One year ago, we at IPWS hosted our inaugural Leaderships Summit centred around the theme: Embracing the Changing Nature of Leadership: A Roadmap to Success. The modern conference was a great success with high calibre speakers and content, and was attended by 200 professional women and men from Shanghai and beyond. Next Friday June 2nd, we’re finally bringing you the second annual IPWS Leadership Summit, this year powered by our title sponsor IE Business School! We’re beyond excited to follow in last […]
Top 5 Reasons to attend the IPWS Leadership Summit Powered by IE Business School next week on Friday, June 2nd: Top calibre speakers, including Co-Founder and President of Lean In China, Virginia Tan, Asia Pacific Head of Corporate Engagement at Goldman Sach, Wenchi Yu, and Stand-up Comedian and Head of Language Department at Shanghai Experimental Foreign Language School, Erin McGinley. Plus many more! (Read all about our speakers HERE) Innovative content around this year’s theme: Understanding Power & Leadership – A Roadmap […]
With less than a fortnight until the IPWS Leadership Summit powered by IE Business School on Friday 2nd June, we’d love to introduce you to more of our guest speakers. The theme of the Summit is: “Understanding Power & Leadership – A Roadmap to Success”. Power is ultimately about making a (positive) difference in the world and can be exercised through various meaning. The Summit is bringing together the best thinkers & leaders in our community to continue these discussions. What does Power mean […]
Earlier this month, IPWS hosted an interesting career transition event with Expat Neighbours founder Evrim Kanbur, and the event was covered by the Global Times. Evrim spoke on her career change from corporate to entrepreneur and how she know manages a tech team, without any tech background herself. As many of us professional women will shift roles, jobs and countries many times through our lives in the modern employment world, there will most likely be a time where we’re working […]
Let’s Celebrate International Women’s Day in Shanghai! IPWS is delighted to showcase all the events happening around the city to help you grow, connect, enhance & empower yourself as women. Women Leading the Way: IPWS & British Chamber Shanghai’s Women in Business Focus Group International Women’s Day is a global celebration of the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. IPWS and our partner & friends at the British Chamber Shanghai’s Women in […]
Last week, IPWS hosted an exciting gathering with a diverse panel of professional women discussing the modern world of Key Opinion Leaders and digital marketing concepts. Like many of us, if you’re using any kind of social media, you might be influenced by a dynamic Key Opinion Leader (KOL) without even knowing it! In the last year, millenials in China have been sparking ideas that take social media & live streaming to new monetary heights setting new goals & pathways in […]
Earlier in January, IPWS & TEDxShanghaiWomen organised a ‘Q&A’ event with all the speakers from last year’s TEDx event! With Mary Rezek as moderator, our community was able to hear from all the speakers (Gwen Cardno, Rina Joosten-Rabou, May Wang and Valerie Brown) and had the opportunity to talk and ask questions! Here’s a review of the event by IPWS volunteer, Jenny Northey! Thanks so much for recapping the event for us! TEDxShanghaiWomen 2016 Talk Back Thursday, January 12, 2017 A large […]
In October, IPWS President Tiziana Figliolia was invited to speak on her experiences working with our international professional women’s community at the 2016 Shanghai Women’s Federation Conference. She spoke on the topic of women empowerment and invited the audience to consider a new approach about gender equality in the workplace, and what corporations need when taking action. Attending the conference, more than 300 scholars, artists, entrepreneurs, chiefs of international organizations and non-governmental organizations participated in the forum, focusing on gender […]
Last Thursday, IPWS joined the British Chamber Shanghai’s Women in Business Focus Group, AustCham, SwissCham, BenCham and MayCham at the fabulously festive venue Calypso for an evening of busy conversations, as we celebrated our connections from the past year. It was a rich evening sharing networks and experiences for some of Shanghai’s top professionals with over 100 women gathering on the rooftop. We were joined by a large group of touring doctoral candidates, from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, from the […]
