Liv Thompson
Bio
Liv Thompson is the Director of Strategic Capability at NIRO and a senior advisor to the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero.
NIRO provides independent strategic and technical advice to UK Government with the aim of de-risking investment, informing policy, and enabling maximum value for money to the UK taxpayer on all issues surrounding nuclear power, medical isotopes and fusion.
In her role at NIRO Liv supports the Nuclear Capabilities Commission to understand the skill, infrastructure and policy requirements needed within the UK to deliver the Government’s nuclear aspirations.
She also provides strategic advice and guidance on future nuclear programme delivery.
She helped to found Women in Nuclear, serving on the first Executive Board. She is a strategic advisor and advocate of Racial Equality in Nuclear and is a Trustee of the Primary Science Teaching Trust.
Liv is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Professional Development (CIPD) and the Nuclear Institute as well as being a Chartered Scientist.
Liv's Mentoring Background
"I’ve mentored from lots of angles, from being a manager to later in my career being involved from the HR side. So lots of mentoring activities.
And a lot of EDNI agenda activities too. I've been involved in Women in Nuclear, Virtual Equality in Nuclear and providing mentoring to those kinds of specific programmes too.
I'm a big fan of mentoring; I’ve both had lots of successful mentors myself and have benefitted hugely from lots of advice and guidance throughout my career.
I would say the greatest benefit I've had is through being a mentor myself. I've developed a lot of the hard skills and some of the softer skills that were flagged by the mentee skill-seeking survey through just helping and supporting others.
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