Cambridge WIT: How to Handle Confrontation and Overcome Fear in Difficult Meetings
Tue, 04 Dec
|Royal Society of Chemistry
Is courage the absence of fear? How do other women in tech deal with confrontation in challenging meetings and overcome fear? Would it help if you understood what happens in your brain when your mind when your voice is frozen?


Time & Location
04 Dec 2018, 18:30 – 20:30
Royal Society of Chemistry, Thomas Graham House, 290 Cambridge Science Park Milton Rd, Milton, Cambridge CB4 0WF, UK
About the event
If you like to hear the tips and tricks Arm former VP Sales Europe and Asia uses when in difficult meetings with the world's leading tech companies, come to this workshop and hear former VP Sales at Arm Helen Adams and The Geek Whisperer Adelina Chalmers share:
· The 3 most intimidating meetings Arm VP Sales had with world leading tech companies
· What happens in our brain when your mind goes blank or you can't contain your emotions
· The top 5 ways you can become unstuck when things get tough in a meeting.
Who is delivering this workshop?
Helen Adams is Arm former VP Sales Europe and Asia who saw Arm through its steep growth over 12 years from a few hundred million to over a billion in revenue. She shares her expertise on being in tough sales meetings worth millions with some of the biggest tech corporates such as Samsung, Nokia, Microsoft and Huawei, to name but a few.
Adelina Chalmers a.k.a. The Geek Whisperer specialises in helping people in tech get buy-in from others. She noticed women in tech get interrupted more than men when her course "How to respond when Challenged and Interrupted in a Meeting" was attended mainly by women (80%), when usually 95% of her courses' attendees are men. Adelina has worked with the most successful scale-ups in Cambridge such as Arm, Syndicate Room, Speechmatics, Cambridge Nanosystems and FeatureSpace.
The workshop will be held at the Royal Society of Cambridge. After refreshments we will hear Helen and Adelina discuss real life experiences in dfficult meetings before Adelina leads an interactive session where we look at challenges you have faced and how to deal with them.