REPORT OF THE JUMP FORUM 2011

From gender diversity to female leadership

What is JUMP Forum?

The JUMP Forum is the biggest single day event dedicated to the professional lives of women and their career planning. Each year it inspires hundreds of professional women and men across Europe, featuring the most successful women and the most brilliant experts in gender diversity.

Five year of JUMP Forum

On Thursday 05 May 2011 the JUMP Forum celebrated its 5th anniversary at The Automotiv House in Brussels! Five years of growing from strength to strength, dedicating ourselves to advancing the professional lives of women and working with companies to promote gender balance.

From gender diversity to leadership varietyMore women in management creates a space for men and women to expand the way they lead. Beyond a gender diversity programme, companies should seek to diversify the range of leadership behaviours and spread good practices within the organisation.

New leadership models and corporate structures need to be developed that are more in tune with the competencies and leadership approaches of the women executives whom companies need to attract and keep if they are to remain competitive. Women were being urged to conform to a mainstream leadership style that was considered a fundamental requirement for anyone who hoped to exert authority in public life. Henceforth female leaders and diversity in leadership create competitive advantage by changing the company culture.

Getting new skills for a changing workplace is a strategic decision!

Foreword Marc Luyckx, Chairman

JUMP is an enabler of a new and more sustainable society. But it is also in the same time helping business leaders to generate more intangible assets, which are counting for more than 50% of its value on the stock market. It is thus pushing enterprises towards a win-win scenario for society and for business.

We will not be able to solve our problems with the old patriarchal values of «CCC" (command control and

conquer). Those values which have dominated our societies for 5000 years at least, are not

going to make it. We will have to introduce a new cocktail of values of respect and care for nature, for society and for ourselves. Now usually women are more able than men to introduce those new life-oriented values in society and business. In pushing for more women in leadership positions in Business and administrations, JUMP is

pushing towards Humanity’ survival, because those women could propose a shift in the

enterprises agenda’s towards more CSR and Sustainability. We see indeed some important

groups of enterprises which begin to claim that for them profit is only a consequence of their action

towards Humanity’s Common Good. JUMP could be seen as pushing enterprises in the direction of becoming «part of the solution" instead of «part of the problem" increasing at the same time their intangible value".

Workshops

Success sabotageDyahanne WareInternational Business Consultant

Féminité et puissanceChantal Vander VorstManaging Director of the Institute of NeuroCognitivism

Political skills in organisationsDorothy Dalton Talent Management Strategy and Career Transition

How to read situations and how to behavePeninah ThomsonCo-founder and Manager of The FTSE 100 Cross-Company Mentoring Programme and author of A Woman’s Place in the Boardroom; Women and the New Business Leadership

Smart women make smart financial choices

Marie HelsmoortelHead of Private Banking Zone Centre ING

Image as a business toolClaire Soper Professional image consultant

HR Seminar

How to implement a Mentoring programme that is really effective in helping women to climb up the corporate ladder?

KeynotePeninah ThomsonCo-founder and Manager of The FTSE 100 Cross-Company Mentoring Programme and author of A Woman’s Place in the Boardroom; Women and the New Business Leadership

DiscussionMarc Timmerman Partner Axiom Consulting Partners

Monique ChaludeSociologist & expert in gender diversity

Conferences

Flexible working modelsHow to bring sustainability

KeynotesRuss HageyPartner at Bain & Company

Evy HellinckxManager at Bain & Company

Peninah ThomsonCo-founder and Manager of The FTSE 100 Cross-Company Mentoring Programme and author of A Woman’s Place in the Boardroom; Women and the New Business Leadership

DiscussionHebe BoonzaaijerSenior Manager Human Capital, Deloitte Netherlands

Elke JorensHR Director, Microsoft Belgium & Luxembourg

Pierre HenryGroup Chief Operating Officer Sodexo

Dominique LeroyCEO of Unilever

Anne CambierChief Procurement and Process Office Mobistar

Female leadershipChanging business for the better

KeynotesRuss HageyPartner at Bain & Company

Susan VinnicombeProfessor at Cranfield University-School Management and Author of Women with Attitude and Women on Corporate Boards of Directors

Michele Mees

Author of The Balanced Leader

Éléna FourèsAuthor of Leadership au feminin; Petit traité des abus ordinaires

DiscussionPetra WilsonSenior director of the European Health and Care at Cisco ISGB

Marie HelsmoortelHead of Private Banking Zone Centre ING

Albert RagonManaging director of Danone Belgium

Béa ErcoliniPublishing Director ELLE Belgique- Belgie

Idoia RodésRegional Managing Director at the MCI Benelux

Hebe BoonzaaijerSenior Manager Human Capital at Deloitte Netherlands

Anne CambierChief Procurement and Process Office Mobistar

Benoît CerexheBrussels Region Minister for Employment and Research

Monique ChaludeSociologist & expert in gender diversity

Béa ErcoliniPublishing Director ELLE Belgique–België

Eléna FourèsAuthor of Leadership au féminin

Russ HageySenior Partner at Bain & Company

Evy HellinckxManager at Bain & Company

Dorothy DaltonTalent Management Strategy and Career Transition

Pierre HenryGroup Chief Operating Officer Sodexo Europe

Elke JorensHR Director at Microsoft Belgium & Luxembourg

Isabella LenarduzziFounder & Managing Director of JUMP

Dominique LeroyCEO of Unilever

Marc Luyckx GhisiAuthor of Surgissement d’un nouveau monde

Michele MeesAuthor of The Balanced Leader

Adriana PaunManaging Partner and Founder at Paun HR Consult

Albert RagonManaging Director of Danone Belgium

Marie HelsmoortelHead of Private Banking Zone Centre ING

Peninah ThomsonAuthor of A Woman’s Place in the Boardroom

Marc TimmermanPartner Axiom Consulting Partners

Susan VinnicombeAuthor of Women with Attitude

Petra WilsonSenior Director of the European Health and Care at Cisco

Dyahanne WareInternational Business Consultant

Chantal Vander VorstManaging Director of the Insti-tute of Neurocognitivism

Claire Soper Professional image consultant

Idoia RodésRegional Managing Director MCI Group

Quotes

Thanks again for the great event, it motivated me again. It is always nice to feel and hear I am not alone with my troubles, thoughts and motivation!

Bieke Van Gool

J’ai trouvé cela extraordinaire et très inspirant ! Prometteur pour nous toutes !

Chantal Vander Vorst

Les jours passent et je ressens encore les bienfaits des rencontres et échanges de cette riche journée. Et félicitations pour la délicieuse atmosphère.

Bénédicte Duhaut

It was great to be in the company of so many inspiring women.

Dorothy Dalton

Congrats with the vision, content and organization of the event!

Michèle Mees

Thank you for inviting me to participate in the 5th anniversary JUMP event. I thought it was a very successful, and a very thought-provoking, event – and it was a pleasure to meet (some!) of the 550 delegates.

Peninah Thomson

Thank you for having me at the JUMP forum. I much appreciated to be there, meet with you and many other interesting women and attend the workshops.

Hebe Boonzaaijer

Je pense sincèrement que le combat n’est pas simplement pour les femmes, mais pour une humanité plus éveillée! Et si cela doit se faire par nous «les femmes» et bien, il me semble que nous sommes plus courageuses et plus audacieuses que les hommes pour les choses qui concerne l’avenir.

Xanthippe Laziradis

Thanks for the great seminar. I had nothing but good feedback from participants, they all said it was very interesting to them and set them to think.

Evy Hellinckx

What a wonderful time and brilliant speakers.

Dyahanne Ware

There was such a great atmosphere and a real sense of hope of change which is of course what you are all about. You should be immensely proud. Not an easy task but it really feels like you are making an impact.

Claire Soper

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