Women Empowered Global partners National Chamber of Exporters to empower SMEs

Women Empowered Global (WEG), an organisation dedicated to empowering women through education, leadership, career and entrepreneurial programs, recently joined hands with the National Chamber of Exporters to empower SMEs and the export sector for sustainability, human capital development and women empowerment. 

The project titled ‘Gearing Up for the Post-COVID Economic Rev Up’ will include services such as entrepreneurship and leadership coaching, master class webinars on vital workplace soft-skills that are required for teams to survive and grow out of COVID-impact successfully. As well as business consultancy services such as organisation restructuring, cadre assessment and right-sizing, helping companies to multi-skill their teams for greater efficiency and teamwork; RFT (Right-The-First-Time) index optimisation, sales training and more.

These services are on-demand bespoke solutions and will therefore be provided on a needs basis. Time-frames will differ depending on the service obtained. This partnership serves to benefit both the National Chamber of Exporters and Women Empowered Global allowing the entities to collaborate to promote more Women Empowerment and Entrepreneurship Development in the country. 

The project will promote this opportunity to its members as a timely value-added service during these challenging times and aim to help strengthen local companies during economic hardships, thereby promoting entrepreneurship and sustainable local economic development and business.

Women Empowered Global is geared with a team of specialists and it has a Global Academy that specialises in human capital development and education, providing entrepreneurial soft skill training and access to economic opportunities, on a global scale. The pool of speakers includes over 37 award-winning global speakers and business leaders and a strong network of local collaborators, and have conducted leadership and educational courses, master classes and online sessions for multiple nationalities from over 20 countries world-wide. 

The NCE is the only private sector chamber which exclusively serves Sri Lankan exporters and is the ‘Voice of the Exporter’. Its mission is to create a dynamic Export Sector that will help Sri Lanka meet its Socio-Economic challenges with emphasis on employment generation and foreign exchange earning in achieving total economic independence. The NCE has the first ever woman president appointed for the tenure of 2020/21, where the chamber is steered by the abled leadership of Ramya Weerakoon, who is one of the prominent apparel exporters of Sri Lanka. 

Further the NCE has established a special ‘Women’s’ Wing’ to assist the women-owned and women-led businesses, in the export sector, as the chamber membership consists of many women-owned and women-led export enterprises. 

The NCE Annual Export Awards, which is a prestigious awards ceremony in the country also reserves a special award for the “Best Women Exporter”, with a view to encourage women in exports. Therefore, the partnership between WEG and NCE is expected to be mutually beneficial to both organisations, especially where the women in export business will be able to reap the benefits.   

Women Empowered Global is a unique platform that empowers women through leadership building, networking platforms, career advancement, access to economic opportunities and entrepreneurial programs. It has a membership of over 4,000+ members who are women in business, business leaders, global influencers, millennials, startup founders, women in leadership and management from corporate, industrial & STEM sectors. Its work is committed to United Nations SDGs. This Empowered Academy (www.womenempoweredglobal.com) is an initiative of Women Empowered Global, where scholarship programs such as online business classes and master classes on women empowerment, SME training and female entrepreneurship are offered.