DHL hosts Women’s Network in Thailand
LOGISTICS company DHL has launched its Women’s Network programme in Thailand for the first time, to encourage and empower women to succeed in the workplace and to reach top management positions.
After the programme’s successful launch in markets including Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, India, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Japan, DHL partnered with the Top Women Executive Club in Thailand to ensure its success here.
To inspire women in Thailand with outstanding role models, DHL Thailand invited several leading Thai women to speak at the inaugural event, including Petcharat Eksangkul, managing director of Eason Paint, Jamnan Siritan, chairwoman of JSL Global Media Co, and Lackana Leelayouthayotin, director of Cerebos Thailand.
Chananyarak Phetcharat, managing director of DHL Express Thailand, explained: “Because of the demographic shift and the rising number of women in the workforce in Thailand, diversity is a strategic objective to sustain our business growth. In fact, diversity remains a fundamental cornerstone of our entire business as it benefits all aspects of what we do, for men and women alike, in all areas of our daily work.”
DHL’s gender management, a mandate within Deutsche Post DHL Group, leverages the diversity of its people to deliver innovative products and services that make customers successful.
While companies in the top 25 per cent for gender diversity are 15 per cent more likely to see financial returns above their respective national industry medians, additional research has also shown that a woman’s aspiration and confidence in her ability to reach top management drops when she is with a given company for more than two years.
“We want to inspire women to achieve the highest levels of success in their careers and learn from those who have come before them,” said Kaisri Nuengsigkapian, founder of the Top Women Executive Club in Thailand.
“We want to show women who are thinking of entering the top ranks of management that it is possible to achieve their career goals as well as personal satisfaction in their own lives.”
Chananyarak said: “At DHL our female employees’ career ambitions are just as high as their very talented male peers. Increasingly women are aspiring to reach top management positions at DHL and elsewhere. They want to advance in their organisations and have the requisite mix of tools to achieve their ambitions.”
