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#43 A CFO PERSPECTIVE ON PARENTAL LEAVE – does it pay off? – with Markus Lueger
At Sanofi, everyone gets parental leave: all parents of all genders, irrespective of which country they’re in. “People feel like it’s...
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Jul 24, 20242 min read
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#42 PERSONAL BRANDING – become your own brand ambassador, with Dr. Irène Kilubi
Dr Irène Kilubi in the MyCollective podcast: Developing a personal brand on social media offers enormous career opportunities!
Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier
Jul 10, 20242 min read
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#41 Leading Mothers: the power of parenting with Anette Lippert
Parenting skills are leadership skills – this has long been a mantra of ours at MyCollective. So it was fantastic to meet someone as...
Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier
May 2, 20242 min read
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#40 Life hacks from our peers: the importance of Real World Role Models
We’ve been running Real World Role Models sessions at MyCollective for over two years now, and it’s one of my favourite formats -...
MyCollective Team
Apr 22, 20242 min read
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#39 Equal Care - Why should I care?
🤷♀️ Is equal care an issue that only women care about? (I really wish it wasn’t, but why didn’t a single man show up to this...
MyCollective Team
Apr 16, 20241 min read
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Who said that crafting is a mother's job and earning money is the father's?
Different generations expect different things from their work environments - which is where Lea Haep comes in. The MD at STARTUP TEENS &...
Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier
Mar 29, 20242 min read
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#38 Creating work environments that work for all - with Lea Haep
Different generations expect different things from their work environments - which is where Lea Haep comes in. The MD at STARTUP TEENS &...
MyCollective Team
Mar 15, 20242 min read
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Powerhouse: Getting top female leaders together is the absolute energy booster
… this was my experience at MMK24 (Münchner Management Kolloquium) this week, where we had a fantastic lineup of top C-Level speakers,...
Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier
Mar 11, 20242 min read
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Paternity Leave = free brain training programme for dads
We talk a lot about all the leadership skills that we hone as we parent our kids - but as the research published in a recent Harvard...
Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier
Feb 5, 20242 min read
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Being everywhere & doing everything all at once - and all just before Christmas
Christmas is around the corner; it’s the season to spend time with family, reflect on the year and start thinking about resolutions for...
Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier
Dec 18, 20232 min read
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#35 TWO TO TANGO - The magic of working in Tandem, with Nina Gillmann
𝐓𝐖𝐎 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐎 - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐦, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐍𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐆𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐧 Tandem solutions may...
Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier
Dec 15, 20232 min read
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Parental leave is still a career dealbreaker?
This is crazy, We just can’t afford to keep losing parents in the workplace when skilled labour is already so scarce. These figures were...
Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier
Dec 13, 20231 min read
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I want more!
I’m always on the lookout for #RoleModels - both for myself and for our network of parents and professionals at MyCollective, because, in...
Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier
Dec 4, 20231 min read
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An action-packed day for woman leadership - it's like meeting your Linkedin bubble in 3D
First, the Wo*Men in Leadership Convention hosted by Beiersdorf and then the German Diversity Award, meant that I got to pack two...
Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier
Dec 1, 20231 min read
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A very special edition of ‘Working Women’
This is the last issue of what for us has been an iconic magazine to hit newsstands before Emotion Verlag hands over to its new owners....
Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier
Nov 30, 20231 min read
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#34 THE VALUE OF MOTHERS - why it’s time for a new perspective, with Anne Theiss
Anne Theiss wrote a book while she was pregnant with and then nursing her baby - her new novel, “Die Abwertung der Mütter - Wie überholte...
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Oct 18, 20232 min read
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Unleashing the power of parenthood
We have exciting news! We have decided to open up our parental leave programme to make it available for everyone ❤️ It was always my...
Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier
Oct 9, 20231 min read
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The business case for founders to take parental leave
Thousands of tech founders from the world will be descending on Munich for Bits & Pretzels these days, and speaking to some of them this...
Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier
Sep 22, 20232 min read
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Why they growth story is not enough & start-ups need more empathy
It’s the Bits & Pretzels founders festival in Munich the next days and with 5,000 founders, investors, and industry leaders coming...
Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier
Sep 20, 20232 min read
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#33 DIVERSITY ROLE MODEL - the perks of being a working parent with Isabel Hochgesand
Isabel Hochgesand's meteoric career took her from Managing Director and Procurement VP at Procter&Gamble to Chief Procurement Officer at...
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Sep 13, 20232 min read
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