everywoman Global Summit Agenda
Training and Focus Days
10 – 11 November: The Inclusive Leader Certificate (for people managers)
14 November: Implementing ESG Strategy for Gender Equality (for Board level, plus HR, D&I and L&D)
14 November: Affinity Group Leaders Academy (for ERG leads)
Global Summit
15 – 16 November: Women and male allies looking to advance their careers in either a people management or individual contributor role.
India Focus Days
16 – 17 November: Leadership development content focused on the Indian market
Inclusive Leader Certificate
Purpose
A one-day workshop delivered over two half day sessions for leaders to work on the behaviours that contribute towards inclusive leadership. Putting the “I” into inclusion by taking small nudges that make a biggest difference to being an inclusive leader. The workshop will work with the concept of nudges:
- Framing nudges – changing the way we think, altering our frame and outlook, challenging our bias and perceptions
- Feeling nudges – Imagining what it feels like not to be included to drive action in self
- Process nudges – putting in place designs to drive inclusivity
Outcomes
To be in a place where leaders:
- Are clear about whether and how their current outlook and day to day behaviour drives inclusion
- Are clear and confident in taking different types of nudges that drive inclusivity
- Hold self and others to account for shifting the dial on inclusion
Approach
The style of the workshop will be interactive and use the form of polls, break out groups, chat box, video links as well as encourage individual reflection. There will also be one ask made of individuals prior to coming along to the workshop to drive greater value in conversations with other delegates.
10 November: Day 1
08:00 GMT/ 13:30 IST
Setting the scene – Importance for “I” for Inclusion & leadership inclusive playbook
08:20 GMT/ 13:50 IST
Being an agent of inclusion
09:00 GMT/ 14:30 IST
Expanding our maps of one another
10:00 GMT/ 15:30 IST
Network break
10:15 GMT/ 15:45 IST
Challenging your bias and patterns that lead to exclusion using a deliberate techniques that shift perspective and change your anchors
11:30 GMT/ 16:30 IST
End of Day
11 November: Day 2
08:00 GMT/ 13:30 IST
Being an agent of belonging & inclusion – working with the 5 feeling levers of inclusion
08:30 GMT/ 14:00 IST
Leaning into inequity & privilege – acting as an ally
09:15 GMT/ 14:45 IST
Moving from a bystander to drive inclusion
10:00 GMT/ 15:30 IST
Network break
10:15 GMTT/ 15:45 EST
Challenging and redefining processes that exclude; strengthening group & team dynamics through inclusive process
11:15 GMT/ 16:45 IST
Individual leadership nudges plan and personal pledge from workshop
11:30 GMT/ 16:30 IST
End of Day
Monday 14 November: Implementing ESG strategies for Gender Equality
10:20 GMT/ 05:20 EST
Welcome and opening remarks
10:30 GMT/ 05:30 EST
Pre-Conference workshop: Raising the bar on purpose
It’s no secret what purpose can do for your business. Research shows a shared purpose fosters feelings of belonging: a critical ingredient in building truly inclusive workplaces. Done right, purpose is also a driver of engagement, productivity, innovation, and appetite for change.
So what does it take to get there?
This practical 90 minute session by businessfourzero will share experience and insight in shaping and embedding powerful purposes for some of the biggest businesses in the world – including Tesco, Aviva, Reckitt, Bain Capital – and help you understand how and where to do that in your organisation so that purpose is:
- integrated with strategy, making commercial and ESG progress are one and the same
- harnessed to shape your culture and change your business from the inside out
- hardwired into your critical processes so it becomes inevitable
This session will be led by Kate Boydell (Partner) and Emily Kendall (Lead Consultant) from businessfourzero.
Businessfourzero is a transformation company dedicated to purpose driven change. We specialise in purpose, strategy, culture, leadership and engagement – and connecting the dots in between. Our clients include Tesco, Bain Capital, Electronic Arts, BP, IHG and John Lewis.
12:00 GMT/ 07:00 EST
Networking break
13:00 GMT/ 08:00 EST
Keynote – ESG and gender inclusion: how we’ve moved from data to action
13:10 GMT/ 08:10 EST
Panel – Gathering the right diversity and inclusion data and using it to drive real change
- What do the best metrics look like and how should we be processing them?
- Beyond the gender pay gap: what else should we be measuring and what standards do we want to hold ourselves to?
- Building and trust in colleagues to get better insights into your people
- How could we use consequential targets to drive a sense of ownership in the D&I arena?
- Using the ESG report to put momentum behind targets
Panellists include:
13:55 GMT/ 08:55 EST
Panel – From vision to roadmap: bringing D&I to life in your organisation
- Building diversity and inclusion into your organisation’s policies, procedures and protocols
- Inclusive design: how do you create inclusive workplace experiences that present fewer barriers and allow an equal experience for everyone?
- Creating a culture of belonging so people can bring their whole selves to work: which programmes are having a tangible effect to drive this change? Is training enough?
- Supply chain D&I: what are companies doing to have an impact their partners? What diversity requirements are they building into contracts and what are the metrics to evidence them?
Moderator:
Panellists include:
14:55 GMT/ 09:55 EST
Afternoon Break
15:25 GMT/ 10:55 EST
Panel – How do we get more women in senior leadership?
- Nurturing and accelerating the long-term pipeline of future women leaders from diverse backgrounds
- Filling senior roles in the near term: novel schemes to bridge skills gaps in areas where women are under-represented
- Equipping all employees at all levels to challenge bias and show up as allies
- Identifying and addressing the additional barriers that women with diverse identities, such as ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ and disabilities, are facing in their progress toward the c-suite
Moderator:
Panellists include:
16:15 GMT/ 11:15 EST
Case studies: driving organisational change through ESG reporting
Looking at ESG through the gender lens, what is the merging best practice in governance structures, initiatives and reporting?
Panellists include:
16:45 GMT/ 11:45 EST
Closing remarks and end of day
Monday 14 November: The Employee Resource Group Leaders’ Academy
12:30 GMT/ 07:30 EST
Welcome and opening remarks
12:40 GMT/ 07:40 EST
Keynote – View from the board – what drives senior leaders to support ERGs?
ERG pioneer Ana Dutra started up her first women’s network in 1994, before the term ERG existed. Since then, she has been the executive sponsor of many different kinds of ERGs throughout her distinguished career as a senior leader across the Consultancy, Financial Services and Manufacturing industries, including Global Managing Partner with Accenture. Find out what motivated her to empower these groups and hear her advice on how to get backing from the C-suite.
13:00 GMT/ 08:00 EST
Case study – Moving to a new intersectional ERG model
13:20 GMT/ 08:20 EST
Case study – In conversation with Femi Thomas – Bridging the gap between Executive Leadership and your ERG
13:40 GMT/ 08:40 EST
Build your network – speed networking with other affinity group leaders
Time to meet your peers in this session which will see you paired randomly with other attendees in three minute sessions. A wonderful way to create your own network that you can connect with long after the event is over.
14:00 GMT/ 09:00 EST
Panel – Accelerating ERGs, equipping them to foster an inclusive workplace
- How to involve affinity groups in recruitment, onboarding and other process and decisions where they can make a difference
- Strategies for broadening the reach of the employee resource group so they can have a meaningful effect on the company culture
- Striking the balance between keeping the groups as a safe space for people to talk and building in an allyship model to bring colleagues along on the journey
- How can affinity groups get involved in mental health and wellbeing initiatives?
- How are ERG members getting involved as brand ambassadors for their companies?
Panellists include:
14:40 GMT/ 09:40 EST
Hot poll challenge – what factor has the greatest effect on an ERG’s success?
Attendees will be broken up into smaller groups to come up with their top answer to the question. Each group will then have the opportunity to put forward their responses and to be shortlisted into the Top Five by our everywoman panel. The audience will then vote for their favourite answer in our hot poll and our winning team announced as our ERG Insight Champions.
15:30 GMT/ 10:30 EST
Discussion – Joining up ERG siloes, supporting intersectional colleagues
- Where to start on making affinity groups work better to support intersectional people in the workplace
- How to get co-chairs working together rather than focusing on their own pillars
- Examples of different affinity groups working together on an issue for a better outcome
- What will the affinity groups of the future look like? how could they be structured to better support intersectionality
Panellists include:
16:40 GMT/ 11:40 EST
Closing remarks and polls
16:45 GMT/ 11:45 EST
End of Day
Tuesday 15th November 2022
11:30 GMT/ 06:30 EST
Welcome and opening remarks
11:40 GMT/ 06:40 EST
Keynote – Being the change: using your influence to build an inclusive world
Dr Hothi is in the top 100 most influential black, Asian and minority ethnic leaders in the UK and was awarded an OBE for promoting diversity in Banking. Her family came to Britain from India for a better life however she found herself encountering racism, hardship and the conflict between traditional expectations of her and the demands of her Banking career. Embracing her difficulties to fuel her drive to create positive change in the world, Dr Hothi worked her way up from cashier to Director, smashing glass ceilings and finding her authentic voice as an empathetic, inclusive leader. Find out how she approached being an advocate for women and minorities in Financial Services and how she embraced her purpose to drive success for herself and those around her.
Keynote speaker:
12:00 GMT/ 07:00 EST
Keynote: Inclusive teams deliver
At the heart of the best agile practices is a team where every voice feels included. So how do we go about building and creating this sort of team? How do we get a team to sustain the best behaviour? How do we get a team to self organise around good practices, and maintain them? This talk will cover what Dr. J has learnt in the past twenty years about building teams.- and give you a way to do the same. We give a vision for the future that builds on what the best teams already do. By having the right mindset, we can take actions that drive us towards the best outcomes.
12:20 GMT/ 07:20 EST
Panel: How do women climb up to senior leadership and how can you get there?
- What does it take to get to the C-suite? Do you need a plan or can you take opportunities as they arise?
- What is the reality of being in the C-suite?
- How to enlist mentors, sponsors and allies to support you in your career journey
- Responding to the attitude that you were a ‘diversity hire’
- The glass cliff phenomenon: if you are offered a tough gig at the top, should you take it?
- Managing work/life balance when you are in a demanding senior role
Moderator:
Panellists include:
13:00 GMT/ 08:00 EST
Networking break
14:00 GMT/ 09:00 EST
Panel: Allyship – how can we work together to create an environment of belonging?
- Where are we focusing our allyship efforts and what is the next frontier, looking at gender and intersectionality?
- Which allyship tools are effective in the workplace?
- How can people get involved at all levels of the organisation?
- What needs to be changed to create a culture of belonging in the workplace?
- Creating an environment of psychological safety so people feel comfortable calling out behaviours
- How can we make allyship sustainable and embedded into the organisational culture?
Moderator:
Panellists include:
14:40 GMT/ 09:40 EST
Build your network: the speed networking challenge
15:00 GMT/10:00 EST
Networking break
15:30 GMT/10:30 EST
Panel: How to be a hybrid high flyer
As companies pivot to a return to the office or hybrid model, how can women ensure that they position themselves for success in this new way of working?
- Being intentional about your time in the office: networking with the right stakeholders, building your team and creating meaningful connections
- Being visible and maintaining your brand when you are working from home for a part of the week
- Will you gain greater flexibility in a more senior role? Should work/life balance be a reason to push harder for a promotion rather than shying away from opportunities?
- How can we influence our organisations to embrace flexibility if they are pushing for a full return to work?
Panellists include:
16:10 GMT/ 11:10 EST
Courageous conversations: Become a better ally or a more inclusive leader
We understand that identity comes in many shapes and forms in addition to gender. Understanding difference can help create a greater sense of empathy and ultimately foster a more inclusive team culture. In these candid discussions, you’ll hear from an intersectional role model and then be able to ask them your burning questions.
1) Neurodiversity
2) LGBTQ+
3) Disabilities
4) Working parents
5) Menopause
6) Career breaks
16:40 GMT/ 12:40 EST
Psychological safety: How to build trust in yourself and your team
Our power hour focuses on the important role that psychological safety plays in driving purposeful leadership and meaningful change for women in the workplace. Join Positive Psychology coach Sharon Aneja as she shares cutting edge strategies such as EFT Tapping to help women build more self trust and a team trust-building exercise called “Washing Instructions” in this inspiring and engaging session.
Speaker:
17:40 GMT/ 13:40 EST
Closing remarks
Wednesday 16th November 2022
12:30 GMT/ 07:30 EST
Welcome and opening remarks
12:40 GMT/ 07:40 EST
Keynote: Unlocking the visible and invisible dimensions of human uniqueness – A conversation with Katie Dudtschak
Over a career spanning 36 years at RBC Royal Bank, Katie led Canada’s largest advisor force of more than 20,000 employees, who advised and served over 15 million clients with over $1 trillion in business. Katie is also a woman with gender affirming experience, publicly revealing her journey to embrace her true self in 2019. While facing her true gender was the hardest experience of her life, it provided her with a unique and powerful view on society and the role and practices of organisations and leadership moving forward. In this session we hear Katie’s story, her views on leadership and gain insight into how to recognise and harness the potential in all the dimensions of human uniqueness
Keynote speaker:
13:00 BST/ 08:00 EST
Panel: The male ally of the future
Find out how to be an effective male ally or how to work effectively with male allies in your organisation. In this practical discussion, we will cover:
- How do we redefine male allyship in the new normal of hybrid working?
- What can men do to help break the bias?
- Encouraging other major stakeholders within the organisation to become allies
- How can women approach and effectively work with male allies?
- How to be an intersectional ally? Understanding the compounding issues when race, sexuality or disability are an additional characteristic
- Assisting and supporting team members to drive productivity
Moderator:
Panellists include:
14:00 BST/ 09:00 EST
Leadership roundtables
Our global mentors will cover the skills needed for effective leadership, personal growth and to help you to progress:
1. How to be an effective female leader in a male dominated environment
2. Overcoming imposter syndrome
3. Now you have a seat at the table, what will you do with it?
4. Personal Brand development
14:30 GMT/ 09:30 EST
How to be a leader in a new era of sustainability
Moderator:
Panellists include:
15:15 GMT/ 10:15 EST
Networking break
15:40 GMT/ 10:40 EST
Panel: Enabling neurodiverse talent to thrive in your workplace
It is estimated that 15 to 20 percent of the world’s population are neurodiverse but what percentage of our leaders has a disability? What barriers are neurodiverse people facing in the workplace that are hampering their potential? Our panel will explore these difficulties and share strategies that can help to level the field, looking at issues such as:
- Creating a safe space for neurodiverse colleagues to have the conversation about the difficulties they are facing in the workplace
- Examples of workplace adjustments that can create a more inclusive environment for neurodiverse people
- How to improve awareness throughout your organisation of the subtleties of hidden disabilities such as dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD and autism
- Are workplace passports an effective as tool for supporting neurodiverse people? How are they being used?
- What role could neurodiverse male and female role models play in creating a more open conversation around neurodiversity?
Moderator:
Panellists include:
16:20 GMT/ 11:20 EST
Mental health – how can you build a happier, more productive workplace?
There has been a wall of bad news coming at people this year. Just as we were unpicking the impact of COVID on mental health and wellbeing, along came the invasion of Ukraine, energy price rises, inflation and financial pressures. So how can you, as a leader, best support your team through these turbulent times? We will unpack issues such as:
- How do you raise morale and ensure that people are treated evenly?
- Creating a safe environment for people to be open about mental health difficulties
- What does best practice look like for mental wellbeing support in the workplace?
Moderator:
Panellists include:
17:20 GMT/ 12:20 EST
Closing Keynote: Women with disabilities – smashing the multiple barriers to success
Sheri will share her personal story of how she got into disability advocacy, not as a wheelchair user herself but, to support her hearing-impaired daughter. Armed with a law degree, a computer science degree, an MBA and a passion for equality, Sheri has brought about new rights for hearing impaired people in the US and the UK; she is also now the accessibility innovation leader for VMWare and its ecosystem. What has she learnt about the double barrier facing women with disabilities and how it can be overcome?
Keynote speaker:
17:30 GMT/ 12:30 EST
Closing remarks
Wednesday 16th November 2022
12:00 IST
Welcome and opening remarks
12:10 IST
Keynote: Being the change – using your influence to build an inclusive world
Dr Hothi is in the top 100 most influential black, Asian and minority ethnic leaders in the UK and was awarded an OBE for promoting diversity in Banking. Her family came to Britain from India for a better life however she found herself encountering racism, hardship and the conflict between traditional expectations of her and the demands of her Banking career. Embracing her difficulties to fuel her drive to create positive change in the world, Dr Hothi worked her way up from a cashier to Director, smashing glass ceilings and finding her authentic voice as an empathetic, inclusive leader. Find out how she approached being an advocate for women and minorities in Financial Services and how she embraced her purpose to drive success for herself and those around her.
12:30 IST
How to be a hybrid highflyer
As companies pivot to a return to the office or hybrid model, how can women ensure that they position themselves for success in this new way of working?
- Being intentional about your time in the office: networking with the right stakeholders, building your team and creating meaningful connections
- Being visible and maintaining your brand when you are working from home for a part of the week
- Will you gain greater flexibility in a more senior role? Should work/life balance be a reason to push harder for a promotion rather than shying away from opportunities?
- How can we influence our organisations to embrace flexibility if they are pushing for a full return to work? hybrid employee, maintaining your brand and networking with stakeholders
Panellists include:
13:20 IST
Lunch and networking break
13:50 IST
Inspirational keynote: How I mobilised thousands of people to build a better world for people with disabilities
Nine years ago, inspired to make India a more inclusive country, Prarthana co-founded GiftAbled, an award winning social enterprise and eCommerce platform which merchandises products made by people with disabilities across India, supporting the livelihoods of thousands of people with disabilities and the underprivileged. She has engaged with over 20,000 volunteers and hundreds of non-profits across the country to improve access to health, education and careers for people with disabilities. How has she managed to inspire so many people to get on board with her cause and what can businesses do to help?
Speaker:
14:10 IST
Dual perspective: Returning to work after a career break
Women share their experiences and advice on what has and hasn’t worked for them as they transitioned back to the workplace after a career break and employers share how they are supporting women as they come back to work.
- How have women successfully managed the transition back to work after a career break?
- What support have women had from their organisations, whether they are returning to an old workplace or moving to a new employer?
- Do women need to take a demotion if they are not across the latest changes in their field?
- What to say in an interview about a career break and how to positively present any new transferrable skills
Moderator:
Panellists include:
14:40 IST
Networking break
14:55 IST
Panel: How can leaders make it easier for talented mothers to remain in the workplace?
Women in India now have 6 months of maternity leave however, for many, balancing their household work with their career remains a struggle.
We will explore what organisations can do to support working mothers and what mothers have done to improve the balance in their lives. We will be looking at issues such as:
- Why do women leave? Looking at the root causes of the retention issue
- What support do working parents need so they can be successful in their careers?
- The role of internal role models and mentors for working mothers
- How does support vary for working parents in different workplaces and industries?
Moderator:
Panellists include:
15:35 IST
Counterfactual thinking – women
Come along to a thought-provoking session with counter-factual thinker and author, Vandana Saxena OBE, which is designed to get your grey matter going! For thousands of years, it appears from records that 80% of history, religion, scientific achievement, and legislation have been written by men, about men, and often for men. Understanding that each gender has different characteristics, it means that despite having 50% females in the world, societal ways and thinking have been predominantly shaped by men. If the situation had been reversed, what would the world look like? And consequently, how would society have evolved and what would our societal ways and thinking now be like?
Speaker include:
16:30 IST
Closing remarks and end of day one
Thursday 17 November 2022
12:55 IST
Welcome and opening remarks
13:00 IST
Keynote: Unlocking the visible and invisible dimensions of human uniqueness – A conversation with Katie Dudtschak
Over a career spanning 36 years at RBC Royal Bank, Katie led Canada’s largest advisor force of more than 20,000 employees, who advised and served over 15 million clients with over $1 trillion in business. Katie is also a woman with gender affirming experience, publicly revealing her journey to embrace her true self in 2019. While facing her true gender was the hardest experience of her life, it provided her with a unique and powerful view on society and the role and practices of organisations and leadership moving forward. In this session we hear Katie’s story, her views on leadership and gain insight into how to recognise and harness the potential in all the dimensions of human uniqueness
Keynote speaker:
13:30 IST
Women’s stories: What does a successful career path look like?
Hear from a panel of women who have been through a range of career challenges and cross-roads and find out how they navigated their paths to success.
- Will a horizontal move bring you a step closer to leadership?
- Can you bring your skills from outside the workplace into your career?
- Making conscious choices about opportunities in the future of work: which new job opportunities are opening up and which roles are becoming automated out?
Moderator:
Panellists include:
14:15 IST
The male ally of the future
Find out how to be an effective male ally or how to work effectively with allies in your organisation. In this practical discussion, we will cover:
- How do we redefine male allyship in the new working arrangements?
- What can men do to help break the bias?
- Encouraging other major stakeholders within the organisation to become allies
- How can women approach and effectively work with male allies?
- How to be an intersectional ally? Understanding the compounding issues when race or disability are an additional characteristic
- Assisting and supporting team members to drive productivity
Moderator:
Panellists include:
15:00 IST
Networking break
15:30 IST
Mental health tips to help create a better balance in life
The pandemic has brought with it a wide range of mental health strains and even trauma for many women. There was a sharp rise in gender-based violence in India and elsewhere in the world during lockdown; loneliness became more acute for people who live on their own and many others have had their own personal stories of struggle during the past two and a half years.
This session will support you with practical advice from a range of experts, sharing the little things you can do to nurture your mental wellbeing as we come out of the pandemic and examine our own scars. And we will also look at what you can do to help your colleagues who may be facing difficulties and how you can bring your whole self to work.
Panellists include:
16:15 IST
Driving change: Practical tips for becoming a truly inclusive leader
Panellists include:
17:00 IST
Closing remarks and end of day one
