Panel

Three leaders in women's economic empowerment will share their paths to promoting more equitable and inclusive investment in Latin America, West Africa, and Southeast Asia. Join us in a conversation about their careers, current work, and the future of gender lens investing.

Opening Plenary

Plenary

Breakout Session

Building off the themes discussed in the prior plenary, share your experience and discuss your point of view as part of a moderated, small group.

Fireside Chat

As the international development industry reckons with its historical and current-day DEI challenges, ever wonder what major donor organizations like USAID are doing to address these issues? Join Deloitte’s organizational transformation and human capital expert, Wendy Carr as she discusses this topic with Maria Price Detherage, Deputy Assistant Administrator within USAID’s Africa Bureau, in a fireside chat-style event.

Lunch

Panel

US and global trends and what this means in very concrete terms to global development companies and their workforces.

Panel

Executive leaders, if you have not yet received a calendar invite with the link to this session, please complete this form prior to April 30, 5pm ET. Requests to join the session after that time may not be reviewed.

Workshop

*This session is not recorded.

Workshop

ANXIETY AT WORK: 8 Strategies to help teams build resilience, handle uncertainty, and get stuff done. 

If you’re a manager, how do you keep up with demands while creating a stress-free work atmosphere? How can you spot rising anxiety levels in your people? If your employees feel overwhelmed or worried about the future, what can you do to ease their concerns?

Join an interactive discussion with these two #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling authors. They will share how you can create and foster an environment that fosters resilience in the workplace.

These leadership experts provide advice to some of the world’s largest organizations on managing change, driving innovation, and leading high-performance teams.

Workshop

Leveraging the latest virtual conference technology, network with colleagues in our Leadership Lounge.

Clubhouse

We all have a story we tell ourselves, that either feeds our greater self as we fulfill our potential — or starves us with self-limiting beliefs. Join us for an interactive discussion as we share how you can harness this power to design your future.

Leveraging the latest virtual conference technology, network with colleagues in our Leadership Lounge.

Workshop

Leveraging the latest virtual conference technology, network with colleagues in our Leadership Lounge.

Roundtable

In this session, Chiefs of Party from various organizations and country contexts will explore the paradigms of power, equity, safeguarding, and leadership within their unique roles. Panelists will discuss how they have navigated the many responsibilities to transform local agency and access to shift power imbalances. They will explore the importance of safeguarding staff and local communities from harm. They will also highlight the importance of identifying and empowering future leaders from diverse backgrounds and local contexts to improve development.

Roundtable

This roundtable will highlight the career journey of two female international development professionals.  Our co-facilitators will highlight the importance of "flexibility, connections and leveraging opportunities" for career advancement and fulfillment. 

Workshop

What is empathetic leadership and what does it mean in the workplace, especially during times of crisis?

Keynote

Opening Keynote

*Session will not be recorded. 

Building gender balance is a twenty-first century management and leadership skill. Bringing a business into successful gender balance requires leaders who have a strategic understanding of the considerable economic benefits that lie untapped in the female population—in their roles both as customers and as talent—and the competencies needed to work across genders.

It’s time for businesses to tap into 100% of the talent pool and connect with 100% of the market—both male and female. Wittenberg-Cox tells us how and why gender balance needs to happen now—and how to achieve it.

Breakout Session

Building off the themes discussed in the prior plenary, share your experience and discuss your point of view as part of a moderated, small group.

Plenary

Breakout Session

Building off the themes discussed in the prior plenary, share your experience and discuss your point of view as part of a moderated, small group.

Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.”  Learn from speaker’s lessons and leave with concrete dos and don’ts you can bring to your own life.

• Carla Chamoun: "The Fall and Rise of a Working Mom"
• Tine Knott: "Humility"
• Saraounia Mboka-Boyer: "Co-opt, Convert and Take over: The Failure of Diversity in International Development"

Come engage with the people at FHI 360 who have been leading on aspects of DEI - the Director of Human Resources, Director of Global Health, and Director of Southern and East Africa Regional Office. These individuals bring historical and technical perspectives on the importance of integrating gender, diversity, equity and inclusion to organizational policies, processes, and projects. They will be sharing approaches, perspectives, stories, challenges and successes so that you can walk away with inspiration for applying these ideas to your own organization.

Roundtable 

The rapid pace of change means we're all constantly learning new skills, changing perspectives, and having to adapt. Learn how other organizations are gaining advantages from empowering leaders at all levels by creating a coaching culture.

Workshop

Define your personal brand and be a more intentional leader, whether you are an executive, entrepreneur, or individual contributor. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll use structured tools and exercises to learn the fundamentals to increase your visibility, build your thought leadership, and drive your career forward.

Master Class

We are so willing to be of service to others in challenging times — for our family, friends, colleagues, community — but most of us are unwilling to be of service to ourselves. If you’re reluctant to ask for help for yourself, then this session is for you. (And trust us, we get it!). We will address 5 concrete strategies to help you change your thinking, create new strategies, and connect to others so that you don’t have to feel overwhelmed by stress and underwhelmed by options for taking good care of yourself.

Networking Tables

In this round table discussion and networking session, join leading LGBTI development professionals in examining the intersections of gendered identities, expressions and sexualities as they interact across the development sector.  The discussion will examine the experiences of out LGBTI+ professionals while also exploring the current realities facing gender and sexual minorities throughout the world today. Join the experts in a robust Q&A discussion along with an opportunity to network with those interested in advancing global LGBTI equality.

Leveraging the latest virtual conference technology, network with colleagues in our Leadership Lounge.

Asia Pacific Plenary

Master Class

A masterclass hosted by Oxford HR on Imposter Syndrome, supported by two enigmatic and experienced speakers. We will be looking briefly at what Imposter Syndrome is and how it manifests itself, then talking to our two panelists about their experience with it and how they have challenged it. We will then have a Q&A session offering support and advice, both for individuals and also for those who work within organisations and would like advice on how to support their employees who may be suffering from this. Please do submit your questions in advance in the chatbox, to ensure we are able to answer as many as possible. Thank you for attending our Masterclass!

Master Class

Rita McGrath is a best-selling author, longtime professor at Columbia Business School, and one of the world’s top experts on innovation and growth. In this masterclass, Rita will inspire and energize business leaders to not just anticipate but capitalize on disruption in their industries, leading to resilience and a sustainable competitive advantage.

Workshop

Diversity, equity and inclusion have become every day words in nearly every sector. How do lofty statements become reality through not just policy changes, but attitudes and ways of working? To take root, this work has to include all levels of an organization — at Plan International USA, this often means seasoned executives listening to, and acting upon, the direction provided by young people. Join this fireside chat to learn strategies to ensuring efforts are not just one-offs or tokenism; how to admit when missteps happen and make corrections for the future; and how to challenge your assumptions to achieve better, more inclusive solutions. (Three of the speakers in this session are women of color.)

Plenary

Workshop

Workshop

The path to promotion for women in country offices can be uphill. But, despite cultural barriers and implicit bias, we are moving up! In this session, you will hear how women carved their paths, found champions, and created opportunities for others.

Workshop

A mentor speaks with you and advises you. In a groundbreaking study by Wharton/Gartner mentors were promoted 6x more, mentees 5x more, and retention rates were 20% higher for both the mentors and mentees. So what’s holding your company back?

This session will begin with having you take a 5-minute self-assessment on where your company stands with establishing a formal mentoring program. Building off your results, you’ll learn the 8 steps to launching a sustainable company mentoring program including what may be holding you back.  Want to get a head start on the self assess mentor share it with others in your company? 

Access it HERE. 

Effective collaboration does not happen naturally or haphazardly. It must be designed." In this session, KITE co-founders, Nina Segal and Jason Ighani, share a conceptual framework for team effectiveness and its application to their pioneering work with leadership teams in the humanitarian and development space.

Leveraging the latest virtual conference technology, network with colleagues in our Leadership Lounge.

Plenary

While the international development industry has made strides in promoting women’s leadership, specific sectors and cross-sections remain heavily male-dominated, such as energy, infrastructure, and cybersecurity. Despite the persistent gender norms, there are women who have been breaking barriers, some of them, for a long time. This session will highlight the experiences of some of these women, offer practical advice to women professionals in all career phases trying to succeed in male-dominated sectors, and provide insights into how organizations can accelerate change in these spaces.

Workshop

 Closing Plenary

• 3:45- 4 pm ET: Join the fun with our resident mixologist as she leads us through the creation of a celebratory drink. (Remember to get the ingredients ahead of time - list below!)
• 4 - 4:30 pm ET: Then, move into a small group break-out session with four other people to discuss: What is one thing you are taking forward from the 2021 Women in Global Development Leadership Forum? This is a great opportunity to receive and offer support to your new network.

Thank you to our mixologist Nisha Singh (also the FinEquity -Gender Transformative Solutions Lead, CGAP!) for leading us in this session.