When you sacrifice too much in a relationship How do we determine what a normal amount of sacrifice might be? My impression of most relationships: One partner is more likely to sacrifice in order to hold things together. The risk is that he or she will resent what is...
The Desire for Meaningful Work Does meaningful work take a back seat when you have a family to feed, or bills to pay? A few days back, I got into a contentious conversation with an acquaintance over the concept of “meaningful work.” I suggested, quite innocently, that...
Performance anxiety plagues me, but now I have some techniques to beat it We’ve all been there at one time or another. Performance anxiety can affect anyone. But what about the most extreme anxiety that causes us to choke at the worst possible time? For me, a few days...
Why we need to call out “subtle sexism” Interrupted. Talked over. Silenced. “Subtle sexism” includes behaviours so routine in a woman’s life that we may come to accept them, forgetting how prevalent and damaging they are. Among the most common offenders:...
Why we internalize rejection – is it really a gender issue? None of us likes to hear “no,” or that we don’t make the cut, or that we don’t belong. Rejection hurts. But [Tweet “do women internalize rejection more easily than men?”] Are we hard-wired...
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Human Resource Management, career development and international business
Gordana Frgacic, is a highly experienced HR Manager, working for international companies. She is a Board Member and published author on career development strategies for women, including negotiation and job search.
Her specialities include all aspects of Human Resource management, general management and career assessment and development.
Manufacturing, supply chain sales and commercial management, operations, program management
Zsuzsanna is a true „International Citizen” who has lived and worked in 6 different countries, 3 different continents. 15+ years with General Electric in different European HQ leadership roles. She is an alumni of GE Corporate Audit Staff , GE Manufacturing Leadership Programs also a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Her continuous quest is to balance her Engineering acumen (Masters Degree in High Voltage Electrical Engineering) with her “creative” side (Literature Award, Drawing) and effectively embed in her day to day work.
Successful global corporate career for over 18 years. In this time she created many start-ups for multinational corporations, designing and implementing the business and marketing strategy. She has developed and led marketing campaigns for a number of famous brands; Colgate, Smirnoff, Tia Maria, and Apple. Now an executive coach specializing in “intrapreneurship” and women who wish to become entrepreneurs
After a 25-year commercial litigation career, Victoria earned her legal master’s degree in dispute resolution from the world-famous Straus Institute at Pepperdine University School of Law. The knowledge, wisdom and skills she gained at Straus can be found in her two books on dispute resolution, The Grownups’ ABCs of Conflict Resolution, Second Edition (She Negotiates Press, 2013) and Success as a Mediator for Dummies (Wiley, 2012).
NGO, private/corporate sector, and education arena
Tanya M. Odom is a global consultant and coach with a Masters in Education, Adminstration, Planning, and Social Policy from Harvard. Her areas of expertise include diversity and inclusion, leadership, mindfulness, and women/girls’ equity. Tanya is passionate about personal and organizational development that is inclusive, authentic, and purposeful.
Pharmaceutical, manufacturing and financial service industries as well as a global non-profit
Susan has 20+ years of experience and held leadership positions in HR, talent management, leadership and organisation development at business unit and corporate levels. She is a visiting business school consultant delivering programs on leadership, organisation and career development. She has lived and worked in the US and Europe and thrives in multi-cultural environments at work and at home.
Senior strategy and operations executive with 20 years multi-national experience in strategic planning, operations and programme management, for global distribution and investment management businesses.
A marketing, fundraising and communication professional with over 25 years of global executive experience for major international companies. She has earned an LL.B. in Jurisprudence, an MSc in Communication from Boston University and an Executive Coaching Graduate degree from University of Texas, Dallas School of Management. She is a Certified coach. BP and Microsoft, and has lived in Boston, San Francisco, London, Athens and Dubai.
