Lessons on Resilience - IWD event
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Female Product Lead presents
International Women’s Day 2026
Lessons in Resilience | March 11 | 6:30–8:30pm
Location: Miro Office, London
In celebration of International Women’s Day, join Female Product Lead for an evening of powerful storytelling, leadership insight and meaningful connection.
This special event is proudly sponsored by The Difference Engine (https://www.thedifferenceengine.tech), an award winning HRTech and Recruitment Services business lead by engineers. With a natural sensitivity to diversity, The Difference Engine helps corporations and VC / PE backed scale-ups identify the tech talent they need to thrive through their products and services.
We’re delighted to welcome Sue Stockdale for her keynote:
Lessons in Resilience
Many women in product and technology navigate complex environments by adapting to external expectations, often suppressing their natural ways of leading. The cost? When setbacks hit, it can be harder to respond authentically and play to your own strengths.
Drawing on her extraordinary experiences as a polar explorer and her work coaching senior leaders, Sue Stockdale will share stories of challenge, endurance, and navigating the unknown in the Arctic— translating them into actionable lessons for resilient, authentic leadership.
In this session, you’ll discover strategies to lead with confidence as yourself, and gain tools to help you respond to setbacks and uncertainty in ways that align with your unique strengths.
You will:
Explore the Explorer’s Mindset: how curiosity, courage, and decisiveness help you navigate uncertainty
Reframe setbacks as pivotal opportunities to act authentically
Gain insight into how to lead effectively through ambiguity and rapid change while staying true to your values
Strengthen self-leadership practices that support long-term resilience
For ambitious women in product and technology, resilience isn’t abstract, it’s lived, and this session will equip you to show up fully, leverage your strengths, and navigate challenges with authenticity.
About Sue
Sue Stockdale is a polar explorer, expedition leader, and leadership coach, best known as the first UK woman to reach the Magnetic North Pole. Today, she translates those expedition lessons into practical leadership insights, delivering inspirational keynotes and coaching senior leaders worldwide. Sue is co-founder and host of the Access to Inspiration podcast, ranked in the top 5% globally, and the author of several books on risk, motivation, and change.
The Evening
6:30pm – Arrival & networking
6:45pm – Welcome from Female Product Lead
6:50pm – A few words from our sponsor, The Difference Engine
7:00–8:15pm – Keynote: Lessons in Resilience + audience Q&A
8:15–8:30pm – Community networking
Expect a thoughtful room of ambitious leaders, generous peers and future collaborators.