PWN Global Newsletter Q4 2021
Dear Members,
dear Friends,
Since our election on 28 June 2021, we have been
working hard to come back to you with a strategy that we wanted to be
both faithful to the original spirit of PWN, pioneering and daring,
and also forward-looking. We want to give a new impetus to our
association and really define it's place it in the 21st century.
We have been travelling to meet our PWN Global
Board members, and City Networks. Special mention has to go to the
warm welcome that we receievd at the PWN Paris Congrès, where they
also celebrated the 25th birthday of the network - and birthplace of
PWN Global (read
more on PWN's history, here).
We want PWN to be able to accompany each member
in thier professional and career advancement. We want to contribute in
a very concrete way to the emergence of new laws and new legislative
or non-legislative developments in the field of gender-balanced
leadership.
The PWN Global Association, aims to create impact at three
levels:
- At an individual level - where women are
essential, and men are committed to support our ambitions to
progress more quickly, with greater certainty;
- At a business level - where there are often
struggles to ensure gender diversity across all levels of leadership;
and
- At a societal level - meaning governmental and
political organisations and authorities, both local and global, of the
countries themselves and the EU institutions or UN bodies.
To achieve this ambition, we organise our network
around three pillars: an engaging network; an acting network; and, an
impacting network.
Engaging Network
We wish to offer an exceptional experience to all
members. Being a member must provide significant advantages and open
new doors. The network must be able to create value, by connecting
everyone to each other, offering openings and strengthening personal
networks. We also need to grow in numbers and geography to strengthen
the voice and power of PWN.
To do this, we will work on three areas:
a. Membership experience: to
offer products and services according to the needs of our members; to
welcome and nurture new members, supporting ways to become a member,
even when you are in a small, isolated city.
b. “God Mother” project or
international network development: to launch new city
networks and to provide support for the smaller ones with the support
of our existing dedicated members who can take this spiritual
mentoring role.
c. “Menbassadors”: to
involve men in this ambition of transformation in favour of
gender-balanced leadership.
Acting Network
Since we are an action-oriented network, helping
everyone develop their leadership skills, to take their place, and
helping companies to install gender diversity at all levels of
organisational management. Our actions are concrete and
effective.
a. PWN Academy: with several
major programs to manage leadership development of our members at
different stages of their professional careers:
- International Mentoring Program
- International Leadership Program
- Career Acceleration Program
- Women on Boards Program
b. Virtual Entrepreneurship
Program: to accompany women who want to take the step into
entrepreneurship or to further develop their businesses (start-ups and
scale-ups)
c. TandeMW: a global
gender-balanced incubator to support companies in implementing gender
equality, to help them better understand and manage gender-balanced
leadership, in a friendly manner.
Impacting Network
Because we want to make our commitment and our
actions loud and clear, so that gender balance becomes the 'normal'
state of being for everyone.
Here too we will have three clear goals:
a. Marketing &
communication: a strong image with strong offers will be
necessary to spread our word and our actions as far and wide as
possible. We already have high level program offers, a comprehensive
library of webinar recordings, access to scholarships for study with
prestigious business schools, and other tools to be developed... PWN
is a brand today. we must collectively respect it so that its impact
is efficient.
b. Fundraising: partnerships
will be major, and funding will allow us to achieve this ambition. The
more we are accompanied, with major players, and with significant
funding, the more we will be able to deploy our strategy and satisfy
all current members and all those to come.
c. Gender-balanced leadership
research: to go further, to position ourselves at the
forefront of research in the field of business and leadership, to set
the standard, and to become the key thought leader on leadership and
gender issues.
We recognise that a redesign of our website and
membership platform is required to match our ambition and image and
that project is underway.
We are seeking the entire community’s support
in helping to achieve this ambitious vision for our future – whether
you are a PWN member, a leader of a PWN City Network, a corporate
partner, a business interested in championing gender balanced
leadership, one of our social media follows, or, a subscriber to our
newsletter we are counting on your active participation to build a
successful future for this incredible international network, so that
we can continue to advance gender balanced leadership,
together.
To this end, we are setting up steering and
advisory bodies to strengthen our operational performance, and to
remain attentive and responsive to each other. If you would like
to participate in and of the voluntary activities
available, please be
in touch and let us know what skills you would like to
contribute.
Our mantra: Growing Stronger,
Together!
We hope you enjoy this quarter's newsletter and
all of the the interesting articles on offer. Please do share our
newsletter with any of your own networks that you think would be
interested in knowing more about PWN Global.
We look forward to listening to your ideas and
are very happy to share this wonderful adventure with you all.
Warm regards,
Virginia and Nadine
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Virginia Otel Co-President,2021-2023 PWN Global
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Nadine Castellani Co-President, 2021-2023 PWN Global
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