Top women share lessons they learned the hard way They are CEOs, board chairs, and industry firsts, yet at a UN Women roundtable in Nairobi, Kenya's most powerful female executives admitted that progress has stalled at the top Gender Just now
What you need to know: What made this particular roundtable different was not the presence of powerful women in one room; Nairobi has no shortage of panels featuring the same." Honest conversations What made this particular roundtable different was not the presence of powerful women in one room; Nairobi has no shortage of panels featuring the same.
Rita was equally candid about what changed once she became the company's managing director and started stepping outside its walls into industry bodies like the Kenya Association of Manufacturers, where she met other business leaders, built her network, and, in one case, was pursued for two years before agreeing to join the board of British American Tobacco, after a fellow CEO noticed her advocating hard for her industry at a State House roundtable.
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