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Women in Leadership – Purpose-driven leadership

Netherlands · Rotterdam · National · See the Netherlands profile

“Women in Leadership” panel, organised by the Finnish-Dutch Chamber of Commerce, held on 8.09.2022 and 03.06.2019. The purpose of this event is to bring women and men from all industries together to discuss and learn from each other. The focus is on stories of female corporate l

Women in Leadership – Purpose-driven leadership

Details

Promoter
Finnish Dutch Chamber of Commerce — website
Power domain
Social Power, Economic Power
Methods / tools
Competence development, Awareness-raising, Networking
Region (NUTS)
NL33
Keywords
women in leadership, gender equality, networking

Context

Held on 03.06.2019 and again on 08.09.2022 in Rotterdam, the "Women in Leadership – Purpose-driven leadership" panel is organised by the Finnish-Dutch Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the University of Latvia, and catalogued via the ProPEGE Equal Leadership catalogue. The panel format brings women and men from different industries together to hear stories from female corporate leaders at Finnish international companies about their path into leadership.

Objectives

The event aims to promote gender equality and sustainable development in business and policy by showing that modern leadership skills can be learned, prompting participants to reflect on how they can enhance equality in their own organisations or careers.

Activities

Female corporate leaders share their career and leadership-development experiences in a panel-discussion format, framed around "purpose-driven leadership" — leaders guided by their own purpose who help others discover theirs and connect it to the purpose of the organisation.

Conclusions

The source material is a promotional event description rather than an evaluation study: it reports no participant numbers, follow-up data or measured outcomes, and the ProPEGE transferability rubric review found limited evidence on sustainability and gender-mainstreaming embedding.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k) — No budget disclosed; the format is a panel discussion/event, implying modest costs.
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years) — Held at least twice, on 03.06.2019 and 08.09.2022, in Rotterdam.
Staffing & skills
Finnish-Dutch Chamber of Commerce (organiser), University of Latvia (partner)

Conditions for success

  • Panel format bringing together senior female leaders willing to share personal career stories
  • Cross-industry, mixed-gender audience to broaden reflection on leadership culture

Where it fits

Governance type
business chamber-led networking event
Scale
national
Income level
high-income (Netherlands)

Commonly funded by

Own resources / municipal budget

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