Women in Engineering by Stephanie Watts Butler Diverse Future Leadership Insight From Successful Managers Diverse Future Leadership event was held 6 September 2022 as part of the 2022 European Power Electronics (EPE) Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE) Europe held in Hannover, Germany. The Diverse Future Leadership event, sponsored by IEEE Power Electronics Society's (PELS) Women in Engineering (WIE) committee, featured successful managers, both male and female, talking about their career paths in business and academia in an interactive panel discussion. Diversity in the career was also a major topic of discussion. Approximately 60 participants A engaged with the panelists who represented a wide range of fields and careers: ■ Dr. Silvia Bardi (Typhoon HIL) ■ Prof. Drazen Dujic (EPFL) ■ Dr. Tobias Geyer (ABB) ■ Prof. Regine Mallwitz (TU Braunschweig) The panel began with the speakers briefly introducing themselves and their career. Next, an interactive discussion on the selected four topics was held (Figure 1). Rebecca (Dierks) Himker (University of Hannover) and Alina Dinc (Wolfspeed) skillfully moderated the panel event (seen in Figure 2). The four topics were: ■ Academic and industrial career paths Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MPEL.2023.3270002 Date of publication: 27 June 2023 ■ Modern management and leadership ■ Diversity and equality in the workplace ■ Work-life integration. The moderators directed questions to the speakers, and the audience had the opportunity to ask questions. This led to a very lively discussion in which the speakers discussed with each other, while also the audience brought in their views. The whole event benefited from the fact that the speakers had different FIG 1 Professor Mallwitz and Dr. Geyer respond during Q&A. FIG 2 Rebecca Himker and Alina Dinc moderating Q&A with the panelist. 86 IEEE POWER ELECTRONICS MAGAZINE z June 2023