In the early 2000s, the SHEconomy® idea was introduced in Europe and in the Nordic by Fagerland (Ilo.org, 2005; Eliassen, 2003).

• Women in leadership means business (“More women in leadership, strengthens the bottom line”, The Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO) is Norway's largest organisation for employers and the leading business lobbyist. Female Future rapport, 2003).
• Female leaders boost the bottom line (NHO Female Future rapport, 2003).
• Stop fixing women, fix the system.

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The Program is ranked by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) as one of the world’s 10 best programmes for advancing female leadership and board participation.

The Female Future Program’s objective is to increase female participation in decision-making processes. It was developed in 2003 in response to the Norwegian government’s policy requiring the boards of public limited companies to have at least 40% representation of both genders.

The SHEconomy Founder Fagerland, then Gender Equality Manager at the NHO (Confederation of Norwegian Business and Industry) developed a Female Future program to raise the percentage of qualified women as board members (to a quota of 40%) and to increase top management positions at companies in Norway (Ilo.org, 2005; Drake, 2003; EIGE.europa.eu, 2012; Roberts, 2008). The ideas were inspired in part from womenomics in Japan (Matsui et al.,1999). In 2008, the ideas were adopted by Spain and were being considered in Germany, and in 2011 France, Italy, the U.K. and other countries were considering quotas to require more female board members (Fagerland, 2008; Pagano, 2012).

In 2012, Fagerland also brought these ideas to Australia for The 100 Percent initiative (Weischer, 2012) and to the United Nations to promote women in the organisation’s leading bodies (berlingske.dk, 2005, 2012).
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"However, the principles in NHO's Female Future programme, developed by Benja Stig Fagerland, are so good that, in my opinion, they should be able to stand alone. Experts I have met in diversity and equality issues bow in the dust for that concept - especially because it cuts through and focuses on competences rather than on equality.” states Special Adviser to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and was formerly a senior adviser to the Council of the Baltic Sea States".

Gry Tina Tind, Stockholm
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Keynote speaker The Faroe Islands: The Trade Association Torshavn
The goal: Establish measures and action to promote diversity management in boards and organizations in the Faroe Islands. Establishment of possible political instruments and effects.

In addition, there was a reflection on the past ten years of the SHEconomy with an updated perspective (Drejer and Fagerland, 2018, EJM) (Vaccaro, Fagerland, Y. Cohn, 2019). The concept of SHEconomy was introduced to the public some ten years ago as a phenomenon developed initially by and in the Nordic Countries.

• University of Agder: UiA Agder - Discussion partner and teacher, in diversity management, SHEconomy and management.

SHEconomy was used as teaching materials in several business schools, including subsequent video interview with politicians and business leaders. Norwegian School of Business, Trondheim.

• SHEconomy® book contribution and chapter: SHEconomy® Marketing to women: Don´t pink it, shrink it and dumb it down. The Association of Norwegian Editors.
• Keynote speaker at several business conferences, incl.

- Mjøskonferansen - Diversity management, where my researched presented in the book
- The Armed Forces

• SHEconomy® Roundtable, hosted by SHEconomy partner Microsoft.

• SHEconomy® Research articles in collaboration with Professor Drejer, Aaborg University.

• THE SHECONOMY® MOVEMENT TEN YEARS AFTER. REVIEW AND REFLECTION (Drejer and Fagerland, 2018, EJM). A reflection on the past ten years of the SHEconomy with an updated perspective (Drejer and Fagerland, 2018, EJM) (Vaccaro, Fagerland, Y. Cohn, 2019).

• SHEconomy® Research articles published in collaboration with Professor Drejer, Aaborg University: INTRODUCING THE CORPORATE DIVERSITY RESPONSIBILITY™ (CDR™) CONCEPT (Drejer and Fagerland, 2018, EJM).

• SHEconomy® research article published.

AWARD and presentation at the New York Institute of Technology in NYC: INTRODUCING THE CORPORATE DIVERSITY RESPONSIBILITY™ (CDR™) CONCEPT (Drejer and Fagerland, 2018, EJM)

• Keynote speaker at several European business conferences, incl.:

- Chamber of Commerce, Warszawa, Poland
- Chamber of Commerce Reykjavik, Iceland

• SHEconomy® research article published in collaboration with Deborah Y. Cohn Ph.D., MBA, MPhil, BA. Interim Dean at New York Institute of Technology and Valerie Vaccaro, Associate Professor of Marketing at Kean University: A SHECONOMY® MANAGEMENT 3.0 BENEFIT MODEL & FRAMEWORK OF GENDER DIVERSITY LEADERSHIP FOR GREATER INNOVATION, CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND FIRM FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE.
• SHEconomy® Research article, Ipsos (shared globally by IPSOS Global):
• SHEconomy®. Women: The Emerging Market, understanding Society.

• Roundtables:

- SHEconomy® Roundtable, hosted by SHEconomy partner Storebrand
- SHEconomy® Roundtable and event, hosted by SHEconomy partner META Europe (former Facebook).
- SHEconomy® event, hosted by SHEconomy partner IPSOS.
- SHEconomy® Roundtable and event, hosted by SHEconomy partner Accenture

• Economic Forums and Summits:

- SHEconomy® Forum & Summit, Silicon Valley.
- SHEconomy® Summit, NYC.

• Guest Lectures and STANFORD panel

- SHEconomy Guest Lecture/panel discussion invitation Stanford Business School
- SHEconomy Guest Lecture, The University of San Francisco (USF)

• Summits

- SHEconomy® Summit, Digital Transformation.
- SHEconomy® Election, Washington DC - Politics, Digital
Keynote Speakers Washington DC - Politics, Digital Experts and influential voices on Capitol Hill, diplomats and independent American and Nordic media representatives in Washington DC.
Including:
- Moore central in the election campaigns of both Bill and Hillary Clinton, and for eight years was one of President Clinton's closest advisers in the White House. Named one of Washington's most influential "Women in Tech” and a part of the Democrats' inner circle and the party's moderate wing for three decades.
- Stone and her ex-husband Roger Stone were among Donald Trump's earliest and most ardent supporters in the race to become president. The ex-husband and wife have been eager since the eighties for Trump to head for the White House, and despite scandals are still among Trump's most trusted advisers. In addition, she is one of the founders of the National Women's History Museum and has been active in a number of issues with a particular focus on the position of women.