“Power, and Empowering Others”

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2026 Forum theme: “Power, and Empowering Others”

Track 1: Leading Yourself
Growing as a leader starts with investing in yourself. Discover sessions designed to equip you with the skills, self-awareness, and resilience to shape your leadership trajectory.

Track 2: Leading Your Team
Develop your skills as a manager and learn new ways to support, equip, and empower your team.

Track 3: Leading Organizations
Refresh your vision and take away actionable insights to grow your organization’s reach and impact as you connect with other executive leaders.

Track 4: Leading Sector Transformations
Discover the tools to build influence and emerge as a voice for positive change across your sector.

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2020 Virtual Women in Global development Leadership forum
Agenda

Monday | October 26, 2020

8:00am - 8:45am | Pre-Forum Session: WILD Wellness

Yoga Session: Start the week (and your Forum experience!) with focus and presence.

9:00am - 9:15am | Kickoff

Women, Power, and Empowering Others

• Fiona M. Macaulay, Founder-CEO, WILD Network

9:15am - 9:55am | Opening Key-Note

Becoming a Dangerous Woman

• Pat Mitchell, Co-Founder of TEDWomen; first woman President of PBS, CNN Productions and the Paley Center for Media

10:05am - 10:55am | Plenary Talks

Hitting, or Missing the Mark? Benchmarking Gender Equity in the #GlobalDev Sector With Other Industries

• Pat Milligan, CEO, EDGE Americas

Psychological Safety, Race and Retention: The Impact of our Connections

• Stephanie LeBlanc - Godfrey, Global Head of Inclusion of Women of Color, Google

Followed by a Q&A with the audience, moderated by Pat Mitchell

10:55am - 11:30am | Break

11:30am - 12:30pm | Breakout Sessions

The Journey to Chief of Party (and How to Succeed When You Arrive)

• Georgia Beans, Vice President, Quality, Accountability and Learning, ACDI/VOCA

• Kavita Chambery, Project Director for ACDI/VOCA (Kenya)

• Christel Tshikudi, Chief of Party, ACDI/VOCA (Ghana)

  Moderator: Carol Peasley, Former USAID Mission Director

Leading Change: Sexual Misconduct and Harassment Policy and Procedures

• Keetah Salazar-Thompson, Coordinator, Administrator’s Action Alliance for Preventing Sexual Misconduct (AAPSM), USAID

• Andrea Bertone, Director, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Hub, FHI 360

12:30pm - 12:50pm | Break

12:50pm - 1:30pm | Lunch in the Leadership Lounge

Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS)

• Led by Amb. Bonnie Jenkins

Giving Up Power to Empower Others: Tools and Challenges For Leaders at All Levels

• Led by Dr. Tessie San Martin, President & CEO, Plan International USA

Train Your Brain to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence

• Led by Mrim Boutla, PhD, Founder and CEO, Cognaction, LLC

Ask Me Anything

• Industry Leaders

1:30pm - 1:50pm | Break

1:50pm - 2:50pm |

Masterclass

Got Influence? How to Influence People and Get Big Things Done

• Deborah Borg, Chief Human Resources, Bunge   

• Laine Joelson Cohen, Director, Citi Learning

Breakout Session

More than Just Pay Equity: How We Are Bringing Gender Equality to Our Internal Policies and Processes

• Christine Sow, CEO, Humentum

• Traci Baird, President and CEO

• Maxine Somerville, VP Human Resources, EngenderHealth

2:50pm - 3:10pm | Break

3:10pm - 4:10pm | Plenary

Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace

• David G. Smith (Author)

• Brad Johnson (Author)

• Moderated by John Simons, Journalist, Wall Street Journal

4:10pm - 4:20pm | Break

4:20pm - 4:45pm | Now What? Bringing this Home

A leading culture change expert shares how to take what you’ve learned today to effect personal and organizational change.

• Jennifer Paylor, Enterprise & Operations Services Coaching and Leadership Development team responsible for the Agile transformation, IBM.

4:45pm - 5:45pm | Mix ‘n’ Mingle

Join new, and old friends for a virtual reception to share your insights from the day and discuss actions you’re going to take

Tuesday | October 27, 2020

8:00am - 8:45am | WILD Wellness

Mindfulness Tools for Sustainable Empathy and Compassionate Leadership

• Martha Brettschneider, Founder, Damselwings, LLC

8:45am - 9:00am | Break

9:00am - 10:00am | Plenary + Discussion Groups

Women of Color in Global Development: Vision for the Workplaces We Want

• Victoria Cooper, SVP, East and Southern Africa Region, Chemonics International

• Monica Gadkari, Program Director, Social Impact

• Frantzie Saint Juste, Sr. Project Manager, DAI

  Michael Amilcar, CEO, Cook Ross Inc. (Moderator)

10:00am - 10:30am | What’s My Role? Continue the conversation started during the plenary in four-person discussion groups.

10:30am - 11:00am | Break

11:00am - 12:00pm | Breakout Session

Seize the Moment! How Women Rise in our Overseas and Home Offices

• Kerri-Ann Guyah, Manager, Abt Associates (Jamaica)

• Kelly Saldaña, Director of the Office of Health Systems, USAID

• Lisa Tarantino, Principal Associate, Abt Associates

12:20pm - 1:10pm | Lunch in the Leadership Lounge

Is It Time to Change Jobs? Managing the 3, 5 and 7-Year Itch

• Led by Anne Steen, Executive Director, School for Foreign Service Graduate Career Center, Georgetown University

Sharing Power: The Best Way to Empower Project Staff

• Led by Chema Gargouri, Founder & President, Tunisian Association for Management and Social Stability (Tunisia)

Global Health Corps

• Led by Heather Anderson, CEO

Accelerating Impact & Building Collective Power: Networking 3.0 | Women Impact Investing Network (WIIN) (Cross-Sector Initiative)

• Lucy Jodlowska, Executive Director, Wallace Center, Winrock International

• Ranjani Sridharan, Founder, Kshetra PBC

1:10pm - 1:30pm | Break

1:30pm - 2:30pm | Breakout Session

Employee Resource Groups (ERG): Forming & Performing

• Speakers from Chemonics International ERG groups: ChemPride, ChemABLE, ChemValor

  Moderator: Albert E. Smith Jr., Director, Corporate Diversity and Inclusion, Chemonics International

2:30pm - 2:45pm | Break

2:45pm - 3:45pm | Master Class

Personal Branding for Millennials

• Jen Dalton, President, BrandMirror

Breakout Session

Walking the Talk: How to Evolve Your Organization to be Gender-Transformative

• Lucina DiMeco, Senior Director, Girls' Education & Gender Equality, Room to Read

• Susan Markham, Partner, Smash Strategies

3:45pm - 4:00pm | Break

4:00pm - 4:30 | Plenary

Leadership Coaching: Impact & Awards

• “Intrapreneurial” change-makers advancing women’s leadership in the global development sector share their ambition, results, and how leadership coaching can help

  Moderator: Kathryn Bean, EthicalCoach

4:30 - 4:45 | Break

4:45 - 5:15 | Bringing It Home

Global Development organization share concrete strategies they’ve used to bring information into their organizations following previous WILD Forums.

5:15pm - 5:45pm | Mix ‘n’ Mingle Happy Hour

Wednesday | October 28, 2020

8:00am - 8:45am | WILD Wellness

Dance

8:45am - 9:00am | Break

9:00am - 10:00am | Plenary

View from the Top

• Shiro Gnanaselvam, Exec. Vice-President & COO, Social Impact

• Jay Knott, Chief Business Officer, Abt Associates

• Tine Knott, Senior Vice-President, DAI

• Sylvia Megret, COO, ACDI/VOCA

• Susanna Mudge, President and CEO, Chemonics International

• Ellen Yount, Vice-President, MSI, a Tetra Tech Company

  Moderator: Stéphanie Oueda Cruz, Head of Diversity & Inclusion, IDB Invest

10:00am - 10:10am | Break

10:10am - 11:10am | Breakout Session

Gender Equity Certification: Is It for Your Organization?

• Renuka Iyer, Chief Human Resource Officer, WRI

• Pat Milligan, EDGE Certified Foundation Board Member

• Ellen Yount, Vice President, MSI, a Tetra Tech Company

11:10am - 11:45am | Break

11:45am - 12:45pm | Breakout Session

High Potentials and High Performers

• Divina Gamble, Senior Client Partner, Korn Ferry

• John T. Saunders, III, Senior Consultant, Korn Ferry

12:45pm-1:00pm | Break

1:00pm - 1:45pm | Lunch in the Leadership Lounge

10 Commitments to Disability Inclusive Development

• Led by Charlotte Vuyiswa McClain-Nhlapo, Global Disability Adviser, World Bank

Women in Global Health: Building Back Better

• Led by Roopa Dhatt, Co-Founder & Executive Director

Cultivating #GlobalDev Talent in the US and Around the World, from Adolescents to Young Professionals

• Led by Ann Hudock, President & CEO, Counterpart International

Leverage Your In-House Gender Experts: Support for Internal Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives

• Led by Elizabeth Salazar, Technical Specialist, Gender Equality & Women's Empowerment, NCBA CLUSA

Eliminating the Gender Wage Gap from the Beginning

• Led by Julia Barfield, Founder, The Power of Pay

2:00pm - 3:00pm | Master Class

Smart Salary Negotiation

• Gloria Blackwell, Senior Vice President of Fellowships & Programs, American Association of University Women

Say It Skillfully: Communicating What Needs to Be Said

• Molly Tschang, Founder and CEO, Abella Consulting

3:00pm - 3:15pm | Break

3:15pm - 3:40pm | Closing Keynote

• Chris Milligan, Counselor to the Agency, USAID

3:45pm - 4:15pm | Closing Plenary

Where Do We Go From Here?

• Lisa May, Executive Vice-President, Human Resources & Corporate Communications, RTI

• Chris Milligan, Counselor to the Agency, USAID

• Erik Reading, Vice President, International Development Division, Abt Associates

4:15pm - 4:30pm | Closing: Future Focused

Fiona M. Macaulay, Founder-CEO, WILD Network

4:30pm - 5:15pm | VIP Reception

Notes: Agenda subject to change without notice. All times listed in EST