Jacqueline Rogers: Creating the Room She Once Needed

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If you enjoyed this podcast, we'd love to hear from you! Jacqueline Rogers didn’t set out to build a networking organisation. She simply noticed that the rooms she was being told to walk into were not working for her, or for many other women. In this episode of The Secrets of Learning and Development, we speak with Jacqueline Rogers, CEO and founder of The Athena Network, about the experiences that shaped her journey from military community life, through corporate learning and development, to creating one of the UK’s most recognised women’s networking organisations. Jacqueline shares the reality behind her career transition, including the exhaustion that told her something had to change, the quiet planning that helped her move forward and the early networking experiences that left her questioning whether there had to be a better way. What follows is a warm, honest and insightful conversation about confidence, reinvention, connection and the difference between transactional networking and genuinely relational business relationships.

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