The document discusses the Oracle Women's Leadership (OWL) program in Spain, including its history starting in 2009 as one of the first EMEA communities, its mission to educate, support, and empower women leaders, and the competencies and opportunities it provides such as networking, mentoring programs, and leadership training. It also outlines some of the obstacles faced, including resistance due to gender stereotypes, perceptions it is only an HR initiative, and issues around the "W factor" of making men feel excluded.

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Gloria Lorenzo
Director Architecture, Founder OWL Spain

2. Agenda
• Oracle Women’s Leadership Program
• OWL in Spain
• Opportunities
• Obstacles
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3. The beginning…
• Sponsored by Support LOB
in 2006 in US
• Spain first Community in
EMEA in 2009
• Today: 45+ Communities in
20 countries
• 18 Communities in 14
Countries in EMEA
• 3 in Spain: Barcelona,
Málaga & Madrid
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4. What is OWL striving to achieve?
OWL Mission
OWL is an inclusive initiative that creates local and global opportunities to
educate, support and empower - increasing the engagement and development of
our current and future generations of women leaders at Oracle.
OWL provides…
•Inclusion
•Learning
•Networking
•Opportunities to lead
•Visibility & showcase our talent
While delivering business value…
•Developing leadership pipeline
•Enhancing engagement within and across LOBs
•Retention
•Building stronger relationships with customers/partners
•Giving back to our local/global community

5. OWL Program Competencies
Creating Success, Developing Potential
• Relationship Management • Negotiation
• Build a network of relationships throughout the • Know your value and ask for what you want and
organization and remain on good terms with those need. Be knowledgeable of various negotiation
who have input into your work product, reputation, techniques.
and career.
• Personal Resilience
• Organizational Awareness • Navigate conflict and uncertainty without taking it
• Understand the mechanisms of office politics and do personally. Have the ability to let go of negative
not be intimidated by it. Know which individuals, emotions and move forward.
relationships and coalitions have influence in your
organization, and why. • Business Results
• Generate ideas for products and initiatives that
• Personal Vision support organizational strategy and impact the bottom
• Determine the type of leader you want to be and line. Lead initiatives from vision through to planning
what impact you want to make. Develop an effective and execution to achieve results.
and personalized leadership style.
• Influence
• Self-Leadership • Understand the dynamics of persuasion and
• Ensure your work product is consistently of high influence. Be comfortable exerting and gaining
quality. Align your efforts with organizational influence and know how to use it.
mission and strategy.
• Visibility
• Create a good reputation and a 'voice' in your
organization. Make your accomplishments and
abilities understood by those who need to know.
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6. OWL Spain – My own experience
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7. OWL Mentoring Programs
• Mentoring Cross-Company – 3 Editions
• Coca-Cola, AMEX and Oracle
• Mentoring Cross-LOB – 2 Editions
• Group Mentoring
• External Mentoring – 3 Editions
• EPWN Mentoring
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8. The importance of networking
• Sharing Best Practices
• Deloitte HR Breakfast
• Cisco Women in IT
• Ford, Orange Women Leadership
• European Professional Women’s
Network Spain
• CEO Breakfasts
• Corporate Partners Meetings
• Career Day
• Access to Grants for Business Schools
• Global Summit of Women
• Business Professional Women
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9. OWL Spain - Sharing
• Masterclass with successful women:
• Catalina Hoffman – CEO Vitalia
• Ana Maria Llopis – CEO Dia, Societe Generale
• Flor Pedrola – Coach Program IBM
• Susana Roza – TVE News Anchor Presenter
• Oracle Leaders
• OWL EMEA
• OWL Global Summit
• Webinars
• Collaboration with Universities
• Junior Achievement/CSR initiatives
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10. OWL Spain - Training
• Access to Government Programs
• Ministery of Equality
• LiderA Program – Community of Madrid
• Access to Business Schools Grants
• Instituto de Empresa
• IESE
• CESMA
• ESADE
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11. Opportunities
• What worked for us?
• Stimulate the desire to learn and develop
• Leadership examples: I want to be like them
• Open opportunities to broad skills
• Sense of community
• Executive Sponsorship
• Business Opportunities
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12. Pilot/Copilot Program
• Initiative driven by our PA Team
• Sponsored by Universidad Pontifícia de
Salamanca
• Business Communications
• Emotional intelligence
• Conflicts resolution
• Motivation and leadership
• Time & stress management
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13. Obstacles
• Obstacles
• Women’s resistance - Sterotype
• Confussion when seeing as HR initiative
• The “W Factor”
• Men feel discriminated
• Men self-concious
• Volunteering Task
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14. It is a long road…
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