In 2008, Vanessa co-founded WeAreTheCity with her husband, Stewart.
WeAreTheCity.com is a website dedicated to providing female and City centric information to professional women within the UK. WeAreTheCity.com currently has 120,000 members. The key focus behind WeAreTheCity is to provide an open and inclusive forum for women to learn and progress in their careers. WeAreTheCity also provides a suite of services to over 100 corporate organisations, helping them to attract, develop and retain their female talent. Over the past ten years, Vanessa and her team have introduced lots of different initiatives to showcase and up skill women in business across the UK and India.
These include, the Rising Star Awards, the TechWomen100 awards, two conferences, one for key leadership skills (WeAreFutureLeaders) and one for Technology (WeAreTechWomen).
Vanessa also runs Gender Networks (a network for network leaders) and a Careers club for women wanting to excel in their careers. WeAreTheCity also offers a job board to its clients, helping them to achieve a more balanced slate of applicants. Over the past few year’s WeAreTheCity has also won several awards for its services to Gender.
Vanessa also provides business advice to a number of female entrepreneurs and start ups. She also encourages young adults to consider a career in business by regularly speaking in schools.
WeAreTheCity.com is a website dedicated to providing female and City centric information to professional women within the UK. WeAreTheCity.com currently has 120,000 members. The key focus behind WeAreTheCity is to provide an open and inclusive forum for women to learn and progress in their careers and to help corporate organisations to attract, retain and develop their female talent.
WeAreTheCity’s Careers Club provides online access to career development tools, alongside giving our members the ability to grow their personal networks. We welcome women and men, of all backgrounds, at all levels, from all industries.