The Female Lead Book Launch

Selected Year 9 students were invited to an inspirational book launch and given the opportunity to visit leading tech ad company Unruly, in the heart of Tech City. The Female Lead is a non-profit project created by data science entrepreneur, Edwina Dunn and the book, which shares the same title, features inspiring future women leaders.  Edwina co-founded Dunnhumby the company behind Tesco’s Clubcard and other loyalty programmes around the world. The Female Lead aims to harness the power of role models to help build a more ambitious generation of women.  Students spoke to Edwina and heard views from a number of women leaders from across the world in a range of fields.  Next year the project plans to donate books, films and teaching materials to schools.  The project has offered to run a workshop at the academy and we look forward to establishing an ongoing partnership with this amazing organisation as it develops.