Marie-Christine Maheas

Name: Women's Forum Global Meeting 2022
Start: 2022-11-29T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-11-30T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Palais Brongniart

Mazars

Head of Mazars Center for Diversity and Inclusion, Coordinator of the Observatory for Gender Balance

@mcmaheas

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariechristinemaheas/

mcmaheas

Description

A French-Canadian Harvard Business School Executive Education graduate, Marie-Christine Mahéas is an engineer specialised in industrial and applied mathematics, and computer sciences. Throughout her career in Canada and Europe, she held executive sales and operations positions in the Transport, Travel and Hospitality IT industry, with the Canadian Armed Forces, American Airlines/Sabre, Carlson Wagonlit, Atos and CGI, and lastly with SilverRail Technologies. MC is now the Head of Mazars Center for Diversity and Inclusion, where she advises Mazars clients’ executive teams on how to accelerate gender balance in their organizations. Director of the think tank ‘Women Entrepreneurs’ of Positive Planet in 2011-2013 and founder of the Professional Women’s Network‘s award ‘Responsible Entrepreneur Prize’ (PWN, https://www.pwnglobal.net/), she has been active in studying and supporting gender balance in the workplace for more than 15 years. Marie-Christine Mahéas was PWN’s President from 2011 to 2013. She specialises in gender dialogues between professional men and women and directed a collective book “Gender balance, when men step up” (Eyrolles 2015) both in French and English, and more recently: “Remixer la mixité” (Eyrolles 2021) or an analysis of the new context for gender balance, after #MeToo and the Covid crisis www.mixitequandleshommessengagent.com. Since 2013, she has been part of the French government delegation of the Global Summit of Women (https://globewomen.org/globalsummit/). Since 2016, she is the coordinator of the think tank Observatory for Gender Balance in Business who works on the Gender Balance initiatives that have a real impact in the workplace (https://www.capitalisme-responsable.com/mixite//). In November 2016, MC gave a « TED talk » at the TedX Champs Elysees Women, where she gave her vision of where men sit today regarding gender balance in the organizations (in French: http://www.rtl.fr/girls/identites/videos-les-meilleurs-moments-des-tedx-champs-elysees-women-7786585563). Since 2018, MC is a teacher in Management at Sciences Po Paris to students in Master Degree of Public Affairs (https://www.sciencespo.fr/en/).