About the Event
Many women are taught to work hard and “do a great job” – but not how to confidently translate their contribution into fair pay, stronger scope and long-term upside. Yet compensation isn’t just base salary: it’s the full exchange of your value for salary, bonus, equity, benefits, flexibility and future opportunity.
In this session, Theresa will share practical, actionable insights to help women in both corporate and startup environments articulate their value, negotiate compensation with confidence, and look beyond base salary to secure meaningful long-term rewards and opportunities.
Whether you’re negotiating a new offer in an established corporate or growing startup, preparing for a performance review, returning after a break or trying to reset your compensation in-role, you’ll leave with clear language, frameworks and next steps you can put into practice immediately.
Topics this discussion will cover:
Understanding and articulating your value (beyond base salary)
Building a compelling case using evidence, outcomes and impact
Timing, anchoring and trade-offs in salary and compensation conversations
Total compensation: bonus, benefits, flexibility, learning and progression
Startups & equity: what to ask, how to evaluate, and key red flags
Your Speakers
Theresa Cantwell
Interim CPO & Strategic HR Director , Chartered FCIPD
Theresa Cantwell is a strategic HR leader and trusted advisor with deep experience helping high-growth organisations attract, retain and develop exceptional talent. Having worked across recruitment and in-house HR in the UK, Ireland and HK scaling technology companies and boutique fintech consulting businesses, Theresa brings a commercially grounded and people-focused perspective to leadership, careers and workplace performance.
Through her consultancy, Theresa partners with founders, executives and scaling businesses to align people strategy with growth, including organisational design and leadership development. Known for her direct but supportive style, she challenges leaders to think differently while helping individuals build confidence, clarity and impact in their careers.
Your Moderator
Yvonne Ngai
GJWHF$ Regulatory Team
Yvonne is a competition and regulatory lawyer. She has navigated multiple transitions from being self-employed to working for a public institution and then to private practice, and most recently, balancing professional demands with motherhood.
As our moderator, Yvonne will be asking questions based upon her first-hand experience of needing to articulate your value and being your own advocate in the workplace.
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