1. Founder & CEO Rayona Sharpnack

2. Engaging Men to Advance Women Rayona SharpnackRayona Sharpnack Founder and CEOFounder and CEO Institute for Women’s LeadershipInstitute for Women’s Leadership What you can do to advocate for Gender Partnership!

3. Three Powerful Leverage Points  Empowering and supporting women leaders  Engaging men to advance women  Identifying and transforming institutional blind spots and systemic barriers GENDER PARTNERSHIP

4. Women Make a Difference in Company Performance + 47% Average return on equity + 55% Average earnings before interest and tax Companies with top- quartile representation of women in executive committees perform significantly better than companies with no women at the top. Source: Women Matter, Gender Diversity at the Top of Corporations: Making It Happen, McKinsey

5. Understanding How We Are Different The brains of most (NOT ALL) women and men are hard-wired differently. And that’s good news. MENWOMEN Independence Collaboration Logic Intuition ActionReflection Tight focusBig picture Great minds don't always think alike. Great minds often think differently. That makes for better decisions and smarter problem-solving.

6. Break discussion Where Does Gender Bias Come From?  What did you witness in your home regarding partnership between parents or their equivalents?  If you had siblings of the opposite gender, do you recall how they were treated?  How do these early experiences affect your present day interactions with the other gender ? (feel free to apply this to both personal and work)  If the answers to the above questions influenced your views and behaviors in the present day, can you articulate how?  What, if any, is the impact of some these behaviors? To you? To others?