Highlights from the Women's Forum Brazil 2012 - Day 1

6. 4. 2012

FORUM WELCOME – Véronique Morali

"Este será o primeiro de muitos fóruns no Brasil."

 

BEING A WOMAN LEADER – Marina Silva

"Brazil has 20% of the drinking water on the planet. Brazil has the largest forest in the world."

 "Brazil can be a small portion of the change in the world. Brazil has many opportunities.”

"What Brazil could do and never give up is to lead up by example."

"Sustainable development is a way of being."

“We need a multicentric leadership with multicentric processes."

"Women have this wealth of knowledge which has been silent for many years."

"10 million people illiterate in Brazil but we have the knowledge to educate all the people."

"... Precisamosbuscar novas maneiras de caminharcomodiz opoetaTiago Melo."

"Não vivemos uma crise comum, pois é uma crise civilizada. Não Há como continuarmos agindo da mesma maneira..."

"We don’t have time to do a transition, we need to make efforts for change in our own environment.”

 

BEING A WOMAN LEADER – PANEL

Thais Corral

"Green economy is the re-engeneeringof a corporate culture."

"Sustainability is systemic. It’s a rebirth."

“History has proved that quotas, at some point, are very important.”

“There is a revolution that is brought about by women!”

Anne Fontaine

“Change doesn’t depend only on governments, each of us should be an ambassador of change.”

“We have to give to the others women, image of women happy in our professional and personal lives.”

"For business, diversity is a key rule."

“In France, there are 46% of women in work population but only 7% in the executives committees."

“At the top of companies, it's a world of men!"

"Now that my company is mature, I'm ready to give back. I've just created my foundation."

“All countries have to work on the education of girls.”

I have a family, a business... I believe the fundamental thing is to save our feminity."

Adriana Machado

"Governments have to create the good environment for innovation, and companies should make investments."

"When it’s in the company’s values, then it becomes easy."

"Each person is an agent of change."

"We have to change a few things: We have to trust in ourselves!"

"We want to be leaders. But why so many women get there?"

"Each person is an agent of change."

Gabriela Icazza

"… networking é a coisa mais importante que existe precisamostrocar.”

 

BEING A WOMAN LEADER – Maria das Graças Foster

“As you accept more the diversity, you'll have a richer, happier and much more competitive company.”

“[I believe] in progress and training."

"My message to you is: Do not accept limits when you are in search of equality between human beings.”

"I grew accumulating the power of knowledge, and then the power of leadership."

“No Brasil as mulheres representam 61% dos estudantes universitários.”

“86% of managerial positions in Petrobras include men.”

“In Brazil, 61% of university students are women.”

“Today in Brazil, women represent 60% of the labor force.”

“Governmental programs for families are important especially for women head of families (35% of Brazilian homes).”

"Brazil proved that it is possible to conciliate economic growth and reduction of the inequalities."

 

OPENING DINNER

Daniela Mercury

"Women need love, respect and dignity."

Olivier Murguet

"We don't have enough women leaders, women CEOs, but this situation can change."

"In the automobile industry, 40% clients are #women, and the 60% men are inspired by you!"

Mariana Ximenes

“Men and women will have success only if they join forces.”

"The power of women is in each one of us."

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