Webinar: Belong at the table: International Women’s Day Special by Generation Success

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About this Webinar

In celebration of International Women's day, Generation Success is proud to present a panel of some of the UK's most successful female business leaders to share their career stories. The theme of the talk is "belonging on the table".

This interactive, live webinar, will involve inspiring talks from our female business leaders. They will share how they managed to get to the successful position they are now and guide you through how they tackled any barriers within the workforce.

Combined, their companies operate in over 100 countries and employ over 35,000 people.

Our Speakers include:
1) Alison Kaye, Managing Director, STMA & Colour at CPI UK

2) Caroline Frankum, Global Chief Executive, Prifles Division at Kantar

3) Alexia Latortue, Managing Director for Corporate Strategy at European Bank of Restructuring and Development

You leave the webinar feeling inspired and ready to take a leap!

What you will gain:
· Be inspired by the accomplishments by today's leading leaders

· Learn techniques that you can incorporate into your life, career and business

· You will have an opportunity to ask questions and engage with our speakers

All are welcome

Agenda

Welcome and Introductions
Speakers each have 10 minutes to share their career journey, top lessons and tips for the future
Q& A for panel

Presenters

James Adeleke

CEO, Generation Success

An accomplished and talented professional, with compelling success running non for profit organisations and with a passion for Inclusion, Learning and Development aspects of HR. Proven track record of successfully overseeing operations, managing HR processes and maintaining business performance.

An influential leader and team player that has the ability to motivate, educate and bridge the gap to achieve results by building long-term and mutually beneficial internal & external stakeholder relationships. Excellent communication, numerical and analytical skills, with a proven ability to seize opportunities, whilst building long-lasting trust, and mutual respect at all levels.

I thrive on motivating others, building productive relationships and creating effective strategies to support the success of stakeholders with whom I work.

Alison Kaye

Managing Director, STMA & Colour at CPI UK

Alison graduated from Luton University with a BSc in Geography. Post university she initially worked in the conference and exhibition sector, working both in the UK domestic market, as well as across Continental Europe. However, she quickly realised an administrative role requiring continued attention to detail wasn’t her strong point! It was at this stage she moved into a direct field sales role. Her first sales position was in logistics with Dexion, having spent a couple of years within this organisation, she then moved to print manufacturing, a market where she has remained for the past 20yrs. During this time, she has worked her way through various sales roles within two main businesses, including the former St Ives Group, and CPI Group, becoming a senior board member by her early 30’s, and fulfilling a role as pan-European Group Sales Director with CPI UK. Having then left CPI for a similar senior leading sales role at Service Graphics, within two year’s she was asked to return to CPI to take up the position of Managing Director. Alison has been in her current role as MD for the past four years.

Alexia Latortue

Managing Director, Corporate Strategy at The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Alexia Latortue joined the EBRD in April 2017 as Managing Director for Corporate Strategy with overall responsibility for formulating corporate strategy, including advising the President on strategic options for the Bank and developing the Bank’s core strategic documents. She also manages relationships with other international financial institutions and leads on cross-departmental special initiatives. Ms Latortue is a member of the Executive Committee.

Alexia Latortue has twenty years of experience in international development and financial systems development. Prior to joining the EBRD, Alexia was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Development Policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

She oversaw the United States’ participation in the multilateral development banks (MDBs), the G20 Development Working Group, and the Paris Club as well as Treasury’s engagement in Financing for Development and the Sustainable Development Goals. Ms Latortue advised on strategies to advance inclusive growth and poverty reduction internationally and to modernize the MDBs’ effectiveness, efficiency, financial capacity, and governance. She also led the replenishment negotiations of the concessional windows of the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and the African Development Bank.

Before Treasury, Ms. Latortue spent 10 years with the World Bank where her last assignment was Deputy CEO of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a unit dedicated to advancing financial inclusion. Prior to that, Ms. Latortue served in several development-related positions focused on financial inclusion, economic policy reform, and private sector development. Ms. Latortue received her M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and her B.S. from Georgetown University.

Caroline Frankum

Global CEO Profiles Division

Caroline Frankum is a multi-award-winning Global CEO. She prides herself on being a visionary, a commercial strategist, an influencer, and someone who defies the odds by positively disrupting the status quo. Her biggest passion is helping businesses grow in purposeful and profitable ways. This means:

• Being a role model for championing women in Tech and the C-Suite.
• Being a driving force in implementing pioneering, tech and data-driven solutions to positively disrupt the traditional Market Research Industry.
• Creating inclusive and diverse organisations, where the only barriers to success are personal choice and professional competence.

This has led to her being voted:
• A Top 10 Market Research Diversity Champion by WIRE (Women In Research) in 2017
• A Top 100 HERoe Champion of Women in Business in 2018 and 2019
• The 2019 winner of the Forward Ladies ‘Corporate Leader’ Award for London & The South
• A ‘highly Commended’ Corporate Leader at the Forward Ladies 2019 Business Woman of The Year Awards

At Kantar, the world’s largest Market Research Agency, Caroline is Global CEO of a multi-million-dollar division that helps the world’s leading Media, Tech, Publisher, Healthcare, Consultancy and E-commerce brands understand people and inspire growth.

Prior to this Caroline worked client-side in Media for 15 years in senior roles at leading Media companies, including: Classic FM, The Mirror Group, Five, Disney, ITV, UKTV and Sky. This was followed by 7 years at Omnicom where she was EMEA CEO for Brand & Comms specialist Agency Hall & Partners.

Emma Kane

Chief Executive of Newgate Communications and Deputy CEO of the Group, SEC Newgate S.p.A.

She has over 30 years of communications’ experience gained working both in agencies and in-house. She founded Redleaf Communications (since rebranded as Newgate Communications) in January 2000 and, in 2010, acquired and successfully integrated Polhill, a leading financial services PR agency.

Emma specialises in strategic communications, crisis management and financial PR. She is also the Chairman of the Barbican Centre Trust, Chairman of Target Ovarian Cancer, and a trustee of Nightingale Hammerson. She was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in 2017.

In January 2000, Emma founded Redleaf as a creative, tenacious and results-driven communications agency, which expanded to become Redleaf Polhill in 2010.

As Chief Executive she takes ultimate responsibility for all client relationships and delivers results for the agency’s shareholders by driving its strategy and vision. Known for her creativity and lateral thinking, Emma offers particular expertise in financial PR, strategic communications, private investor communications, crisis management and copywriting.

She started her career in the City in 1986 at Dewe Rogerson (now Citigate Dewe Rogerson). In 1991 she joined ProShare as its first Head of Marketing Communications, moving in 1995 to ShareLink (which subsequently became Charles Schwab) as Head of Investor Services. In 1998 she returned to the agency world. She is especially proud of the qualifications, capabilities and dynamism of the team at Redleaf, and of the fact that, from its earliest days, the agency has received a stream of industry awards for its achievements on behalf of its clients.

Beyond Redleaf, Emma is a Chairman of the Barbican Centre Trust, and a trustee of COSMIC (Children of St Mary’s Intensive Care) and Target Ovarian Cancer; she is also Patron of The Wiener Library. She has two children and three stepchildren and also finds time to be an avid sculptor, working in stone, bronze and wood and exhibiting and selling her work.