Gender agenda - Building Gender Balanced Business

MBA WOMEN CAREERS
Online March 3
The second online event, the International MBA Women Careers Day, organised by 20-first and MBA-Exchange.com to celebrate International Women’s Day in a practical and innovative way will be held on March 3, 2010. It will bring together MBA women and alumnae from top business schools, and companies interested in recruiting, retaining and developing them.

Rethink Her – The Basis of Communication
Barcelona, March 4
A conference bringing together expert speakers to discuss how to communicate to women consumers and customers. Top speakers include Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO of 20-first and Jane Cunningham and Philipa Roberts of Inside Her Pretty Little Head. More…

The Third Gold Symposium on Global Diversity & Inclusion
United States, March 22
A symposium titled, Leading and Navigating Tsunami Culture Across the Pacific, is to bring together influential leaders from the US and Japan to discuss Diversity & Inclusion strategy and implementation at the InterContinental Hotel in LA, California.More…

STANFORD
Brainstorm 2010: Reflecting Forward – Stanford Women’s Leadership Conference
Palo Alto, California, April 17 More…

MARKETING TO WOMEN
Chicago, April 29-30, 5th Annual Marketing to Women Conference
Billed as the ‘nation’s premier conference on marketing to women’. Full list of speakers can be viewed on the website.

CAREER PLANNING
Brussels, April 29
Jump’s 4th Forum on advancing women in the workplace. Keynote speaker is Avivah Wittenbberg-Cox, CEO, 20-first, and co-author of Why Women Mean Business. More…

WOMEN IN THE BOARDROOM – PROFESSIONAL BOARDS FORUM
UK, May 19

The Professional Boards Forum, which enables potential women Non-Executive Directors to meet FTSE Chairmen, will hold its third UK event in London on May 19, 2010. Bob Cowell of Makinson Cowell, the leading capital markets advisory firm, and Lesley Knox, Chairman of Alliance Trust, currently the only FTSE 100 Company to have a woman chair and a woman CEO, will be keynote speakers. Chairmen have already put their name down to attend the next event. More

Elin Hurvenes, founder of the Professional Boards Forum, and Jane Scott, its UK director, will hold their first candidate selection conference in early February 2010 for the next Professional Boards Forum in the UK. Experienced women executives wishing to attend may contact Jane or Elin via their website.

Brand Me – A Journey Through Choices for Talented Women
June 15-17, 2010

• What is it?: ELP, in partnership with 20-first, offers women leaders a three-and-a-half day workshop called Brand Me – A Journey Through Choices for Talented Women that will help them develop their personal brand and build the confidence and skills they need to transition successfully into their next leadership role.

• 20-first supports Brand Me: 20-first, the gender consultancy and publisher of 20-first.com, supports the development and marketing of ELP’s women’s leadership programme, Brand Me. Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO of 20-first, says that: “This is one of the rare programmes that we have identified that fits with a strategic approach to valuing the benefits that gender differences can bring to business.”

• Programme Content: Brand Me can be run as an in-house or multi-client programme and works on multiple levels including the rational (head), the emotions (heart), and action (hands).

• When?: The next programme dates are: June 15-18, 2010 and October 19-22, 2010 at Warren House in Kingston-upon-Thames in London.

• Target audience: Talented women in the 30-45 age group, who are about to enter a senior leadership role. Maximum Participants: Twenty.

• Register: Register through the Brand Me website or telephone +32 16 241910.

Oslo, 12-13 October
First of its kind conference on the latest findings and results of the government-led quota for a 40% representation of women in the boardroom of Norway’s listed companies. More details to follow.

London, October 19-22, 2010
Brand Me – A Journey Through Choices for Talented Women

• What is it?: ELP, in partnership with 20-first, offers women leaders a three-and-a-half day workshop called Brand Me – A Journey Through Choices for Talented Women that will help them develop their personal brand and build the confidence and skills they need to transition successfully into their next leadership role.

• 20-first supports Brand Me: 20-first, the gender consultancy and publisher of 20-first.com, supports the development and marketing of ELP’s women’s leadership programme, Brand Me. Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO of 20-first, says that: “This is one of the rare programmes that we have identified that fits with a strategic approach to valuing the benefits that gender differences can bring to business.”

• Programme Content: Brand Me can be run as an in-house or multi-client programme and works on multiple levels including the rational (head), the emotions (heart), and action (hands).

• When?: The next programme dates are: October 19-22, 2010 at Warren House in Kingston-upon-Thames in London.

• Target audience: Talented women in the 30-45 age group, who are about to enter a senior leadership role. Maximum Participants: Twenty.

• Register: Register through the Brand Me website or telephone +32 16 241910.