Fonterra is a global leader in dairy nutrition, the preferred supplier of dairy ingredients to many of the world’s leading food companies.  We also lead with our own consumer dairy brands in Australia/New Zealand, Asia/Africa, Middle East and Latin America.

As a farmer-owned, New Zealand co-operative, we’re the largest processor of milk in the world, producing more than two million tonnes of dairy ingredients, value added dairy ingredients, specialty ingredients and consumer products every year.

Drawing on generations of dairy expertise, we’re a major investor in dairy based research and innovation.

Our 16,000 staff work across the dairy spectrum from advising farmers on sustainable farming and milk production, to ensuring we live up to exacting quality standards and delivering every day on our customer promise in more than 100 markets around the world.

As New Zealand's largest direct personal insurer, we are committed to ensuring women have opportunities to build a rewarding career. We recognise the importance of catering for all our people as individuals, in all their diversity.

Women represent over half of State’s workforce, and more than 35 percent of the senior leadership team, a number which continues to increase each year with a female Executive General Manager at the helm.

Our People initiatives are transforming the way we do things around State, shifting the view to help our staff work together in inspiring ways. We aim to provide people the opportunities to shine and achieve – making our workplace an environment where participation, cooperation, optimism and give-back prevail.

In turn our own business impacts on the community, the environment and the wider economy. That's why we see it as our responsibility – and more importantly, good business – to operate sustainably and in a way that recognises these impacts and responds to them effectively.

Making sure we have the right women on board ensures a strong company for the future to continue to manage over a million insurance policies for more than 460,000 New Zealanders.

Westpac is very proud of the commitment we have made in supporting and growing women in leadership. This is highlighted not only in having Gail Kelly as Group CEO but also in the number of young female graduates we appoint to the bank every year across NZ and Australia. In 2008, Westpac was once again recognised as an Employer of Choice for women in Australia for the 12th year running. Not only are we proactive in developing our own women leaders through strong development programs and family policies, we are also proactive in supporting women in business. Westpac have developed significant customer events for senior women clients and proudly support female led industries through our involvement in Fashion Week and events such as Red Collection and Frocktails.

People are what makes PwC the leading professional service firm in New Zealand.

We recognise the outstanding contribution women make to our firm's success and are proud to sponsor Global Woman, Woman in Leadership.

From our graduate programme onwards, we are focussed on supporting and guiding women to become some of the most influential advisors in our specialist areas of  tax, immigration, auditing, business analysis, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and other consultative work.

Telecom is proud to be one of the founding partners of the Global Women Women in Leadership initiative.  This partnership aligns strongly with Telecom’s commitment to advancing its own high-potential women through its talent management processes and framework.

As an employer who supports diversity and gender balance, Telecom recognises the value women bring to senior leadership positions and is active in developing its female talent.  By investing in the future of its women leaders, providing high-level mentoring and targeted professional and personal learning opportunities for women, Telecom has created a pipeline of future women leaders across its business.

New Zealand Global Women provides Telecom with a great opportunity to work with other leading New Zealand organisations to collectively drive the cause of women leaders from a New Zealand perspective, and Telecom looks forward to being a part of this exciting initiative.