MEIRA D&I Working Group Gender Culture Workshop

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We are delighted to invite you to our upcoming workshop on gender culture with Elizabeth Coffey, Founder, Spark Leadership. The session will take place online on 6 July at 12pm UAE time.

When you travel abroad, you are a stranger in a strange land – a minority in a majority culture. In that foreign country, what makes you notice you are 'different'? When you drive on the 'wrong' side of the road? When you try a dish that 'doesn't taste right'? When you get lost?

Remember a time like that in your life…How does it feel? A bit off balance? Amusing? Alarming? This is what it is like for women when they move – as a minority - into a male-dominated work culture.

We'll look at the lighter side of gender culture through the lens of your own experience being 'the odd one out'. What did you do to navigate that challenge? How did others' help? I'll lift the curtain on provocative real-world leadership stories that challenge your assumptions, make you laugh and spark some insights.

Speakers

Elizabeth Coffey

Founder of Spark Leadership

Elizabeth Coffey

Founder of Spark Leadership

Liz is an internationally recognised Trusted Advisor, Lecturer & Author, who develops CEOs & Vice Chancellors, their Successors and Board Executives of Global 500 companies. She has coached elite leaders and developed their top teams across a wide range of industries and worked in over 30 countries. Previously a Senior Partner at Korn Ferry, Liz has held senior positions with Mercer Delta Consulting and The Change Partnership.

Liz is a Master Trainer of Trainers in Political Savvy: Strategic Influencing in an Ethical Way. She was trained 15 years ago by the guru in this topic, Dr. Joel DeLuca, and has taught this subject in 20 countries to tens of thousands of people. Liz has written several leadership books, including McGraw Hill’s ‘10 Things That Keep CEOs Awake – and How to Put Them to Bed’; Deutsche Bank’s ‘The End of Tolerance?’ and ‘The Changing Culture of Leadership – Women Leaders’ Voices’. She has developed a portfolio of Global 500 organisations through ground-breaking strategic changes, notably with ADNOC, Citigroup’s Investment Bank and the UK’s Senior Civil Service.

Liz has received innumerable awards including: SPE Distinguished Lecturer ‘22-23, Pioneering Woman Leader, Top 10 Leadership Development Companies in the UK, Top 101 Global Leaders – Diversity & Inclusion, Woman Super Achiever, Mentor of the Year and European Woman of Achievement.

Since 2017, Liz has curated and hosted leaders on several immersive trips to inspiring social enterprises in India: Leadership Learning Journeys. These trips have explored the scaled environmental and community impact of many extraordinary organisations across India.

A sample of Liz’s leadership clients include University College London, the University of Liverpool, UUK, KKR, Blackrock, Investec, Barclays Bank, Citi, Nomura, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, ADIA, Marsh, Aon, White & Case, Withers, Mishcon de Reya, Debevoise & Plimpton, BP, ADNOC, Shell, GSK, Sanofi, Pret a Manger, PwC, Accenture, Unilever plc, National Grid, EDF energy, Scottish Power, the BBC, HM Senior Civil Service, British Airways, Virgin Airways and Cabinet Ministers.

Liz graduated from Wellesley College with a dual degree in Psychology & English Literature.

Originally from New York, Liz has lived and worked for 35 years in London, 3 years in Frankfurt and for extended periods in Tuscany, Mumbai and Abu Dhabi. She has developed leaders all over the world.

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