How can mentoring support women for senior roles in engineering careers? Sally Twisleton and Paul Stokes report

  Can coaching and mentoring help create a better gender balance within senior leadership in engineering? This was the question posed by Sally Twisleton in her dissertation research for her MSc in Coaching and Mentoring at Sheffield Hallam University. One of this article’s authors’ (Twisleton) background as an engineering leader at Rolls-Royce and her personal interest in coaching and mentoring sparked the research initiative: “Although...