Podcast | Advocating for More Women in Engineering and Supply Chain Management

How do we increase career opportunities for women in engineering and supply chain positions?

Jane Neil is a pioneer. She’s one of the first women to go to sea in the British Navy, employed aboard ship as an electrical engineer. After six years of service, she entered the private sector, parlaying her skills and training into her current position as supply chain manager with Subzero Engineering, a provider of turnkey services and systems for data centers, industrial cleanrooms and other mission-critical environments. So how did Neil achieve success in a world that remains overwhelmingly male? On this episode, she tells how she augmented her technical background to acquire skills in organization, network, communication and negotiation — all crucial to success in supply chain — over a 30-year career. And she has advice for how we can bring more women into the field, through early exposure and awareness, active learning, and mentoring. Hosted by Bob Bowman, Editor-in-Chief of SupplyChainBrain.

Author Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

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The Women in Supply Chain Initiative at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics.