News from LEAP!
Wed 08 June 2011
, Maurice Eykman, LEAP
LEAP! announces new partners at New Leadership: the Values powered by KPN 6/6
At LEAP New Leadership: the Values on 6 June at KPN’s Headquarters, LEAP announced that Schiphol and Alliander are joining the fast growing business community for leading female professionals. In addition LEAP will start to cooperate with Opportunity in Bedrijf: jointly they will create a mentoring programme for LEAP members.
LEAP, the on- and offline business community for leading female professionals, organised the symposium New Leadership: The Values at host and LEAP Founding Partner KPN.
New partners
When opening Erica van Ooyen, Founder & Director of LEAP, announced that Schiphol Group and Alliander NV, starting 1 June, join LEAP as partner. With this addition now 16 leading organisations are partnering with LEAP with on average 100 leading female professionals per organisation. A unique pool of successful & talented women!
New cooperation
LEAP also announced the start of it’s cooperation with Opportunity in Bedrijf. Jointly they will create for the LEAP members a cross- women mentoring programme, thus combining tools, knowhow and expertise in the field of mentoring, Diversity & Inclusion and leadership of OiB with the tools, knowhow and expertise in the field of Community, women, D&I and leadership of LEAP. Goal is to connect the enormous expertise of the women in the unique LEAP Community to further develop professionally and to get things done!
Leadership values top-executives
The 6 June Event was visited by some 200 leading women and men, among whom a substantial number of executives of AEX funds. After the keynote speech “Beyond Hierarchy” of Josephine Green, former Senior Director of Trends and Strategy at Philips and expert in Social Foresight and Innovation, a Panel discussion took place between Carla Smits-Nusteling, CFO van KPN, Peter Molengraaf, CEO of Alliander, Jos Nijhuis, CEO of Schiphol Goup and Jim Stolze, Founder & Director of TedX. Moderated by Jeroen Maes, co-Founder of Waking up the Workplace, they openly discussed which values are important to them and how they put these into practice.
New leaders
In the following Leadership Cafe, members and guests discussed their own vision on values, joined by a group of young high potentials ( KPN and Nyenrode). Both leaders and runners up got the chance to exchange their thoughts on what values are needed now for New Leadership.
Competition
Josephine Green’s launched the P2P Challenge, a competition which will help bring the pyramids to pancakes model from theory to practice. The ideas, plans and best practice examples will inspire new leaders and create a snowball effect. For more information: www.pyramids2pancakes.com
www.leapwomen.com ‘open’
Finally it was announced that as of now LEAP’s portal will be largely open to the public. The magazine-like pages of www.leapwomen.com will be open to everyone interested in all that which leading female professionals need to excel. They will offer both ‘work’ and ‘off-work’ related subjects as information & inspiration on leadership, development (career and self), social media, but also Bizz, money and Leisure. The Community part of LEAP (ia Events, mentoring, database and communication tools within Community) will remain exclusively open to members.
Some feedback of participants
According to me and everybody else I spoke to – a very successful Event: amazing line-up, great organisation & staging and inspiring content;
Really very good! It touches me deeply!
Powerful keynote, quality panel, great dynamic through combination of men and women and highly inspiring leadership cafe!
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