Breaking through the Glass Ceiling: Empowering Gender Diversity in Boards

The webinar aims to explore the status of gender diversity in corporate governance and its impact on organizational performance. The stakeholder community is now expressing a growing interest in social concerns, particularly diversity and inclusivity — investing a greater focus on the prevailing gender inequality in corporate leadership. While progress has been made in some industries by bringing women on publicly listed company boards, women in management remain a minority.

This webinar will examine:

• The factors that contribute to the proverbial glass ceiling
• The concept of gender bias and gender stereotypes
• The evolution of management styles and the impact of emotional intelligence
• The link between gender and financial performance
• How the playing field can be leveled – identifying the role players and initiatives that must be implemented to address the issue

Speaker

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  Marie-Estelle Rey
  Senior Policy Analyst
  OECD

  Marie-Estelle Rey is the Senior Policy Analyst in both the Corporate Governance Division and the Investment Division in OECD. She started working at OECD in 1999 as the Senior Counsellor for the MENA Competitiveness Programme, where she organised research and policy dialogue on inclusive economic development, investment, trade, and regional integration. For 10 years, she had worked at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva as a legal expert on investment and enterprise development. Marie-Estelle holds a PhD in Public Law on WTO from the Paris Descartes University (Paris V) in France.

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  Bisi Adeyemi
  Managing Director/CEO
  DCSL Corporate Services Ltd

  Bisi Adeyemi is the Managing Director/CEO of DCSL Corporate Services and has led the firm to significant success with an impressive client portfolio and emergence as a governance market leader. She is the President of the Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce and an Independent Non-Executive Director at Eventful Nigeria Limited. Earning her MBA from the Lagos Business School, Pan Atlantic University, Bisi served at the Enterprise Development Centre of the university. She is a member of the Executive Council of Women in Management, Business, and Public Service (WIMBIZ) and a Non-Executive Director at the Boards of Centre for Women’s Health and Information. Passionate about corporate governance, Bisi also anchors a weekly column in BusinessDay.

• Moderator

  

  Valerio Viale
  Head of Business Growth Italy
  Convene S.L.

  Valerio Viale is the Head of Business Growth (Italy) at Convene who leads the acquisition of new customers in the Italian market. Being a polyglot with a multidisciplinary approach ranging from supply chain design to teaching, he has been successful in opening new and emerging markets in adopting value-adding software. Valerio has been in the industry for 14 years and has worked previously with esteemed companies, such as Cisco, JDA, Llamasoft, and Oracle.