Girls Creating
Girls Creating is a Positive Impact Events campaign to inspire women to talk about who has inspired them, empowering the next generation to create the lives that they want and make a difference.
Since 2016 we have been part of storytelling initiatives and have been inspired by wonderful examples of women and girls in our lives.
International Women’s Day is a once in the year opportunity to celebrate the achievement of women in the world. In 2020 the theme of the day is equality. Throughout March expect to see #eachforequal trending through your social media and be ready to get involved because, as an industry with a majority of women workers, this is a unique opportunity to raise the profile of what event professionals do.
For the fourth year running the team at Positive Impact Events are in action to make it easy for event professionals to get involved and take action to further United Nations Development Goal 5: Gender Equality. This year the campaign’s call to action is to ‘acknowledge someone who has inspired you to champion equality’ and for the first time ever the campaign is being co-created.
Courtney Stanley, the 2020 co-creator, has a range of awards and acknowledgements for her work on equality but most importantly is in action on this subject within the event industry, most recently with her #daretointerrupt podcast. Courtney explained her interest in co creating the campaign:
“I appreciate that this campaign is centred around taking the time to acknowledge and thank women who have supported and inspired -this action will create a strong foundation for collaboration across the industry and collaboration is vital as we continue to tackle challenging topics including pay equality, sexual harassment and equal access to professional development”
- Courtney Stanley
In 2019 over 60 event professionals took action to acknowledge their peers and colleagues who had made a difference in their career journey and over 11,000 event professionals were part of the conversation. See our 2019 campaign highlights.
This year the call to action is for every event professional to take the time to celebrate those women who have inspired equality either by posting via the unique online system below or via social media using our toolkit.
This International Women’s Day, event professionals can also watch our webinar with inspiring female CEO leaders from around the world and read interviews on overcoming challenges, inspiring future generations and the importance of equality. This International Women’s Day use your voice to acknowledge someone who inspires you and create a foundation of collaboration to tackle the equality gaps that still exist.
Tell us the story of who inspires you
Last year, we heard about the many women who have empowered, inspired and supported. We want to continue to acknowledge differences made by women in the event industry.
How to share your acknowledgement
Click on the + Add Story button (or if you’re on a phone, click on the + button).
You’ll be asked to create an account, this means you can edit your story if you accidentally make a mistake. Not sure what to share? Have a look at what others have said to get your inspiration!
Read our interviews with leading female CEOs
2020 is the year of #UN75, instigating the biggest ever global conversation on the role of global cooperation. To honour this, for International Women’s Day we’ve interviewed inspiring female CEO leaders from around the world on overcoming challenges, inspiring future generations and the importance of equality.
Check out what they had to say in their interviews below.
Carina Bauer is CEO of IMEX Group
Marin Bright is the CEO of Smart Meetings
Dahlia El Gazzar is the CEO of DALIA+Agency
Heike Mahmoud is the Chief Operating Officer of Congress Center Hamburg
Sarah Soliman Daudin is the CEO of Soliman Productions
Courtney Stanley is a keynote speaker, podcaster, career success coach and the official partner for our #GirlsCreating International Women’s Day 2020 campaign.
Watch our webinar
Four ways I take action to be inspiring
This International Women’s Day (8th March 2020) we have recorded a 20 minute webinar with Courtney Stanley, our campaign co creator, Dahlia El Gazzar, CEO of DALIA+Agency and Sarah Soliman Daudin, CEO of Soliman Productions, on four ways they take action to be inspiring. Watch now to hear amazing women sharing the lessons and knowledge they hope to pass on.
Get involved on social media
Want to share how you got involved with our #GirlsCreating campaign with your network? Download our post templates for your social media to share how you took action this International Women’s Day!