Being a Creator

Alena Baeva (Russia, Luxembourg): “We should not limit ourselves to our possibilities.”
Camilla Webster (USA): “Invest in women! Women artists are strongly underestimated. In more than 50% of the US picture galleries it is impossible to find any works of female artists.”
Marie Beauchesne (France): “Don´t lose time or energy to compare with anybody, remain true to yourself! Just go and create! If we were only critics and not change makers, nothing would ever change...”

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Being an Entrepreneur

Carol Pepper (USA): “Enjoy the wealth or power you have – then it gets bigger. Now is the best time to be a woman-entrepreneur! Now we can do things that can help change the world.”
Ann Shriver Sargent (USA): “To be excellent, we need to be surrounded by excellence! Fight for those who can't fight themselves.”
Doris Hangartner (Switzerland): “My own way of influence is to Do Good. We need to keep working and build a new future!”
Natalia Smirnova (Russia): “The biggest challenge in my job is to fight prejudices: in Russia, it is thought that all reliable financial consultants are just men at the age of 70!”
Dr. Anusha Ravi (India): “Wherever we are, we all want the future of the upcoming generation to be much better! Entrepreneurship is not something you choose. It chooses you.”

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Being a Citizen

Lindy Wafula (Kenya): “We are our values and we have the power of our values. Every single person has the power to Do Good. We need to collaborate and build opportunities for a global network.”
Catherine Hernandez-Blades (USA): “Prejudices, racism, stereotypes – this is NOT citizenship. Each time, we need to ensure that a certain change really needs some progress. Dream, but write down your dream, otherwise it remains just a wish, undeveloped into a goal.”
Dr. Jiahong Chen (Germany): “Whoever has the power/energy we shall try to collaborate, we shall not be competing.”
Seçil Baykara Şendağ (Turkey): “4 out of each 5 illiterate people in Turkey are women. Only 31% of the women take part in the local labour force. 1 out of every 2 women suffers physical or sexual violence. 4 million women work without any social security…”

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Being a Mother

Ilhame Boirie (France): “Don't be ashamed to ask for a promotion! Both women and men participate in the labour market. Regretfully, accessibility to economic resources is unequal in Europe, for various structural and social reasons. One main reason for that is motherhood.”
Francesca Lana (UK): “ Build your career around your passion. Motherhood can make you a better person and a better professional in anything you do: better in listening, communication, support and much more. Believe in yourself and take care of yourself. Be there for your child. Each mother is like a ninja: she can do a thousand things at the same time.”
Jan Cavelle (UK): “We need to let our children be their authentic selves, not what we want them to be!”
Marina Malakhova (France / Russia): “Let's use the Women Influence Community to increase the influence of mothers and let's do it together.”

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Being a Professional

Prof. Patrizia Paterlini-Brechot (France): “Fight for your dream and improve the world.”
Kiki Keating (USA): “Work hard. Do your best. Make sure it’s fun. Women should be supportive. Mentoring young people is the most important thing to do.”
Ekaterina Kozinchenko (Russia): “We are trying to copy men all the time. It is not right. We should be ourselves. Also: your network is crucial for your professional success.”
Maureen Murphy (Australia): “Focus on the outcome. Companies with women founders do much better than those founded by men. To support women is vitally important. More specifically – women’s networks are crucial today.”
Kara Alaimo (USA): “Be inclusive and give others the space to be their best! Now that we have discussed how our gender affects our work, I think we all agree on the need for women to support one another as mentors and also on the importance of a more active networking for women.”

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Being a Muse

Galina Panina (Russia): “The job of muses is to shape shining diamonds not only in themselves, but in others. Find that gift in yourself and use it.”
Chioma Isiadinso (USA): “How do you go from excellence to greatness? – Each woman is a force! Look for opportunities to help each other!”
Bershan Shaw (USA): "Muse is influence. We are all Muses in this room, for everybody has a powerful story to tell, even if it is about illness or depression! When it came to such a moment in my life, I decided I wasn't going to let my Stage IV cancer diagnosis be a step down for me: I was determined to make it a step up!"

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Watch the opening speech of Yanina Dubeykovskaya at the WIC-F Forum:
Huffington Post Blog; WIC-F website

Watch a short “teaser” video about the WIC-F Forum: here

Read more information about the Women Influence Community Forum: here

Follow the WIC-F Facebook Page: here

Please, address your questions and inquiries to:
MARINA MALAKHOVA
Tel: +336 32141373
Email: forum@forumdavos.com

On September 20, 2017, the first Women Influence Community Forum (WIС-F) took place at the legendary Ritz Hotel in Paris. Successful women from the USA, France, Russia, Germany, India, Switzerland, UK, Kenya, Turkey, Luxembourg, Belgium, Australia, China, Nigeria and Bulgaria gathered together to share their unique stories and powerful ways of influencing the world.

As a current key global project of the newly created and launched Women Influence Community (www.womeninfluence.club), the WIС-F Forum aims to unite proactive female business-managers, thought-leaders, philosophers, mothers, artists, muses, investors and entrepreneurs. The project and the community itself help those and other women all over the globe to continue to influence our world and enhance their role in the modern society.

The WIС-F Forum consisted of six equal panels devoted to six ways of women’s influence: Creator, Entrepreneur, Citizen, Professional, and even Mother and Muse. The event attracted many French and international mass media and became a sensation on some internet platforms and social networks. The hashtag #womeninfluence (here) reached an impressive rate of 2.3 million on Twitter and 20 000 on Facebook.

The next global session of the Women Influence Community Forum will be held on September 20, 2018, again at the renowned Ritz hotel, in Paris: register online.

Yanina Dubeykovskaya, WIC-F's Founder & General Director and President of the WCFA Association in Switzerland, shared:

“Today, 50 extraordinary, talented, strong and successful women gathered to share their influence stories, so tomorrow at least 15 countries, 20 business companies, and many women's communities around the world will gain further exposure to new ways of women's influence. This is the type of influence not based on a woman’s place in today's social or business hierarchy, but rather on her mission to make herself, her environment, her country, and the whole world more perfect. For 2018, we have already scheduled additional WIC-F Forums in Russia, America, Switzerland, and Hungary.”

Watch the opening speech of Yanina Dubeykovskaya at the WIC-F Forum:
Huffington Post Blog

Watch a short “teaser” video about the WIC-F Forum: here

Read more information about the Women Influence Community Forum: here

Follow the WIC-F Facebook Page: here

Please, address your questions and inquiries to:
MARINA MALAKHOVA
Contact:Tel:+336 32141373
Email: forum@forumdavos.com

Can you imagine Gabrielle Chanel fighting for equal rights with men?

Not meaning social equality, since access to resources for education and medicine or participation in public decisions should be available for everyone – after all, they should be taken for granted.

We are rather talking here about the role of women in society, which, until today, is interpreted as if women are trying to run the same marathon of success and leadership that men are competing at, and complaining that men are faster.

Wait a minute, why should women need to run this marathon at all? Why not try to find our own ways of influencing the society? Let men run their marathon and take a stop, to think about it!

Looking for the right role of women’s influence requires, first of all, diving deep into the past and getting to know the biographies of influential women of previous times. And then one of them will suddenly knock onto your door and show you a way you couldn’t have noticed before, just because you were trying to run the marathon, seeing only men’s backs.

This is exactly what happened to Yanina Dubeykovskaya, WIC's Founder & General Director and President of the WCFA Association in Switzerland – Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel was the first who knocked at her door...

Reed the interview with Yanina Dubeykovskaya published in our Huffington Post blog and find out how Coco Channel has become a Muse for the upcoming Women Influence Forum, helping us to reconsider the traditional ways of women’s influence: When Gabrielle Chanel knocked at my door...