HIRE RANIA

AAs a leading authority on business women in developing and emerging markets, Rania Anderson, founder of The Way Women Work, is available to present at conferences and events around the world.

Rania has personally interviewed, met with and researched hundreds of business women around the world distilling their path to success. She is a syndicated writer for Women 2.0 and her articles have been published in Forbes.com, Huffington Post and the Kansas City Star. In recognition of her work around the world, she was honored in March 2012 as a Top Global Woman by the Diplomatic Courier.

Rania has been invited to speak, present to and participate in numerous panels and conferences for women from the United States, the Middle East and Africa. Her presentation style is refreshingly direct, pragmatic and practical, offering key take aways and actions for the audience based not on theory but on years of experience, research and success to determine precisely what approaches work for women in different parts of the world.

Providing a very unique perspective, Rania’s presentations feature breakthrough insights from her research synthesized through the expertise she has developed as an executive coach, entrepreneur and senior corporate leader.

Rania Anderson may be booked for:

  • Speaking Engagements: Conferences, corporations or events in the U.S. and internationally (see examples below)
  • Management and Leadership Training: Including training on achieving career goals and customized training for women in developing and emerging economies (see examples below)
  • Executive Coaching

For additional information or to discuss Rania’s availability, please contact us or email Rania directly.

Sample presentation & panel topics:

  • How business and professional women in emerging and developing markets succeed.
  • How women can attain senior or executive leadership positions.
  • Working Women: The key to jump starting a thriving global economy.
  • Comparison between success strategies employed by women in the United States and developing markets.
  • Lessons and guidelines on starting a women’s angel investor network/fund that invests to invest in women-led businesses.
  • Building a strong support base including having the right network, mentors and sponsor.

Sample Prior Events & Speaking Engagements

Achieving Career Meridian
2008 to Present, United States & International Audiences

Rania developed this innovative, interactive presentation to help women within corporate environments clearly see and understand what it takes to manage their careers and achieve their career goals.

Rania has presented “Achieving Career Meridian” to women at Walmart, Southern Company, Hallmark, Black & Veatch, Polsinelli Shugart and at the Central Exchange and to women entrepreneurs from Africa.

African Women’s Entrepreneurial Program
2010 & 2011, United States

Rania was invited to present at the African Women’s Entrepreneurial Program in consecutive years, and on each occasion, she had the opportunity to speak with approximately 50 African Women Entrepreneurs who were hand-selected by the U.S. State Department from their respective countries. Each time, Rania learned as much if not more from the African women entrepreneurs than the information she presented.

  1. August 6, 2010 Presentation: Six Strategies for Achieving Entrepreneurial Success
  2. September 27, 2011 Presentation: Secrets to Success for Women Entrepreneurs

Qatar International Business Women Forum
May 10-11, 2010, Doha, Qatar

Rania was invited as a speaker/presenter at the first annual Women’s Conference, and 450 professional women from across the Middle East attended the conference. During the forum, she presented two topics:

  1. Role of Women in Business and Investment: A Comparison between the Arab World and the West
  2. Coaching Women to Take Over Leadership in Business and Develop a Strong Image

Wall Street Journal Women in the Economy Task Force
April 2011, United States

Rania was one of only 150 women invited by the Wall Street Journal to participate in the 2011 Women in the Economy Task Force. Task force members worked for two days discussing challenges facing women and recommending actions that could be taken by government, corporations, and women themselves. The recommendations were published in a special report of the Wall Street Journal called “A Blueprint for Change.”

Women’s Leadership Summit 2011: Advancing Women in Leadership Positions

The American Institute of Architects
September 23-24 2011, United States

Rania presented to The American Institute of Architects’ Women’s Leadership Summit 2011: Advancing Women in Leadership Position and targeted architectural firm principals and senior women in architecture.

Her presentation was “Taking Your Success to the Next Level: Be More Than the Work.”

Women’s Public Service Network
November 2, 2011, United States

As part of the Women’s Public Service Network, Rania was invited to present to approximately 50 Women leaders about The Role of Women in the Arab Spring.

Her presentation was designed to help the audience understand the extend of Arab women’s positive influence and participation in the future of the Middle East.

Vision 2020
October 20-22, 2010 and October 11-13, 2011, United States

As one of two candidates representing the State of Kansas on a 10-year national gender equality initiative, Rania participated in the annual Vision 2020 Congress. In 2011, Rania worked on a task force with the objective of increasing the number of U.S. women in senior leadership positions.