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Reuters Market Light in India is recruiting
Duration: 45 minutes
Dec 10
13:00 CET
Meeting
By:
Sanjeev Panicker Head HR
Sanjeev Panicker joined Thomson Reuters in March, 2008 at the Mumbai office. Since then, he has been working closely strategizing the HR business imperatives, also supporting facilities and legal co-ordination. The role today pre-dominantly
Description:
Reuters Market Light in India is recruiting. Learn about this entity of Reuters Thomson which is the first personalised professional information provider for farmers in India.
Come and listen to a corporate presentation and learn about career opportunities within the company.
Career Transition Framework-TM
Duration: 45 minutes
Dec 8
18:00 CET
Meeting
By:
Uri Galimidi Career Coach, MBA, ACC
Uri Galimidi is the founder of The Will To Change Inc., an Executive and Personal Coaching practice.
Uri specializes in corporate coaching particularly in the IT and Management Consulting industries.
Prior to his coaching career Uri worked for many year as a Management and IT Consulting Executive, both in South Africa and in the USA.
Uri’s consulting experience includes, being a Partner with the international consulting firm Accenture in South Africa. Uri’s was also VP of Consulting with Oracle Corporation in the USA.
As a part of his coaching practice, Uri embark on a research project in the area of Intuition, Emotions, and Decision Making. Uri also developed an approach to improving the quality of the decision making process.
Description:
A Coaching-driven Approach. The objectives of this presentation are to:
Present a career transition strategy, and explain how a career coach can help
Become the CEO of your own life
Duration: 60 minutes
Nov 10
19:00 CET
Meeting
By:
Blanca Vergara Executive coach and business consultant
Blanca L. Vergara, MBA, is a highly respected executive coach and business consultant. She helps the upcoming builders of the new economy to materialize their true potential.
She is a frequent speaker on among others business trends, femenine leadership and, diversity. She also provides corporate and open workshops as well as executive coaching. Her on-line publication is read in more than 25 countries around the globe.
Blanca helps you translate femenine leadership into sustainable long-term success!
Description:
Attention: professionals who want to see bigger and better results
Get matters on your own hands! The moving mountains mindset is here for you! Connect with your very own infinite power and discover the end of competition and scarcity. Join this powerful call!
Intuition and Emotions in Career Decision Making
Duration: 45 minutes
Nov 9
18:00 CET
Meeting
By:
Uri Galimidi Career Coach, MBA, ACC
Uri Galimidi is the founder of The Will To Change Inc., an Executive and Personal Coaching practice.
Uri specializes in corporate coaching particularly in the IT and Management Consulting industries.
Prior to his coaching career Uri worked for many year as a Management and IT Consulting Executive, both in South Africa and in the USA.
Uri’s consulting experience includes, being a Partner with the international consulting firm Accenture in South Africa. Uri’s was also VP of Consulting with Oracle Corporation in the USA.
As a part of his coaching practice, Uri embark on a research project in the area of Intuition, Emotions, and Decision Making. Uri also developed an approach to improving the quality of the decision making process.
Description:
how do your intuitions, emotions influence your career decisions? This presentation reviews the neuroscience research on how intuition, emotions, and cognition influence our decision making process.
We also propose an approach to avoid the pitfalls associated with the sometimes misguiding influence of intuition and emotions.
For a preview, check out http://www.thewilltochange.com/id42.html
bioMérieux: Advancing diagnostics to improve public health
Duration: 45 minutes
Nov 9
16:00 CET
Meeting
By:
Valérie Leyldé Executive Director Staffing and Recruitment
Description:
BioMérieux is recruiting. Learn about this worldwide group specialized in the field of in vitro diagnostics for medical and industrial applications.
Come and listen to a corporate presentation and learn about career opportunities within the company.
Creating job opportunities within the financial services sector
Duration: 45 minutes
Oct 15
18:00 CET
Meeting
By:
Corjanne van Drimmelen Founder, van Drimmelen Consulting
Corjanne has spent over 10 years in the Finance Services Sector in London. She was member of the management team within the Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley and subsequently held a similar position with UBS, both based in London. Responsibilities included recruitment including MBA recruitment, staffing, succession and resource planning, professional training and career development.
Prior to her career in investment banking, Corjanne held various marketing and sales positions within the retail and chemical industry.
Since leaving UBS, Corjanne launched Van Drimmelen Consulting which works closely with number of organisations within the financial services industry in addition to other industry sectors and business schools. Van Drimmelen Consulting advises on recruitment strategy, resource requirements, team effectiveness and works with individuals providing career coaching.
Description:
How to approach a career change into or within the financial services sector
- Assess skill requirements
- Focus and research
- Build your network
- Short term career goal versus long term career goal
The 4 Traps that Keep Women from Reaching the Top and How to Avoid them
Duration: 45 minutes
Sep 29
18:00 CET
Meeting
By:
Dr Paul Vanderbroeck Chartered FCIPD CC
Your Coach: Dr Paul Vanderbroeck Chartered FCIPD CC
Paul Vanderbroeck develops leaders through executive coaching, workshops, and assessments. In his coaching practice he specialises in making Female Executives successful.
Paul’s clients are multinational organizations in all sectors. He is a Visiting Leadership Coach at IMD International and a Global Leadership Fellows coach at the World Economic Forum.
He frequently publishes on the subject of gender and leadership, e.g. in Harvard Business Review. His most recent article is on “The Traps That Keep Women from Reaching the Top and How to Avoid Them”. He is one of the authors of "Leading in the Top Team" (Cambridge 2008), edited by IMD Professor Preston Bottger. He teaches on Leadership Values and Intercultural Leadership in the Executive Education programmes of the HEC University of Geneva.
Paul holds a BA, MA and PhD in History from the Catholic University of Nijmegen (NL) and is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (UK). A certified MRG, SHL, PDI, and Linkage International coach, he is qualified in numerous psychometric tests, assessment, selection and 360° feedback processes.
Previously he has held senior level positions in HR and Talent Management in Royal/Dutch Shell, General Motors, Georg Fischer and UBS. In the course of his career he has designed several gender diversity strategies.
Paul’s working languages are English, French, German and Dutch.
Apart from the Netherlands, he has worked and lived in the US, France, Germany and Switzerland. Paul is married and has two children. He currently lives in Geneva.
Description:
Retaining and progressing women leaders proves to be difficult in practice. Women need help to be successful in what is still a men’s corporate world.
Working with female executives, I have identified 4 traps that keep women from reaching the top:
- The Equal Treatment Trap
- The Men-and-Women-Are-Alike-Trap
- The Career Trap
- The Do-As-the-Boys-Trap
The presentation discusses these 4 traps, how to overcome these obstacles, and help reduce the risk of burn-out and failure.
A Successful Career Search: Differentiating Yourself and Your Approach
Duration: 45 minutes
Sep 24
18:30 CET
Meeting
By:
Céline Brillet ACC, Executive Coach & Founder of intoAction
Céline has seen the profound impact of coaching on her own life. She is passionate about, and highly committed to partnering with individuals to support them in finding their own creative solutions to reach their goals.
She is of French-Vietnamese origin, and is fluent in English, French, and Spanish. She holds a Bachelor of Science dual degree in International Business and Finance from Georgetown University and a Masters of Business Administration from INSEAD.
Céline has a multicultural background, having lived and worked in Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Washington DC, New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Geneva.
She has spent over ten years in Private Wealth Management at Deutsche Bank AG and in Investment Banking at JP Morgan Chase & Co.
She began her coaching career in her role of Director at Deutsche Bank. She is a graduate of the Coach University Core Essentials Fast Track Program. She is also certified by the International Coach Federation and is licensed to deliver The Coaching Clinic® workshop (Corporate Coach University).
Her other interests include travelling, taking black and white portraits, cooking, running (NY /Paris marathons), kickboxing, pottery, and scuba diving.
Description:
In today’s challenging and competitive job market, tapping into traditional job sources to find a job is not enough. A successful career search is based on two fundamental pillars: 1. knowing one’s uniqueness and being able to convey that uniqueness to a potential employer and, 2. conducting a job search that is creative, ingenious and bold. Céline will share tips on how to identify and communicate your uniqueness, and how to add originality to your job search.
Why Women Mean Business?
Duration: 60 minutes
May 15
09:00 CET
Meeting
By:
Alison Maitland Journalist
journalist, speaker and co-author of "Why Women Mean Business: Understanding the Emergence of Our Next Economic Revolution" presents findings from the book.
Description:
Why are women the next economic revolution? How can gender balance help companies emerge stronger from this crisis of capitalism? How can you transform your organisations to take full advantage of the force of Womenomics? A group of innovative and visionary thinkers, leading business people, has started to meet the challenges and adapt their organisations. How have they done it? How did they change attitudes?
Corporate Panel Discussion
Duration: 60 minutes
May 13
09:00 CET
Meeting
By:
Jean-Michel Monnot Sodexo,VP Group Diversity & Inclusion
Jean-Michel Monnot is Vice President, Group Diversity and Inclusion at Sodexo. He joined the company in 1987 in Sales and has been responsible for implementing Sodexos diversity strategy across 25 European countries since 2007.
Cathriona Hallahan MD of EOC, Microsoft
Cathriona Hallahan Joined Microsoft in February 1986 in Finance. Over the course of 10 years she held various roles from cost accountant, accounts supervisor, and finance manager. During this time Cathriona contributed to some revolutionary changes in Microsoft which involved setting up the commission agent structure, centralising all warehouse, operations functions to support our Full Packaged Products, Licensing and Programs businesses.
Beginning in 1996 Cathriona joined operations to lead the organization responsible for managing operations for marketing programs like MSDN, TechNet, MSPP, MCP/MCT, Courseware, and End User Fulfilment. Cathriona also lead a key strategic Sales Marketing & Services Group project known as Project Spirit which was driving the strategy to centralise the pre-sales call centres that support the subsidiaries and then transition responsibility for running the operation to CSS.
Cathrionas first global role in August 2003 had responsibility across Microsoft Operations organization to develop the Customer Partner Experience (CPE) strategy.
In February 2005 Cathriona became responsible for the EMEA MBS business. In February 2006, she took global responsibility for MBS and was responsible for the operational execution of the MBS processes including agreement processing, order management, query management and operational program management.
In January of last year Cathriona became Managing Director of EOC and also kept responsibility for MBS Operations WW.
Helen Doriaki CargillPanamax Pacific Trading
I am Helene Ziv-Douki, my current job is Panamax Pacific Trading Manager for Cargill Ocean Transportation BU. From June 2006 till June 2008 I was the Igma Parcel Service Manager. I joined Cargill in nov 2003 as Junior Freight Trader at the Igma Parcel Service Desk. Prior to joining Cargill I worked for 4 years at Louis Dreyfus in Paris and Geneva as a Grain trader. I have a master degree in economics and speak fluently English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
I live and work in Geneva. I am 33 years old, married and the happy mother of Adam 19 months old. I am passionate by my job. In the meantime I make sure I have a good work-life balance and spend good time with my family.
Description:
Description: The discussion will cover many areas including the following:
- What policies or programmes increase the number of women at senior levels in an organisation?
- How do you keep high-potential women on the fast track when they want to take a career break?
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