGI. Find out more: https://t.co/ZBM90Lu4vw

Follow this thread for updates.

[Alice Bowdery @AliceBowdy]

The UK education system is world leading. But that doesn’t mean it is perfect. It needs to adapt to respond to the challenges of skills gaps, green jobs, mental health and inequality.

Great report and event @TimesEducation @RSylvesterTimes @PwC_UK

[Alice Bowdery @AliceBowdy]

Not everyone's social mobility story will be like Sarah's, as she scaled to the top of a professional services firm. But she's right that we need to take a more open, creative and accurate look at where a person can get their skills and potential from. #SocialMobilityDay

[PwC UK @PwC_UK]

“Where you started out should not be the thing that holds you back from where you go, but actually I think it could be the thing that fuels and encourages you." - @SarahMoorePwC tells us about how the skills she gained growing up have shaped her as a leader #SocialMobilityDay

[Alice Bowdery @AliceBowdy]

Interesting discussion started by @SMCommission asking us to unfold all the things we mean when we say ‘social mobility’? It’s a simple, often misused, catch-all term for a very complex subject, set of challenges and aims.

The comments on threads like this showcase that.

[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

From what I can see there's nothing in Katharine Birbalsingh's speech that's either objectionable or new. Nobody who thinks about this stuff would argue social mobility is solely about getting poor kids to Oxbridge.