International Women's Day will be celebrated on 8th March across the world in many different forms.
Join us this IWD 2022 as we help to raise the voices of women by hosting a webinar on 'Break Biases to Lead Differently: A New Era of Leadership' and celebrate women's economic, political, and social equality and engage in dialogue with a panel of trailblazing women as they share their stories, experiences, and perspective to educate and empower other women to follow.
Our speakers will show they are role-modelling the new era of leadership capabilities needed to drive cultures of belonging. They will share how transformational leadership is breaking biases, disrupting the status quo and showcase how they are being the change they want to see which crafts the space for diverse voices, equitable outcomes and an inclusive future.
About the panellist:
Catharine Seddon, Civil Service College Trainer
Catharine brings 14 years of NED experience with national regulators in four different government departments. Her particular interests include strategy, governance, risk management and regulatory decision-making.
After twenty years as an award-winning documentary film-maker for the BBC and running her own independent production company, Catharine took up her first NED post with the Human Tissue Authority. She subsequently became its Audit and Risk Assurance Chair and its Senior Independent Director (SID). She is currently the SID for the Gambling Commission and, as a Commissioner, sits on the Commission’s Remuneration Committee and its fourth National Lottery Licence Committee. She is a member of the Legal Services Board where she chairs its Audit and Risk Assurance Committee. She is deputy chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and chairs its Audit and Governance Committee. She also recently completed two terms as a member of the Determinations Panel of the Pensions Regulator. She sits on tribunals in mental health and employment and as a lay assessor on civil cases in the county courts and she is a presiding magistrate in busy central London courts. She was recently appointed to the Health Service Products Appeal Tribunal and she is a trustee for CPotential, a special needs charity.
Ritika Wadhwa, Director, UK Operations, Cultural Intelligence Center
Ritika is on a mission to bring inclusion and innovation right at the heart of organizations. She believes that Cultural Intelligence (CQ) is the one powerful capability that can help organizations to do just that! Cultural Intelligence is the ability to relate and work effectively with people from different cultural backgrounds and it goes beyond existing notions of cultural sensitivity and awareness. It is a skill and a capability that can be developed. A key skill that can help promote inclusion, belonging and ultimately innovation and growth in any organization which wishes to embrace it. Ritika was born and brought up in India in a patriarchal family, not permitted to work because of her gender! She went on to achieve an MBA from a university in the UK and broke all barriers as a first-generation immigrant to Canada and UK.
Yvonne Lardner, Associate Research Fellow, Cambridge Judge Business School
Yvonne Lardner is a senior brand and corporate communications specialist whose career spans fifteen years working and consulting for the likes of Harrods, Armand de Brignac Champagne (part owned by LVMH) and Boston Consulting Group Digital Ventures. Mid-career, Yvonne decided to return to academia, and alongside her corporate role, she is pursuing a Doctorate at the University of Cambridge and is an associate research fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School. Yvonne’s research focuses on how minorities navigate majority spaces, with her latest study considering the intersection of leadership, race and organisational identity
Minaxi Mistry, Associate Director Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Civil Service College
Championing diversity and inclusion since the early 1990s, Minaxi has been instrumental in designing and delivering inclusion strategies across the public and private sectors.
Minaxi has delivered diversity and inclusion work for organisations such as the British Armed Forces, FA, ECB, Scottish Government, Metropolitan Police, Waitrose, Coca-Cola, Ofgem and many more. In 2021, Minaxi was appointed to the NatWest Ethnic Advisory Council where she is actively working with the bank to support their commitments and targets set out in NWG's Banking on Racial Equity report. Minaxi joined the Civil Service College in September 2020, where she has aided in the design and delivery of ED&I consultancy services, provision of training programmes, and bespoke in-house training.
Take a look at our 'Women and Breakthrough Leadership' course
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