Power Women

How do we become authentic leaders who are equipped to lead inclusively with moral clarity? How do we lead our organizations authentically through never-ending crises? How do we integrate all aspects of our lives and reach our full, authentic potential?

Join Power Women with Bill George, former Chairman and CEO of Medtronic, to address the challenges faced by emerging leaders.

Bill George is a professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), where he has taught leadership since 2004. He was Chairman and CEO of Medtronic, the world’s leading medical technology company. Bill has served as a director of Goldman Sachs, ExxonMobil, Novartis, Target, Mayo Clinic, and World Economic Forum USA.

This session will be chaired by our community members Urvashi Prasad, Director in the Office of the Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog and Dr. Ruchi Dana, MD, MBA, Executive Board Member, DANA Group (www.danagroups.com).

In the clinical trials of 35 cardiometabolic drugs approved by the FDA, women represented only 36% of the participant population.

How does this lack of representation affect women's health all over the world? What are the unique challenges women face as they navigate healthcare? What are some active steps women can take to look after their health starting today?

Join the conversation with orthopedic surgeon Mary O'Connor, MD Oly, and medical anthropologist Kanwal L. Haq to understand the current landscape of women’s health.

Dr. Mary I. O'Connor, M.D. is an orthopedic surgeon and a former U.S. Olympic athlete (Women’s Rowing, 1980). She is the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Vori Health. A graduate of Yale University, she completed her orthopedic residency and fellowship at Mayo Clinic. After a distinguished career at Mayo Clinic, she went on to lead the Center for Musculoskeletal Care at Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Health and was a Professor of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation at Yale University School of Medicine.

Kanwal L. Haq, M.S. is a medical anthropologist and leads the NYC women’s health programs at the Arnhold Institute for Global Health at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine. Prior to joining Mount Sinai, Kanwal worked at Yale School of Medicine and completed fellowships at the United Nations and AmeriCorps. Kanwal completed her M.S. in medical anthropology from the Boston University School of Medicine.

Power Women was honored to host former CXO leaders Angelique Bellmer Krembs, Katie Lacey, and Cie Nicholson with a combined experience of over 25+ years across 20+ industries to help foster a more inclusive workplace environment with strategies for, self, managers, and allies to navigate gendered situations.

✨ How to easily advance into positions of #leadership and influence

✨ Recognizing and responding to micro-moments that are rooted in gender bias

✨ Engaging male #allies in the conversation

Angelique Bellmer Krembs is the Former Managing Director, of BlackRock, Cie Nicholson is the Former Chief Marketing Officer, of PepsiCo, and Katie Lacey is the former CEO of Crane Stationery. 

POWER WOMEN had the honor to host Carolyn Dewar, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company, and Founder of the CEO and Board Excellence to identify the mindsets that helped top chief executives deliver #extraordinaryimpact.

✨ Taking a unique lens on CEO Leadership

✨ Six Mindsets that Distinguish Best Leaders from the Rest

✨ Widely applicable leadership lessons from the best

Carolyn Dewar is a Senior Partner in the San Francisco office of McKinsey & Company where she founded and co-leads the firm’s CEO excellence work, coaching many Fortune 100 CEOs to maximize their effectiveness in the role and lead their organizations through pivotal moments.

Carolyn is a co-author of the New York Times bestseller CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest. Carolyn regularly gives keynote speeches and hosts CEO and senior executive roundtables on topics related to leadership, executive transitions, and change management. 

Join Power Women with Dr. Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience as she shares....

✨ How to acknowledge the discomfort of anxiety

✨ Why is anxiety good for you even though it feels bad

✨ How to see anxiety as a tool rather than an impediment

Dr. Tracy is the Founder and CSO of Wise Therapeutics and has been featured throughout the media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)(ABC), CBS, CNN, NPR, and Bloomberg News.

The crisis has been very difficult for many of our members and to support them during these difficult times, we are working towards bringing more sessions around #mindfulness and #copingwithgrief and #anxiety!

We are truly grateful to our partner, The Consciousness Explorers Club, an innovative contemplative community and think-tank based in Toronto led by Jeff Warren! A big thank you to Erin Oke, the Executive Director at the Consciousness Explorers Club for leading the session. 

We will do a brief introduction about mindfulness practice and guide a meditation geared towards working with challenging emotions. 

Erin's focus is on meditation for self-care and emotional well being and she has taught mindfulness skills in health care, education, corporate and non-profit settings. She also does mindfulness coaching for individuals, with a specialty in encouraging emotional self-regulation. She has a background in social service work, having served as Youth Program Coordinator for ehm from 2007-2018, where she ran a youth centre and support programs for low-income children and youth in downtown Toronto. She also studied and worked in theatre for many years, and loves to infuse her teaching with a sense of play and creative exploration. Erin is passionate about the confluence of meditation practice and social justice, and using mindfulness in the service of caring better for oneself and others.

At #PowerWomen we want to impact change at the highest levels of power. Hence bringing more women into the #boardrooms is close to us and we had launched #projectknockknock last year to kickstart change. 

We are honored to host #Dineshi Ramesh, Executive Director at Board Intelligence for a session with us. This will be a closed and intimate session were you can ask all the questions you might have with regards to joining a board as an advisor, preparing for board meetings, etc. Dineshi works across a range of companies from FTSE 100 firms, overseas-listed firms, private businesses and the public sector. She runs Board Intelligence’s Academy, an online learning platform for executives and board members. Dineshi has authored a number of Board Intelligence publications, including Governance Challenges and Opportunities in 2021 and has hosted the Coffeehouse, a series of panel discussions with board members and experts. She is Chair of Thrift+, a circular fashion retailer that distributes profits to charities and its donors. Dineshi holds an MEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College, London.

We would like to introduce the chair for the session, Dimple Sahni, Managing Director at Anthos Asset Management. Dimple is responsible for originating investments, managing relationships, and helping to execute strategies for the portfolios at Anthos Asset Management.

We are excited to bring someone brings along a decade of experience in coaching others, and is himself a senior leader.  Parin Mehta is the Managing Director Airbnb for Asia-Pacific.  He previously was the head of strategic partnerships for South-east Asia at Google. Parin has grown both small startups and large global sales organisations across APAC, EMEA and the US. He has been based in Singapore for the last 10 years, previously serving as head of strategic partnerships for Southeast Asia at Google. He worked for Google in Singapore, California and London to help superscale products such as Chrome, Android, Adsense and GMail. Prior to joining Google, Parin was a management consultant and a teacher in rural Japan. He continues to advise and coach several start-ups and entrepreneurs around the world.

He has a BA from The University of Cambridge and an MBA from INSEAD. In his spare time he enjoys boxing, coaching, investing and dressing up his baby son in silly costumes.

Thank you Smita Nair and Mrinalini Ramakrishnan for chairining this!

We were thrilled to have another trailblazer Hamisha Daryani Ahuja share her inspirational journey with us! Hamisha is an Entrepreneur, Film Producer and Director. She gave up her long-running business to pursue her dream of making movies. Two years later, she has directed her first feature film, the cross-cultural love story “Namaste Wahala”, which debuted on Netflix. Putting out hundreds of movies and television episodes a month, Nollywood is the world’s second most prolific film industry after India’s Bollywood. "Theres an important message, we are all actually one, and that’s the whole theme of the movie.” Hamisha believes that the world can be a better and happier place by applying a few simple tools, she trains individuals and companies on this subject. Her course “The Pursuit of Happiness” has impacted thousands of lives till date. She has been trained by the world renowned Lisa Nichols. She also founded Bistro 7 a chain of restaurants in Lagos. She ran the award winning establishment for seven years. It was successfully acquired in January 2019 by Chocolate City Group. She is now a shareholder of the newly formed company and serves on their board.

The session was chaired by Dr Anino Emuwa. Dr. Emuwa is the Founder and Managing Director of Avandis Consulting, a strategy and financial advisory firm in France.  A former corporate banker with Citibank, she is an experienced Non-Executive Director and sits on the board of several organisations. An award-winning international speaker on entrepreneurship, emerging technologies, and diversity and inclusion, Anino has been invited to speak at prestigious institutions and conferences including Forbes, Facebook, Association of MBAs Business School Leaders Forum, University of Cambridge, London School of Economics and the French National Assembly. Dr Emuwa’s articles have been published in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Global Banking and Finance Review, and Business Chief Middle East and Africa. Dr. Anino convenes global and regional communities for women in leadership including 100 Women@Davos and African Women CEOs Network. She is a coach and mentor for Cartier Women’s Initiative, and the Women’s Development Programme at the Nottingham Trent University .