WIS Show: Professional Growth and Personal Resilience
How do we professionally grow and build our personal resilience? Listen in as Jwan and Karen share their secrets to success.

Join us for our third session, in a series of six, looking at how we can build ourselves up and gain access to higher level positions of influence. In session three, "Professional Growth and Personal Resilience " our guests Dr Jwan Kamla and Dr Karen McDonnell share insights on how they started their professional growth journey and some of the challenges and barriers they have navigated along the way.
This is a series of six episodes where we look at how we can build ourselves up and gain access to higher level positions of influence.
In this series we will be speaking to six topics:
- Self respect and career ownership (Starting with You!)
- Empowerment and supporting visibility
- Professional Growth and Personal Resilience
- Mentorship and the Importance of Career Development
- Defining your Leadership style
- Supporting and creating future leadership
This series comes to us through L’Oréal and RoSPA [email protected]@Home Partnership in association with OneWISH. It is designed to help and support those who identify as women in Health & Safety reach more senior roles and includes certified "IOSH Leading Safely" training followed by a period of mentoring. This training is delivered by Louise Hosking of Hosking Associates, sponsored by L’Oréal and administered by RoSPA.
Our Guests:
Mentee - Dr Jwan Kamla is the Senior Safety Risk & Operations Consultant at Atkins
Mentor - Dr Karen McDonnell is the Occupational Health and Safety Policy Adviser at RoSPA
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Written by Tamara Parris

Tamara Parris is the VP of Community and Business Development at Safeopedia, and owner of EHS Professionals Group on LinkedIn. Her passion is working with other EHS Professionals to collaborate in thought leadership, networking and connecting our industry peers to resources that will increase profitability and safety practices within their workplaces. Tamara has been in the Health and Safety field for over 20 years, her industry experiences include the Construction sector, CCTV and Security, and Commercial Retail industries.
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