Women Leadership in the 21st Century

The Committee hosted this Dialogue at 8pm on Tuesday, March 29 at Auditorium Bangunan Getah Asli in Kuala Lumpur. The third event in this corporate series hosted by CAM since 2014, it featured our first woman speaker – LeadWomen CEO, Ms Anne Abraham. It was attended by 90 participants.

Ms Abraham spoke on her work at LeadWomen on changing perceptions and mindsets on the significance of balanced gender representation at the senior leadership and board levels of corporations. She also shared her insights on the Malaysian Government’s initiative to drive for at least 30 per cent women representation in decision-making positions and boards of Malaysian public-listed companies.

The dialogue which followed, moderated by Assistant Hon. Secretary, Ms Laila Wilfred, was lively. The event was concluded at 9.45pm.

Speaker's Profile:

In the course of over 20 years in corporate positions in the Technology sector, Anne Abraham has always been a strong advocate for women’s advancement into leadership positions. Starting out as a Technical Trainer in 1990, she moved her way up to the positions of Country Manager for SAP Malaysia in 2006 and then to Managing Director of Cisco Malaysia in 2008.

Anne founded LeadWomen Sdn Bhd in late 2011, a consulting, training and advisory organisation, committed to changing perceptions and mindsets on the significance of balanced gender representation at the senior leadership and board levels of corporations.

Currently, she is working on the Malaysian Government initiative to drive for at least 30% women representation in decision-making positions and boards of Malaysian public-listed companies.

She was appointed as the first woman Independent Non-Executive Director to the board of Media Prima Berhad in November 2013. She is also Chairman of Media Prima Digital Board (subsidiary board), and a member of the Risk and Audit Committees of Media Prima.