1. Federation of Business and Professional Women (Singapore) Federation of Business & Professional Women (Singapore) An overview

2. Federation of Business and Professional Women (Singapore)  Profile  Highlights 2011 – 2013  Main activities – Equal Pay Day  Main activities – WEPs Women Empowerment Principles  Young BPW Activities  Challenges  Best Practice  Focus for 2014-2016 Contents

3. Federation of Business and Professional Women (Singapore)  70 members  3 clubs ◦ Singapore Business & Professional Women’s Association (SBPWA) ◦ Singapore Business & Professional Women’s Association – Mandarin Chapter ◦ Business & Professional Women (Singapore) – Third Chapter  Websites ◦ FBPWS: www.fbpws.org.sgwww.fbpws.org.sg ◦ SBPWA: www.sbpwa.org.sgwww.sbpwa.org.sg ◦ Third Chapter: www.bpw3.orgwww.bpw3.org  Current President’s details ◦ Vivien Goh (viviengcl@gmail.com) Profile

4. Federation of Business and Professional Women (Singapore)  Increased visibility of FBPWS by hosting visiting women’s delegations and launched the FBPWS website  Development of a stronger brand aligned with BPWI ◦ Refreshed logo ◦ Refreshed website  Young BPW ◦ Raising awareness of YBPW locally and internationally  Representations at Asia Pacific regional level ◦ Triena Ong (Resolutions Committee) ◦ June Pok (YBPW) ◦ Peggy Kwong (Mentoring) Highlights 2011-2013

5. Federation of Business and Professional Women (Singapore)  Equal Pay Day (1 June 2013) ◦ Successfully organised an "Equal Pay Day" event with excellent local and foreign speakers that raised the awareness that a disparity in remuneration between men and women still exists in modern Singapore. The aim of the event was to highlight this disparity and emphasise women’s contributions to the economy to organisations so that positive actions may be taken.  Women’s Empowerment Principles ◦ 13 April 2012: Meeting with Ministry of Community, Youth & Sports Acting Minister Mr Chan Chun Sing at Ministerial Dialogue where he was presented with a copy of the WEP. ◦ 21 November 2013: SBPWA organised an event, Women Empowerment, Gender Diversity in Top Management: Why aren’t women being hired? An HR perspective which sought to highlight the fact that there are too few women in the boardrooms – an issue that is being regularly raised in Singapore. Main Activities

6. Federation of Business and Professional Women (Singapore)  Young BPW Chair: June Pok  June is the current Asia Pacific Regional representative in the YBPW Committee  Raised profile of YBPW locally and internationally  Successfully organised Equal Pay Day on 1 June 2013 Young BPW Activities

7. Federation of Business and Professional Women (Singapore)  Membership growth and retention  Rising above a noisy marketplace  Increasing and maintaining awareness  Sustaining good policies and practices  Keeping the momentum Challenges

8. Federation of Business and Professional Women (Singapore)  Proper records management  Ensuring all members of the exco are “gainfully employed”, ie, each must contribute something to the Federation to promote ownership  Ensuring continuity through effective handing over to future excos. Best Practice

9. Federation of Business and Professional Women (Singapore) Leveraging the focus areas of BPWI, FBPWS aims to provide guidelines to the following:  Raise awareness through targeted messaging ◦ Define USP (Unique Selling Point) ◦ Clear positioning among the 3 clubs  Membership growth & retention ◦ Engaging members proactively ◦ Communicate benefits of membership Focus for 2014-2016