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episode 15: JESS GOSLING: Career transitions, unseen disabilities, cultural diplomacy and lifting people up
Jess Gosling is a UK Civil Servant, an Award-Winning Entrepreneur, Public Speaker & International Strategy/Culture/Leadership Consultant. She was recently named 27th in the Top 100 Women Future Leaders 2020 via Yahoo Finance and Involve. Earlier this year she was also named Most Influential Women in the Tech UK 2020 by Computer Weekly and one of the Pitch 100 SuperWoman 2020 by Pitchfanzine.
With an eclectic 10+ years in various sectors and industries, Jess has consistently strived to bridge the gap between culture, diplomacy and innovation. She spent over 7 years abroad in deployments with the United Nations, NGOs, civil society, startups in EMEA, MENA and LATAM regions. She has built her career around interdisciplinary thinking, and adding value from a cross-sectorial approach. Jess works within the UK Government on matters of cultural diplomacy, soft power and international affairs, with a focus on Europe and Latin America. The transmission of ideas, how we can come together under the lens of diplomacy has been her core interest for the past decade. She will begin her PhD in interdisciplinary thinking, focusing on how soft power is understood, what metrics we use and how successful it is as a term.
Jess is the co-founder of a professional network, the Growth & Grace Collective (G&G), a global network changing the narrative of upskilling, learning and development. Founded in 2019, G&G focuses on both equipping and empowering professionals in all sectors to grow into themselves. Over their first year, they upskilled 2500+ people across 70 events focused on social mobility, women’s issues and D&I, hosted events with a truly global attendance and won the UK Social Mobility Honour Role in 2019.
Over the pandemic, she began to the curate of a bi-weekly segment titled Culture, Diplomacy and Innovation with 9k readership in 10 weeks. She has also started an offshoot of this project, called The Showcase, to champion more intersectional voices around the world.
On this episode, she shares her working life with unseen disabilities, what led her to study Korean, her journey across the world and why she wears so many hats. Plus: why networking is KEY.
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