ANSA McAL has thrown its sup­port be­hind the 2025 Women in Lead­er­ship (WIL) Con­fer­ence, host­ed by the UWI Arthur Lok Jack Glob­al School of Busi­ness, as part of its push to cre­ate more space for women in lead­er­ship.

The com­pa­ny was the of­fi­cial spon­sor of the event’s net­work­ing and cock­tail re­cep­tion, held at the Mt Hope cam­pus on Ju­ly 8. The re­cep­tion fea­tured can­did con­ver­sa­tions and sto­ry­telling from women in lead­er­ship across the re­gion, fol­lowed by a full day of vir­tu­al ses­sions on Ju­ly 9.

The theme of this year’s WIL Con­fer­ence—Peo­ple, Cul­ture and Per­for­mance: Strate­gies for Women in Pow­er—fo­cused on how women are re­shap­ing lead­er­ship by lead­ing with em­pa­thy, col­lab­o­ra­tion and pur­pose. The gath­er­ing at­tract­ed pro­fes­sion­als from sev­er­al in­dus­tries and in­clud­ed ap­pear­ances by Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo and Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jear­lean John.

ANSA McAL’s Chief Peo­ple and Cul­ture Of­fi­cer, Amy Laz­zari, said the part­ner­ship with UWI Lok Jack was part of the com­pa­ny’s wider push to recog­nise lead­er­ship po­ten­tial at every lev­el of its op­er­a­tions.

“Sup­port­ing this net­work­ing re­cep­tion was not just the right thing to do but part of an in­ten­tion­al in­vest­ment from ANSA McAL in sup­port­ing peo­ple, dri­ving per­for­mance and in­flu­enc­ing cul­ture,” Laz­zari said.

The con­fer­ence is now in its nine­teenth year. ANSA McAL said the ini­tia­tive fits in­to its broad­er cul­ture strat­e­gy, which aims to pro­mote equal op­por­tu­ni­ty and bring di­verse per­spec­tives to lead­er­ship roles.

At­ten­dees left the event with prac­ti­cal tools, new ideas and a re­newed sense of pur­pose. Or­gan­is­ers said the goal was to equip women to nav­i­gate lead­er­ship in ways that go be­yond per­for­mance and be­gin to shape work­place cul­ture.