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Gender Diversity Ambassador Award winner 2022: Lynn Tomkins

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  • Duration: 2 mins
  • Publication date: 13 Dec 2022

Abstract

For more than 30 years, Lynn has championed equality and worked to ensure everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential. She has always understood the importance equality, diversity and inclusion plays in the careers of individuals and the performance of organisations in both the public and private sector. As Co-Founder, Director and then latterly Chair of Trustees of the UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF), Lynn has supported the UKESF in developing a leading industrial scholarship programme, building greater connections between universities and industry.

 

Keywords:
  • Empower Career Advancement programme
  • Gender Diversity award
  • Skills4
  • change the perception of women in STEM.
  • charitable foundation
  • equality champion
  • female role models in engineering
  • gender and diversity balance
  • girls into electronics
  • iet
  • industrial scholarship programme
  • promoting electronics to children
  • science technology engineering mathematics (stem)
  • young people in electronics

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Speakers

  • Jayne Little

    Jayne Little

    Skills 4 Training, CEO

    Jayne is the founding CEO of Skills 4 and has extensive experience of training and consultancy in workforce development, with a specific specialism in gender diversity.
  • Lynn Tomkins

    Lynn Tomkins

    Skills 4 Training

    Lynn is a highly experienced operator in the skills environment with over 25 years experience. Previously Lynn was operations director for Semta the Sector Skills Council for science, engineering and advanced manufacturing.
  • Stewart Edmondson

    Stewart Edmondson

    UK Electronics Skills Foundation, CEO

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