One of the most talked about session in Global Women’s Summit was Male CEO Forum – Values-Based Leadership.
Irene Natavidad’s attention to detail and had made the panel an unmatched success. She had selected all the CEOs that are putting their brain into cordially solving the diversity and the equality issues.
The moderator of the session was Angela Mackay, the CCO and the MD of FT Australia, for Asia Pasific. Her questions were soft and she brought up the best of her speakers in the panel. It was clear that her executive track record is also invaluable.
The speakers were Hüseyin Geliş (Siemens, Turkiye), Khurram Majeed (Bureau Veritas, UAE), Ali Fuat Orhonoğlu (Unilever, Turkiye) and Leszek Wacirz (Nestlé, Turkiye)
All the four male CEOs mentioned their respective commitment to increase the percent women at every level of their organizations. It was clear that all were quite visionary CEOs who are determined to succeed by empowering women.
Hüseyin Geliş of Siemens came up with his background in German engineering precision to solve the equality issue. It appears he will succeed and add further to his successful track record.
Khurram Majeed of Bureau Veritas, the EVP of UAE for ME, Caspian & Africa, is also a believer that gender equality shall create value for his company.
Thanks to Unilever’s CEO Ali Fuat Orhonoğlu’s determination to create equality in the employment and the efficiency of the policies to be implemented, he is working on ever-increasing ratio of female executives. This demonstrates that he is using the targets of the regular key performance indicators to push the gender targets continuously. That is, he is incresing the proportion of female executives in his organisation.
From Nestle, the CEO Leszek Wacirz’s started up mentioning his Polish family background and declared that he sees family as the smallest institution to make the societies better. He also reminded us that gender equality should start at the family level first by sharing the household tasks.
All four male CEOs mentioned their respective company target as 50% female representation at every level of their organizations. It was clear that all were visionary CEOs who are determined to succeed.
The difference the CEO may create shall eventually matter on how people see women’s inclusion and empowerment as a instrumental tools for the success of the companies.