SPONSOR WOMEN & MEN EQUALLY

What is it?

Sponsorship within an organization refers to a relationship where a senior leader actively advocates for and supports the career advancement of a junior employee. This involves promoting the employee’s visibility, providing opportunities, and facilitating connections that can lead to career growth. This differs from mentoring, which is more focused on guidance and advice.

SPONSOR WOMEN & MEN EQUALLY

Sponsoring women and men equally is vital for a diverse workplace. It fosters inclusion, drives innovation, and enhances overall performance. Equal sponsorship opportunities promote fairness in leadership and pave the way for a more equitable future.

why

Ollie Folayan's Antiracist Toolkit

In October 2025, Ollie Folayan, one of the founders of the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE), delivered a webinar to advise a toolkit which helps individual employees and stakeholders understand racism and develop the framework for conscious action. In the first of a 2-part series, Ollie explains why such a toolkit is essential and the background behind it. "These are very much the times in which misinformation and hate can spread rapidly leaving deva

AXIS Network Returners Roundtable

The AXIS Network hosted a focused lunchtime roundtable at OEUK on 18 March to explore the role of returners - individuals re‑entering the workforce after a career break. Returnships is one of our AXIS Vision 2030 steps, which is AXIS’s pathway toward gender equity. Currently, despite strong qualifications, many returners experience systemic exclusion through outdated recruitment processes, unconscious bias, and inflexible work models. These barriers disproportionately affect

Mentoring 2026

Applications OPEN for the AXIS Network Mentoring, 2026 We’ll be kicking off our free to join mentoring program in March 2026. If you’re looking for someone to act as an independent sounding board to help you develop your career, join us! If you’d love to be a mentor to support a mentee and further develop yourself in the process, join us! We’ll ask you to complete a profile form, which we use to match you with a mentor/mentee. Previous mentoring partnerships have wo

SPONSOR WOMEN & MEN EQUALLY

How

Every website has a story, and your visitors want to hear yours. This space is a great opportunity to give a full background on who you are, what your team does and what your site has to offer. Double click on the text box to start editing your content and make sure to add all the relevant details you want site visitors to know.

If you’re a business, talk about how you started and share your professional journey. Explain your core values, your commitment to customers and how you stand out from the crowd. Add a photo, gallery or video for even more engagement.

Ollie Folayan's Antiracist Toolkit

AXIS Network Returners Roundtable

Mentoring 2026

Leadership Commitment

resources

Every website has a story, and your visitors want to hear yours. This space is a great opportunity to give a full background on who you are, what your team does and what your site has to offer. Double click on the text box to start editing your content and make sure to add all the relevant details you want site visitors to know.

If you’re a business, talk about how you started and share your professional journey. Explain your core values, your commitment to customers and how you stand out from the crowd. Add a photo, gallery or video for even more engagement.