Vanessa Vallely is Managing Director of WeAreTheCity, a platform to help corporate women connect and grow professionally and personally. WeAreTheCity.com now has over 60,000 members and in 2013 launched a sister site in India. Vanessa is one of the UK’s most well-networked women and has provided keynotes on on a variety of career related topics for over 250 companies worldwide. She is also one of the UK’s most prominent figures in gender equality as the founder of UK wide diversity forum Gender Networks. Gender Networks (formerly The Network of Networks) brings together diversity leaders from over 120 firms to share best practice. Vanessa is the author of the book “Heels of Steel: Surviving and Thriving in the Corporate World” which tracks her career and shares 13 chapters of tips to succeed in the workplace.

Over the past seven years, she has won numerous accolades including being named in GQ UK’s Top 100 Connected Women and the Evening Standard’s 1000 Most Influential Londoners in 2015. Vanessa is a regular guest on TV and radio and also sits on the Government Digital Services advisory board.