Gender Awareness (ENG)

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Marion Festing, Professor of Human Resource Management and Intercultural Leadership, ESCP

Talk and a discussion

 

Title: Gender Awareness … and how it can help to close the gender gap

Date: 04.11.2020

Language: Event will be held in English 

Time: 10:00 – 12:00

Location: online

Target group: all representatives of the founding partners and member organisations

Content: Gender Awareness is key to creating inclusion in organizations, however women are still underrepresented in leadership positions worldwide. This talk will focus on exposing the reasons for this underrepresentation and offer thoughts on gender stereotyping and cognitive biases as well as to what extent male-dominated organisations could foster this status quo. We will also discuss recommendations to overcome the gender gap and reduce underrepresentation of women at the top.

About Prof. Dr. Marion Festing

Marion Festing is Professor of Human Resource Management and Intercultural Leadership at ESCP’s Berlin campus and holds the Renault Chair of Intercultural Management. She has contributed to ESCP’s development in recent years in many leading positions such as the Rector/Dean of the Berlin campus or the Associate Dean for Research. Marion has founded ESCP’s Talent Management Institute and the Excellence Centre for Intercultural Management, which both link academic and practitioner communities by creating new knowledge and building platforms for networking and exchange. These topics also reflect Marion’s research interest. She teaches courses on (international) human resource management, (female) leadership and intercultural management on graduate, post-graduate and Executive levels in various programmes and has developed award winning digital course elements such as the serious game Moving Tomorrow. She also consults practitioners, is a certified MBTI trainer and serves as a keynote speaker at conferences and seminars.