TIAW World of Difference Awards 2009
The International Alliance for Women (TIAW) in Canada for its 2009 World of Difference Awards selected Diann Rodgers-Healey from Australia as one of the 100 women who have “made a world of difference” to the economic empowerment of women. In 2009, over 50 women from 23 countries were named. Below is the full list of the 2009 Award winners.
TIAW Release October 2009:
TIAW World of Difference Awards 2009
At the TIAW Annual Global Partnership Forum in 2007, TIAW announced it was creating a new awards program to honour women who have made an impact on the economic empowerment of women through a wide range of endeavours. These are often the “unsung heroines” of our societies, ordinary women who accomplish extraordinary things. The motto of TIAW is “Connecting to Make All the Difference in the World”. It was decided that each year, TIAW would honour up to 100 award recipients who have made a difference to the economic empowerment of women by naming them to the TIAW World of Difference 100 list.
Congratulations to these exceptional women who truly "make all the difference in the world".
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Name |
Location |
Country |
Category |
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Saida Agrebi |
Tunis |
Tunisia |
Non-Profit, NGO, Public Service, Government |
|
Afnan Al Zayani |
Manama |
Bahrain |
Entrepreneurial |
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Raja Al-Gurg |
Dubai |
United Arab Emirates |
Entrepreneurial |
|
Ingrid Antonijevic Hahn |
Santiago |
Chile |
Entrepreneurial, Education |
|
Juliet Asante |
Cantonment-Accra |
Ghana |
Corporate, Entrepreneurial |
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Gaetane Austin |
Suva |
Fiji Islands |
Entrepreneurial |
|
Irene Bailey |
Toronto, ON |
Canada |
Community, Entrepreneurial |
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Susan Baka |
Toronto, ON |
Canada |
Entrepreneurial |
|
Sue Barnes |
London, ON |
Canada |
Public Service/Government |
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Mesia Batayneh Maani |
Amman |
Jordan |
Entrepreneurial |
|
Wanda Bedard |
Montreal, QC |
Canada |
Non-Profit, NGO, Education |
|
Lili Campbell |
Toronto, ON |
Canada |
Non-Profit, NGO |
|
Claire Chiang |
Singapore |
Singapore |
Corporate, Entrepreneurial |
|
Eniola Dada |
Lagos |
Nigeria |
Non-profit, NGO |
|
Carol Dailey Fabbri |
Conifer, CO |
USA |
Other |
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Anne Day |
Oakville, ON |
Canada |
Entrepreneurial |
|
Teresa Correia de Lacerda |
Libson |
Portugal |
Community, Non-Profit, NGO, Education |
|
Connie Dejak |
Toronto, ON |
Canada |
Corporate, Non-Profit, NGO |
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Sabra Desai |
Toronto, ON |
Canada |
Education |
|
Ann Diamond |
New York, NY |
USA |
Education |
|
Dianne Dinkel |
Chicago, IL |
USA |
Non-profit, NGO |
|
Patricia Foley Hinnen |
Colorado |
USA |
Non-Profit, NGO |
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Tema Frank |
Edmonton, AB |
Canada |
Corporate |
|
Nancy Gomez |
Paris |
France |
Non-Profit, NGO |
|
Kate Grussing |
London |
UK |
Entrepreneurial |
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Roswyn Hakesley-Brown |
Wolverhampton |
UK |
Education |
|
Kelley Keehn |
Edmonton, AB |
Canada |
Entrepreneurial |
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Maggie Kigozi |
Kampala |
Uganada |
Public Service, Government |
|
Sung-Joo Kim |
Seoul |
Korea |
Entrepreneurial |
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Victoria Kisyombe |
Dar Es Salaam |
Tanzania |
Entrepreneurial |
|
Mei Sim Lai |
London |
UK |
Community, Public Service |
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Kate Laneve |
Decatur, GA |
USA |
Community, Corporate, Entrepreneurial, Non-Profit/NGO, Education |
|
Carina Lundberg-Mellow |
Stolckholm |
Sweden |
Corporate |
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Runa Magnusdottir |
Seltjarnarnes |
Iceland |
Entrepreneurial |
|
Kim McArthur |
Toronto, ON |
Canada |
Entrepreneurial |
|
Leila McKenzie |
Mississauga, ON |
Canada |
Community, Volunteer |
|
Julian Omalla |
Kampala |
Uganada |
Corporate, Entrepreneurial |
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Gulseren Onanc |
Istanbul |
Turkey |
Corporate |
|
Kathleen O'Neill |
Toronto, ON |
Canada |
Corporate |
|
Shelly Price |
Saint John, NB |
Canada |
Corporate |
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Candice Rice |
Ottawa, ON |
Canada |
Public Service/Government |
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Virgina Robinson |
Mitchellville, MD |
USA |
Community, Corporate, Entrepreneurial, Non-profit, NGO, Education, Public Service, Govt |
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Diann Rodgers-Healey |
Minnamurra |
Australia |
Non-profit |
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Dalila Rodriguez |
Panama |
Panama |
Community |
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Reeta Roy |
Toronto, ON |
Canada |
Non-Profit/NGO |
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Emily Sanders |
Norcross, GA |
USA |
Entrepreneurial |
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Geeta Shekar |
Toronto, ON |
Canada |
Education |
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Rita N. Singh |
Clevland, OH |
USA |
Entrepreneurial |
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Majorie Singley-Hall |
Atlanta, GA |
USA |
Entrepreneurial |
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Carol Stephenson |
Toronto, ON |
Canada |
Coporate, Education |
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Dennie Theodore |
Toronto, ON |
Canada |
Other |
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Lavergne Turpin |
Alexandria, LA |
USA |
Entrepreneurial |
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Mary Louise Uhlig |
Washington, DC |
USA |
Public Service, Government |
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Lucrecia Ulate Sanchez |
Panama |
Panama |
Education |
|
Kah Walla |
Cameroon |
Cameroon |
Corporate |
|
Betsy Weber |
Ridgefield, CT |
USA |
Entrepreneurial |
|
Donna Zazulak |
Edmonton, AB |
Canada |
Community |
To read the bios of the Award winners, please click here.
TIAW's Media Release is below.
Media Release:
TIAW HONOURS UNSUNG HEROINES FROM AROUND THE GLOBE AT GALA LUNCHEON,
For Immediate
Release
TORONTO – Oct. 18,
2009
–The International Alliance for Women (TIAW)
2009 World of Difference Awards are being
presented at noon on Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, at a Gala Awards luncheon at
the King Edward Hotel in Toronto, Canada. The event is co-hosted by
Canadian Women in Communications (CWC). The Honourable Helena Guergis,
Minister of State (Status of Women), will present the TIAW 2009 World of
Difference Lifetime Achievement award.
Created in 2008, the TIAW World of Difference 100 Awards annually name
up to 100 women who have “made a world of difference” to the economic
empowerment of women. In 2009, over 50 women from 23 countries were
named. To view a full list of the 2009 Award winners, please click
here. To read the bios of the Award winners,
please click here.
“Every day, around the world, in countless ways, there are women helping
other women economically. Whether they are in the smallest and remotest
of villages or the big cities of the world, many of these women are
unsung heroines, just as some of them are well known, but all of them
deserve recognition because we know that when women flourish, societies
flourish as well,” said Diane Morris, President of TIAW.
“That’s why we created the TIAW World of Difference 100 Awards, to
honour the many different but important ways that women are moving the
world forward by helping other women gain economic security and power.”
Each year, TIAW also names a TIAW Lifetime Achievement Award recipient,
a woman whose contributions over time and the stature of her
accomplishments have made an international impact on the economic
empowerment of women. The recipient of the 2009 World of Difference
Lifetime Achievement Award is Barbara Annis, President of Barbara Annis
and Associates. For the past 20 years, Barbara has been passionately
advocating the importance of understanding, acknowledging and accepting
the differences in the way women and men think. She believes that those
differences must be leveraged to improve productivity and remove
barriers to women’s career advancement. Barbara has facilitated
thousands of corporate workshops, keynotes, and executive coaching
sessions on gender intelligent leadership to Fortune 500 Corporations,
including Deloitte & Touche, IBM, Smith Barney Citigroup, UBS,
PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Intel.
She is the author of two best-selling books:
Same Words, Different
Language,
which offers groundbreaking insights to create win-win relationships
between the genders and break through gender barriers; and
Leadership and the
Sexes,
co-authored with Michael Gurian in 2009, which reveals the latest
brain-based research on gender differences in leadership and how to tap
the innate talents of both genders in the workplace and in the world.
Barbara is the Chair-elect of the Women’s Leadership Board at Harvard’s
Kennedy School of Government. Her extensive studies have included work
with exceptional thinkers such as linguist Dr. Fernando Flores at the
Barbara has been involved in a wide range of organizations including:
Member of the Gender Leadership Team, Deloitte & Touche ; Co-Chair of
the Advisory Board for the Task Force of an Inclusive Public Service,
Treasury Board; Co-Chair, World Business Academy; Subject Matter Expert
and Member of the Advisory Board, Social Context & Gender Equality
Initiative, Department of Justice; Member of the Advisory Board, Gender
Integration Project, Department of National Defense; President, Canadian
Women Entrepreneurs.
TIAW will also present the Marian (Mandy) Goetze Award that recognizes a
member of TIAW who has made an extraordinary contribution to the
organization. The 2009 recipient is Lisa Mezzetti, a prominent
Throughout the years, Lisa has been in charge of Resource Development,
the high profile Washington Briefings events and has also served as 1st
Vice President of the Board. She is an integral link between the current
board and the growing and influential group of former board members who
remain in touch and are kept informed of TIAW’s progress and
accomplishments by Lisa. Her extensive travels with TIAW have played a
part in building the extensive network of powerful women she is in touch
with around the world.
“Research tells us that the advancement of women is critical to the
advancement of society so I am absolutely delighted that TIAW is
recognizing women of the highest calibre through its World of Difference
Awards and Mandy Goetze Award. It is these extraordinary women who are
leading communities, societies, businesses, schools and governments
forward. We are humbled by their great accomplishments and offer our
most heart-felt congratulations to all of them,” said Diane Morris,
President of the Board, TIAW.
The Awards luncheon will be preceded by a panel on women’s
entrepreneurship featuring International Trade consultant Doreen Conrad;
the founder of Company of Women, Anne Day; entrepreneurship coach Lois
Raats of Ready2Grow Associates and Diane Girard, founder and President
of Global Links Network.
The awards will be followed by a high powered discussion on how to get
more women onto corporate boards, featuring Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette,
who has introduced quota legislation into the Senate,
Globe and Mail,
CEO and Publisher, Phillip Crawley and Carol Stephenson, Dean, Richard
Ivey School of Business.
For a complete list of the event’s speakers, please click
here.
The International
Alliance for Women
(TIAW) is a global umbrella organization comprised of more than 40
networks representing more than 50,000 women around the world. TIAW’s
mission is to support the economic advancement of women by connecting
professional women and their networks to work together, share resources,
leverage ideas. For more information on TIAW, please visit,
www.tiaw.org.
Canadian Women in
Communications
(CWC) is a national, bilingual organization dedicated to the advancement
of women in the communications industry through strategic networking,
targeted professional development and meaningful recognition. There are
currently over 1,400 CWC members in nine chapters across
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