TRIUM celebrates
International Women's Day 2022
On International Women’s Day we ask TRIUM’s alumni community – What needs to change so more women can reach their full potential in business?
Dr. Leila Taghizadeh
Global Head of Cyber Risk, Allianz
Women: dare more, ask and ask! And promote women as much as you can in your domain - numbers will grow exponentially.
Dr Randall P White
Professor, Leadership, TRIUM
It is time that women are given the same consideration in being offered challenging leadership assignments that are complex and large in scale and scope, to turnaround, start up and manage within the business, in the same numbers that are offered to their male counterparts.
Kalpana Sankar
Managing Trustee, Hand in Hand India
Access to formal executive education, especially mid-career, gives women the edge to be successful. It is very important to find our niche and specialise for success in that area.
Aurelien Maudonnet
CEO, Helexia Brazil
Men in business need to recruit and promote more women into senior roles, not because it is their moral obligation to do so, but because such diversity will give their businesses a strong competitive advantage.
Laurie Fuller
Venture Partner, Raiven Capital
We need more women in Venture Capital and more venture funding invested in women-led start-ups.
Olatowun Candide-Johnson
Founder & CEO, GAIA Africa
We need to find a way to re-shape attitudes, change cultural blockages, and remove conscious and unconscious biases in both men and women.
Dennis Sponer
CEO, HSARx
We live in a world where nobody makes hiring decisions based on hair color. We should live in a world where nobody cares about gender any more than they care about hair color.
Leesa Soulodre
General Partner, R3i Capital
To continue to fuel innovation by women, we must change the larger landscape of capital. Beyond a moral imperative, we see this as a business case - investing in women is good business.
Marion Buchet
Public and International Affairs, Tehtris
We need to ensure that all performance based assessments are measured equally regardles of gender, even if it's sometimes difficult to step back from engrained methods in an organization.
Gülen Bengi
Executive Vice President, Unilever
For women talent in particular, I believe the next key unlock is sponsorship. Today, in most cases, we still have fewer women in senior leadership teams and forums where decisions on talent moves are made. This is why it is critical that senior women sponsor the next generation of women talent, ensure diverse slates and non-biased discussions when career moves are decided.
Vera Weill-Hallé and Natalia Blokhina
Co-founders, Brighter Ventures, Inc.
Women entrepreneurs can significantly benefit if private and public sectors increase procurement from women-led startups.
