Getting on Board Conference Time Table

Getting on Board - Conference agenda draft

•          Creating organic workplaces for maximum productivity that benefit employers and employees
•          Presenting a compelling business case for more women operating at board level
•          Exploring through role play, challenging assumptions and demonstrating the benefit of gender balanced boards in western European and North American cultures
•          Appreciating  strengths and different  leadership operating styles
•          Developing the talent pipeline dramatically to bring women into leadership positions
•      Embedding strategies for conquering unconscious bias

Timing	Session and objectives	Lead
8.30-9.00	Registration and coffee
	Kazuri Minds Welcome and Housekeeping	Farah
	Introduction to the day – programme, the corporate gender landscape, purpose of the day	Catrina
	Mindfulness and expression for openness	Vajradaka
	Proposed legislation – what it means and implication for companies Written questions	Flo
	Coffee break
	Q and A Flo answers 2-3 most popular questions	Flo
	Felt sense Meditation	Vajradaka
	Discussion section: What barriers do you see or have you seen to women’s advancement	Paul
	Exercise on policy  review using part of diagnostic tool	Steve and Paul
	Change management – implications of making a change	Paul?
12.30-13.30	Lunch
	Professor Liz Kelly - keynote
	Group discussion - Confronting uncomfortable and difficult issues,
	Leadership behaviours	Catrina
	Motivation and values	Vajradaka
	Organisational and personal values charter	Steve /Paul
4.20-4.30	Plenary – individual take aways and actions, evaluation	Farah

Join UK Feminista and Lobby Parliament for Women's Rights: 24 October 2012

On the 24th October equal rights and campaign group UK Feminista will lead a mass lobby of parliament. Activists and organisations across the country will join them in the ‘fight’ for women’s rights and equality. You can join them too!

Government cuts are eroding women’s economic independence, inequalities, such as violence against women still exists, and reproductive rights are still under attack.

Lobby packs can be downloaded from UK Feminista’s website - or collected on the day - it contains the calls for action and all the facts and figures that you can use and give to your MP. From 11:00 - 13:00, there will be a rally and a training event at the Abbey Centre, 34 Great Smith Street, London, SW1P 3BU. Talks, short films and a short training session will be given so you will know exactly how to lobby your MP.

Then from 14:00 - 16:00, lobby your MP for women’s rights at the Houses of Parliament; where constituents will, hopefully, be met by 100s of MPs, dish out the facts and state the action needed to tackle violence against women, access to justice and women’s representation in politics.