The 2025 Middle East & Africa Edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky® – the success and leadership summit for women, will be held live on Sept 8, 2025 in Dubai at the Anantara Downtown Dubai and will bring together 300 of the regions (and world’s) most successful executives from the most successful organizations to share best practices on leadership, gender balance and success. Participation is specially extended to Comapnies that support the UAE’s focus on gender balance and are committed to advancing gender balance and its positive impact on business and leadership across the Middle east and Africa.
This is the eight annual Middle East and Africa Edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky® and will be led by a team of 30 C-Suite Executives, leading as speakers and coaches for participants on the day. The summit offers Female Executives (and other champions for gender diversity) an excellent opportunity to learn and share best practices and sustainable strategies for success; connect and learn from senior Female executives and role models, upskill based on the professional experiences of leaders across industries and help build new business and networks of support. Every participating organization can also opt in to have its gender balance at leadership levels benchmarked against the House of Rose Professional’s Proprietary 2025 Break the ceiling touch the sky® 101 Best Global Companies for women in leadership (BTC 101 Global Index). The BTC 101 Global Index is the world’s only index based entirely on proprietary insights and a statistical model developed by HORP and is only available to members of the global Break the ceiling touch the sky® that sign up to attend an edition of the summit.
This one day summit includes House of Rose Professional’s speed mentoring of participants by senior leaders. The 2025 Middle East & Africa Edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky® continues to support the UAE’s committment and aspiration on leading on gender equality. The summit is a key pillar of MISSION 2029 FOR A BETTER WORLD – House of Rose Professional’s 10 year Mission (launched in 2020) to shape a better world via better diversity & inclusion, leadership and business. This eight annual Middle East Edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky® is a critical part of the overall global series of Break the ceiling touch the sky® summits in the Middle East, Asia, Americas, Africa, Europe and ANZ.
Peter Van den Broeck
Senior VP, GM Middle East-Africa
BIC
Nihan Belik Guneri
General Manager Asia/ Middle East Distributor Operations
The Duracell Company
James Michael Lafferty
Chairman of the Board
Katapult Digital
Afnan Ahsan
Group CEO
IDS Borjomi International
Hana Agil
HR Director
Cigna Healthcare International Health
Anthony A. Rose
Chairman and CEO
House of Rose Professional Pte. Ltd
Kirsty Koen
Group Chief HR Officer
IDS Borjomi International
Bana Badwan
Senior Regional Communications Manager- Middle East Africa
BIC
Dali Sanghera
Head – Venture & Acquisitions (V&A) and Post Merger Integration (PMI)
Accenture Middle East
Rima Manna
Vice President Middle East
Nokia
SPEAKERS TO BE ANNOUNCED