The 2022/23 Women Entrepreneur Workshop (WEW) and Women and Wealth (WAW) Workshops held by the iSAW Foundation in partnership with the US Consulate in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia was an experience not to be missed. The programs simultaneously commenced in November 2022 and ran through to the end of February 2023, the participants were eager to learn and glean wisdom from our esteemed instructors Dr. Charlene Glenn for the WEW and Patricia Allen CRPC for the WAW programs and multiple experts who brought their international expertise to the program, an experience beyond words.
iSAW graduated the two classes with participants receiving certificates of completion and awards of recognition for outstanding commitment to and excellent execution of work/assignments given to them throughout the programs. The graduation ceremony was magnificent, seeing the keynote speaker Reem Al Ghanim enlighten the attendant with her passionate story of why gender equality matters to her truly gave meaning to the entire reason behind our programs. It surely was a multitude of emotions because the journey to the end of the program was filled with hard work on both the part of the iSAW team who worked to ensure fresh, business edgy content was created to capture the attention and delivered to inspire the hard work of the participants to immerse themselves into the content and prepare themselves for the future. The partnership and active involvement of the US Consulate of Dhahran Saudi Arabia gave spectacular white glove treatment to our participants throughout the process. The participants to whom the program was created for and who made it a success, a huge congratulations and thank you for seeing it to the end. We know and believe that the road less travelled is the road that leads to endless possibilities, a commitment this foundational to personal development and is a commitment towards realizing global gender equality for the professional women in Saudi and beyond. Lastly but definitely not least, we are so very grateful to all our Male allies in Saudi Arabia and beyond who made sure these workshops were the success that they are, we recognize the need to work together in-order to achieve greater results on this journey.
