Changing Careers: Building Courage and Confidence to Bet on Yourself So You Take that Risk

Shane Woods is a Senior Director at The STEM Center of Excellence, Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas. She discusses her experience of how sponsors and mentors helped give her the courage and confidence to pursue her leadership career, and then to make a career change in her 40s, after 16 years in the same organisation. With a passion for science and getting more girls to study STEM subjects, and to fill the STEM pipeline, she touches on how to get little girls interested in science through everyday activities such as the toothpaste we use to brush our teeth, or having our hair done. She shares the key things she had in place to help her thrive on her leadership journey.