Welcome!

The Global Women Career Lab is a global research and training initiative to help more women leaders rise to top management positions, leveraging the gender collaboration present in organizations and teams.

The founder, Dr. Bettina Al-Sadik-Lowinski, MCC, is an executive mentor-coach who has also undertaken extensive internationally recognized gender research. With her unique approach to coaching on leadership and gender diversity, Dr. Bettina draws from learnings shared by leading international female and male role models in top management.

What is unique about the Global Women Career Lab?

Offers strategies for women professionals to develop their leadership and career paths by leveraging off the experiences of international female role models and male allies from top management

Uses role model, international case study methodology to supporting participants achieving their targets

Takes full advantage of the learnings from systematic scientific research involving top women managers and male allies around the world (supported by the University of Burgundy, France)

Partners diversity experts and organizations to advance gender diversity and offers certification for experts who aim to support women leaders.

“My mission is to support women around the globe to grow and advance their leadership.

My unique approach is backed by my international scientific research and in-person interviews with top-executives. This winning combination together with my experience as an executive mentor-coach supports women all over the world to advance in their careers and leadership.

I feel rewarded when observing women advancing in their leadership.”

Dr. Bettina Al-Sadik-Lowinski is a trusted expert in women leadership research. Founder of Global Women Career Lab, Author, International Master Certified Executive Coach (MCC) and team facilitator.

Dr. Bettina Al-Sadik-Lowinski is a trusted expert in women leadership research. Founder of Global Women Career Lab, Author, International Executive Coach (MCC) and team facilitator.

“My mission is to support women around the globe to grow and advance their leadership.

I feel rewarded when observing women advancing in their leadership and doing this happily and balanced.”

Women in the workshops will see benefits by:

Gaining clarity on their own career orientation

Using opportunities consciously and making better choices for their professional and private lives

Building confidence and ability to break free from their comfort zones in order to pursue their executive career ambitions

Understanding and developing their strengths and values, to help them grow their unique leadership skills

Making more effective use of mentoring, sponsoring and networking

Understanding and managing existing bias

Using their female strengths as leaders and leveraging off these along with the strengths of their male colleges

Understanding the corporate power system and navigating the system as strong and well accepted leaders

Overcoming obstacles and challenges in leadership that arise specifically for women

Methodology

Workshops are built on a unique concept which combines four elements:

1. Experiences of top women mangers and male allies analyzed in the international scientific researches of the Global Women Career Lab.

2. The power of leadership experiences shared by participants from all over the globe who participated since 2014.

3. A holistic view on female careers with the FemCareerModel© for women leaders and the FemCareer Assessment.

4. Exploring learning approach supported by executive coaching style.

Coaching and Workshops

1. Individual Mentor-Coaching sessions for talented women

Work with one of the international leading experts through individual one-to-one meetings to gain more confidence, clarity and direction for your career and leadership as a female. Not only for female CEO´s but also for women at middle or senior management levels. Packages of 6 or 12 sessions for professional women.

2. Mentor-Coaching Group for women

Work on overcoming your challenges in reaching your professional and private targets with like-minded women from across the world. Gain insights from global role models and from the male perspective on solutions for obstacles that typically arise for women leaders. Ask for the schedule, only 12 seats per group.

3. Global Women Career Lab-Certification for diversity experts and coaches

Provides you with support for coaching professional women to the next level of leadership. Get certified by the Global Women Career Lab to gain credibility with your clients or within your organization. Ask for the schedule, Certification is undertaken only twice per year, for a small group of participants.
(PDF – Global Women Career Lab Certification)

4. Mentor-Coaching for ICF Level (ACC, PCC)

Take advantage of Dr. Bettina´s extensive experiences as Master Certified Coach and coach trainer to elevate yourself to the next level as coach. Through individual sessions, we work on your coaching skills and make sure that your coaching will suite the ICF requirement.

4. Key note presentations

Dr. Bettina is sharing her insights from global research on women leadership and male allies, executive coaching and visionary leadership in her keynotes. Her book reading events and panels are involving events with practical take aways for participants.

For more information please contact Dr. Bettina Al-Sadik-Lowinski: alsadik@bas-coaching.com

Example conferences and workshops

Clients include: AMS Osram, BMS, Bosch, Eon, ZDF TV-Channel, Porsche, Novartis, SAP, Uniper, Saint-Gobain, Cantal

Consulting of the executive boards: Saint-Gobain APAC (Advisory board of WE initiative), Bosch

University workshops and global conferences: Tongji University, Jiangsu Normal University (China) University of Burgundy (France), American Chamber Japan/China, German Chamber Shanghai, ICF-China, International AI conference, SelfMama Russia, sHero Global Conference, LeanIn Luxury France and others

Special book reading events in major German women networks and company diversity initiatives, including KPMG, Panda, BW Spitzenfrauen, Mission Female, UK Chinese women and VW

Moderation: International de Gruyter Panel, Global Automotive Summit

Example topics:

How to mentor women leaders successfully
Visionary Women Leadership
Similarities and differences of top women leaders in five leading nations
Coaching women leaders
How women rise- Characteristics of highly successful top women managers around the globe
Career path typology of international women leaders
What we can learn from women in various countries for our own leadership?

About Dr. Bettina Al-Sadik-Lowinski, MCC

As a management researcher, ICF Master Certified Coach and founder of the Global Women Career Lab initiative, Dr Bettina Al-Sadik-Lowinski is a leading global expert on women leadership and gender collaboration. In her publications, “How Chinese Women Rise”, “Women in Top Management”, “Typology of Career Paths of International Top Women Managers” and “Alpha Males and Alpha Females”, she has explored how top women managers from around the world can rise to the highest positions and how gender collaboration can practically be applied. Her analysis and conclusions have been widely discussed in the international press.

In 2014 she founded the Global Women Career Lab, a unique international research and training program for diversity experts, coaches and women leaders. Since than hundreds of participants benefit from using her methodologies and strategies for their own paths in management or their coaching practices. Top women managers and male allies worldwide trust Dr. Bettina Al-Sadik-Lowinski by participating in her unique scientific researches on women leadership. She holds a PhD in Management Sciences (University of Burgundy, France) and is visiting professor and regular speaker at conferences. She is also certification coach and mentor of new coaches for ICF credentials.

Originally from Germany, her international background includes living and working experience in Japan, France and China. She comes from a multicultural family background and has two children.

In 2014 she founded the Global Women Career Lab, a unique international research and training program for diversity experts, coaches and women leaders. Since than hundreds of participants benefit from using her methodologies and strategies for their own paths in management or their coaching practices. Top women managers and male allies worldwide trust Dr. Bettina Al-Sadik-Lowinski by participating in her unique scientific researcheson women leadership. She holds a PhD in Management sciences (University of Burgundy, France) and is visiting professor and regular speaker at conferences. She is also certification coach and mentor of new coaches for ICF credentials.

Originally from Germany, her international background includes living and working experience in Japan, France and China. She comes from a multicultural family background and has two children.

What clients say about Dr. Bettina Al-Sadik-Lowinski

Bettina was our Mentor Coach when we kick-off an internal coaching program for female talents at GE. During the Mentor coaching Bettina trained and deepened the learning of our participants. Bettina conducted our session with clear structure but also proofed dancing in the moment and really connects to participants needs. We enjoyed her being our Mentor and look forward to more sharing.

Cathrine Quan, HR Global Leadership Program, GE

As I just started with the ‘Women in Business’ workshops – a series of events from women for women – I was very deligthed to welcome Bettina Al-Sadik-Lowinski as our first speaker! She has the ability to connect the different women and create a union and made it a very special and private event. An event where the women would talk openly to each other, share theire stories – without knowing each other! I am happy that she agreed on being part on the next workshop again.

Rebecca Steudler, German Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai

I am impressed by Bettina’s experience and capability to offer executive coaching to diversified groups of clients (nationality, cultural, industry, etc.). She is a coach whom I will go to when I personally or executives in my organization needs help. Well done, Bettina!

Yingying Chen, Talent Development & OD at FORD, China

Bettina kindly accepted our offer to be the 1st speaker of WIB’s event where we attracted the biggest number of female participants in Kansai ACCJ’s presentations. Her presentation was an eye-opening topic not only for females but for male participants and WIB got lots of compliments on our 1st event. Her story was really powerful for any professional who would like to use coaching as a way to grow their potential.

Mari Nogami, VP, P&G, Japan

I have had the great pleasure of working together with Bettina on many client interventions and development programs. Bettina is very professional, always current and up to date with theory and new learning technologies on both and individual- and team level. I am happy to recommend Bettina to all clients, large or small and hope you will have the opportunity to work with her in the future!

Camiel Gilkens, CEO at Schouten (European leading company in training and coaching)

In my role as Professor at Tongji University Shanghai heading the VW/SAIC VW Chair in HRM, I worked with Ms. Al-Sadik. I participated myself in her course and I can say that she has a great way to connect to the MBA students; she involved everybody and engaged the students to exercise and discuss throughout the whole course. I can strongly recommend Ms. Al-Sadik for future courses in any academic setting, be it on graduate, postgraduate or PhD level. Her course has been a great benefit for my students.

Professor Ralph Kattenbach, Chair Professor Tongji University

I have chosen Bettina as my coach during transition into the GM role. The coaching was tailored to my needs and supported me very well during this important period of my career. Bettina is a very trustworthy person with a caring and challenging coaching style at the same time. She can see the bigger picture of my role, knows the corporate system well and understands intercultural challenges. Bettina gave me valuable and honest feedback. I like to recommend coaching with Bettina to any executive making the same move into the General Manager role.

Jenny Xiang, President Brose China

I have known Bettina for a while and am now hiring her as my coach, which tells a lot about the trust levels between us. As someone who has met or talked with more than 500 coaches in the last 7 years, someone who reads and selects coaches as his job, I know from experience that Bettina is one of the rare kind of coaches who puts client interest ahead of her own. As a coach and an individual, she’s humble, selfless, rentless in her care for clients, positive, judgment-free and outcome-focused. I read think she’s one of the BEST coaches in China, not because she’s an ICF PCC, but because who she is.

Gary Wang, CEO at Mindspan (Mindspan is China´s leading Executive Coaching company)

Bettina knows very well the challenges and situations I face every day as a female manager/exec, a supervisor of 9 direct reports, a mother of two boys and a wife of a husband who is also pursuing his career. Her coaching with me has been mostly on the business side but she understands how emotional/personal sides of life affects that and coaches me on wider aspects in life. She is a sweet person by nature but can challenge me hard when needed/appropriate.

Kaoru Kano, Senior Director , Eli Lilly, Japan

Books

Alpha Males and Alpha Females

What do international male business leaders have to say about gender diversity, the rise of talented women into management and the opportunities for the sexes to work harmoniously together in boardrooms? What do they have to say on the obstacles that stand in the way?

For her new book Dr. Bettina Al-Sadik-Lowinski interviewed top male managers from eleven countries on their views on collaboration with their female colleagues in the executive teams of their companies.

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Women in Top management

The book offers the reader a remarkable insight into the experiences of women in top business positions in Russia, China, Japan, France and Germany. It is based on the authentic experiences and original words of the 110 interviewees – all of whom are senior female executives – and on the author’s analytical insights, all set within a qualitative, scientific framework. In this international research project, the Global Women Career Lab, the author analyzes what motivates these fascinating role models, how they plan their career trajectories, what mechanisms they use to overcome obstacles and what leadership strategies have enabled these women to reach senior management positions.

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Typology of career paths of international Top Women Managers

This typology analyses how women who achieved top management positions around the world built their careers and the characteristics that go with it. The analysis describes the five female career types. Experienced coaches can use the Global Women Career Lab typology to stimulate reflection on career decisions and shed light on the choices available to women in management levels. The typology also shows HR experts that talented women chose companies according to the opportunities they offered for women to rise in senior management. In English with a summary in German.

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How Chinese Women Rise: What we can learn from Chinese women in top management

Contrary to what we might expect, China has a high proportion of women in senior executive. What are the success mechanisms of Chinese women in management? To find out, Bettina Al-Sadik-Lowinski interviewed Chinese women who she came into contact with through her work as an executive coach in China. The result is a unique research project, which analyses the mechanisms, attitudes and carefully planned career paths that allowed these women to rise to senior positions at multinational corporations in China. Order here

In Chinese covering the research on Chinese women in top management functions. women in Awarded “Excellent topic award” by the “Silk Road Writing Project” for foreigners at the Beijing International Book Fair, BIBF (Qindao)

What readers say about Dr. Bettina Al-Sadik-Lowinski´s books

A wealth of testimonials from female role models from all over the world, with valuable advice for women pursuing professional development as well as for companies leveraging diversity for competitive advantage.

Hong Chow, China CEO Roche Pharma, Member of Supervisory Board Beiersdorf, China

International, authentic reports from female top managers from different countries combined with a sound scientific analysis of the growth factors for women in management. Insights across countries. Highly recommended!

Professor Dr. Jutta Rump, Managing Director, Institut of Employability (IBE), University of the Economy and Society Ludwigshafen, Germany

In these challenging times in a process of civilization changing it is especially important to hear women’s voices from all over the world. Everyone can find something for themselves in this book, for me it became from one sight very comforting, from another – very inspiring. Dr Bettina Al-Sadik-Lowinski is a very deep and sophisticated researcher and interviewer, her method is absolutely unique and opens new doors for leaders and for newcomers, as much as for book heroes and book readers.

Elmira Makhmutova, former CEO CTC-TV Channel, Russia

As a big advocator for global diversity, I recommend this book to all women who want to rise up their careers globally and to corporate leaders who support diversity in their companies worldwide!

Rosa Lee, Executive Vice President of Bosch China, Member of the Board and Corporate HR Head APAC, China

Full of valuable insights. A must read to understand how women career paths work. Read it. Implement it.”

Christine Hesse, CEO Hesse Design, Germany

Female executives have many strengths. Great learnings from women around the world. A treasure book!

Shelley Shen, Senior Director Human Resources, Communications and Public Relations, Saint-Gobain Pipe, APAC, Head of PAM-LAN- Diversity Institute, China

Top managers from five nations provide insights into how they strategically plan their careers, and break down barriers. The author Dr. Bettina AL-Sadik-Lowinski has managed to work out the cultural differences and similarities between these women. Very educational, worth reading and scientifically sound.

Prof. Manuela Rousseau, Deputy chairwoman of the supervisory board and Author, Germany

Finally. International role models report what women need to advance further. The quotes contain a global fund that helps women successfully overcome barriers.”

Christine Rittner, former Global CHRO, Executive board member, Lidl, Germany

A journey through the career worlds of women of different cultures. Solidarity from women for women. Highly recommended.

Dr. Marion Welp, Attorney at Law, Chief Human Resources & Legal Affairs Officer, Member Executive Management Team, Board member, Esprit, Germany

Women in top management positions speak plain language. A great initiative.

Sonja Mechling, Head of Global Marketing, UX & Digital Innovation, Schindler Group, Germany