EOWA would like to thank the following sponsors of the 2010 EOWA Business Achievement Awards (in alphabetical order):

Australian Industry Group

The Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) is Australia's leading industry organisation representing 10,000 employers across a broad and expanding range of sectors. Our members operate businesses of all sizes throughout Australia and employ around 750,000 staff. We provide practical information, advice and assistance to help members run their businesses more effectively and to become more competitive on a domestic and international level. We also ensure our members have a voice in all levels of government, by representing and promoting their interests on current and emerging issues.

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Commonwealth Bank of Australia

The Commonwealth Bank is Australia’s leading provider of integrated financial services. With over 35,000 employees and the largest customer base of any Australian Bank, we are committed to our role as a diverse and inclusive organisation for our people, our customers and our community. Valuing and respecting the varied perspectives, skills and approaches of our people is fundamental to providing excellent customer service to a diverse community and allows our people to contribute to their full potential. The Commonwealth Bank is a long-standing supporter of community activities and organisations. This support and investment is directed at a broad range of activities that bring long term benefits to a diverse Australia. 

Commonwealth Bank is committed to developing, promoting and retaining talented leaders through a range of initiatives and employee offerings. These initiatives include mentoring, career resiliency and high potential development programs and a range of flexible working, parental and carers support options. We are proud to partner with EOWA for their Business Achievement Awards. Through the awards we hope to raise awareness of gender diversity.

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ExxonMobil Australia

ExxonMobil realises that success depends on attracting and retaining the best, most innovative, most results-oriented employees. The company’s view is "our people are our competitive advantage and the key factor in achieving our goals".

Our organisation is therefore very serious about the people we choose to recruit and develop and so we aim to provide an environment where the right type of person can grow and succeed.

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Freehills

Freehills is committed to a high performance culture. Our key strategic priority is creating an inclusive workplace where it is possible for our people to successfully take on roles that fulfil and challenge them. Integral to achieving this is our vision – to create an exceptional experience for our people and our clients. Freehills has a long history of leading the legal industry in its support of women and their career development. We are proud that we were the first major Australian law firm to appoint a female partner in 1978, and we remain focused on creating a work environment that enables women to take on leadership roles.

Freehills is thrilled to have women make up a third of our board and that 4 out of the 6 new partners in the July 2010 intake were women. Women comprise over 60% of our lawyers and we also have a number of women in senior leadership roles such as our COO.
Our 'Women at Freehills' strategy includes partner development programs focused on improving career conversations, challenging mindsets and assumptions about gender; coaching programs; focus groups; setting partner targets; parental support programs; flexible working plans; and regular policy reviews.

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IBM

IBM is the world's leading information technology and business consulting company, with solutions and services spanning all major industries. With more than 400,000 employees worldwide in 174 countries, diversity and inclusion have been an integral part of the corporation's culture for more than 80 years.

IBM values diversity and recognises the need to capitalise on the skills and talents of all segments of its workforce. IBM's programs and policies encourage, develop and support diversity for all employees. IBM has been an Employer of Choice for Women for 10 years in a row and has won many awards that recognise its leadership in the diversity space. Other recognition the company has received this year includes:

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McDonald's

Australia’s first McDonald’s restaurant opened in Yagoona, Sydney, in 1971. Today there are more than 800 McDonald’s restaurants across Australia, 75 per cent of which are franchised and run by local business men and women. The organisation employs 85,000 people in restaurants and corporate offices Australia-wide, and is the largest employer of youth in the country. McDonald’s creates more than 6,000 new jobs each year and spends over $40 million per annum on training and people development. In 2009 McDonald’s spent more than $1.8 billion on food, packaging and other goods and services, 94% of which was Australian sourced.

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