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Dr. Nirmala Menon Executive Vice President

KEYNOTE & CONVERSATION: Authentic Leadership—Be Who You Choose to Be!

CHOICES

“Control your own destiny or someone

else will” - Jack Welch

Success is a personal choice

Pew Research Center Survey, 2013

% of respondents aged 30-50 who aspire to be

boss or top manager

Choices – believe in yourself

Pew Research Center Survey, 2013

% of parents who said that reduced work hours or

taking significant time off hurt their career

Work-life choices

“So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s

work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance”

Sheryl Sandberg (COO, Facebook)

Authentic choices

“Be yourself – everyone else is taken!”

Oscar Wilde

Effective leadership

“Feminine traits are positively correlated to perceived leadership, success,

morality and happiness”

Source: The Athena Doctrine, John Gerzema & Michael D’Antonio, 2013.

Good

listener

Multi-

tasking

Empathetic

& patient

Plan for

the future

Selfless &

kind

MetLife in China

China 2013: Leadership position in Direct-Telemarketing

MetLife

Agency

12%

Distribution across 24 cities in 10 provinces providing

access to more than half of China’s total GDP1

Largest foreign joint venture insurer in Direct with high

productivity

Introducing digital capabilities to enhance customer reach

1 Source: National Bureau of Statistics of China, China Statistical Yearbook 2013

See Appendix for non-GAAP financial information, definitions and/or reconciliations.

MetLife believes in Diversity & Inclusion

MetLife established the Global Women’s Initiative 2 years

ago which supports women’s advancement into leadership

MetLife is one of only 40 companies in the Fortune 500

where women fill at least 30 percent of board seats

MetLife was named to the 2014 Working Mother

magazine’s 100 Best Companies, for the 16th consecutive

year

Takeaways

What do you want for your life?

Take responsibility for your choices

Give your best effort

“It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

Invictus

William Ernest Henley

I am the master of my fate,

I am the captain of my soul.”


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