It’s Not Bragging if It’s True: Stop Being Coy & Start Embracing What You Bring to the Table

Elinor Honigstein has spent the last decade leading community building, strategic and commercial partnerships and projects. Over the past 15 years, she has been working with social impact organisations, helping them grow and establish their presence by developing relationships and partnerships with the communities around them.

In recent years, led by her passion for the power and scale of technology in addressing the world's most pressing issues, she has started working in the intersection between tech and social impact. Initially, as a business development consultant to startups at a social impact tech venture in London and now as a Partnership Manager at the UK Israel Tech Hub at the British Embassy, building tech partnerships between the UK & Israel.

She enjoys driving measurable change in the space of gender diversity and tech and, together with her team at the embassy, has launched the UK-Israel Women Leading Innovation Network, fostering collaboration between Israeli and British women in tech.

Externally, driven by her need to engage young women and girls more readily & contribute to a culture of inclusion in the workplace, she has trained as a facilitator & ambassador for #IamRemarkable, a Google initiative that encourages women to speak openly about their accomplishments. She delivers workshops to groups, communities and organisations all around the world to encourage women to overcome impostor syndrome, promote themselves confidently & step outside their comfort zone. She was recently nominated for Women in Tech Ally of the year Award by WomenTech.

Elinor spends her free time mentoring, volunteering for different charities and learning Italian. She holds a BSc in Social Psychology and Sociology, MSc in Organisational and Social Psychology and currently taking a course in Social Impact Innovation and Investment.