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ICCC-WEP: Women in Business - Breaking the Glass Ceiling-27-11-14

27 Nov 2014 6:30 PM | Anonymous

ICCC-WEP: Women in Business - Breaking the Glass Ceiling

(Part of ICCC-CIBC series for small businesses)

 



Participants at the event
 

Indo Canada Chamber of Commerce organized an interactive panel discussion on, “Women in Business - Breaking the Glass Ceiling” on 27 November 2014 at the ICCC headquarter in Toronto. The session was part of ICCC-CIBC speaker series. It was focussed on the ICCC’s Women Entrepreneurs Professionals (WEP).

Ms. Ginni Sethi, Director WEP of the Chamber welcomes all participants and said that the panel discussion will provide information on how women can get success in their businesses to scale new heights.

Ms. Gillian Whitebread, Vice President- Diversity & Inclusion and Executive Talent Management was the main speaker. Ms. Hazel Fernandes, Senior Director- Executive Talent Management, Ms. Supreet Warna, Senior Director, Frontline Effectiveness and Fahra Murad, Manager, Sponsorship Marketing were the other panelist.

Panel discussed that women should overcome their barriers and realize their full potential. In business, women should network with a purpose in mind, plan for big things and ready to take bold decisions, negotiation skills should be used during business conversation, and one should be strong enough to handle tough interventions, must have smart leadership qualities and your efforts in business must yield good results. 

The discussion was followed with the question answer session. Ms. Shibani Sahney, Chair WEP committee gave vote of thanks.



 

Ms. Gillian Whitebread speaking at the event
 
ICCC Director Ms. Ginni Sethi with Gillian Whitebread, Hazel Fernandes, Fahra Murad, Supreet Warna, Shibani Sahney, Mini Khurana and  Sunita Vyas


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