POWERful Women in Business: Breaking the Glass Ceiling with Georgina Worrall OBE

Celebrate International Women's Day 2025 with this week's Wolfe Power Club Podcast episode featuring head of POWERful Women Georgina Worrell OBE, a prominent advocate for women's leadership in energy. This week, we will explore the advancements and challenges faced by women on boards, examine recent setbacks in workplace diversity, and discuss effective tools and policies necessary to foster a true meritocracy.

Georgina joined POWERful Women in November 2021 and oversees the management of the initiative. She works closely with the POWERful Women Board, energy CEOs and energy D&I Leads on the strategic development of the initiative and ensuring gender diversity remains on energy company agendas. 

Outside of POWERful Women, Georgina is a founding member of a wider cross-sector EDI initiative, Tackling Inclusion & Diversity in Energy, has been a member on government energy sector taskforces, and speaks at external events on the importance of gender diversity.

Georgina was awarded her OBE in the 2025 New Year’s Honours List for services to diversity and inclusion in the Energy sector.

Reach out to Georgina on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgina-worrall-obe-8b25772/

POWERful Women website: https://powerfulwomen.org.uk/

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/powerfulwomen.bsky.social

Season Two is in Partnership with The Spectator

Join Alex and Michael Gove as they co-host The Spectator Energy Summit on Monday 24th November in Westminster. Book your tickets for the final word in energy debates in 2025: https://events.spectator.co.uk/#upcoming

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Recorded at Studio 55 - that has produced Breaking the Taboo and The ABTO Podcast

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:12 Energy the best industry for women in 2025?
• 3:30 Diversity and inclusion obstacles
• 5:11 Gender pay gap changing energy firms
• 10:35 How can employers build equality structures
• 12:22 Shared parental leave for funding of early years
• 16:02 The formation of POWERful Women
• 19:17 Recieving the OBE letter
• 22:17 On getting that dream career
• 25:14 Issues around International Women's Day
• 28:59 How could AI improve the workplace?
• 31:45 Ways to get involved
• 33:49 Quick-fire questions
• 38:48 What should International Women's Day be about?