Women Leaders Programme Partners

Mumtalakat is an active shareholder and investor in diverse business and industry sectors in 35 commercial enterprises, nationally and internationally, from aluminium production to property development, tourist sites to food production and transport to telecommunication.
 
www.mumtalakat.bh

Booz & Company is a leading global management consulting firm, helping the world's top businesses, governments and organizations. Its founder, Edwin Booz, defined the profession when he established the first management consulting firm in 1914. Today, with more than 3,300 people in 60 offices around the world, Booz & Company brings foresight and knowledge, deep functional expertise and a practical approach to building capabilities and delivering real impact. Booz & Company works closely with its clients to create and deliver essential advantage through strategic insight and operational fitness.
 
www.booz.com

 
Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Ernst & Young is committed to achieving potential. It's how it makes a difference - for its people, clients and the wider communities.
Ernst & Young is about 130,000 people, united by shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality, working together to help each other develop and succeed personally and professionally. It's about helping clients deliver on their promises to their markets and stakeholders. And it's about making a difference in the communities in which we live and work.
 
 
www.ey.com

HCL is a US$ 5 billion leading global technology and IT enterprise that comprises two companies listed in India - HCL Technologies and HCL Infosystems. Founded in 1976, HCL is one of India's original IT garage start-ups, a pioneer of modern computing and a global transformational enterprise today. Its range of offerings spans product engineering, custom and package applications, BPO, IT infrastructure services, IT hardware, systems integration and distribution of ICT products across a wide range of focused industry verticals. The HCL team comprises over 60,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, who operate from 26 countries including over 500 points of presence in India. HCL has global partnerships with several leading Fortune 1000 firms, including leading IT and technology firms.
 
www.hcl.in

Heidrick & Struggles is the leadership advisory firm providing senior-level executive search and leadership consulting services, including succession planning, executive assessment, talent retention management, executive development, transition consulting for newly appointed executives, and M&A human capital integration consulting. For almost 60 years, they have focused on quality service, building strong leadership teams through relationships with clients and individuals worldwide. Today, Heidrick & Struggles' leadership experts operate from principal business centres in North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific and Europe, Middle East & Africa.
 
www.heidrick.com

Manpower Inc. (NYSE: MAN) is a world leader in innovative workforce solutions; creating and delivering services that enable its clients to win in the changing world of work. With over 60 years’ experience, Manpower offers employers a range of services for the entire employment and business cycle including permanent, temporary and contract recruitment; employee assessment and selection; training; outplacement; outsourcing and consulting. Manpower's worldwide network of 4,000 offices in 82 countries and territories enables the company to meet the needs of its 400,000 clients per year, including small and medium size enterprises in all industry sectors, as well as the world's largest multinational corporations. The focus of Manpower's work is on raising productivity through improved quality, efficiency and cost-reduction across their total workforce, enabling clients to concentrate on their core business activities. Manpower Inc. operates under five brands: Manpower, Manpower Professional, Elan, Jefferson Wells and Right Management. 
 
www.manpower.com

McKinsey & Company is a management consulting firm that helps leading corporations and organizations make distinctive, lasting and substantial improvements in their performance. Over the past eight decades, the firm's primary objective has remained constant: to serve as an organization's most trusted external adviser on critical issues facing senior management. With consultants deployed from over 80 offices in more than 40 countries, McKinsey advises companies on strategic, operational, organizational and technological issues. The firm has extensive experience in all major industry sectors and primary functional areas as well as in-depth expertise in high-priority areas for today's business.
 
www.mckinsey.com

The Olayan Group is a private, multinational enterprise made up of more than 50 companies and affiliated businesses. Founded in 1947 by Suliman S. Olayan, the Group has spent more than 60 years building its reputation on a bedrock of dedication, integrity, teamwork, continual improvement and growth. In Saudi Arabia, where the Group originated, Olayan engages in product distribution, manufacturing, services and investment, often alongside leading multinational and regional partners. Internationally, the Group invests in public and private equities, including real estate and other asset classes. Olayan's mission is straightforward: to be a leading diversified Saudi enterprise, a major global investor and the company of choice for its partners, customers and employees. In all it does, The Olayan Group is committed to the development and well-being of the communities and environment in which it operates.
 
www.olayangroup.com

The Renault-Nissan Alliance is a unique group of two global companies linked by cross-shareholding. The Alliance develops and implements a strategy of profitable growth and pursues three primary objectives:
· To be recognized by customers as one of the best three automotive groups in the quality and value of its products and services in each region and market segment;
· To rank among the best three automotive groups in key technologies, each partner being a leader in specific domains of excellence; and
· To consistently generate a total operating profit among the top automotive groups in the world by maintaining a high operating profit margin and pursuing growth.

Benchmarking and transparency lead to substantial savings and new opportunities for both Alliance partners in all areas. Renault and Nissan, which recognizes its 10th anniversary in 2009, utilize their strengths to place the Alliance among the world's most successful automotive groups, with record sales of more than 6 million units in 2008.
 
www.renault.com