Today on Capstone's Talent Talks Podcast, Managing Director Sarah Davenport and Data Centre and Real Estate Sector Lead Oli Coote speak with Dame Dawn Childs, CEO of Pure Data Centres Group, who was awarded a damehood for her outstanding services to engineering.

With a career spanning major critical environments in the military and civilian sectors, Dawn reflects on her journey from the Royal Air Force through roles at Gatwick Airport and National Grid, before discovering the data centre industry.

She shares insights into her transition to CEO, her commitment to building diverse teams, and her passion for attracting new talent to the sector while driving sustainability and community engagement.

Join us for a thoughtful conversation with Stefan Riedmann, Associate Director at BCS Consultancy. He reflects on his career journey, from a civil engineering education to project management in healthcare, before a lateral move into the data centre space. He also shares insights into BCS's innovative athlete conversion scheme and his commitment to prioritising mindset and soft skills when building high-performing teams.

Join us for an insightful conversation with Franziska Marshall, Senior Project Manager of Data Centres at Buro 4. She offers a reflection on her unconventional career journey, spanning background in German construction to completing a degree apprenticeship in the UK, and her current role in the fast-moving, mission-critical data centre sector. Franziska also shares her human-centred mindset as a mentor in the Capstone Mentored community.

Join us for an insightful conversation with Sophie Parker, Head of Talent at Pure Data Centres Group. She offers a reflection on talent management in the high-growth environment of the data centre industry, as well as her journey from being thrown in at the deep end in a graduate retail management scheme at Boots, through to becoming Head of Talent at Pure Data Centres Group.

Join us for an inspiring conversation with Alex Iveson, Account andBusiness Development Manager at Infra Partners and co-founder of the Forum for Women in Data Centres, as she shares her non-linear career journey from dropping out of university to becoming a leading voice in the data centre industry.

Join us for an inspiring conversation with Nqobile Ntombela,Project Delivery Lead at Rider Levett Bucknall, as she shares her remarkable journey from a technical high school in Durban to leading complex international data centre projects across Africa and Europe.

Join us for an insightful conversation with Jo Jackson, Thames Valley Portfolio Director at SEGRO, as she shares her remarkable career transition from 15 years as a property valuer to client-side portfolio management at one of Europe's largest industrial property companies, overseeing the world's second largest data centre cluster at Slough Trading Estate.

Join us for an empowering conversation with Marynet Basilly, Director of Mission Procure Solutions, a powerhouse in procurement and data delivery who has transformed her career from transport infrastructure to becoming a global data centre leader, entrepreneur, and passionate advocate for inclusive leadership.