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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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The golden or the Baby-Bermuda Triangle? Balancing working models, care work & mental load
We cover topics at the intersection of parenting and careers, but keep coming back to what we call the “golden triangle” - that perfect...
MyCollective Team
Apr 30, 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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#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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HerCareer: Finding friends at the epicenter of gender diversity
It was so much fun to be back at herCAREER last week — it’s so much more than the careers fair that it’s billed to be, thanks to...
Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier
Nov 13, 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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#32 How to use new work tools as life hacks with Christoph Magnussen
"The underlying concept of our modern, very fast communication tools is to lower the transactional cost per bit of communication.”...
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Jun 14, 20232 min read
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#31 How the part-time trap became a visibility trap - with Antonella Mei-Pochtler
Antonella Mei-Pochtler has combined parenthood with an incredibly successful career - a linear trajectory first, taking her to the top...
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May 3, 20232 min read
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#29 Balancing new work and face time - the importance of staying in touch with Tanja zu Waldeck
Tanja Dr. Prinzessin zu Waldeck turned her sitting room into an office just after she had her first baby - she used the space for her...
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Mar 29, 20232 min read
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#28 Male heroes for diversity - How to make a difference with Ali Mahlodji
Those of you who know me well will know that I’ve been on what feels like an eternal search for a role-model. It may even have been one...
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Mar 15, 20233 min read
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#27 Tech Trailblazer - Flying the flag for women in IT with Sabine Scheunert
Sabine Scheunert’s big career breakthrough came when her son had just turned 1 and she got a call from Citroën, asking her if she wanted...
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Feb 22, 20232 min read
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#25 Flexible work for a more attractive workplace with Melanie Lauer
What if you could take an established business and transform it into exactly the kind of company that you would like to work in? As CEO...
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Jan 25, 20232 min read
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