Women On Boards & Business Leadership: Igniting Change

 

|| An Interactive Workshop for Women in Corporate Leadership! ||

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Numerous studies from around the world demonstrate the importance of gender diversity. Companies with more women on their boards and in senior management have been shown to financially outperform companies with no women in top positions. The evidence goes beyond improved financial and market performance. Heterogenous teams are also better at generating new ideas and avoiding groupthink. There is a correlation between the presence of women in critical board committees (such as risk and audit) and a more responsible approach to governance issues. Gender-diverse boards allocate more effort to monitoring, including verifying the integrity of audit information and ensuring conflict of interest guidelines are adhered to. Lastly, reducing the gender gap in workforces will expand the available labour supply by tapping into the underutilised female talent and potentially increase a country’s GDP.

Yet, progress has been slow toward more women joining company boards, despite a continuing rise in the number of educated and experienced female business leaders. Asia ranks 6th out of 7 regions for the percentage of board seats held by women (7.8%) and the percentage of board chairs that are women (2.6%).

 

| Workshop content:

In this one-day workshop, an experienced facilitator will guide participants to discuss the current gender gap within their own organisations, highlight unconscious biases and stereotypes, and equip them with practical strategies, tools, and techniques to catalyse change within their own organisations.

 

| Workshop language:

The workshop will be delivered in English language. 

 

| Registration:

Please contact rsvp@myanmariod.com or the office of Myanmar Institute of Directors.

Phone Number: +95 9 400151412, 400151419

 

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