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SINGAPORE, June 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- House of Rose Professional Pte. Ltd. today announced the international jury for the 2019 Break the ceiling touch the sky® Leonie awards for global diversity & inclusion and leadership excellence. The 2019 Leonie awards will be presented on the evening of September 2, 2019 in Singapore following the 2019 World Edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky® - the success and leadership summit for women. Access to the Awards evening is reserved for free for leaders and companies who sign up for the 2019 World Edition of the summit.
The 2019 Leonie awards are supported by Sandoz as World Awards sponsor. Hogan Lovells is supporting the awards cocktails.
The 2019 Break the ceiling touch the ceiling® Leonie awards will recognise achievements from across the world in eleven major categories including Best Companies for gender diversity; best CEOs for gender diversity; D&I Leader Champions of the year; Mentor of the year; Inspirational women of the year, Best Tech in support of gender diversity, and the Best Company for overall Diversity & Inclusion. A special category recognizing Singapore's Champion CEOs/Leaders for Diversity has also been instituted.
The awards jury is led by Co-chairs Stephanie Keen, Office Managing Partner, Hogan Lovells Lee & Lee Singapore; Helio Fujita, Head People & Organization Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa for Sandoz and Alex von Behr, President, vBA Consulting (former Global Chief Customer Officer, Unilever). All entry fees from nominations to the awards will be donated to Save the Children, in continuance of House of Rose Professional's commitment to support disadvantaged women and children.
Commented Helio Fujita, Head People & Organization Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa for Sandoz, "We have watched with interest the growth of Break the Ceiling, Touch the Sky® -- the success and leadership summit for women in its mission to enable women leaders around the world to learn, network and achieve. Given the deep commitment that Sandoz has to Diversity & Inclusion and gender equality we are delighted to be the primary sponsor of the Break the Ceiling Touch the Sky® Leonie Awards, and to help recognize the top leaders and organizations around the world for their contributions to gender diversity and leadership excellence."
"It is an honour for Save the Children to once again be the recipient of the award entry fees from the 2019 Break the ceiling touch the sky® Leonie awards. I am so pleased that House of Rose Professional (HORP) continues to make such tremendous progress on issues that are vital to the core of Save the Children's own work in gender diversity, and that you raise awareness about women's leadership to new heights. Thanks for all that HORP is doing to drive this movement forward via Break the ceiling touch the sky®," Carolyn Miles, President and CEO, Save the Children.
The list of jury members includes:
Stefanie Nickel, Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion, Sandoz; Dali Sanghera, Managing Director, Chief operating Officer, Products, Asia Pacific, Accenture; Chester Twigg, Chief Customer Officer, J&J Consumer; James Michael Lafferty, Chief Executive Officer, Fine Hygienic Holding; Julie Hamilton, Global Chief Customer & Commercial Leadership Officer & Senior Vice President, The Coca-Cola Company; Max Amen, General Manager ANZ, Coty; Max Rangel, Chief Growth Officer, SC Johnson & Son; Helen Davis, Chief Supply Officer, RB North America; Carolyn Miles, President and CEO, Save the Children; Tony Frencham, Group Managing Director, WorleyParsons; Madhulika Mathur, Co-Founder, WeddingSutra.com; Kash Shaikh, Founder & CEO, Besomebody Inc., Penny Burtt, CEO, Asialink; Natalia Shuman, EVP and CEO, North America, Bureau Veritas; Lynne Anne Davis, President and Senior Partner, FleishmanHillard Asia Pacific; Judy Howard, CEO, ENACTUS Australia; Annurag Batra, Chairman and Editor-in-chief, BW BusinessWorld and exchange4media; Malathi Das, former President, Singapore Council of Women's Organizations (SCWO); Pier-Luigi Sigismondi, Worldwide President, Packaged Division, Dole; Victor Mills, Chief Executive, Singapore International Chamber of Commerce, Amita Dholakia Chaudhury, Sustainable Business Director for Unilever, Southeast Asia and Australasia; Fumbi Chima, Global CIO, Adidas; Ankush Raisinghani, Vice President HR -Asia Pacific and Africa, Kellogg; Richa Arora; Chief Operating Officer, Consumer Products Business, Tata Chemicals; Sarita Singh, Director, Global Business Group, Southeast Asia & South Asia at Facebook; Erica Marcellan, Director of Membership & Programme, Austcham Singapore; Kathi Lunardi, Pennsylvania Ballet handling Corporate Partnerships and Events and Gill McLaren, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Syntegrate Consulting, Strategy and Coaching.
Since 2015, Break the ceiling touch the sky -- the success and leadership summit for women® has helped empower and train several thousand leaders for success from close to 200 organizations from over 30 countries. The summit currently has editions in the USA, Singapore, India, Australia and Dubai and is supported by a host of influential associations and chambers of commerce from across the world including Singapore International Chamber of Commerce, AMCHAM, EUROCHAM, BRITCHAM, AUSTCHAM, FRENCH CHAMBER, etc. The Leonie Awards were instituted in 2018 as a tribute to global diversity & inclusion and leadership excellence in the name of Leonie Rose, in whose name Anthony A. Rose also wrote the best-selling book Break the ceiling touch the sky: success secrets of the world's most inspirational women which was inspiration to setting up the summit as well.
Commented Anthony A. Rose, Founder Chairman and CEO, House of Rose Professional and best-selling author of the book which inspired the summit, "The 2019 World Edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky® brings together the cutting-edge best practices of the world's best organizations on leadership, diversity & inclusion and success. Every leader aspiring to a great career should be at the forum, as should every Company that aspires to attract and retain the best global talent in the continued quest for success and contribution. We look forward to also celebrating the Companies, CEOs, Champions and causes that are truly accelerating global diversity & inclusion as judged by our jury of international experts."
To register for the summit and enter the 2019 Leonie Awards, please visit www.houseofroseprofessional.com.
House of Rose Professional Pte. Ltd. is based in Singapore and operates in the areas of People, Public Relations and Publishing.
Contact email: anthony@houseofroseprofessional.com
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