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Women in Business

  • The Queens Arms Corton Denham, Sherborne, UK DT9 4LR United Kingdom (map)

This event is aimed at all working women looking for support and inspiration.

This month our guest speaker is Sophie Maydon, the Founder and Director of PXL Talent, a global specialist headhunting and recruitment agency for the Visual Effects, Animation and Creative Industries. Her wealth of global leadership experience stems from positions as an agency head, and in-house roles, most notably at Double Negative, a multi award winning VFX and Animation studio. As Global Head of Talent Acquisition, at DNEG, Sophie grew the business from 300 to 7000 staff in 7 years. She also held the positions of Global Head of Human Resources and Global Head of PR and Communications for a period within the business. 

Her most important role however, is mother to her three children, which balanced alongside her professional career has not been without challenges. Sophie is passionate about supporting women in retaining their careers through motherhood & returning to their careers after a career pause, as well as looking at ways in which companies, communities and society can better support working parents. She is an ambassador for ‘Uplift Her’ a group supporting women in their career journey.

 The event will start at 10.45 am to meet and mingle. Where our guest speak will then their talk at 11.15

We will then break for lunch at 12.15 where the kitchen have created a menu especially for the day.

Tickets are £35 per person and spaces are limited to allow a chance for everyone to meet and talk.

To book please email info@thequeensarms.com or call 01963 220317

Earlier Event: September 14
Open air movie night
Later Event: September 30
Oktoberfest at The Queens Arms