Equivalence

According to Mckinsey's latest report on post pandemic workplace trends, the COVID-19 crisis has supercharged transformations driven by automation and digitization, resulting in a corresponding skills shift. Everything that needed a change and was put to later now must be attended to. However, many realize that their organizations aren’t prepared for such a major shift.

While training and reskilling are essential and will act as the major levers to bridge the skills gap, a company needs to assess its culture and adjust its talent model as a whole to allow new talents to emerge, and innovate.

In this episode, Sophie chats with Tony Bond, the Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer of Great Place to Work, the global authority on workplace culture. They discuss his personal journey, global trends post pandemic and practical ways to build a great workplace culture.

"Educating girls is not about women vs men, it’s about our future vs our past."

Sophie and Ravinol discuss his journey from Krishna monk to entrepreneurship, building a B corp business, and using the power of storytelling to drive change.

His latest documentary " A road to Vrindavran" re-examines traditional gender roles.

Just as he is understanding the barriers girls face, he is hit with a challenge that sends him on a new line of discovery.

Will education bring them true equality or simply transform them into caged butterflies? How do you ensure lasting change?

A fascinating movie and conversation.

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Attracting, Retaining the best talent, and creating workspaces that are not only diverse but also inclusive is the challenge of tomorrow’s enterprises.

So how do we recruit for success in a global, complex, and fast-paced world?

How can we use technology to support us especially in areas where we humans may not always have it right?

Sophie and Helen discuss her entrepreneurial journey and her new venture, Diversely.

Sophie chats with Multi Award-winning, film producer and director, Vibha Bakshi. An amazing conversation about ordinary men taking extraordinary actions, courage, determination, and how all of us can be active in fighting gender-based crimes.

Her last documentary SON RISE was selected to be part of the #HeforShe campaign and showed around the world to showcase the power of male allyship in changing cultural mindsets.

They also talk about making movies, keeping artistic decision making, financing, and Bollywood!

Crypto has been the best performing asset class over the last year.

Bitcoin has consistently earned higher returns as compared to stocks, except in 2018. Still today, Bitcoin transactions account for just under 9% by women.

Furthermore, the lack of diversity in crypto has deep and lasting implications beyond the sense of a need for equal opportunity.

In this episode, Sophie discusses with an expert and early adopter of Bitcoin, Dubai-based lawyer, and certified blockchain expert, Irina Heaver the future of crypto's market and why women need to get in the game.

Women are the future of B2B sales. Although they currently hold less than one-third of B2B sales jobs, research shows that women salespeople often outperform men.

Following the Covid lockdown, the ways we interact with customers is more flexible, Less travel heavy. Coupled with more women taking business buying roles, these trends pave the way for more women in sales roles. Since sales is a fast track to the C-suite, more women in sales will eventually lead to more women in leading positions.

In this episode, Sophie discusses with Sue Stephens building a career in tech, bold career moves and the great opportunities for women in sales.

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Sophie and Diana discuss what led her and her co-founder, Sheikha Shamma bint Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan to found Aurora 50, a social business developing sustainable strategies to increase gender equity in boards of directors, but also current trends, and tips to develop a board career.

2020 saw a noticeable slowdown in the rate of increase for female representation on boards, with a gain of only 0.6 percentage points If the trend over the past four years continues it may take until 2029 for women to comprise 30% of corporate boards, and until 2045 to reach 50% (source: Women on Boards report progress by MSCI)

In the UAE, the regulator - Emirates Securities and Commodities Authority (ESCA), has stipulated that women must represent 20% of directors on listed company boards. However, women currently hold only 3.5% of these board seats.

Sophie and Katia discuss Katia's journey from medical practitioner to ministry, the place of women in the Church and and what gender equity brings to its message and mission in the world.

Sophie and Joe discuss culture in tech, how far inclusion has gone since he started his career and simply why a diverse team build better products.

In 1909, Eugène Schueller, a young chemist with an entrepreneurial spirit, founded in France the company that was to become the L’Oréal Group. It all began with one of the first hair dyes that he formulated, manufactured and sold to Parisian hairdressers.

With this, the founder of the Group forged the first link in what is still the DNA of L'Oréal: research and innovation in the service of beauty.

Each year, the L'Oreal Foundation for women in science rewards the research of candidates from all over the world for their breakthrough research in all fields of science.

In this episode, Sophie invited 2 candidates of the latest edition of the L’Oreal -Unesco Women in Science awards, 2 highly accomplished scientists in pharmacology and in chemical engineering respectively from Qatar and the UAE.

They discuss their personal journey, the purpose of their research, and being a woman in science today in the GCC.