A regional employment and salary survey points out that women still lag behind men -though the gap has narrowed- even when they have the same qualifications and in the same job role. But in the instances where women lead, the margins are not so large.

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Growing the Skills of Women in Leadership and transforming the world of work.

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Taking with her a 32-year experience in the profession, Alexandra Chin underscores the importance of having not only an Asian in the top seat of a global body but also a woman.  She shares her journey getting there.

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Balancing between not being exclusively bottom-line drive but simultaneously aspiring to go onto the international market. Doing well is always a balancing act.

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Someone who is balancing between life as an entrepreneur and being the CEO of a not-for-profit organization. She is Yong Lee Lee, the CEO of Pink Ribbon Wellness Foundation, Malaysia.

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Shaped by a family of educators, Kate Sweetman, shares about the importance of education to owning the tools of her own fortune and how that has led her to succeed in the world of work.

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Childhood is no insulation from life’s difficult obstacles. But these obstacles can be the building blocks to rise up, meet and step over present challenges. Past difficulties can be the present avenue to empathise. Hamidah Naziadin, Head of Group Corporate Resources at CIMB Group share her story.

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Sharing with us her circuitous path into the area of leadership, Ripa Rashid points out the need to have a global perspective and relationship capital in order to lead today’s organizations.

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Office politics is a slippery slope and you might find yourself being bitten by what you said at the water cooler. Yet office politics is hard to avoid. What can HR do to protect employees and the organization from the negative effects. 

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Almost 60 percent of graduates from tertiary education are women, yet only 53 percent enter the workforce. However, in today’s Malaysian market, women make up only a little over 47 percent. HEARTS hopes to turn the tide.

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