WIIT is honored to be WITA's 2019 Lighthouse Award Winner. This award represents trade leaders who serve as a beacon to others, and honors WIIT as one of the leading lights to promote trade AND professional development.
For over 30 years, WIIT’s mission has been to bring together the progressive community of trade; and support women empowering women.
We are honored to receive this award recognizing that we have accomplished as an organization, and what we will continue to do with the energy and enthusiasm of our amazing Membership.
Thank you WITA!
Professional Development Series:
Group Mentoring
The Association of Women in International Trade (WIIT) invites you to a unique opportunity to benefit from group knowledge on career questions.
All career levels are welcome to come with questions about how to advance in international trade opportunities, switch from industry to government (and vice-versa), or other career questions! Have advice to give? Great, we want to hear from you about how you navigated those transitions.
September 10th from 12:00pm - 1:30pm CT Strategies, 1800 M Street, Suite 540, Washington, DC
Event Recaps
July 24th Leadership Development Session: Careers in Protocol
WIIT is grateful to the Meridian International Center, for hosting an amazing and insightful discussion on careers in protocol. Ambassador Capricia Marshall, former Chief of Protocol and currently with the Atlantic Council, and Natalie Jones, former Deputy Chief of Protocol, now with Meridian, provided Insights and remarks to a diverse and fascinated group of WIIT members.
The discussion highlighted the truly fundamental role that protocol plays in diplomacy, not only ensuring practical etiquette but creating unique and memorable opportunities to build long-term, cooperative relationships such as through the Diplomatic Culinary Initiative. Capricia highlighted great personal developments Insights including working on your personal brand, finding a mentor who genuinely challenges you, and focusing on driving your job, even if it’s outside the box of your job description. Natalie highlighted similar themes including promoting yourself via the intangible skills that make you a great candidate for any job – namely being a problem solver, a decision maker, focusing on trust, and being the likable member on the team who gets things done. Protocol is not just a tool of diplomacy, it’s how we can succeed in any Organization to create a Network, Partnerships and stand out as the strategic partner with clients and customers.
Thank you to Ambassador Marshall, Natalie Jones, and Meridian for a fascinating evening!
July 26th Discussion on Entrepreneurship, Financial Inclusion and Community Development with Young African Leaders
WIIT welcomed a group of Young African Leader Initiative (YALI) fellows for a wide ranging, interactive discussion kindly hosted by Florie Liser, WIIT Board Member and President of The Corporate Council on Africa. YALI, a USAID sponsored initiative, is a highly competitive fellowship that creates opportunities and key networks for African entrepreneurs and leaders in a wide range of community, social, and political engagement. This discussion featured current fellows from Kenya – Juliet Odhiambo; Lesotho – Reekelitsoe Molapo; and Ghana – Yvonne Amankwah.
The discussion focused on challenges including corruption and age-ism/gender discrimination but also included key areas of opportunity such as promoting financial education in Africa and organizing community based programs to support environmental solutions AND keep children in school. The fellows, and several YALI alumni who joined the conversation, spoke eloquently on the value that YALI has brought to their careers including critical networks; opportunities to learn from others including solutions that can be applied in your environment and the importance of confidence building for yourself, and your community.
Thanks to USAID and CCA for supporting this project and ensuring an opportunity to create a strong WIIT-YALI network!
The Summer Issue covering all things Section 232 was released in June!
Learn • Inspire • Connect with thought leaders from around the world.
This daylong conference will feature a robust program of interesting and informational speakers followed by a late afternoon harbor tour of Port Tampa Bay concluding with a delightful evening at TBOWIT’s Annual Awards Dinner. Topics to include global business practices, leadership, and empowerment.
Wednesday, October 23
Orlando Business Day (No Host Lunch/Dinner) 8:30 AM-4:30 PM
Thursday, October 24
#OWITConTampaBay - Year of the Woman! 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Port Tour (*Subject to Weather) 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Awards Dinner 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Friday, October 25
OWIT Board Meeting. All are welcomed to attend! 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
No Host Dinner at Brio, 6:30 PM (RSVP to secretary@owit.org)
Self Confidence is one of the hardest things to achieve, especially for women. WIIT is sharing inspirational musings by women leaders to combat this and help women be less ambivalent to LEAN IN and get to the top!
If you are underestimated, you can use that to your advantage."
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