Celebrating Female Leaders | Executive Search

by Anne-Marie Walsh

The dictionary company Merriam-Webster chose “authentic” as its word of the year for 2023. Something authentic is real or true. 

For some time, we had intended to host our first Fortis Executive event, specifically aimed at expressing gratitude to the female leaders we collaborated with in 2023. There are many routes we could have taken, such as an informative webinar or a lively panel discussion, however,  we wanted the event to be a genuine treat, a thank you to our female clients and candidates whom we have loved working with over the last few years in our new business.  Bearing this in mind we booked the beautiful location of The Apartment in Brown Thomas Dundrum and were delighted to welcome The Style Bob Aka Aoife Dunican as our expert speaker on dressing for success in a post-covid work world. 

A younger version of myself might have presented only the positive spin of the event to this online community.  To be sure there were lots of positives; the clients that could make it and the Fortis team had a lovely afternoon. Aoife’s presentation was excellent, thought-provoking and engaging and a smaller audience meant that discussions were intimate and lively.  The Apartment in Brown Thomas provided delicious charcuterie boards, refreshing drinks and goodie bags for our attendees, we couldn’t have been happier with the service. The downside was that we had put a lot of work into our attendee list and on the day were disappointed that numbers had dropped nearly overnight from 40 guests to 10-15 ish! Each guest who could not attend had genuine reasons, some were caught up in work, others had a cold/ flu that had been going around, and sometimes life just got in the way. 

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