WomEng is a multi-award-winning organisation working to attract, develop and retain the pipeline of female engineering talent. Founded in South Africa in 2006, WomEng works internationally developing targeted programmes and interventions to address the severe shortage of women in engineering. Beyond the focus on increasing the numbers through their proactive and needs driven approach, WomEng programming is creating the next generation of female engineering leaders in society.
WomEng has worked beyond only building female talent pipelines but has started to build entrepreneurship and innovation challenges to raise the opportunity of entrepreneurship within the engineering and tech industry. It has partnered to develop key innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership challenges with some of the largest industry partners including Unilever and Arm.
WomEng has delivered programmes in over 19 countries and continues to work to develop key capabilities and innovative learning experiences for the engineering and tech industries. The organization is registered in South Africa with offices in Johannesburg and London, and local teams or associates in Colombia, US, UK, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, South Africa and Australia.
Naadiya is a serial entrepreneur by passion, a civil engineer by training, is Co-Founder at WomHub, an Ed-tech and advisory firm. She also co-founded WomEng, a global social enterprise developing women and girls for the engineering and tech industry. In 2017, she was awarded a special award by the Government of China at the BRICS summit for her contribution to girls’ education in Africa. WomEng works across 19 countries and, launched a commitment in partnership with UNESCO to empower 1 million girls through STEM education. Naadiya is a management consultant and now serves as an independent board director at the MMI Foundation, the chair of the board at the TQMF trust, and is an emeritus board director for the International Youth Foundation in the USA. Naadiya serves as an advisory board member for the University of Cape Town Faculty of Engineering, is a Global Future Council Member with the World Economic Forum: Gender, Education and the Future of Work, is an Aspen Institute New Voices Fellow, a renowned speaker, and was named “Top 20 Young Power Women in Africa” by Forbes Magazine. She is a global leader in gender, inclusion and innovation focussing on the engineering and technology industries. She also owns a restaurant group. She is passionate about fostering prosperity in emerging economies and engineering better societies.
We are honored to announce that our Rising to the Top book series has added TWO new volumes!
Rising to the Top provides an intimate and inspiring look into the experiences that have shaped the lives and careers of women engineering leaders from around the world. By openly sharing their personal journeys in these pages, the authors hope to not only inspire the next generation of engineering leaders, but also provide valuable insight into the challenges facing women engineers around the world, and the opportunities that are theirs for the taking.
