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Role Model: Veronique Larcher
Shortly after her engineering studies in France, Veronique was appointed to California, where the planned 3 months turned into 12 years. She worked part-time as an engineer, founded a non-profit for events, and then the opportunity of building an innovation outpost arose; the beginning of a lasting business relationship with Sennheiser… Read More
Role Model: Julinda Gllavata
Julinda talks about starting her technical path leading up to her actual position as Head Data Science in a “not that male-dominated” country, her experiences abroad and how to overcome the occasional “culture shock” along the way… Read More
Role Model:
Aleksandra Laska
From the trading floors to co-founding a mobile payments platform to building an enterprise division to being a VC and an angel investor. There’s a lot to be learned from this month’s Role Model’s exciting journey… Read More
Role Model:
Nicole Streuli-Fürst
Maybe it was her childhood that inspired her to study environmental sciences. In any case, this month’s role model is on a mission to drive positive change via the power of data… Read More
Role Model:
Séverine Chardonnens
Séverine Chardonnens, Co-Founder & CCO at IDUN Technologies AG, talks about confidence, the power of brain data and roadblocks you face while upscaling technology… Read More
Role Model:
Sylvie Reinhard
Sylvie Reinhard is president of the board of directors at Republik, the digital magazine for politics, business, society and culture. She began her career in 2000 at an IT start-up in the cybersecurity area… Read More
Role Model:
Nicole Büttner
Nicole is co-founder and CEO of MerantixLABS, a leading AI solutions company and member of the management board of Merantix, a machine learning based venture studio. She is Digital Leader at the World Economic Forum and was nominated as Young Leader by the Aspen Institute… Read More
Role Model:
Margarita Chli
This month we sat together with Margarita Chli, assistant professor at ETH Zurich, leading a small team of researchers, the Vision for Robotics Lab. … Read More
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Inclusive Language Guide
Inclusive language made easy with this new beginner’s guide by Femme Palette with contributions by WE SHAPE TECH … Read More
Take Aways How to Bring Women Back to Work
To get more women at the top, you have to bring them (back) to work in the first place. Athena Blatsioti talked to us about how to successfully bring women back to (paid) work after a leave of absence… Read More
IWD2022 – Know the Bias to #BreakTheBias
We’re celebrating International Women’s Day 2022 with the motto #BreakTheBias, but to be able to break the bias, you first need to know about the bias… Read More
Getting Ready for International Women’s Day 2022
We have prepared some resources for you to get ready for this year’s International Women’s Day on 8 March 2022 and they can be used throughout the whole year to #BreakTheBias… Read More
A Kinder Approach to Personal Goals
Now we’re exploring pitfalls we often encounter when forming new habits, proven ways to overcome them and what to do when we get off track… Read More
Diversifying Valentine’s Day
There’s no other celebration dedicated as much to love as Valentine’s Day. What better opportunity to spread the love or rather diversity and inclusion? We put some thought in how to diversify this otherwise chocolate and flower driven iconic day of love… Read More
February: The Death of Resolutions
February: the month when according to research, 80% of new year’s resolutions are abandoned. While most of us have experienced the disappointment of deserted resolutions, we continue participating in the ritual… Read More
Trends in Data Privacy
28 January marks the Day of Data Privacy. Laws and regulations already grant personal data owners a bit more power over their own data by allowing them to request deletion, restriction or update of and insight into their data. So that’s one step that’s gonna take us… where exactly?… Read More
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Prioritising Parenthood as a Working Dad
A community of dads has an open and honest discussions about the duties and delights of parenthood… Read More
The Wisdom of Games
There’s a point in our lives when we’re told it’s time to grow up and stop playing games. But what if that advice is wrong and games are one of the best opportunity to learn about our world and even ourselves? … Read More
Becoming CEO of a High-Growth SaaS Company
Francine Gervazio shares her entrepreneurial and inspiring spirit through this podcast by Swisspreneurs… Read More
Advancing Your Career
Sonja Price is a career strategist, salary advisor, leadership coach, and the founder of Dynamo Careers. Get tips on negotiating, how to ask for a raise, and how to get to where you want to go in your career… Read More
Building for Tomorrow
Humans always believe that we welcome the new, but in reality people often resist change. Learn more about yourself and the workings of your brain as you make decisions… Read More
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