Exclusive Program for an Executive Certificate in Leadership

'Re-Engineering the Future of Business: How to Survive & Thrive in Today's New World'

SPEAKERS:

Johanna Zeilstra
Johanna is an established business strategist and an accomplished leader for both start-ups and global corporations. Over the past two decades, she has worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers and JPMorgan Chase, and with over a dozen client corporations, including Delta Airlines, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Philips, Lucent, Disney, Bank of America, and Occidental Petroleum. Her career has led her to work in Canada, China, Indonesia, France, and The Netherlands. She acts as a coach to senior executives on boards and top teams and has a passion for supporting and advancing women leaders.

Johanna currently runs Gender Fair, a platform that uses data analytics to determine an organization’s progress towards diversity and inclusion. Companies that are certified Gender Fair have best-in-class fairness practices. Some of those rated organizations are: MasterCard, Microsoft, Kellogg's, American Express, Bank of America, Citi Bank, Facebook, Google, IBM, JP Morgan, Walt Disney, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, etc.

Prior to Gender Fair, Johanna co-founded GiveBack, an innovative platform that makes it easy for companies to build authentic and impactful cause marketing, workplace giving and other social responsibility initiatives. GiveBack was launched on the Oprah Winfrey Show during her final season in 2011.

Johanna is originally from the Netherlands and educated in Canada where she earned an undergraduate degree in Sociology and a Master’s degree in Business Administration. She resides in Westchester, NY, where she runs the Women Entrepreneurs Network and serves on several boards, including the CEO Forum and The Women’s Business Collaborative.

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Joan Toth

Joan Toth is a purpose-and-performance-driven leader with extensive experience in diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) work and leadership roles in both for-profit and nonprofit organizations.  Joan approaches DEI as a business imperative and value driver. She has led research and data -driven solutions to drive change and improvement in all facets of diversity, including gender, race/ethnicity, generational/millennial, LGBTQ, and diversity of thought. She spearheaded the “It’s Time” movement for gender equality in the retail and consumer goods and services industry.

Joan currently leads the ChIPs Network, an organization of more than 4000 female intellectual property lawyers in technology and policy. 

Joan is an active advisory board member for Gender Fair, the first metrics- based certification program that measures companies on their fairness practices in leadership roles, employee benefits, advertising images, and philanthropy.

Joan also is a noted speaker and trainer on topics like Inclusive Leadership, Unconscious Bias, Coaching Senior Leaders for DEI Success, and many others. Joan is often tapped as a coach, mentor, and advisor to individuals and companies alike. She has provided strategic guidance in revenue development, governance, programming, membership and other facets of nonprofit leadership.

She was the founding president and CEO of the Network of Executive Women (NEW), the premier women’s leadership community in the retail and consumer goods and services, from 2002 – 2016. NEW’s mission is “To advance women, grow business and transform our industry’s workplace through the power of our community.” Under Joan’s leadership, NEW grew from a start up to more than 10,000 members, 100+ corporate partners, and 21 regional groups across the US and Canada.

WEBINAR: February 28, 2022 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM EST

Developing and Practicing Inclusive Leadership to Build More Effective and Resilient Businesses, Organizations and Teams (Johanna Zeilstra & Joan Toth, CEO & Advisor at Gender Fair, USA, 2 hrs.)

During this interactive webinar, participants will learn strategies and practical skills that will help them become more inclusive leaders and unlock inclusion in their teams.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Participants will be able to identify the “What & Why” of unconscious bias and its impact on the work environment;
2. Participants will be able to model inclusive behavior through examples and case studies;
3. Participants will be able to explore solutions designed for action and behavior change;
   • Participants will be able to identify how to leverage bias “interrupters;”
   • Participants will be able to explore the importance of being an “upstander,” not a “bystander.”

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