Women in Leadership in the North

At the invitation of the IHK Lübeck, Carolina, Anne, and Katharina were able to participate in the “Women in Leadership in the North” congress of the IHK Lübeck on behalf of Kontor Business IT & Web and Splitbot. On October 12, the Media Docks focused on female empowerment. Moderator, journalist, and all-rounder Andrea Peters led the event, subtitled “Digital Leadership,” with great and positive energy.

Friederike C. Kühn, as the initiator and ambassador of the congress, provided insights into her work and pinpointed the problem. There are still too few female executives and founders. Especially against the backdrop of the skilled labor shortage in Germany, a rethinking must take place here, otherwise valuable knowledge will be lost.

State Secretary Julia Carstens also sees the urgent need to empower and support more women. We must seize the opportunities of the digital age and particularly support women in “Digital Leadership.”

Anja Pleus (TOPMOTIVE Group) and Caroline Wiese (Signal Iduna), two very successful women, provided insights into their professional reality. Topics included innovative workplace design and agile working, as well as challenges such as conflicts of interest between different generations, and also between employers and employees.

After a delicious lunch snack, we proceeded to the Deep Dive Sessions, where Anke Lütjohann (AL Business) gave us an exciting insight into working with the Scrum method, which we were also able to apply directly. Ms. Lütjohann convinced us of the advantages of Scrum with a very practical approach, and we are confident that this method will soon be adopted by us as well.

Overall, it was a very successful event, particularly thanks to these and other inspiring women. We received a lot of interesting information and impulses and would like to take this opportunity to draw attention to the #WIDA.SH initiative, which aims to inspire even more women for digitalization topics.

And what about us?

We have found that many things are already going well for us. As an IT company, we are proud to have a woman in management and hope that more women will follow into leadership positions. For us, the compatibility of family and career is not just a simple phrase, but a lived reality. Flexible working hours, further training, home office, and every other conceivable opportunity for women to “balance everything” are a matter of course for us. Nevertheless, we must not stop striving for continuous improvement and, especially, inspiring the coming generations of girls and women for IT.