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Guest speaker Moya Doherty addressed over 200 male and female guests at the 2020 RSM International Women's Day event.
Guests attended the event to hear the Donegal native offer an analysis of the change she has experienced during her career, championing the arts and culture at home and on the global stage, in a presentation called ‘Making our Local Global: The Potential for Hope’.
As the originator of Riverdance, co-founder of one of Ireland’s largest television production companies, Tyrone Productions and the Chair of the Board of RTÉ, Moya Doherty’s distinguished career has spanned the creative industries of television, theatre and radio.
RSM Ireland is one of the leading accounting and advisory firms in Ireland, and the only first-generation firm in the top 10. In 2019, the firm was awarded Advisory Team of the Year at the Irish Accountancy Awards, and Accountancy Firm of the Year at the 2018 Irish Accountancy Awards.
RSM Ireland’s Head of Consultancy, Catherine Corcoran Gearty said; “The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is ‘Each for Equal’, and it’s centred on the notion of collective individualism, and how our individual actions can have an impact on larger society. For that reason, we’re delighted to be welcoming so many distinguished male guests to our event this evening because women cannot achieve gender equality on their own, we must do it together. It’s men and women together that will deliver the behaviours required to allow us ‘action’ our principles. The principals are great – but it’s living them that deliver ‘true change’. I am delighted that Moya Doherty is our guest speaker, because with role models like Moya, female entrepreneurs can see that there really is no limit to what can be achieved.”
Commenting on the journey of Riverdance since its first show 25 years ago, Moya Doherty said; “Riverdance for me, as well as a cultural and economic artefact, most importantly creates hundreds of jobs across the globe not just through the touring performances but as an economic legacy.”
“It’s now accepted that creativity and the industries associated with it are a vital cog in the national economy. The creative industries no longer accept the label of ‘soft arts’ and simply point to the evidence to show that bringing billions into the national economy each year gives it a place at the table of hard industry.”
See the photos from the night here
