Championing Women to Reach Their Full Potential
12 February, 2021
As an avid supporter of bridging gender disparities whilst empowering women in the workforce, Dialog Axiata PLC (Dialog), Sri Lanka’s premier connectivity provider joined hands as Platinum Sponsor on the 10th anniversary of WIM’s (Women in Management) foremost annual event the ‘Top 50’ Professional and Career Women Awards, to recognize and celebrate individual and corporate achievements of trailblazing women leaders in Sri Lanka for the year 2020.
Recognizing and valuing legacies which will, in turn, inspire others, the awarding body has recognized over 420 past award winners over the years, representing a wide array of professions including banking and finance, hospitality, media, legal, logistics and supply chain to name a few.
Forging the way to remarkable milestones, House of Indi, a leading fashion destination in Sri Lanka and its Founder and Creative Director, Indeevari Yapa Abeywardena have been duly recognized at two of the most prestigious awards ceremonies.
House
of Indi clinched Silver award under the Service Sector – SME category at the SLIM
Restart Resilience Awards 2020 while its Founder and Creative Director, Indeevari
Yapa Abeywardena has been acclaimed as the Outstanding Women Entrepreneur –
Small category at the Top 50 Professional and Career Women Awards – Sri Lanka
and Maldives 2020, held recently.
House
of Indi has been bestowed with this commendation for the formidable resilience
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Sharmila recognised at Career Women Awards Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
Sharmila Arasaratnam was recognized at the Professional and Career Women Awards as one of Sri Lanka’s Top 50 Women for 2020 by Women in Management (WIM) Sri Lanka and the Maldives, IFC and Australian Aid for the contribution made in the field of Marketing and Advertising.
Sharmila Arasaratnam is the Director Marketing at Gamma Pizzakraft Lanka, sole franchisee for Pizza Hut and Taco Bell in Sri Lanka. She is a Chartered Marketer and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. A past pupil of Ladies College, Colombo, she was named one of the 50 Most Influential Marketing Leaders at the World Marketing Congress in 2015 and was recently included in the LMD Business Who’s Who Sri Lanka 2020 edition.
Women in Management, IFC and Government of Australia Honor Sri Lankan Women
January, 29, 2021
Neelika Malaviga, a university professor known for her work in researching COVID-19, is among the winners of this year’s Top 50 Professional and Career Women Awards 2020, by Women in Management (WIM), in collaboration with Women in Work, a partnership between IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the government of Australia.
The awards – now in their tenth year – saw inspirational business and career women honored for the roles they have played in their industries, along with Sri Lankan corporates which have supported the growth and empowerment of women in the workplace.