What she started in 2013 was Girls Talk London, an initiative which aims to inspire girls and women and help them realise what opportunities there are for them. It’s a unique enterprise with a trading arm that offers consultancy services, and a social mission arm that runs speaker events and campaigns, along with a YouTube channel featuring interviews and discussion programmes that have garnered half a million views worldwide.
In 2018 Girls Talk London’s Step into STEM programme won a European Diversity Award. Created in partnership with four major telecoms companies (BT, Vodafone, O2 and Ericsson), the scheme places young students with a mentor in one of the participating organisations and provides work experience to try to increase the number of women pursuing science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) careers. Since it began in 2016, 106 girls have taken part in the scheme and 80% are still pursuing STEM subjects, with members of the first group now in their second year of university.
Girls Talk London has also worked with other major companies, including Salesforce, Sky, Lloyds Bank and the law firm Gowling WLG.
“They come to us with a problem,” says Sanyauke. “They might say, ‘We have really low numbers of black employees and we are struggling to recruit them’, or ‘We have a really low number of women on our board’. We can help them with that and we can show what it means for their bottom line to build a talent pipeline or increase diversity.”
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