IAPI are delighted to invite you to celebrate International Women’s Day with us this year, and once again we have some inspirational female speakers lined up.

We invite all our members to attend this event, whether you will be applying for the Female Futures Fund yourself this year or, you will be the nominating person within your agency, please join us to learn more.

This year our theme combines the female career journey with their wealth management journey giving the female leaders of today and the future, insights into how to manage both as they progress.

Jean Reddan, Head of Group Marketing & PR, Davy, together with Kay McCarthy, CEO, MCCP will share the findings from their extensive research into how women’s needs are different in the wealth management space; in order to better serve the financial planning and investment needs of women in Ireland.

Kay and her team in MCCP have partnered many clients on their journey to understanding the specific needs of women both within organisations and in the marketplace so that products, services and comms are shaped to work better for women. This work has been acknowledged by the industry having been awarded a Marketing Excellence Award in 2022 for the Dept. of Health and a shortlist for Davy.

“Awareness and deep listening is the first step on the journey to change”, says Kay McCarthy. “Bias is pretty much everywhere, and we need to engage internal audiences to relearn and hear females with fresh ears. That is part of our job.”