Events – Balance in Business

Inspiring keynotes, practical advice and open roundtable discussions. Our event series offers learning and networking opportunities

Event Spotlight

Balance in Business:
Who leads? Who (still) cares?
The Talent Perspective

A Hybrid Event at the In & Out Club, London, UK
Tuesday, 2 November 2021, 5.30pm-9.00pm (GMT) with Cocktail Networking

This is our 3^rd and last of the Balance in Business: Who leads? Who (still) cares? series – and our first hybrid event. Now, we ask those who are close to the ‘Talent’ the following:

Why care? Does everyone broadly accept the ‘why’?
What’s going on? what are companies doing to balance their business ?
How to Balance? What measures can be taken to ensure all communication is consistent
When will we stop talking and start walking?

Our Panellists:
Mark Spelman INSEAD MBA ’83J – Moderator, NED, Executive Committee Member at the World Economic Forum
Milka Kramer INSEAD MBA ’08D – Panellist, Country Manager Pinterest UK & IE
Suki Sandhu OBE – Panellist, Founder and CEO at Audeliss, Founder/CEO INvolve
Loren Shuster INSEAD MBA ’96J – Panellist, Chief People Officer, Head of Corporate Affairs at Lego Group
Joelle Warren MBE – Panellist, Founding Partner at Executive Search firm Warren Partners

Flagship event | Open to all | Virtual | Ticketed

Upcoming Events

An interactive Mentor Masterclass
Mentors Only Evening

Mentor Masterclass via Zoom
Tuesday, 23 Nov @ 6:00pm- 7:30pm (GMT)

This Masterclass will give everyone the opportunity to share one’s experiences and learn from one another. The session will start off with the panel briefly sharing their experiences as long-standing mentors and coaches and opening it up to the assembled audience.

Our Panellists:
– Ali Farquhar, Experienced executive coach helping biotech leaders lead more effectively, Principal, GTL Coaching & Consulting, Greater Boston
– Steven Parker, Board leader and mentor, supporting individuals and organisations to innovate and grow
– Helen Pitcher OBE, experienced Chairman, Board member, Board facilitator and Coach, Chairman Advanced Boardroom Excellence

Impact Mentoring Series | Mentor only | Free to attend

Previous Events

Where Event Summaries are available – click through to read the content

Connect, Learn and Share: Mentor Masterclass

Digital Event | 10 and 17 September 2020

Mentoring Masterclass hosted by Jane Lewes. Jane is an international mentoring expert and runs The Learning Consultancy. The masterclass, which was run twice following positive feedback, allowed mentors to connect, share and get the latest insights on mentoring.

Mentee Evening: How to get the most from your Mentor

Event @ Freespee, London | 27 February 2020

Evening for mentees to connect and share their experiences with each other and get the most from the Impact Mentoring programme. Four seasoned mentors will discuss the recent paper written by Helen Pitcher OBE about the benefits of mentoring; and share their own perspectives.

Connect, Learn, Share: Mentor's Evening

Event @ Target Global, London | 14 November 2019

An evening with Avivah Wittenberg-Cox (MBA’84J, mentor) on the Four Phases of Women’s Careers. The dual perspectives Avivah has garnered from CEOs and global executive teams on building gender ‘bilingual’ organizations as well as her insights from decades of coaching individual executives.

Event summary available

Mentee Evening: Building Presence

Event @ Freespee, London | 19 June 2019

An exclusive mentees’ evening of networking, exchanging experiences and hearing from Fiona Hathorn, CEO and founder of Women on Boards (WoB), on Building Presence.

Event summary available

Connect, Learn and Share: Leadership in Gender Inclusion

Event @ Institute of Directors, London | 5 March 2019

A special evening focused on Leadership in Gender Inclusion with Emer Timmons, Co-chair of Men as Change Agents (MACA); Anna Thompson, Government Equalities Office and Helen Pitcher OBE, Chairman Advanced Boardroom Excellence.

Event summary available

Balance in Business: Who leads? Who (still) cares? The CEO Perspective

Digital Event via Zoom | Wednesday, 25 November 2020

The CEO perspective. Sharing research and hard facts on Balance in Business as a value creation lever as well as compelling practical examples from recognised leaders on the success (or not) of gender balancing initiatives. First of three part series: Perspectives of the Board and HR-Talent to follow.

Events Summary available

Connect, Learn and Share: Cocktail Evening with Dean Mihov

Event @ AppNexus, London | 16 October 2018

An evening to say thank you to the tremendous support we have received from mentors to the iW50 Impact Mentoring Programme. With Dean Ilian Mihov, Sadia Khan, President of the Alumni Association and Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO and founder 20-First.

Event summary available

Mentee Evening: Developing Political Savvy

Digital Event | Wednesday 18 November 2020

Course led by Janes Lewes. Develop and apply “political savvy”. Political behaviour is increasing and research shows this leads to a reduction of trust in management – over 70% of people associate ‘politics’ with a negative experience. Come and learn more about organisational politics. What is it, the tools to help you develop the skills necessary to address aspects of your working relationships, hone your influencing skills and develop more useful networks.

Jane is an international mentoring expert, Senior Practitioner EIA from European Mentoring and Coaching Council; ESIA Supervisor accreditation. EMCC. Owner of The Learning Consultancy.

Connect, Learn and Share: Mentor Evening: Immersive and interactive

Digital Event| 2nd February 2021

This event was an immersive online experience, which gave everyone the opportunity to share one’s experiences and learn from one another. The session kicked- off with the panel, briefly sharing their experiences as long-standing mentors and coaches and opening it up to the assembled audience.
Our outstanding panellists were:
Helen Pitcher OBE, Steven Parker, Ali Farquhar.
Event summary available.

Mentee Evening: Managing Career Change with Sonal Bahl

Digital Event via Zoom | 16 March 2021

Once a banker, always a banker. Once a lawyer, always a lawyer. Correct? Not anymore. In this session, Sonal Bahl, Career Coach shared seven tips on how to navigate career change, and 2 of these 7 tips are related to resetting your mindset, without which the other tips will not really work.

Balance in Business: Who leads? Who (still) cares? The Board Perspective

Digital Event via Zoom |Thursday 11 March 2021

Between Beatrice’s sterling work insisting on gender-balanced and all-female slates for candidates and what gets measured, gets done! Stanislav’s data on female CEO’s making it to board positions, Byron’s sharing his experiences working with board’ & CEOs, seeing a steady evolution of diversity in the boardroom as well as increased activity from investors taking action, we are going in the right direction.

There’s still a lot of work to be done, as Avivah Wittenberg-Cox says ‘you only get gender by design’. Quotas are not the answer, Boards and CEOs agree. @Ronan Dunne says “bring in the practicality, the conditions…to allow women to be the success they deserve to be’. All agreed, we need change in the mindset of recruiting….

Event Summary Available

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Connect, Learn and Share: Interactive Mentoring Workshop - Listening Skills

Event via Zoom | 14 April 2021

This was the second of 2021 Mentoring Workshops series. It was an interactive 90-minute session with Jane Lewes covering the all-important mentoring skill – listening, in which Jane took us through a series of exercises and shared with us best practices. The objective of this session was to:
• Identify and practise techniques to improve listening skills;
• Enhance skills in correctly assessing non-verbal communication;
• Identify filters in the listening process and develop skills to eliminate these;
• Complete a personal action plan aimed at developing more effective listening skills

Connect, Learn and Share: Interactive Mentoring Workship – Insightful Questioning

Event via Zoom | 20 May 2021

The third of our 2021 Mentoring Workshop series. We covered the very important topic of ‘Developing Insightful Questioning Skills’. It was a 90-minute interactive session. Jane Lewes took us through a series of exercises and shared with us best practices. Questioning is a very powerful tool in mentoring as they:
 Promote empowerment and autonomy
 Stimulate new thinking
 Point the way to choices and options
 Act as “forward” or “reverse” to the mentoring process

Mentee Evening: Design your life vision Masterclass

Digital Event | 16 September 2021

We had an amazing session with Caterina Kostoula , executive and team coach, Founder, The Leaderpath , author of the successful book Hold Successful Meetings. Caterina is not only an INSEAD alumna but has been a mentee on the Impact Mentoring Programme.
She shared with us:

-The #1 secret to realizing your vision faster than you expected
– The 2 biggest mistakes people make when designing an inspiring vision
– The #1 obstacle you will need to overcome to get clarity about your desired future
Event summary available – click on the image.

INSEAD iW50 Forum

Event |March 2018

In 1967, INSEAD became one of the first business schools in the world to admit women to its MBA programme.
To honour this 50-year milestone, the school is launching iW50 at INSEAD, a year-long celebration in which we will honour the past, present and future of women at INSEAD, while also reaffirming a commitment—held equally by men and women at INSEAD—to equip women for success at every career stage and in every organisation.

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