Yellow presents inspiring women award

An exclusive award ceremony to celebrate the contribution of women in leadership roles is going to take place for the second time on Tuesday in Dhaka.

Organized by Bangladesh Brand Forum (BBF), Titled ‘Yellow presents Inspiring Women Award’ will honor professional women of the country across various sectors.

Around 500 invited guests from the local and multinational corporate sector, development agencies, government bodies and dignitaries from the embassies will grace the ceremony at Le Meridien Dhaka Hotel.

With the vision to empower and equip women to reach leadership positions in the various fields of professionalism, the award was first introduced in 2015 as the second phase in the ‘Inspiring Women in Leadership’ project.

The first phase Women Leadership Summit took place in June 2014 to discuss and identify the key areas of opportunities and inspiration for the rise of women to leadership positions.

Recognizing and creating Inspiring Role Models were some of the key findings from the summit.

Taking the findings from the summit, the Award has been designed to identify and recognize the professional women who can be presented as inspirational role models for the society.

To identify the role models, the award is designed into 17 broad categories, namely: Yellow Inspiring Woman for Lifetime Achievement, Yellow Inspiring Female Entrepreneur, Inspiring Regional Leader, Inspiring Woman in Army, Inspiring Female Performer - Dance, Inspiring Male,  Inspiring Woman in Sports, Yellow Inspiring Female Diplomat, Inspiring Female Journalist, Inspiring Woman Against the Odds, Inspiring Female in Cinema, Yellow Inspiring Woman of the Nation, Yellow Most Dynamic Women of the Year, Inspiring Female Startup, Leaders of  Tomorrow, Most Female-Friendly Organization, and Inspiring Female Professional.

The categories concerning the corporate sectors of the country are such that identifying the leading & potentially leading women from each category requires fair judgment from experts.

After the categories were defined, nomination was invited from the female employees and employers from the corporate sector.

The nominees were shortlisted and then presented to Jury Boards for final evaluation and selection of the winners in each category and sub-category.

The Jury Boards comprised of renowned HR experts, academicians, entrepreneurs and leading figures from the corporate sector of the country.

Presented by Yellow, the award is organized this year in association with Le Meridien Dhaka. Parachute & RFL are the event Partners.

The event is also supported by FICCI, MCCI, Dhaka Tribune as Media Partner, Masthead PR as PR Partner, Gtv as TV Partner, Webable as Social Media Partner, and Colors FM as Radio Partner.