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The WILD Gender Equity Framework covers four themes necessary to drive gender equality in the global development space.

• Intentional Professional Development

• Development of Individual Leadership and Power

• Gender Inclusive Culture and Practices

• Diversity-Enabling Infrastructure and Mechanisms

Below you will find videos from our past forums and events that highlight one of these four themes.

Panel: Leadership in Times of Crises

In this virtual panel, women leaders in the Global Development sector share their strategies for managing a team, adapting to changes, and creating a new normal at their organizations in response to COVID-19. 

-Roopa Dhatt, Executive Director, Women in Global Health 
-Kathleen Flanagan, President & CEO, Abt Associates
-Sarah Helmstadter, Vice President, Human Resources DAI 
-Susanna Mudge, Chair Board of Directors, Chemonics International 
-Sylvia Megret, Chief Operating Officer, ACDI VOCA
-Simi Nwogugu, Executive Director, Junior Achievement Nigeria 
-Fiona Macaulay, CEO & Founder, The WILD Network

Workshop: Success Under Stress-Powerful Strategies Women Leaders Can Use to Stay Calm and Confident, and Create Opportunities in Times of Crisis 
Sharon Melnick, Executive Coach. 

Melnick walks step by step through a mindfulness exercise and reminds us we should focus on the aspects of our lives we have control over. She shares tips and tools we can use to achieve instant calm.

Workshop: How to Tame Your Advice Monster - The Five Question Leader
Michael Bungay Stainer, Author, The Coaching Habit

In this interactive workshop, Stainer walks us through a set of exercises where we learn how to identify and tackle our 3 advice monsters. We remember to be kind and empathetic towards others and ourselves.

Keynote: Leadership Lessons from a Sixty-Year-Old Entrepreneur
Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO of New America

Slaughter, shares her personal story of leadership growth and development and the leadership lessons she has for women to sustain successful careers. She challenges the traditional leadership constructs and inspires women to determine what leadership looks like for them, recounting that for herself, leadership looks like leading from the center and mobilizing the energy of everyone within a diverse team. She encourages women to believe that they can lead at any age, at any stage, and any time in the world. She also emphasizes that women’s careers are lateral, and thus when career planning, it’s important for individuals to apply a long-term lens to professional development. 

Plenary Panel: View from the Top: Building the Company Cultures We Want

In a plenary panel, development executives share their strategies for inclusive leadership and discuss the levers they pulled to create an inclusive culture.

-Bonnie Glick, Deputy Administrator, USAID
-Catherine Kannam, Senior Vice President, Chemonics International
-Debbie Kennedy, COO, FHI360
-Sylvia Megret, COO, ACDI/VOCA
-Sumeet Seam, Vice President, General Counsel, Save the Children US
-Fiona Macaulay, CEO and Founder, The WILD Network (Moderator)

Workshop: Organizational Leadership in Preventing and Responding to All Forms of Harassment, Exploitation, & Abuse
Andrea Bertone, Director of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Hub, FHI360
Blessed Mulenga Silavwe, Senior Program Director, FHI360 Zambia

Two speakers share the foundations for effective safeguarding policies. Through a combination of theoretical models and anecdotes from their organization, Andrea and Blessed facilitate a tactical workshop to help organizations develop robust safeguarding policies that will prevent harassment, exploitation, and abuse of both their aid workers and program participants. They discuss the journey that FHI360 undertook to revise their safeguarding policies, including the internal partnerships they built and their steps to gain leadership buy-in. They also share strategies on how to operationalize the safeguarding policies at the country office level.

Plenary Panel: The Business Case for Diverse Leadership & Equity

Leaders across for-profit and nonprofit organizations share data and research on the financial and economic benefits of diversity in the workplace.

-Sarah Chapman, Director for Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability, Deloitte
-Nhu Nguyen, Deputy Country Director Vietnam, COP, SHIFT project, FHI 360
-Cindy Pace, Vice President, Global Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, MetLife
-Vivian Riefberg, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
-Stephanie Oueda Cruz, Head of Gender, Diversity & Inclusion, IDB (Moderator)

Workshop: Developing a Road-Map for Creating a Diversity and Inclusion Strategy that is Right for Your Organization
Francesca Molinaro, Former Director, Corporate Diversity and Inclusion, Chemonics International

Molinaro walks step by step through a tactical framework on how to stand up a D&I program within your organization. She highlights the important questions to consider in order to understand your organization’s unique D&I journey and the necessary action steps to move forward. You’ll leave the workshop with the foundation of a roadmap to continue building on within your organization.

Workshop: Scaling Gender Parity Through Crisis
Denise Pirrotti Hummel, CEO, Lead Inclusively

Hummel teaches us how we can use technology to build a more gender inclusive environment through app based training. We are introduced to RevWork, an app that makes learning and implementing gender inclusive norms easier and more sustaining within organizations.