Women’s leadership training

The fourth offering of the Pan-Commonwealth Training Programme on Women and Leadership was launched in partnership with COL and Wawasan Open University (WOU) Malaysia, in July. It focused on fostering conversations around transformational leadership. The three themes centred on women and leadership, educational technology and climate change. Mid-career women professionals from 15 countries, covering all four regions of the Commonwealth, participated in the programme. Six globally-renowned leaders in ODL served as panellists, including Professor Asha Kanwar and Professor Lily Chan, Vice Chancellor of WOU. Delivering a keynote address, Ms Nurul Izzah Anwar, Member of Parliament from Penang State, Malaysia termed ODL as “a boon to women who may want to upskill and increase their employability but cannot leave their young children.” She praised COL for advocating for ODL and WOU for practising inclusion.