Time to Give Thanks

We are still celebrating 25 years of inspiring women worldwide, the Global WINConference and the amazing people who came to be a part of the 3 day + leadership experience. Today we want to share our gratitude for all the individuals and organizations that helped make WIN's initiatives possible over this time. Numerous times, it felt like we were standing in front of seemingly impossible tasks they then became possible – thanks to someone believing in the vision, committing to invest their time and budget, or simply reaching out, giving a hand or some of their joy. They cared, they shared and so dream after dream came true.

In order for any dream or vision to become reality, support is pivotal. Today is our day of saying thank you. WIN’s global leadership programmes are not just any women’s event, they go deep, considering all of you and all that is around us.

You are asked to bring your inner and outer journeys to the table, to consider both the yin and the yang, the collective and the uniquely individual, the intuitive and analytical, courageous and heart-centred. Music is part of the meeting as nature is part of business. East meets West and North meets the South.

Thank you to all the people who have been part of WIN - from?our corporate learning series and webinars, the 8th March annual Inspiring the Future event as well as mobilizing meetings,?regional events in Japan, India, Middle East, Nigeria and events we did in 2022 in collaboration with local groups in Kenya and Cameroon.?WIN has given more than 1000 scholarships for women around the world to attend WIN programmes, mentored hundreds of them and created change across borders and boundaries, including been an inspiration for the birth of numerous other events and networks within companies and in society.?And of course, we have also run the women’s preferred leadership forum – the Global WINConference.

We have brought together thousands of women as well as the companies, institutions and communities they are part of in an authentic, feminine and global way.

We meet to develop as conscious leaders, advance businesses and organizations with purpose, create careers with meaning and inspire a world that works for all.?The entire point is to share and to care.

We are thankful to companies such as IBM , 纽约时报 , HP , 壳牌 , 帝斯曼公司 and 美敦力 that worked with us many of these years. We have seen the diversity and inclusion world evolve immensely since we began pioneering this work, and we are thankful for each and every collaboration.

After two years of on-line meetings we are grateful that our iconic?meeting could happen in person.

Right now, we want to especially thank the 2022 global partner sponsor companies and highlight our gratitude to the following individuals and organizations.?

Iveco Group?

Mirna Zerekli , Head of Talent & Leadership Development attended WIN when she worked for Shell and brought a delegation this year. The innovative company, recently separated from CNH Industrial, has guts and heart. We are so pleased that Mirna and Iveco Group CEO, Gerrit Marx, see the vital importance of creating and inclusive company and chose to partner with WIN.

Bristol Myers Squibb

Many remember Ester Banque as an incredible speaker at the 2017 Global WINConference while she was at Novartis. She then left for 百时美施贵宝 , where she is now SVP & GM of US Hematology, bringing our initial contact with the company. We have been working them since, Globally and also in Japan. This year, we were thrilled to hear from Emma Charles , the General Manager of BMS in Italy.?

DSM

When we first started to work with 帝斯曼公司 , Josefine van Zanten was the global head of D&I and she knew WIN from Shell and HP. Under the former, forward-looking CEO, Feike Sijbesma, DSM has sent several hundred women to WIN over many years. The current Co-CEO, Geraldine Matchett has spoken at WIN several times and was awarded the Inspiring Women Worldwide Award in 2020. This year, we had a great Corporate Learning Meeting on wellness with DSM and Lauren Wittenberg, MBA also joined the Global WINConference as a speaker.?

Pernod Ricard?

We first got in touch with Pernod Ricard through a long-time friend of WIN, Umran Beba , who introduced us to Neslihan Sezer Canpolat (she/her) , Regional Head of Talent Management and Inclusion. We are so pleased to have deepened our partnership over these last few years, finally this year at the in-person conference in Rome.?

Medela

Medela CEO, Annette Brüls , attended WIN as part of a Medtronic delegation a few years ago. We are such a backer of Medela given both it’s organizational culture as well as its products, and have have been thrilled to work with the company and support its mission.?

Global Citizen Forum

Headed by Dr M – a global thoughtleader and businessman, Global Citizen Forum has been a partner of WIN since 2019. WIN-GCF has co-convened events in Dubai and the United Nations in Geneva, and next we are headed to the UN in New York for a high-level meeting in 2024. GCF believes in a world going beyond gender, nationality, religion, fully in alignment with WIN’s pillars. Here Shivani Srivastva presenting GCF Global Citizen certificates at the Global WINConference in Rome.?

metta muse

We are huge fans of Narmada Ramakrishna , founder of metta muse as well as pink maharani, as an incredible social entrepreneur and embodier of the values of WIN.?

CEOforLife?

We are so pleased to be able to work with CEOforLIFE , an incredible community of CEOs and entrepreneurs focused on the Sustainable Development Goals, as well as it’s fearless founder, Giordano Fatali .?

We are also grateful to companies such as Sanofi , European Investment Bank (EIB) , the World Food Programme , TSYS , 阿西布朗勃法瑞公司（ABB） , Coca-Cola HBC and Prysmian for sending groups, and all others who participated.?

To see all the companies, foundations, individuals that have given their support and https://www.winconference.net/sponsor

Thanks goes to the photographers Nancy Fina Vanessa Rusci and for many years in the past Rosellina Garbo

We want to honour everyone who has supported WIN along the way and remains committed to expanding a world that works for all – through sustainability, gender balance and inclusion. These include Graham Sparks , Josefine van Zanten , Anne Stevens. MBA, DrUniv , Fiona Pattiselanno , Charity Nwakolam Ohadiugha , Randall Bradford , Rekha Mody, Elio Borgonovi , Simona Scarpaleggia , Charleen M. Michel, Ph.D. , Helena Phua , Akira Matsumoto, Glenis Normanton , lorella zanardo , Marcello Presicci and so many many more including advisory board members, WIN sisters and various women’s networks who are part of it.?

Thank you -

With love and courage, always,

Kristin