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W.I.N. Profile
“W.I.N. is a leadership journey: doing business the authentic way. It encourages people to live creatively and view life and work systematically and from new perspectives, enhancing careers, improving business, and developing potential and individuality.”
Welcome to the W.I.N. experience
Today W.I.N. is an internationally recognized platform engaging thousands of modern women and an increasing number of men. Partnering and working with W.I.N. means joining the future, a movement that drives innovation, fosters diversity, creates inspiration, evokes learning and enables open and generous relationships.
For most women today and even for many men, success is so much more than the material and the status of a job; it includes harmony, family, well-being, growth, spirituality, and authenticity. At W.I.N. we look at how you can grow business and self while making the world a better place.
W.I.N. is process oriented, focusing on learning and on how we do anything we do. Women are moving away from “business as usual” to business bases on sharing and caring values. Women are driving change, often behind the scenes. It is time to mobilize, to inspire and to make things happen. The moment has come for women to step into the limelight: ambitious, graceful and fearless. The rules are simple_ be open to learn, willing to connect, quick to contribute, ready to take risks, and open to have fun and receive and feel the magic.
The W.I.N. journey is open to everybody.
A Visionary Spirit
Today W.I.N. is an internationally recognized platform engaging thousands of modern women and an increasing number of men. Partnering and working with W.I.N. means joining the future, a movement that drives innovation, fosters diversity, creates inspiration, evokes learning and enables open and generous relationships.
For most women today and even for many men, success is so much more than the material and the status of a job; it includes harmony, family, well-being, growth, spirituality, and authenticity. At W.I.N. we look at how you can grow business and self while making the world a better place.
W.I.N. is process oriented, focusing on learning and on how we do anything we do. Women are moving away from “business as usual” to business bases on sharing and caring values. Women are driving change, often behind the scenes. It is time to mobilize, to inspire and to make things happen. The moment has come for women to step into the limelight: ambitious, graceful and fearless. The rules are simple_ be open to learn, willing to connect, quick to contribute, ready to take risks, and open to have fun and receive and feel the magic.
The W.I.N. journey is open to everybody.
Women’s International Networking develops, empowers and connects leaders worldwide through
- An annual global leadership forum
- A corporate networking group dedicated to worldwide companies and organizations
- The W.I.N. community
- A range of development activities
The overall goal, evoking change to authenticity and raising feminine and global awareness to create a sustainable future includes: inspire success based on individuality rather than the stereotypical, cultivate authentic leadership and encourage feminine ways of doing business.
It promoted being courageous and encourages individuals to stretch their comfort zones. It means developing sensibilities, listening within as well as considering the surroundings, caring for others, for future generations, for the planet and for ourselves, and sharing knowledge, experience, results, power and discoveries. It requires fearlessly standing for and defending what we commit to.
Rooted in Europe with a truly global reach, W.I.N. operates as a non-profit organization. It is run by a small multicultural and multitalented team. It is mentored by an international board of advisors and works with partners such as diversity driven world-class companies and regional and global women’s networks. It is funded through participation fees, sponsorships and volunteering.
Kristin Engvig, Norwegian social entrepreneur, founded W.I.N. in Milan, Italy, in 1997. With a strong and inspires vision and readiness to listening to women worldwide, she began her pioneering journey convinced that women have a vital role to play in shaping the future. The organization has always distinguished itself from other learning events and conferences by a true international focus, a high level of professionalism, style and sophistication, a strong vision, a variety and depth of issues, results, innovative thinking, humanity, and political independence. All this is achieved in an open and inclusive atmosphere that allows everyone to flourish.
The Essence of W.I.N.
Mission
Inspiring women worldwide
Vision
Developing, empowering and connecting leaders with feminine, authentic and global vision (that inspires and guides communities, corporations, supranational institutions, political organizations and entrepreneur-ship worldwide)
How We Do It
By developing, empowering and connecting feminine leaders worldwide through the W.I.N. Global Forum, W.I.N. Corporate Networking Group, W.I.N. Community and W.I.N. development activities.
Empowering – giving women a voice, encouraging new thoughts, ideas and building on skills
Developing – providing powerful tools such as a new vision, knowledge, inspiration and new skills
Connecting – ensuring a constantly updated global network of likeminded women leaders wishing to change the world to a better place
History
Kristin Engvig founded W.I.N. in 1998 in Milan, Italy. She started her leadership journey because she believed that women had a vital role to play in shaping the future. The core product of W.I.N. is the Annual W.I.N. Global Forum. Almost 5000 professionals from 70 countries attended the W.I.N. Forum since its first edition in 1998.
1998: Winning Strategies for Women in the Era of Globalization
1999: Winning Strategies for Women Working Internationally
2000: Sustainable Strategies for Women in the Global Era
2001: Women Leading Global Change
2002: Women Building Partnerships Across Boundaries
2003: Connecting People to Create Impact
2004: Connecting for Results; Authentic Leadership in action
2005: Leading for the future
2006: Courage to be the change
2007: Taking the next step: fearless, graceful and together
2008: Vision and vitality: moving into the future
Winning Values
International
Innovative thinking and courage
Practical solutions
Integrity and sustainability
Neutral
Participation and Profile
About 60% of the delegates are working for corporations or large organizations, 40% are small business owners, professionals, entrepreneurs, politicians, artists, NGO members and international civil servants. W.I.N. appeals to a wide range of age groups from 20 to 70 years with the core group between 31 and 50 years of age.
Partners
Each W.I.N. conference is supported by international women’s associations, business school alumni associations, NGOs, educational institutions, several consulates alongside with global and world-class corporations.
Philosophy - the leadership journey
“Women have a vital role to play in this century and each and every one of us embodies the power to influence, to decide, to lead and to be a change agent. Women’s empowered leadership is key in transforming organizations, communities and even ourselves into the future, creating sustainable change through authentic action - alongside men. W.I.N. believes that for change to be enduring it has to happen in a new paradigm where feminine values such as compassion, win-win approaches to negotiation, empathy, caring and sharing play a protagonist role. While exploring feminine power, understanding our own masculine becomes crucial, as balance is the ultimate goal.” Kristin Engvig
W.I.N. Programs and Initiatives
W.I.N. activities are designed to help companies and individuals get inspired, create work environments and cultures where employees can articulate their needs, feel valued, use their talents, balance work and life issues and find purpose and meaning. To offer a global platform for exchanging best practices, creating knowledge and initiating change, W.I.N. leads the following initiatives:
W.I.N. Global Leadership Forum: The interactive content of the three-day (plus) annual forum includes a global overview, work and career issues, and leadership and personal growth topics. They all focus on boosting creativity, explore and apply feminine power, and accelerating innovation and change. The programme is carefully designed based on a systems approach and a vision for the future based on authenticity and increased global and feminine consciousness. (Go to the W.I.N. 2008 Global Forum page)
W.I.N. Corporate Networking Group (CNG) Meetings: CNG is a global business platform designed to address common business challenges with global corporations and organizations. CNG has four meetings a year, each presenting a key speaker and a critical topic. (Go to the W.I.N. Corporate page)
W.I.N. Community: W.I.N. community members support and sustain the W.I.N. organization and continue locally various projects initiated at the Forums. (Go to the W.I.N.Community page)
Mobilizing Women Program: The mobilizing women program, is a tour, a series of leadership programs around the world. Designed to bring the vision of W.I.N. around the world and learn from the local realities to better develop the global leadership journey.
W.I.N. Development activities: Trainings, workshops, discussions, events – see our website for details.
The W.I.N. Women’s Fund is an enrichment program that reinforces our commitment to inclusion and creating global awareness. Through women’s scholarship awards and the volunteer fund we are able to touch women across the globe. (Go to the W.I.N.Women’s Fund page)
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