A workshop to explore opportunities to empower women on boards of directors
A cooperation agreement between Asharqia Chamber and the Business Family House Company to support the family business sector
Yesterday, Thursday, October 13, 2022, the Asharqia Chamber signed a cooperation agreement with the Business Family House Company for Management Consulting aimed at promoting joint work to support the family business sector by organizing programs, workshops, and events that would contribute to raising awareness and developing companies in the Eastern Province.
The agreement was signed in the presence of the Chamber’s Chairman of the Board, Badr bin Sulaiman Al-Raziza, the founding partner of the Business Family House Company, Dr. Lama Al-Sulaiman, and the two members of the Chamber’s Board of Directors, Nouf bint Abdulaziz Al-Turki and Agharid bint Ihsan Abdul-Jawad, where the Chamber was represented in the signing ceremony by Secretary-General Abdul Rahman bin Abdullah Al-Wabil, as was her. From the home of the business family, the managing partner is Dr. Hanouf bint Abdul Razzaq Abu Khdeir.
Al-Raziza confirmed that the agreement comes within the Chamber's endeavors to support the family business sector, as the Chamber works to organize workshops and training programs in which it hosts academics and specialists, which review ways and steps to activate the empowerment of women in the boards of directors of family businesses.
In the same context, the Chamber, in cooperation with the Business Family House Company, organized a workshop entitled: Empowerment of Women in Family Businesses, with the participation of 35 women belonging to major business houses and family businesses, and aims to research what women can offer in family businesses and to understand more about the impact of the renaissance changes taking place on the Raising the percentage of its participation to reach leadership positions in it.
The workshop was presented by the founding partner of the Family Business House Company, Dr. Lama Al-Sulaiman. The workshop dealt with the role of women in family businesses and the challenges they face, in addition to the role of the National Center for Family Enterprises in empowering women.
At the beginning of the workshop, a member of the Board of Directors, Nouf bint Abdulaziz Al-Turki, explained that over the past years, Saudi women have received great attention from the wise leadership, which allowed them to exercise their role more in the development process, and took many decisions that strengthened and encouraged their role in the labor market. To increase its involvement in the economic work system in general, noting that Saudi women today are playing an important and growing role in the business community, and even the most important figure in the construction equation and the comprehensive development process that our country is waging at all levels.
Al-Turki explained that although the percentage of women’s participation to reach leadership positions in family businesses is still in the early stages, which is not commensurate with the high competencies that they now possess and the wide and influential role they have taken on, there are several indicators of the growth of their future roles in them, which is If we consider the total number of opportunities and legislation that currently exist and the successes they have achieved, including those who have reached leadership positions in their family businesses.
