The FIRST IPWS Leadership Summit

On Friday 27 May, IPWS hosted our inaugural Leadership Summit, centred around the theme: Embracing the Changing Nature of Leadership: A Roadmap to Success. Hosted at the beautiful Swatch Art Peace Hotel, the Summit featured high calibre speakers and content, and was attended by over 150 professional women and men from Shanghai and beyond. Throughout the afternoon, we also took the opportunity to announce and congratulate the winners of the Women Leadership Awards 2016. Bridget Beattie, Group Executive Vice President of the Asia Pacific Middle […]

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Congratulations to the Women Leadership Award 2016 Winners!

We are thrilled to announce the very worthy recipients of the IPWS Women Leadership Awards 2016!  We received a record number of nominations this year, showcasing the vast group of immensely talented women (and men!) in Shanghai’s professional community. We recognized the WLA 2016 winners at the inaugural IPWS Leadership Summit last Friday, 27 May.  Photos and further details from the event will be shared on our website in the coming days, so stay tuned! Thank you once again to our […]

WIN Prizes at IPWS Summit

With the generous support of our community, IPWS is excited to announce there will be a Fundraising Raffle and a wonderful Goodie Bags available to all attendees of the Leadership Summit & Women Leadership Awards 2016! We are proud to announce that over 25 sponsors are supporting the Women Leadership Awards 2016 by donating exciting vouchers and great prizes for this year’s raffle and goodie bags. When we see you on Friday, you’ll have the chance to bid on everything from designer […]

Announcing IPWS Leadership Summit Speakers

Introducing our incredible line-up of speakers for this Friday’s IPWS Leadership Summit! A fitting representation of Shanghai’s broad cross-section of professional women, we have speakers hailing from a huge variety of backgrounds, including restauranteur, Michelle Garnaut; film producer Emmanuel Benbihy; charity founder Jerrie Ueberle; executive coach slash future “commercial astronaut”, Elisa Mallis, and TedX speaker, Stephany Zooto mention a few. The full line up of speakers and biographies are below. Tickets are still available to the IPWS Leadership Summit this […]

New LimitlessLaowai Podcast featuring WLA

Meet one of this year’s Women Leadership Awards Juror Josie Zhao (pictured top right, with our WLA Jury Members), Deutsche Bank Chief Operating Officer, in this LimitlessLaowai podcast. In addition to her personal story and view on women leadership, Josie shares her experience with the Women Leadership Awards Jury, and some highlights from our upcoming IPWS Leadership Summit. Women in top leadership is a hot button issue globally. Strategies for improving gender equality in the workplace and training for women who are firmly […]

Top 5 Reasons to Attend the IPWS Summit this Friday

Top 5 Reasons to attend the IPWS Leadership Summit this Friday, 27 May: Top calibre speakers, including international restaurateur Michelle Garnaut; “commercial astronaut” and executive coach, Elisa Mallis, and feature film producer behind the Cities of Love franchise, Emmanuel Benbihy. Plus many more! Innovative content, including a design thinking workshop, PechaKucha style presentations, graphic facilitation, and of course we will announce the six winners of the Women Leadership Awards 2016 Free headshot for your corporate profile Prizes from 25 sponsors […]

12 WLA Finalists & Their Stories

On Friday 27th May at IPWS Leadership Summit, you’ll be finding out the winners of the Women Leadership Awards 2016, but take some time to read about the excellent collection of WLA Finalists and how they came to be nominated & selected to be in the running for this year’s awards. Business Leader of the Year – Finalists GONG Xiangwei – Global BU Director, DSM Hydrocolloids With a rich career path of 20+ years spanning different industries and functions in Asia, Europe […]

IPWS in the Financial Times!

For the Women Leadership Awards this year, our Official Business Newspaper Sponsor is the Financial Times, and we’re pleased to see our IPWS Leadership Summit & awards advertisement alongside all the current news & reviews in their recent publication (shown above). One of the longest running newspapers in the world, the Financial Times started in 1888, and in 2016 over 70% of FT’s circulation is digital with it’s editorial team of over 600 people in over 40 countries. Financial Times Asia is […]

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