Agenda

• Dominika Bettman – President of the Board of the Responsible Business Forum
• Marzena Strzelczak – Member of the Board, General Manager of the Responsible Business Forum
• Robert Walker – Managing Director and Head of EMEA on the Asset Stewardship team of State Street Global Advisors (SSGA)

• Kinga Baranowska – mountaineer who has climbed nine eight-thousanders. She was the first Polish woman to climb three of them. For several years now, she has gradually been achieving her sporting plans related to climbing the crown of the Himalayas (14 eight-thousanders). No Polish woman has so far achieved this feat. She climbed all her eight-thousanders without using oxygen tanks.

– How do employers support women in their professional growth and career advancement?
– What are the Polish practices of diversity management in the era of work-life integration?
– How do employers practically support women’s professional growth and career advancement? How successful are they in this regard?
– Where do they fail?

Panel members:

• Carolina Garcia Gomez – President of the Management Board, Ikea Retail in Poland
• Przemek Gdański – President of the Management Board, BNP Paribas Bank Polska
• Magdalena Hauptman – Executive Director in charge of Effectiveness and Transformation, Orange Polska
• Katarzyna Wierzbowska – Co-founder and President of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Foundation
• Julian Harding – Managing Director, Head of Poland branch, State Street Global Advisors

Facilitator:

• Marzena Strzelczak – Member of the Board, General Manager of the Responsible Business Forum

Signing of the Diversity Charter by new signatories

Coffee break

• Professor Bogdan de Barbaro – psychiatrist, psychotherapist

– How do the ongoing changes in our approach to work affect the individual and the family (health and relationships)?
– How are attitudes concerning the fulfilment of various roles by men and women changing?
– Is work-life integration a win-win relationship for all (employee, employer, regardless of gender / age / ability, etc.)?
– Do we have a real choice between work-life balance and work-life integration?
– Why do we need courage today?

Panel members:

• Professor Bogdan de Barbaro – psychiatrist, psychotherapist
• Justyna Sarnowska, Ph.D. – sociologist, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, Coordinator at Ośrodek Młodzi w Centrum LAB

Facilitator:

• Natalia Mazur – journalist, Wysokie Obcasy

What is changing and what is not? Results of the latest edition of the Responsible Business Forum study.

The study will be presented by:

• Elwira Gross-Gołacka, Ph.D. – third-party expert of the Responsible Business Forum; Orgmasz Institute

Coffee break

• Anna Giza-Poleszczuk, Ph.D. – Professor at the University of Warsaw, Deputy Rector for Development at the University of Warsaw

In the smartphone era, one out of three Polish employees declare that they do not feel a need to separate their work life from their private life and employers less frequently have a problem with private activities being undertaken during the working hours:
– How do changing leadership types and work models affect employee productivity and satisfaction?
– An employment contract and a 40-hour working week in the Polish reality.
– Is the Labour Code ready for work-life integration?
– Has flexibility started to blur the differences in career advancement between men and women?
– #ILikeMyJob – what do employers do to make employees like their workplace?

Panel members:

• Izabela Bartnicka – Head of Business Development, Digital University
• Eliza Durka – Director for Communication and Public Affairs, Siemens Polska
• Iva Georgijew – Partner, Deloitte
• Karolina Kędziora – President of the Board, Polish Association for Anti-Discrimination Law
• Paweł Zegarłowicz, Bank Citi Public Affairs Officer

Facilitator:

• Anna Gmiterek-Zabłocka – a journalist with Radio TOK FM

Courage / Diversity / Balance – Loesje short form workshops

The workshops are about playing around with word connotations and writing short texts together.

They draw on creative writing techniques and poetic expression forms. They inspire creative thinking, encourage participants to have fun with linguistic patterns and to express their thoughts in the form of unconventional short texts.

Conference wrap-up

Snacks