Economic Empowerment of Women with Hon Nicola Grigg

Driving change to eliminate gender bias, advancing women in leadership, tackling challenges, and shaping the future - plus insights on career pathways, flexible work policies, and support for caregiving balance are all important factors facing organisation.

During this session we'll dive into these topics and the complexities of the gender pay gap in New Zealand and discuss some of the factors and solutions. Learn about how the gender pay gap toolkit can help you understand your pay gap and take action to close it.

This event offers a great opportunity to hear from business leaders who are owning their gender pay gap and taking action to drive change. It’s a chance to network, exchange ideas, and learn about practical actions that can help create lasting change in the workplace.

Within the panel discussion business leaders discuss their organisations’ work to reduce the gender pay gap, increase women in leadership, and share their successes, challenges, and plans for the future.

The panel will feature influential voices from organisations that are taking action to address these issues. Each panellist will provide insights into the work their organisation is doing, highlight the real-world challenges they've faced, and discuss the impact of initiatives aimed at reducing the gender pay gap and increasing the number of women in leadership roles.

Learn about how businesses are using tools like the gender pay gap toolkit to track progress and put short and long-term measures in place to close the gap.

We hope you’ll join us for this important conversation!

SPEAKERS:

Hon Nicola Grigg
Minister for Women
Minister of State for Trade and Investment
Associate Minister of Agriculture (Horticulture)
Associate Minister for ACC

Ministry for Women
TBC

Panel
Lee Gardiner - Chief Operating Officer: Citycare Property
Lee is an experienced executive leader with a legal background and 20+ years of senior management experience predominantly in the HR, people and culture transformation space including health and safety and change management. She has held senior people, culture and marketing roles in a range of publicly listed, government and privately held organisations. Passionate about organisational success through robust people practices, Lee is committed to supporting the leaders of today whilst building the leaders of tomorrow. A strategic thinker, a strong executor, a high performance team builder and an energy generator. Lee’s leadership style is authentic and empathetic but sets high expectations for performance. She challenges the status quo and constantly works for improvement and positive change within organisations.

Lee is Ngāti Tuwharetoa and a champion for Māori development and achievement, equity and inclusion and an ally of the LGBTQA community. She was privileged to start her governance career by being an Associate Director as part of the CCHL Associate Director programme on the Citycare Board of Directors. For Lee, governance is about contributing, shaping and influencing the success of an organisation in a non-executional role and supporting those in senior leadership teams to achieve.

Alice van den Hout - GM Investment Portfolio and Capability
Alice leads Orion Group’s Investment Portfolio and Capability teams which are responsible for the successful delivery of Orion’s investment portfolio while building a resilient, capable workforce to meet customer needs now and into the future. Alice joined the Orion Group in December 2021 with a strong background managing teams and creating environments for teams to thrive. She has worked across a broad range of roles in New Zealand and overseas, building a strong record of achievement in health and safety, quality, sustainability, productivity, yield, cost control efficiency and workplace culture

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

Economic Empowerment of Women: What’s Happening in New Zealand with Minister for Women, Hon Nicola Grigg

Introduction to the Gender Pay Gap Toolkit by the Ministry for Women

Panel Discussion: Cat Moody from Martin Jenkins will facilitate the panel of business leaders discussing their organisations’ work to reduce the gender pay gap, increase women in leadership, and share their successes, challenges, and plans for the future.

Q&A Session: Engage with panellists and ask your burning questions about gender pay efforts

Networking: Connect with fellow professionals and share experiences and strategies.

WHY ATTEND?

• Gain valuable insights from Minister Hon Nicola Grigg and business leaders on closing the gender pay gap, advancing women in leadership, and eliminating gender bias.

• Learn practical strategies, explore the Gender Pay Gap Toolkit

• Connect with like-minded professionals committed to driving meaningful change in the workplace.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This is an event for all business leaders who are interested in exchanging ideas and learning about practical actions that can drive lasting change in the workplace.

COST:

Free to attend

Includes a light morning tea and refreshments

REGISTERING:

For paid events when you enter your details - under the Registration Type & Tax Receipt Information section - please select 'Individual'. The 'Business' option will ask you for your IRD number.

EVENT MANAGER:

Rebecca Golding - rebeccag@cecc.org.nz

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