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Jul 24, 20242 min read
#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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Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier
Jul 10, 20242 min read
#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!
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Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier
May 1, 20242 min read
#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...
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MyCollective Team
Apr 29, 20242 min read
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...
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MyCollective Team
Apr 21, 20242 min read
#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 -...
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MyCollective Team
Apr 15, 20241 min read
#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...
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Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier
Dec 15, 20232 min read
#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...
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Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier
Dec 13, 20231 min read
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...
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Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier
Nov 30, 20231 min read
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....
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Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier
Oct 8, 20231 min read
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...
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Sep 13, 20232 min read
#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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Jun 14, 20232 min read
#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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May 25, 20232 min read
A conversation with TwentyThirty Magazine about the secret superpower of parents
You all know that I believe that parents can change the world ✊ The experience of parenting makes us great managers, delegators, empaths,...
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May 17, 20232 min read
Why everyone benefits when women take supervisory board positions
I recently spoke with two fantastic Supervisory Board Members – Ann-Kristin Achleitner and Manuela Rousseau – to ask them if there’s a...
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May 3, 20232 min read
#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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Mar 29, 20232 min read
#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 15, 20233 min read
#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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Feb 22, 20232 min read
#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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Jan 25, 20232 min read
#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 12, 20233 min read
#24 Re-entry post parental leave - get informed & know your rights with Sandra Runge
For many new parents, getting back to work after having a baby is the first - and biggest - hurdle to staying in a career. What can...
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