Accelerate Action: IWD 2025
Celebrating Women’s Achievements
With the goal of a gender equal world, we are reminded of the steps still to be taken to achieve this. The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap 2024 Report concludes “the scale and speed of progress are deeply insufficient to achieve gender equality by 2030”. In fact, based on the current data, it advises “it will take 134 years to reach full parity – roughly five generations beyond the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target”.
For over a century, IWD has been recognised across the globe as a day to celebrate the cultural, economic, political and social achievements of women and this year, the day also marks the importance of taking action — prompt and definitive steps, to achieve gender equality. Collectively, we are called to #AccelerateAction and to drive greater momentum and urgency in breaking down the barriers and biases faced by women globally, in all aspects of their lives.
Chartwell works with an amazing array of speakers who can share their ideas and perspectives for your event programme this IWD. Here are a few options to consider:
First female Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership (2020-24)
Broadcaster, journalist and author of award-winning book ‘The Authority Gap’
Chief Commercial Officer and brand strategist named amongst Forbes’ Top 50 Women in Tech 2023
CEO of Lloyd’s of London (2014-18)
Co-Founder of multiple AI companies and named amongst TIME 100’s Most Influential People in AI
President of the Republic of Estonia (2016-21)
Flavilla Fongang
Entrepreneur named as the Top Most Influential Woman in UK Tech (2022) by Computer Weekly
Sara Sabry
First Arab woman to go to space and first Egyptian astronaut
Author of ‘The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain’
Scientist, astronaut and first American woman to walk in space
Founder of Unheard Voice Consultancy and former strategist for the BBC
Former leader of Williams F1 and the youngest-ever Deputy Team Principal