Building better leadership for a changing world About Us

Imagine Meet an organization where the the International Women’s Forum. Through our programs, exchanges leading women of the world are Founded in 1982 in the United States, and cutting–edge initiatives, the IWF found in one trusted network. the International Women’s Forum spans is cultivating innovation and new 6 continents with 76 local forums in paradigms for 21st century leadership. 35 nations. There are more than 6,500 Consider women leaders participating in Africa, At the IWF Leadership Foundation, the the power unleashed when a Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin education entity for IWF, we prepare global association of diverse America, the Middle East, Australia and and inspire future generations of women women of extraordinary North America. leaders. accomplishment drive better world leadership with new We are the world’s female path-fi nders, There is no other organization in the ideas, new solutions, and new united to advance global leadership world that consistenly convenes such perspectives. through training, mentoring and a diverse network of women decision– connectivity. IWF is where global makers who are driving change – both at talent congregates and collaborates, the local level and on global scale. a magnet for women leaders of today and tomorrow. This vision is realized through global conferences, training and mentoring programs and our networks of global forums.

IWF Mission The International Women’s Forum builds better global leadership across careers, continents and cultures by connecting the world’s most preeminent women of signifi cant and diverse achievement.

IWF’s Points of Differentiation

✓ Only truly global membership ✓ Committed to seeing women organization of its kind realize their full potential in society and business ✓ A network of great depth & expertise comprised of ✓ Feeding the pipeline of future preeminent women women leaders through, training, mentoring & connectivity ✓ Invite-only & Membership- based ✓ One-of-a-kind programming designed by world leaders for ✓ Rich diversity that spans all world leaders professional sectors, geographies, backgrounds & ✓ Exerting Infl uence to drive issues beliefs critical to the advancement of women’s leadership An exceptional network Across Six Continents

Worldwide affiliates Africa and Middle East Asia Pacific Europe Latin America

Egypt Australia Austria Argentina Ghana China (Hong Kong) Finland Chile Jordan India France Ecuador Lebanon Philippines Germany Mexico Morocco Singapore Ireland Panama South Africa Italy Israel The Caribbean Russia North America Turkey Spain Bahamas Sweden Canada Bermuda United Kingdom United States Jamaica Vancouver Trinidad and Tobago

IWF Turkey members IWF Texas members IWF Ecuador members An unprecedented global membership:

Linda Hudson Naina Lal Kidwai Board Director, BAE Systems, Inc., CEO, HSBC India Bank of America and Southern Company, USA Wai Leong Leng Chief Financial Officer, Gale Anne Hurd Temasek Holdings, Singapore CEO of Valhalla Entertainment, USA Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Anna Fendi Executive Director, UN Women, Head of Research and Development, South Africa FENDI, Italy

Hon. Dame Janet Gaymer DBE QC Denise Morrison Non Executive Member, President & CEO, Campbell Soup, House of Commons Commission USA Chair,House of Commons Administration Estimate and Maria Ramos Members Estimate Audit Chief Executive, Absa Group Banks, Committees, United Kingdom South Africa

Olga Carmen Sanchez Cordero Minister of the Supreme Court of Ilya Espino de Marotta, Executive Vice President Justice, Mexico of Engineering and Program Management, Panama Canal Authority Debbie Stabenow U.S. Senator, USA Reem Abu Hassan Minister of Social Development, Eva Swartz Jordan CEO, Bianchi Café & Cycles, Sweden

Emma Bonino Pilar Zulueta de Oya Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Executive Vice President, Europe, Italy Middle East & Africa, Warner Bros. Consumer Products, Spain Micheline Bouchard Corporate Director, Telus, PSP Investment, Former CEO of Motorola Canada

Lic. Dora Boyd First Lady of the Republic of Panama (1994-99) & Founding Member of the National Union of Female Attorneys Panama The Hon. Nayla Moawad, Former First Lady of Lebanon, Member of Parliament and former Rosalind Brewer Minister of Social Affairs CEO, Sam’s Club, USA Ruth Bader Ginsburg Beth A. Brooke-Marciniak U.S. Supreme Court Justice, USA Global Vice Chair, EY, USA Doris Grimm Bonnie Brooks Head of International Monetary President and CEO, The Bay, Affairs, Hudson’s Bay Company, Canada Deutsche Bundesbank, Germany

Hillary Clinton Elisabeth Gürtler Former U.S. Secretary of State, USA Managing Director, Sacher Hotels, Austria Michaela Healey Group Executive- People, Pansy Ho Communications & Governance Managing Director, Shun Tak Nawal El-Moutawakel, Vice President, National Australia Bank Ltd., Holding International Olympic Committee (IOC) and first Australia Limited, Hong Kong African, Arab, and Muslim woman to win a gold medal One-of-a kind Programming

World Leadership and Cornerstone Conferences

IWF convenes two global conferences each year – the Cornerstone Conference in May and the World Leadership Conference in October. Women executives from more than 40 nations participate at each three day event, examining Executive Development Roundtables, the ways leadership must adapt to solve the produced by the International Women’s Forum with most critical issues facing societies, economies leading corporations and governments around the and individuals. world, offer seminars customized for organizations Global in our reach and unwavering in our sharing IWF’s dedication to developing women’s commitment to advancing better leadership executive leadership. Executive Development around the world. IWF provides one-of–a-kind Roundtables are designed to motivate and inspire programming. Designed by world leaders for women with the potential to become leaders and to world leaders present and future, IWF programs introduce regional rising stars to an international array feature women who have broken through of perspectives and leadership styles. barriers to scale the heights of power and Reinforcing best practices in management, innovation infl uence. and communication, Executive Development Roundtables improve the retention of women with the potential to become high-performing executives by providing them with the opportunity to be recognized and engaged in a singular professional growth and global leadership experience. IWF delivers Executive Development Roundtables worldwide while adapting them to local cultures.

Asma Chaabi, EVP, YNNA Holding, Morocco; Ramzia Abbas Aleryani, Chairwoman of the Yemeni Women’s Union; and Allyson Maynard Gibson, Attorney General and Minister of Legal Aff airs of The Bahamas, and IWF President (2009-2011)

Women of Knight Foundation participate in EDR in Miami, Florida International Hall of Fame Proud sponsors of the International Hall of Fame, IWF has celebrated, through the years, the inductions of the world’s leading female pioneers Madeleine Albright Donna de Varona Coretta Scott King Each year the International U.S. Secretary of State Olympic Champion, American Civil Rights Women’s Forum celebrates Advocate for Women in Sport Activist Isabel Allende the enduring contributions Chilean Author Sylvia Earle Heidi Klum of the world’s top women American Oceanographer, German fashion and lifestyle Christiane Amanpour Explorer & Author mogul leaders who are building Journalist better tomorrows, setting Nawal El Moutawakel Dr. Mathilde Krim precedents by their work and Maya Angelou First Moroccan and first AIDS Researcher/Scientist American Poet & Author African Muslim Woman to example. Over the years, the win Olympic Gold Annie Leibovitz International Women’s Forum Louise Arbour American Photographer Chief Prosecutor, Gloria Estefan has been privileged to induct International Criminal Singer/Humanitarian Dr. Ellen Li into the International Hall of Tribunals in the Hague Women’s Rights Activist Fame 80 women luminaries. Anna Fendi Hong Kong Corazon Aquino Italian fashion empire builder President of the Republic Maya Ying Lin Ella Fitzgerald Vietnam & Civil Rights Julie Payette of the Philippines American Jazz Artist Canadian Astronaut/Engineer Memorial Architect Shirley Temple Black Nancy Pelosi Child Star & U.S. Diplomat Betty Ford Tzipi Livni President, The Betty Ford Israeli Foreign Minister First woman Speaker Lindy Boggs Center of the U.S. House of U.S. Ambassador to the Bette Bao Lord Representatives Vatican Betty Friedan Author/Stateswoman Author/Feminist Leader Silvia Pinal Roberta Bondar Dr. Susan Love Legendary Mexican Actress Ruth Bader Ginsburg Breast Cancer Advocate First Canadian Woman U.S. Supreme Court Justice & Politician Astronaut Clare Boothe Luce Katharine Graham Leontyne Price Gro Harlem Brundtland Author/Stateswoman Opera Diva Prime Minister of Norway Chairman of the Board, The Washington Post Wangari Maathai Condoleezza Rice Dr. Linda Buck Environmental Activist, U.S. Secretary of State Nobel Laureate Madam Gu Xiulian Kenya & Nobel Peace President, All-China Laureate Sally Ride Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell Women’s Federation U.S. Astronaut/Scientist Prime Minister of Canada Graca Machel Alma Guillermoprieto First Lady of Mozambique Mary Robinson Demet Sabancı Çetindogan Author and Journalist & South Africa President of Ireland Turkish Entrepreneur, Media Helen Hayes Susana Malcorra Wilma Rudolph and Retail Mogul First Woman of the American Foreign Minister of Argentina U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist Theater Violeta de Chamorro Wilma Mankiller Donna Shalala President of Nicaragua Dorothy Height Chief of the Cherokee Nation U.S. Secretary of Health President, National Council Eugenia Charles & Human Services and of Negro Women Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin Academic Leader Prime Minister of Dominica Chief Justice of Canada Audrey Hepburn Muriel Siebert Madam Chen Zhili International Film Star The Most Hon. Portia First Female Member, The President, All-China Simpson Miller, ON, MP New York Stock Exchange Women’s Federation Jeanne Holm Prime Minister of Jamaica Major General, U.S. Air Force Mary Simon Julia Child Khatol Mohammadzai National Inuit Leader of Culinary Icon Gale Anne Hurd General, Air Force of Hollywood Film Producer & Afghanistan Canada Maureen Harding Clark Screenwriter Hanna Suchocka Judge, International Criminal Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Prime Minister of Poland Court, Ireland Judith Jamison United Nations Under- American Choreographer Secretary-General Patricia Summitt Olga María del Carmen Paula Adina Johnson, MD, Anne Murray, CC, ONS Sports Legend Sánchez Cordero MPH Canadian Performing Artist Minister, Supreme Court of Pioneering Doctor and Maria Tallchief Justice, México Champion forWomen’s Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Prima Ballerina Health U.S. Supreme Court Justice Nandita Das Margaret Thatcher Lynn Johnston, CM, OM Prime Minister of Great Indian actress and filmmaker Ana Palacio Britain Canadian Illustrator Foreign Affairs Minister of Dame Sandra Dawson Jackie Joyner-Kersee Spain Valentina Tereshkova First Woman Master First Woman in Space Oxbridge College U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist Rosa Parks Nancy Landon Kassebaum Mother of the American Civil Simone Veil Anita DeFrantz Rights Movement French Political Leader Catalyst of the International U.S. Senator Olympic Movement Barbara Walters Billie Jean King Journalist Tennis Legend & Social Pioneer Mentoring elite female athletes to become exceptional leaders

The EY Women Athletes Business Network (WABN) mentoring program is designed to harness the untapped leadership potential of elite women athletes, who have transitioned or are in the process of transitioning from sport to a career in business or other professional sphere. The collaboration and power of IWF and EY bring an unmatched capability for helping these rising leaders transition to or further develop successful careers.

Angela Taylor, General Manager, WNBA basketball team the Atlanta Dream

IWF and EY believe that as elite athletes, these women bring a critical foundational skillset that can’t be taught in the classroom - attributes such as teamwork, perseverance, discipline and a commitment to achieving success.

Through a highly competitive selection process, 25 elite athletes are selected and matched with a leader from IWF’s membership.

EY representatives Erin Finkel, Holly Humphrey, Kristy Ingram with 2015 EY WABN Mentee and Beth and Michelle Brooke-Marciniak ready for gala

Mentors guide the EY WABN participants as they become exceptional leaders. Mentors in the inaugural class hail from IWF affi liates worldwide including Australia, Ireland, Sweden, The United Kingdom and across North America.

Kelly Grier, EY America, Vice Chair, Talent (left) Anne Duncan, Managing EY WABN Mentee and former elite athlete, Anita Maxwell, (center) with Director, LUMIU Limited (center) and Donna de Varona, Olympic Gold IWF members, Carol Sisco, Managing Partner, Cisco Associates (left) Medalist, Executive Board Member, Special Olympics International and and Lynn Gangone, Dean, Colorado Women’s College (right) Lead Advisor, WABN (right) Building better leadership for a changing world

The Leadership Foundation, founded in 1990, supports the IWF’s What Makes educational activities for the public. It Special The Leadership Foundation channels the talents of IWF members and the Structure: The program convenes resources of the IWF global network approximately 35 Fellows from into programs that educate, inspire, around the world for a total of 20 and empower the next generation of days, comprised of three separate women leaders. sessions. It is executed in partnership Global Initiatives encourage high- with Harvard Business School and potential women to embrace the INSEAD. The Fellows Program offers past, present, and future of women’s creative, multidisciplinary training leadership around the world. aimed at developing leadership and Inspiration and knowledge arm a strategic management capabilities. new generation of women with the determination, understanding, and Mentors: In addition to leadership ideas they need to succeed in a rapidly training, Fellows are matched changing world. with an IWF member who serves as a mentor and coach during the The Fellows Program, in its signature, program year. Participants garner customized, format, is the leading, personal insights and advice from women’s executive development women at the top of their fields program in the world today. through this experience and from Providing emerging women leaders participation in IWF’s annual World with training of exceptional quality Leadership Conference, which brings and access to IWF’s unmatched together 850+ female executives from network, fellows experience a once- more than 40 nations. in-a-lifetime opportunity to challenge Legacy Projects: In order to their assumptions and expand their “The Leadership leverage the impact of the Fellows horizons. Foundation’s Fellows Program beyond the 35 Fellows Program taught us to who participate each year, Fellows The Fellows Program Helps Emerging more skillfully reach are charged with implementing a Women Leaders: for stars we could see, “Legacy Project” that furthers our • Connect with senior-level and etch our names mission of training, mentoring and decision-makers on ones not before connecting women leaders. Previous • Strengthen teamwork and imagined.” coalition-building skills Legacy Projects include: a program to provide reading materials to rural • Enhance awareness to diverse -Marsha Sampson secondary schools in Nigeria, a career cultures Johnson, Past conference series aimed at female • Develop new leadership skills Participant • Improve communication university students in Mexico, and a • Build mentoring capacities within breakfast roundtable for women in organizations the U.S. military in Washington, D.C.

2015-2016 Leadership Foundation Fellows Class 2016 World Leadership Conference Snapshot Crossroads of Change – Chicago, IL, USA

IWF convened women leaders for this cutting–edge program designed to explore what lies ahead in the new waves of commerce, transportation, technology and media, the evolving threat of terrorism, and the innovators who are leading us through these Crossroads of Change.

FEATURED SPEAKERS TOP SPONSORS

Susana Malcorra, Minister • Accenture • FedEx of Foreign Affairs, Argentina; • Edelman • Southern and former United Nations Under-Secretary General – to be • EY Company inducted into the IWF Hall of • Walmart • StateFarm Fame on Friday, September 30th • Air Canada • Texas • BNY Mellon Instruments Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Under-Secretary of the United • Cisco • IBM Nations and Executive Director, Edie Weiner, President and CEO, UN Women The Future Hunters

Elizabeth Lund, Vice President FEATURED SPEAKERS and General Manager, 777 Dr. Amjad Juma’ian, Brigadier Ge- Program & Everett Site, Boeing neral and Senior Consultant Psychia- trist, the Royal Medical Services of Stephen Attenborough, Jordan Commercial Director, Virgin Galactic Dr. Ellen Langer, Harvard Pro- fessor of Psychology; best-selling Michael Ortiz, Deputy author; Founder and Chair of the Coordinator for Countering Langer Mindfulness Institute, Inc.; Kah Walla, Cameroonian politician Violent Extremism, Ambassador and member of the Massachusetts and candidate for President in 2011; with the U.S. Department of State Women’s Forum entrepreneur and social activist

Jim Lecinski, Vice President of Sales, Google, Inc.

TOPICS OF DISCUSSION:

Future Forecast Ideas Remaking The World Rebooting Business: The Economy Of Tomorrow The New Era Of Terrorism Transportation: Gathering Speed Power, Passion & Promise: Leading Us Forward Media: Access, Audience And Disrupting The System 2015 World Leadership Conference Snapshot Transforming Tomorrow Today – Boston, MA, USA

The heart of IWF – idea exchange, inspiration and advancing better leadership – was vibrantly represented during this exciting World Leadership Conference designed to explore innovations in science, medicine, food supply, energy, fi nance, education, and other game changing dynamics.

FEATURED SPEAKERS TOP SPONSORS

Steven Johnson, Innovation • Accenture • FedEx Expert, Futurist, and Bestselling • Edelman • Southern Author of nine books • EY Company • Walmart • StateFarm Paula Adina Johnson, MD, MPH, Founder and Executive Director, • Air Canada • Monsanto Connors Center for Women’s Steven Johnson, Innovation Expert, Futurist • BNY Mellon • IBM and Bestselling Author Health and Gender Biology; Chief, • Cisco • Franklin Division of Women’s Health, Leslie Dewan, PhD, Co-Founder and Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Templeton Chief Executive Officer, Transatomic Professor of Medicine, Harvard Power Medical School; and Professor of Epidemiology, the Harvard Paula S. Apsell, Senior Executive School of Public Health Producer of “NOVA,” a PBS science series now in its forty– second sea- , John Rebecca Henderson, PhD son, and Director of the Science Unit, and Natty McArthur University WGBH Professor, Harvard University, and Co-Director, the Business and Reshma Saujani, Founder and CEO, Environment Initiative, Harvard Susan Hockfi eld, PhD, President Emeritas of Girls Who Code MIT Business School

Janet Wu, Emmy-Award Winning Journalist, Reporter, WCVB-TV Boston, Demet Sabancı Çetindoğan, Turkish Entrepreneur, Media and Retail Mogul and Funda Sivrikaya Şerifoğlu, PhD, Founding President, Düzce University.

TOPICS OF DISCUSSION:

Today’s Challenge, Tomorrow’s Opportunity Illuminating Ideas: A Sustainable Energy Future Spreading The Light: Education For All Breaking Barriers In Medicine: Prescriptions For Global Health Delivering The Dream: Innovation For Everyone

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