POWERful Women Annual Survey 2025

We are a professional initiative, based at the Energy Institute, that seeks to address the continued underrepresentation of women at the top of the UK energy industry and in the leadership pipeline. Our goal is for women to be in at least 40% of middle management and leadership roles in the UK energy sector by 2030.

We aim to achieve our goal in three ways:

SUPPORT – practical support for companies committed to improving their gender diversity and inclusion (for example through our D&I forum and sharing good practice) and for women to advance their careers (for example through our mentoring programme, POWERful Connections, and career resources);
CHALLENGE – reporting on progress and challenging organisations on their commitments (for example through publishing annual board statistics, research and thought leadership pieces, and through the work of the Energy Leaders’ Coalition)
CONNECT – running events and providing platforms for women to network and for companies, regulators, government and experts to collaborate.

This survey will enable the POWERful Women team to define how and where women in the energy sector need support in 2025, as well as the types of events and campaigns the initiative should offer as we enter a new year. Please complete the survey and be as thorough as possible to be in with a chance of winning a prize!
1.Please provide your email address to be entered into our prize draw to win 1 of 10 copies of "'Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention' by Cathy Newman''(Required.)
2.How best would you describe your experience?(Required.)
3.Which of the following do you best identify with?(Required.)
4.Which sector of industry do you currently work in? (Choose your organisation's predominant revenue source).(Required.)
5.Which function best describes your current position?(Required.)
6.Do you typically work most of your week(Required.)
7.Which region of the UK are you typically based?(Required.)
8.Are you site-based for at least some of your time?(Required.)
9.How much do you know about the following POWERful Women initiatives?(Required.)
Nothing
Not a lot
A little 
A lot
POWERful Women Ambassador Programme
POWERful Connections Mentoring Programme
POWERful Annual Conference
POWERful Women State of the Nation
Energy Leaders' Coalition
POWERful Connections Breakfasts
Reports/insight pieces (e.g. Cultivating Female Talent in Energy etc)
Profiles of role models and career case studies
Other career resources, like signposting to coaching, "How to' blogs, role model case studies etc
10.How valuable do you think the following POWERful Women initiatives are?(Required.)
Not valuable at all
Not very valuable
Somewhat valuable
Very valuable
POWERful Women Ambassador Programme
POWERful Connections Mentoring Programme
POWERful Annual Conference
POWERful Women State of the Nation
Energy Leaders' Coalition
POWERful Connections Breakfasts
Advocacy and solutions such as the 40% by 2030 Manifesto
Reports/insight pieces (e.g. Cultivating Female Talent in Energy etc)
Profiles of role models and career case studies
Other career resources, like signposting to coaching, "How to' blogs, role model case studies etc
11.POWERful Women celebrated its 10-year-Anniversary last year! Any comments on which aspect of the 10th anniversary celebrations you enjoyed/ thought were most impactful?(Required.)
12.POWERful Women will be hosting more POWERful Connection Breakfasts this year. Which topics would you most like to hear about from coaching/DEI experts? And do you have any recommendations for leading women you would like to hear from, with their career stories and advice?(Required.)
13.What is your biggest barrier in your career currently?(Required.)
14.How can PfW help? (multiple choice)(Required.)
15.POWERful Women runs a mentoring programme: 'POWERful Connections'. Are you happy to be contacted by us to become a PfW mentor?(Required.)
16.Are you happy to be contacted by us to become a PfW mentee?(Required.)
17.Our events are currently hybrid (meaning they run both online and in person). How and where would you prefer to attend our events in 2025? (multiple choice)(Required.)
18.Our Annual Conference is held in the Autumn each year. What do you think should be the main theme of our 2025 Annual Conference?(Required.)
19.Do you have any suggestions for workshops or speakers?(Required.)
20.If you attended our annual conference, which session was the most interesting to you and why?(Required.)
21.As we step up action to reach our 2030 target of seeing women in at least 40% leadership and middle management roles in the UK energy sector, what do you think POWERful Women should do better or more of?(Required.)
22.If we were to host more events to spread our message, would you attend those or do you think one main conference is enough?(Required.)
23.Where do you go to keep up-to-date on POWERful Women’s activities? (multiple choice)(Required.)
24.Any other comments?(Required.)
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