Breakfast with Rania Anderson
Rania is a foremost expert on the professional development of women in developing and emerging economies and is visiting South Africa in May.
She has just released her book Undeterred: The Six Success Habits of Women in Emerging Economies, the first career advice book expressly written for educated women in growth markets. The compelling career advancement roadmap that Rania lays out in Undeterred features the examples of 86 women including 12 African women 4 of whom are from South Africa.
Originally from the Middle East, Rania has lived and traveled all over the developing world. Her early career success was at Bank of America where she progressed to a senior leadership role. She left the bank in 1997 to start and grow an executive coaching and consulting business.
For the past 17 years, Rania has coached business women and men around the world. In 2010, Rania founded The Way Women Work, now a thriving career advice platform visited daily by hundreds of women around the world.
Rania is a global speaker, the co-founder of a women's angel investor network, a devoted mentor, and frequent contributor to business publications. She holds a Masters of Science in Foreign Service, with an honors concentration in International Business, from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Science, Business, from Oklahoma
State University.
Recognition
• One of the top 17 personalities on Twitter covering the Middle East - Elan Magazine July 2014
• The Way Women Work named 1 of 5 top blogs driving gender diversity - July 2014
• Top Global Woman - Diplomatic Courier 2012
• Selected as one of 150 women to participate in inaugural Wall Street Journal Women in the Economy Task Force - April 2011
• Selected as one of two representatives from the State of Kansas to serve on Vision 2020, a U.S. initiative to achieve gender equality - October 2010
Time: 07:30 - 10:30
Venue: Sandton, Johannesburg
Cost: R495 plus VAT
Date: 26 May 2015
Time: 07:30 - 10:30
Venue: Cape Town
Cost: R495 plus VAT