Doha, Qatar – EMRA’A, ExxonMobil Qatar’s women’s network, and HEC Paris organized a professional women’s networking event and workshop for more than 200 female employees from Qatar Petroleum, Qatargas, Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO) and ExxonMobil Qatar. The event was entitled ‘Women Helping Women’. It offered a great networking platform to address relevant issues faced by women in leadership positions.
The event, which aimed to highlight women’s leadership and discuss the development of future female leaders, was facilitated by Professor Randall P White (PhD) and Sherena Mistri-Yiannouka. Professor White and Mistri-Yiannouka focused the conversation on women’s career development and career advancement, how to become an effective leader and what it takes to get there.
They also invited four women in senior leadership positions to take part in a panel and speak about one experience that was a turning point in their careers. Speakers included Reham Thawabi, AGM and head of Branch Network of Commercial Bank of Qatar; Munera al Dosari, chief strategy officer at Ooredoo Qatar; Rasha al Sulaiti, entrepreneur, and Dr Suhur Saeed, a senior environmental scientist at ExxonMobil Research Qatar (EMRQ).
The event also helped participants take a closer look at the factors that determine success or derailment for women in the business world and highlighted some of the obstacles they face in the workplace as they make their way up the corporate ladder.