Olympian shot put­ter Cleopa­tra Borel will be among the pan­elists fea­tured at the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee’s (TTOC) sixth edi­tion of the Ad­vanc­ing Women in Lead­er­ship (AWL) Vir­tu­al Fo­rum, to­day from 9.30 am.

The five-time “Sports­woman of the Year” will speak on the top­ic “Chang­ing the Game” with the ob­jec­tive be­ing to demon­strate the val­ue that women bring in se­nior lead­er­ship po­si­tions with­in an or­gan­i­sa­tion.

Join­ing Borel, a coach at the Uni­ver­si­ty Coach-Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas Rio Grande to speak on the top­ic are Dr Kar­ri­an Hep­burn Mal­colm, Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor of Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed (GML), Rac­quel Moses, Chief Eec­u­tive Of­fi­cer at The Caribbean Cli­mate-Smart Ac­cel­er­a­tor/TTOC Ex­ec­u­tive mem­ber and Dr Sasha Suther­land (Bar­ba­dos), Ex­ec­u­tive Di­rec­tor Caribbean RA­DO.

They will fol­low In­ter­na­tion­al Speak­er, Tri­cia Smith, pres­i­dent Cana­di­an Olympic Com­mit­tee. The Olympian will share on her ex­pe­ri­ence.

The next group of pan­elists will be lev­el five coach, Na­dine Leach-Carter, Su­per­vi­sor-Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion; Eliz­a­beth Bel­con, Chair of the Beause­jour/Pat­na Com­mit­tee on Sus­tain­able Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment; Es­ther Noel, Cur­rent chair of the Su­per­vi­so­ry Com­mit­tee of the Guay­may En­er­gy Al­liance Cred­it Unit (GEACU); and Cindy All­man, Book­sta­gram­mer, So­cial Me­dia In­flu­encer, Caribbean girl read­ing the World. They will speak on the role women play in shap­ing so­ci­eties and com­mu­ni­ties.

Christi­na Boodoos­ingh, founder and CEO of Ch­aguara­mas Farms Ltd (U Pick Farms), will al­so share on ex­pe­ri­ence. Her tes­ti­mo­ni­al will come ahead of the fi­nal pan­el group of speak­ers, who will dis­cuss cre­at­ing an en­abling en­vi­ron­ment for women to thrive. The theme is ‘He For She’; the Role of Oth­er women in lead­er­ship; spon­sor­ship; and men­tor­ship.

Im­me­di­ate past pres­i­dent of the TTOC, Bri­an Lewis, pres­i­dent of the Caribbean Na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tee; Evy Parkin­son, Founder & Mind, Body Trans­for­ma­tion­al Ther­a­pist at Har­mo­nious­in­fin­i­ty, Mar­tin De Gannes, HR Con­sul­tant and Hy­di­ane Harp­er-Sim­mons, Youth De­vel­op­ment Of­fi­cer, Min­istry of Youth De­vel­op­ment and Na­tion­al Ser­vice, will seek to de­fine the key as­pects of an en­abling en­vi­ron­ment for women to thrive.

New TTOC pres­i­dent Di­ane Hen­der­son will bring the open­ing re­marks with Nicole Duke-West­field serv­ing as the mod­er­a­tor.