Oracle

​Oracle Women’s Leadership (OWL) sponsored keynote speaker Carla Harris of Morgan Stanley at the 2017 Linkage Women in Leadership Institute™ in Dallas. Over 35 women from Oracle attended last week’s event and had the opportunity to network with other women, including some of the most recognized thought leaders in business. The event is designed to engage and inspire executive-level women leaders and grow their leadership abilities.OWL is a leadership and professional development program for current and emerging women leaders at Oracle. OWL offers both men and women employees the opportunity to enhance their skills and develop their leadership potential through workshops, conferences, mentoring, networking events and more. Founded in 2006, OWL recognizes the value of networking. The group regularly hosts and sponsors global leadership development events throughout the year. OWL engages more than 7,000 employees in over 40 countries that represent over 70 OWL communities.OWL offers both men and women employees the opportunity to enhance their skills and develop their leadership potential through workshops, conferences, mentoring, networking events and more.At this year’s Global Summit for Women held in July, OWL hosted hundreds of top-performing women leaders from around the world. Oracle CEO Mark Hurd was invited as a special guest to help kick-off the event. Hurd spoke about the importance of OWL and workplace diversity as a part of Oracle’s growth strategy. He also highlighted Oracle’s commitment to being among the best customer-facing enterprises in the world.​About half the skyhalf the sky (HTS) is a career platform for women in Asia. We connect women to career opportunities at companies that care. We also want to equip you with information, tips and strategies to navigate the workplace today and the future.Sign up to get career tips and job alerts directly to your inbox! Join us to shape the future of women at work together!

​An early childhood experience taught Oracle CEO Safra Catz how feeling “different” can be an excruciating and debilitating experience, she said during her keynote at Oracle’s third annual Diversity and Inclusion Global Leadership Summit.Organizations deprive themselves of talent critical to their success when they aren’t welcoming to people of different backgrounds and conditions. - Safra Catz, CEO of OracleCatz recounted coming to the United States from Israel at the age of 5, not speaking English, and feeling sick to her stomach with fear when her father walked her to her first day of school. She said organizations deprive themselves of talent critical to their success when they aren’t welcoming to people of different backgrounds and conditions, but have to make a concerted effort in order to do so.Employees’ fears of not fitting in and not being well-liked “is the feeling we’ve been fighting my whole time at Oracle,” she said. Someone looking at a problem from a different perspective can find a better way of solving a problem, which is why “we have to bring a different point of view into the organization,” she said.Catz said she takes inspiration from Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison when it comes to inclusiveness because of his ability to ignore preconceptions about people. We all confine ourselves in boxes, she said, and praise people for being able to “think outside the box.” “But,” she said, “Larry doesn’t think outside the box. He doesn’t see the box.”​The ability to connect with people irrespective of differences—of the boxes we see around them and ourselves–is key to resolving critical issues for companies and society at large. “We have too many problems to try to do it on our own,” Catz said.That said, inclusiveness doesn’t mean homogeneity. “Together doesn’t mean the same. We’re not the same, and that’s a good thing,” she said.​About half the skyhalf the sky (HTS) is a career platform for women in Asia. We connect women to career opportunities at companies that care. We also want to equip you with information, tips and strategies to navigate the workplace today and the future.Sign up to get career tips and job alerts directly to your inbox! Join us to shape the future of women at work together!