Chiara Condi: Women, Wellbeing and 'The Other Half' Gender Equality
Chiara Condi is joining me today to talk about women’s entrepreneurship, our wellbeing and also about her excellent new podcast ‘The Other Half’ where she interviews male leaders about gender equality.
We will talk about the changes and progress in women’s entrepreneurship. also the importance of wellbeing, how it is viewed, and the different aspects that we can more easily incorporate into our life.
Chiara will also tell us about the reaction she is getting from the male leaders she has interviewed about gener equality, their ideas and their plans for improving this.
Very interesting topics!!
Chiara Condi is an activist, speaker and expert raising awareness about gender equality and diversity. She consults corporations on their diversity goals based on her extensive experience in the subject. She inspires awareness to change. Chiara has launched a podcast, The Other Half which interviews male leaders and CEOs around the world on the subject of gender equality in their personal and professional lives. Chiara is a regular voice in the media and she is an internationally renowned speaker on the topics of gender equality, the future of work and building a more inclusive world for women. In 2017 she was awarded the Woman of Influence Prize (Business and Hope) for the year in France for her work on the subject.
Chiara is the founder of Led By HER, a nonprofit that works on women’s entrepreneurship, innovation and women’s rights. In partnership with business schools and corporations, the organization delivers an entrepreneurship program to help women who have suffered from violence rebuild their lives through entrepreneurship. With a community of over 250 volunteers the organization offers courses, individual mentoring, and hackathon events co-organized with the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Led By HER recently launched FoundHERLab, a digital platform coded by Capgemini, to mobilize companies worldwide around women’s entrepreneurship by offering pro-bono skill based volunteering to women entrepreneurs locally.
Prior to founding Led By HER Chiara worked at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to maximize the gender impact of the Bank’s investments. She graduated from Harvard and has a masters from Sciences Po/LSE.
