{"id":14199,"date":"2020-11-04T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/?p=14199"},"modified":"2020-11-18T10:07:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T08:07:14","slug":"empowering-women-to-step-into-leadership-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/empowering-women-to-step-into-leadership-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowering women to step into leadership roles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/WIL-team.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14215\" width=\"299\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/WIL-team.png 355w, https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/WIL-team-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Women in Leadership&nbsp;Club at ESMT Berlin&nbsp;was created&nbsp;by ESMT&nbsp;students&nbsp;earlier this year,&nbsp;with the goal of building a community of women and allies&nbsp;to further the agenda of gender equality.&nbsp;The club\u2019s mission is to develop and empower women to step into leadership roles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chat and Connect was&nbsp;our&nbsp;first face-to-face event&nbsp;which we hosted last month.&nbsp;&nbsp;The goal of Chat and Connect was to facilitate the interaction between alumnae and our current students.&nbsp;Due to&nbsp;the pandemic, we missed the opportunity to interact&nbsp;with students&nbsp;from&nbsp;different&nbsp;degree programs&nbsp;after establishing the club. We wanted to do something different rather than a typical speaker presentation followed by questions. We invited 15 alumnae from various years, programs,&nbsp;and current fields of employment to share their experiences as women in business in Berlin. The invitation process for alumnae was the most difficult part because our LinkedIn response rate was relatively low. We therefore had to double our efforts and send out more invites. Filling the 35 student slots was much quicker, and our guests consisted of MIM, MBA, and EMBA&nbsp;students&nbsp;of all genders. The diversity of our guests was amazing to see.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Networking can be intimidating, which is why we decided to keep the event informal. It was held at a beer garden, and each guest received vouchers, allowing them to purchase food and drinks. Many guests mentioned that this helped get the conversation going, as it was less daunting. We also prepared conversation starter questions relating to our club\u2019s mission, which helped break the ice and direct the dialogue in some situations.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, the event was a success. All ESMT&nbsp;degree&nbsp;programs got a chance to meet each other, as well as various alumnae. The conversations were lively, some topics were lighthearted, while some were tougher and required deeper thought. The goal was achieved, as many guests mentioned how much fun they had and requested more events of this type.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;Women in Leadership&nbsp;team&nbsp;will continue to host events aiming to educate and empower women and allies to reduce gender inequality. We will continue to build our community and learn from each other.&nbsp;Follow&nbsp;us on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/womeninleadership.esmt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;stay tuned for what\u2019s next!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\"><\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min read<\/span><\/span> The Women in Leadership&nbsp;Club at ESMT Berlin&nbsp;was created&nbsp;by ESMT&nbsp;students&nbsp;earlier this year,&nbsp;with the goal of building a community of women and allies&nbsp;to further the agenda of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/empowering-women-to-step-into-leadership-roles\/\" title=\"Empowering women to step into leadership roles\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":787,"featured_media":14235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[808],"tags":[23],"ppma_author":[1791],"class_list":["post-14199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-clubs","tag-mba-life"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Empowering women to step into leadership roles | ESMT Berlin Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Women in Leadership Club at ESMT Berlin was created by ESMT students earlier this year, with the goal of building a community of women and allies to further the agenda of gender equality.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/empowering-women-to-step-into-leadership-roles\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Empowering women to step into leadership roles | ESMT Berlin Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Women in Leadership Club at ESMT Berlin was created by ESMT students earlier this year, with the goal of building a community of women and allies to further the agenda of gender equality.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/empowering-women-to-step-into-leadership-roles\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ESMT Berlin Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-11-04T06:30:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-11-18T08:07:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Women-Leadership-Club-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"326\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"245\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Beverly Dodard-Guillaume\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Beverly Dodard-Guillaume\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/empowering-women-to-step-into-leadership-roles\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/empowering-women-to-step-into-leadership-roles\/\",\"name\":\"Empowering women to step into leadership roles | ESMT Berlin Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-04T06:30:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-11-18T08:07:14+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/#\/schema\/person\/11f839f33cb9f8b5d29deef2ace7682c\"},\"description\":\"The Women in Leadership Club at ESMT Berlin was created by ESMT students earlier this year, with the goal of building a community of women and allies to further the agenda of gender equality.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/empowering-women-to-step-into-leadership-roles\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/empowering-women-to-step-into-leadership-roles\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/empowering-women-to-step-into-leadership-roles\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Empowering women to step into leadership roles\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/\",\"name\":\"ESMT Berlin Blog\",\"description\":\"Empowering you to create a better tomorrow\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/#\/schema\/person\/11f839f33cb9f8b5d29deef2ace7682c\",\"name\":\"Beverly Dodard-Guillaume\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/975470b903351e2b8bbd474e33f42dd1\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3e9e97addf3308b35f43f730e4142264e5412897f5369aebdece7c868c403e7d?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3e9e97addf3308b35f43f730e4142264e5412897f5369aebdece7c868c403e7d?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Beverly Dodard-Guillaume\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/author\/dodard-guillaume\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Empowering women to step into leadership roles | ESMT Berlin Blog","description":"The Women in Leadership Club at ESMT Berlin was created by ESMT students earlier this year, with the goal of building a community of women and allies to further the agenda of gender equality.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/empowering-women-to-step-into-leadership-roles\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Empowering women to step into leadership roles | ESMT Berlin Blog","og_description":"The Women in Leadership Club at ESMT Berlin was created by ESMT students earlier this year, with the goal of building a community of women and allies to further the agenda of gender equality.","og_url":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/empowering-women-to-step-into-leadership-roles\/","og_site_name":"ESMT Berlin Blog","article_published_time":"2020-11-04T06:30:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-11-18T08:07:14+00:00","og_image":[{"width":326,"height":245,"url":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Women-Leadership-Club-1.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Beverly Dodard-Guillaume","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Beverly Dodard-Guillaume","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/empowering-women-to-step-into-leadership-roles\/","url":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/empowering-women-to-step-into-leadership-roles\/","name":"Empowering women to step into leadership roles | ESMT Berlin Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-11-04T06:30:00+00:00","dateModified":"2020-11-18T08:07:14+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/#\/schema\/person\/11f839f33cb9f8b5d29deef2ace7682c"},"description":"The Women in Leadership Club at ESMT Berlin was created by ESMT students earlier this year, with the goal of building a community of women and allies to further the agenda of gender equality.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/empowering-women-to-step-into-leadership-roles\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/empowering-women-to-step-into-leadership-roles\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/empowering-women-to-step-into-leadership-roles\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Empowering women to step into leadership roles"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/#website","url":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/","name":"ESMT Berlin Blog","description":"Empowering you to create a better tomorrow","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/#\/schema\/person\/11f839f33cb9f8b5d29deef2ace7682c","name":"Beverly Dodard-Guillaume","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/975470b903351e2b8bbd474e33f42dd1","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3e9e97addf3308b35f43f730e4142264e5412897f5369aebdece7c868c403e7d?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3e9e97addf3308b35f43f730e4142264e5412897f5369aebdece7c868c403e7d?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"Beverly Dodard-Guillaume"},"url":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/author\/dodard-guillaume\/"}]}},"authors":[{"term_id":1791,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"dodard-guillaume","display_name":"Beverly Dodard-Guillaume","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3e9e97addf3308b35f43f730e4142264e5412897f5369aebdece7c868c403e7d?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","description":"","first_name":"Beverly","last_name":"Dodard-Guillaume","user_url":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/787"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14243,"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14199\/revisions\/14243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14199"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.esmt.berlin\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=14199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}