CEOs Who Get It
Bilingual Leaders Making It Happen
This section features the people who are leading change around the globe. By making their organisations and leadership teams more gender balanced in a sustainable way, they know they are also making them more responsive to customers, more meritocratic for employees, and better performing overall. Welcome to gender ‘bilingual’ leadership…
International Committee of the Red Cross
“Gender equality is essential for the effectiveness of our operations around the world. It enables us to be in close contact with the people we are striving to help and – this is critical – to
better understand their vulnerabilities. It facilitates our access to relevant networks and spheres of influence at community level. Having a gender balanced executive team will give a strong impulse to efforts to reach gender equality at all levels of the organization. It’s also a real plus for me: I clearly feel more at ease, more positively challenged in my thinking and more efficient with a mixed team.
An important measure of “making it happen” — whether in the ICRC or in other organizations — will be when more women in positions of leadership are featured on this page”
Yves Daccord, Director General, ICRC
NESTLÉ
“I definitely think that it has all to do with business, in the sense that gender balance is going to lead us to unlocking the resources that we have, the talent that we have, that we haven’t unlocked until today.”
Paul Bulcke CEO, Nestlé,
BAXTER INTERNATIONAL
“In virtually all marketplaces around the world, women make up a significant proportion of the consumers, trend-setters, and users of products and services, and thus gender balance drives a better understanding of marketplaces and how critical decisions are made.”
Gerald Lema, Corporate Vice President and President, Asia-Pacific, Baxter International Inc
MEDTRONIC
“We failed to appreciate that people and employees really means men and women. Talent, a combination of the consistently high performance and equally high learning agility is gender unbiased. And yet only a few women make it to the top of companies structures.””
Rob ten Hoedt, President, Medtronic ECA
Schneider Electric
“In the war for talent, companies can simply not afford to deprive themselves of half of the population. Women represent fifty percent of graduates in the major countries of the world. Neglecting women in recruitment or promotion is neglecting half of the world’s brain power”
Jean-Pascal Tricoire, President & CEO, Schneider Electric
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