Lebanese League for Women in Business convenes prominent female leaders from the U.S. and Lebanon

Beirut. Gefinor Rotana Hotel - September 3rd & 4th, 2007.
Are societies ready for female leaders? What are the main challenges and obstruction to resources a woman faces while building companies or wanting to access top management levels? Do women have a different management style and are they differently perceived in Western and Eastern cultures? Is leadership in civil society work unlike leadership in a business environment? How pivotal women’s role and engagement are in community work and how can they actively trigger governmental reforms?

Those were some of the many subjects tackled and debated in LLWB’s fifth videoconference entitled: “Bringing Leadership to Life”, hosting prominent female leaders from the U.S. and Lebanon, namely Jill Stelfox, Co-founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of The Defywire Mobile Guardian, Mona Bawarshi, President of Gezairi Transport Company, Amy Millman, Founder and President of Springboard Enterprises and Lina Bou Habib, Director of CRTD-A (Collective for Research & Training on Development-Action).

Coming as part of its Speakers Bureau, consisting of a series of women-in-business targeted events, this event introduced for the first time at the Gefinor Rotana, the modern technology of ISDN videoconferencing pioneered by LLWB and was dynamically moderated by Maha Yahia Hafez, Project Director, National Human Development Report (NHDR) - UNDP, following welcome notes from Hanan Saab, LLWB’s Vice President and Mary MacPherson from the Rady School of Management - Beyster Institute Program in San Diego.

The high profile audience, mainly composed of female leaders, business owners and executives, all potentially entrepreneurs, greatly interacted with the speakers who shared their views and their personal leadership experiences in relation to their environments and their families.

Day 2 consisted of a hands-on experience workshop offered to the attendees and delivered by Oussama Safa, General Director of the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, entitled: “Developing Advanced Leadership Skills”.

The workshop came out to be very valuable as it introduced women to Leadership models, behaviors, attitudes, competencies and skills.

It is worth mentioning that LLWB’s Speakers Bureau Program is funded, in part, through the Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, office of Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) under Cooperative Agreement, in cooperation with The Rady School of Management, Beyster Institute Program in San Diego.

LLWB thanks all the participants, sponsors and partners and invites all to check the calendar of upcoming seminars and workshops on the association’s website: www.llwb.org.