Break The Ceiling Touch The Sky

The 2024 Africa Edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky®- the success and leadership summit for women will be held virtually on Nov 26,  2024.   It offers leaders and organisations across Africa (and also the Middle East) the opportunity to participate and lead an extraordinary half- day of best practice sharing on leadership, diversity and inclusion and success and the specific advancement of women in leadership.    The 2024 Africa Edition will feature several of Africa’s and the Middle East’s  top Executives (including the 2024 Break the ceiling touch the sky® list of Africa’s most inspirational women in leadership) as well as global leaders committed to Africa’s continued development and success.  It is part of the 2024 World Tour of Break the ceiling touch the sky® to Africa, the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Australia New Zealand. It  will include sharing from House of Rose Professional’s 2024 Break the ceiling touch the sky 101 Best Global Companies for women in leadership Index.   Break the ceiling touch the sky® is the world’s leading forum for women in leadership, having enabled and inspired over 42000 women leaders to success globally since 2015.

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Peter Van Den Broeck  

Senior VP, GM Middle East- Africa

BIC

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 Idah Asin

Head, Government Affairs & Policy, Sub Saharan Africa (SSA)

Johnson & Johnson

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Alex von Behr

Head, CEOSmith® Vertical, House of Rose Professional. Former Global Chief Customer Officer, Unilever. President

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Oulfa Maazouz

Head, Middle East and Africa hub, Global Employee Benefits Solutions

 Zurich Insurance

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Dr. Markie Idowu

Group Managing Director/CEO

Xpress Payment Solutions

Paloma Lengema

Paloma Lengema

General  Manager, East Africa

  BIC

Anthony-Rose

Anthony Rose

Chairman and CEO

 House of Rose Professional

Additional speakers to be announced

Testimonials from Prior editions of the Africa Edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky®.

“I take this opportunity to congratulate you and your team on a highly successful Africa Edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky®. The key note speakers and panellists were fantastic – authentic and sincere and I walked away feeling truly inspired.” Usheema Mara De Villers, J&J. 

 

“Amazing job. Great inspirational team trying to create a better world with more talented females at the helm! Well done.” Praline Ross

 

“The summit has just ended and it was so insightful for me. I rarely have the chance to hear from successful African Women – and this was so refreshing, giving me perspective on my own career path.  I was especially inspired by the keynote speaker Debra Mallowah. he raised the questions of “Why do we exist?” which could be interpreted into “what is my purpose at a professional and personal level’ This would be, for me, the question that I’ll try to answer as a key takeaway and next step of this summit. Thank you again.” P. Lengema, BIC. 

 

“Such great insights from all panelists at the 2021 Africa Edition of #BreaktheCeilingTouchtheSky Virtual Summit. Thank you Debra Mallowah, Sal Govender and Dr Liziwe Masoga for your contributions on crucible moments, unconscious bias and breaking barriers. Thank you Anthony Rose, House of Rose Professional Pte. Ltd. .” Winnie Kariuki.

 

“The 2022 Africa Edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky – the success and leadership summit for women, June 2, 2022,Summit was my first to attend and I truly valued the experience.  The experiences and knowledge were insightful and have giving me hope that it is possible to get to the peak of the mountain my career growth.”  Noreen Obilo, Soteni Kenya 

 

“Today was the first time that I attended one of the Break the ceiling touch the sky® sessions  and it was very enlightening and helpful. Hearing all the woman talking today about their experience was truly recommendable and uplifting.” Claudia Daniel, BCX

 

“I would like to firstly thank you for the opportunity to be part of this amazing virtual summit today. It was nothing less than amazing. I like how everyone was so vulnerable and shared their story. I thank you for also sharing your story and opening up. I really got a lot of nuggets of truth and I was motivated by this session. The speakers were real and authentic and I felt that I could relate. It was not just another virtual summit, it was different and engaging.” Ipeleng Lehabe, Mars 

 

“Thank you so very much for supporting mothers and children in India through the book sales (of Break the ceiling touch the sky). I’m so pleased that your organization continues to make such tremendous progress on issues that are vital to the core of Save the Children’s own work in gender diversity, and that you raise awareness about women’s leadership to new heights. You have done so much to drive this movement forward! It was an honour for Save the Children to once again be the recipient of the proceeds of your book. I join my colleagues in sending my grateful appreciation for your continued support for Save the Children’s work – in India and around the world. Thank you for your commitment and dedication.”

Carolyn Miles,  CEO, Save the Children

 

“It is always a pleasure to attend this amazing event, this was my fourth year. Something I really look forward to. It was a day of great learning, reflection and planning for me. My team were also very appreciative to be part of this forum. Best wishes to you to continue on this great initiative and accomplish the 2029 goals, hopefully ahead of time.”

A. Singh, Director, Cigna

 

“The Coca-Cola Company is proud to be accelerating accelerating gender equality at all levels of our organization and within the communities we serve. As a founding and world sponsor of Break the Ceiling Touch the Sky ® and partner for MISSION 2029 FOR A BETTER WORLD, we are delighted to spotlight how women are reshaping, reinventing, and transforming industries. 

Christina Ruggiero, President, Global Nutrition Category, The Coca-Cola Company

Testimonials

I have seen Break the ceiling, touch the sky conference go from strength to strength every year. This year’s conference was the best yet, bringing together great participation from CEO’s, C-Suite executives, Diversity & Inclusion practitioners and founders/heads of businesses. Anthony’s BTCTTS summit is really mobilizing a movement for building more gender balanced workplaces. It has something for everyone – CEO’s to learn from one another on how to drive change and progress towards gender diversity Women who are looking for advise on how to take their careers forward and Men who want to be champions of change.

Amita Chaudhury
Director, Sustainable business, South East Asia and Australasia at Unilever
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Dear Anthony,
It (the 2019 India edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky) was a fabulous and well spent day worth tremendous learnings and interactions.Thank you so much for hosting this, and am so glad that I could be there.

Shilpa Jain
Edelweiss Finance
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Thank you Anthony. It was a privilege to attend this event. So many new thoughts and perspectives to learn from. Thank you for letting me be part of the panel. I loved sharing my experiences and learnings with the wider community.

Sapna Balan
Walmart Labs
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Thank you for the wonderful opportunity to meet and interact with such inspiring and amazing women. Every panel offered diverse opinions and practical solutions. I enjoyed all the sessions. All the panelists were excellent.

Farina Kidwai
Lead Engineer, Emerson
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Thank you for organizing the summit and bringing together the inspiring bunch of leaders. It was wonderful to hear personal stories of leaders, examples of how they dealt with challenges & decisions taken at multiple stages.

Shruti Garude
P&G
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