Catalyst and Simmons University Institute for
Inclusive Leadership Join its Center for Action and former
Accenture Executive Debbie Polishook Named to the Board
NEW
YORK, May 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Paradigm for
Parity (P4P), a nonprofit, supporting companies around the world in
achieving their commitment to gender parity in corporate
leadership, today announced the expansion of its Center for Action
and the appointment of Debbie
Polishook to its Board of Directors.
"Our recently launched Center for Action brings together best in
class service providers and mission-aligned nonprofits to support
our coalition member companies in closing the gender leadership
gap," stated Paradigm for Parity CEO, Nadine Bullock-Pottinga.
New program partners in the Paradigm for Parity Center for
Action include:
Catalyst, a global nonprofit dedicated to driving gender
equity through workplace inclusion, creates workplaces that work
for women. Paradigm for Parity's members can now access Catalyst's
MARC (Men Advocating Real Change) Leaders immersive workshop, a
fee-for-service program delivered by Catalyst experts. Catalyst's
MARC Leaders is an interactive cross-company immersive learning
experience for directors through senior executives that inspires
participants to stand up for gender equity. The program increases
effective gender partnership, builds skills to communicate more
courageously and inclusively across gender and other forms of
difference, and provides tools to enable and support a culture of
inclusion through disruptive dialogue.
Simmons University for Inclusive Leadership, is a global
authority on inclusive leadership and gender equity, focused on
fostering equity in leadership and advancing women leaders in
organizations globally. The Institute delivers research-based
programming designed to develop greater understanding of inclusive
leadership and identify specific actions that anyone can take to
lead more inclusively.
Girls With Impact (GWI), is the nation's only live,
online business and leadership program for young women, equipping
them with skills, tools, and mentoring to thrive and advance in the
workplace. GWI will support the coalition member companies by
offering their mini-"MBA" program, which teaches essential business
acumen to early career women employees.
They join current Center for Action partners AceUp,
Linkage, a SHRM company, LiveGirl, and TONE Networks.
In step with its programmatic expansion, Paradigm for Parity
also announced the addition of Debbie
Polishook to its Board of Directors.
Debbie is the Former Group Chief Executive of Accenture
Operations who led a top-line double digit growth $6B+ portfolio of
business process services (BPO). She is a results-driven strategic
thinker, mentor, and problem solver with a long track record of
envisioning and executing transformative change, deploying leading
edge technologies such as blockchain, RPA (Robotic Process
Automation) and machine learning/artificial intelligence for a
multitude of Fortune 500 companies.
P4P Board President, Jewelle
Bickford, commented, "Debbie's global experience in leading
operations combined with her deep knowledge of technologies
including artificial intelligence brings a new dimension of
expertise to our Board at a pivotal time in our growth as an
organization."
Ms. Polishook also serves as a corporate Board Director for
Wawa, Inc., Micro Focus, Trinity Consultants and Globality,
Inc. and one not-for profit Board, C200 (an organization focused on
the advancement of women corporate executives and entrepreneurs).
She previously served on the board of Avanade, an
Accenture/Microsoft JV offering innovative technology solutions and
managed services based on Microsoft technologies.
"I am honored to join the Paradigm for Parity board. There is so
much at stake for women, the business community and society to
close the gender leadership gap quickly," said Ms. Polishook
About Paradigm for Parity®
As a nonprofit founded by a group of women executives in 2015,
the Paradigm for Parity® coalition supports its member companies
around the world in achieving gender parity including racial equity
in their corporate leadership within 15 years of joining the
coalition. In partnership with member company executives and
recognized experts, the organization develops and promotes
actionable strategies that transform corporate culture, so that
women of all races, cultures and backgrounds have equal power and
opportunity.
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