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PWN Nice Côte d'Azur
The members of Professional Women's Network - Nice Côte d'Azur share their story, the lessons they learned along the way, the good habits that help them be more productive and much more. Hosted by Serena Benedetti
“When you don’t tackle the fears or when you’re not aware of the fears, they really eat you up from inside and sometimes there is a lot of self-sabotage that happens. You’re stopping yourself before you even go”
Jeanette Cefre is a naturally someone who nurtures people and it's probably the reason she has always been in the "support organization" starting off in Customer Service then moving on to Learning & Development. Taking her experience in Learning & Development, she then transitioned to Knowledge and Community Management where she wanted to empower her teams with knowledge and to work together as a team.
Her last role in corporate was at Amadeus in the VP Office responsible for learning, internal marketing and communications.
An unexpected event was the catalyst for Jeanette to opt-out of corporate life after 27 years and finally pursue her side-hustle of helping women start their own business.
Today, she is a business activation coach helping women who are ready to pivot from wherever they are get started on their entrepreneurial journey, because let's face it, getting started is the hardest part.
Her vision is to increase the number of female entrepreneurs in the world.
Some facts: Jeanette was born on the island of Guam (in the pacific), has lived in the Cote d'Azur for 17 years, has 3 kids and 3 grandkids.
We talked about :
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The benefits of corporate life
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Reasons to leave
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How to make the big decision
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How to prepare yourself to leave
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What to do if you want to leave corporate but don’t have a business idea
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Employee vs Entrepreneur mindset
References :
Jeanette’s Linkedin
Jeannette / Conngage Instagram
Book: The tipping point
Chateau de Berne
Follow our host Serena Benedetti Roy on LinkedIn
Join Professional Women’s Network Nice Côte d’Azur : https://pwnnice.net/
“There are no passenger on spaceship earth, we are all crew” Marshall McLuhan
Marianne is passionate about facilitating innovation and engagement to contribute to the transition to a netzero and resilient society in the face of climate change.
She is the Founder of the Climate Innovation Education Lab (CIEL). The purpose of CIEL is to help the business community and academia engage in climate mitigation and adaptation, building on their leadership and power to innovate. Using her experience in the coordination of sustainable projects, she uses the Sustainable Development Goals to identify co-benefits in climate projects.
Marianne is also a Lecturer on climate change and sustainability and innovation at Université Côte d’Azur and at The Sustainable Design School. She is the President of CANIE Europe, the Climate Action Network for International Educators, and a founding member of Alive! Art Creativity & Climate Change. She graduated from Harvard Kennedy School of Government and from Sciences-Po Paris. She also has a Certificate of INSEAD Executive Program on Innovation in the Age of Disruption.
She loves art, music, and nature walks.
We talked about :
-How she developed an interest to Climate Change and Sustainable Development
-How to see Climate Change through a lens of positivity
-How to feel empowered at individual level
-Opportunities for companies
References :
Marianne's LinkedIn
Project Drawdown : https://www.drawdown.org/
Solar Impulse Foundation https://solarimpulse.com
Alive, Art Creativity & Climate Change https://aliveartclimate.org
Rob Hopkin, From What Is to What If
Porquerolles Island Hyères Tourist Office official website
Follow Serena on LinkedIn
Join Professional Women’s Network Nice Côte d’Azur : https://pwnnice.net/
"Never accept no for an answer. Never give up. Never go away ... even when others want you to"
Candace Johnson is a Serial entrepreneur, angel investor and venture capitalist.
She started her career by co-founding SES ASTRA and SES Global, the world’s pre-eminent satellite company.
Her mantra is: "Never accept no for an answer. Never give up. Never go away..even when others want you to".
We talked about :
-Her key accomplishments
-How she kept motivated in difficult times
-The power of angel investing to make some visions become a reality
-Advice to women to raise money. Where to find the toolkit!
References :
Candace’s LinkedIn
Super Entrepreneurship Decoded
Sophia business angels http://sophiabusinessangels.com/
Fondation Maeght https://www.fondation-maeght.com/
Serena’s LinkedIn
Serena’s Undergarment concept Akimba
Serena’s Instagram
Professional Women’s Network Nice Côte d’Azur
Professional Women’s Network Global
“What am I really choosing!?”
Mary Guerdoux-Harries’s professional background is in engineering. Her career has evolved. She specialized in leading transformation and continuous improvement projects. She loves innovation and change. Where she gets the most satisfaction is in coaching, training and mentoring, in order to implement positive change.
She currently works for Thales in the Underwater Systems Business line in Sophia Antipolis. She works in Operations, where she leads a team of 25 people and also leads a transformation project to change ways of working within engineering.
She is Franco-British and has been working in France since 2006. She has also worked in Switzerland and in Australia.
She is a Mum to a daughter who is three and has three step-children: two boys who are 9 and a girl who is 14.
Outside of work she enjoys sports, particularly running, cycling and walking. She also loves reading and can often be found in a café by the beach.
We talked about :
-The small things companies can do to support working mums and make a difference
-The Mums avatars : the different styles of being a mother
-Parenting role models in film and parenting styles
References :
Mary’s Linkedin page
Book : Free Range Human by Marianne Cantwell
Le Club des Simone
Restaurant L’Arret au Port
Professional Women’s Network Nice Côte d’Azur Mentoring Program open until December 15th 2021 : more info here
Serena’s LinkedIn
Serena’s Underwear brand Akimba
Serena’s Instagram
Professional Women’s Network Nice Côte d’Azur
Professional Women’s Network Global
“It’s like a circle. As soon as you start showing your worth, it also gets stronger. You start to get to know yourself a bit better because you get a positive response”
Lena Beck Roervig specializes in accelerating the performance of professionals being in start-ups or global corporations.
She is the CEO & founder of Beck Global Consulting LLC and a partner at The Personal Business Plan. Further, she is the creator of the concept and expert model on how to advance women in leadership: ShowYourWorth® and further she is the co-founder of ART-MIND-BODY, a practical approach on how to use and trust your intuition.
Lately Lena has ventured into Angel Investing and is the president for the company Recruitio.
Lena holds a Master of Science in Economics from Copenhagen Business School and has completed additional executive leadership education at INSEAD in France and Singapore, and Henley Business School in the UK. She is a global citizen - she says she is where the clients and the parties are! More specific she divides her time between Cannes, and Copenhagen.
She is active in the non-profit world and is the president of the Vibeke Roervig’s Ballet Foundation, the president of American Friends of the Danish National Gallery and a Global Advisor for the organization WorldPulse.
In this episode we talked about :
-Personal branding and how to introduce yourself when you have different activities
-What may be holding you professionally for a leadership position
-The most important thing if you want to lead or manage a team
-Knowing and showing your worth
-How important it is to tell people what you want
-How to feel empowered
-The importance to get an overview of your finances
Book recommendation : Atomic Habits by James Clear
Lena’s Website
Lena’s Linkedin
Learn more about Intuition Access https://www.artmindbody.net
https://www.instagram.com/intuitionaccess/
Serena’s LinkedIn
Serena’s Underwear brand Akimba
Serena’s Instagram
Professional Women’s Network Nice Côte d’Azur
Professional Women’s Network Global
“The most powerful resource is in yourself”
Marina Gregoretti, founder of Pro.Gre Consulting, a Leadership Development consulting firm, committed in helping talents in discovering and developing their leadership and plan their future life/career. She has over 30 years of experience in providing services to multinational organisations in Italy, Europe and USA.
Marina has presented evidence of the experience in Leadership self-development at the Gallup Institute Leadership Forum 2006, with the paper Awareness, Self Development and Transformation.
She has translated and edited Improving Organizational Effectiveness through Transformational Leadership by Bernard Bass and Bruce Avolio, and Full Leadership Development by Bruce Avolio.
She is member of PWN Nice Côte d’Azur and served its board for four years.
She enjoys skiing, sailing, traveling and reading.
We talked about the benefits of volunteering, career shift and finding your way, we talked about what are some key important things to help you design your dream life like curiosity, self awareness and the crucibles which are these defining moments in our lives.
References :
Marina's LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/marina-gregoretti-328b677/
Serena’s LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/serena-benedetti-649068b4/
Serena’s activities : https://www.canva.com/design/DAEeLo-qPhs/dYdtNYVuMuJjlnspfof4kQ/view
Professional Women’s Network Nice Côte d’Azur : https://www.pwnnice.net/
“We want to Delight, Retain, Attract”
The story begins in 2007, when Antonia arrived in France looking for activities where her young family could make friends. These were on every street corner in England, but not yet in France and Facebook hadn’t yet been invented!
Other than a small little mum and baby group and a little baby dance class neither of which exist anymore there was no way to easily meet new parents and babies.
So Antonia started her research, having already co founded a successful Au Pair agency while in the UK, the entrepreneurship route was open to her.
In 2007 she threw open the doors of KidooLand now nicknamed the little English school by her clients. They have now welcomed over 6,000 families.
She is also creator of the Facebook group Cote D’Azur Living and host of the Riviera Firefly Podcast.
In 2021 she will Chair the Riviera Business Club jury as they select the 2021 Business Person of the Year Awards.
We talked about
-how she started her business on the French Riviera, how she developed her idea, did her market survey and opened Kidooland.
-How she handled the crisis in 2008 and the recent pandemic and how her business evolved over time.
-We also talked about how she built her personal Venn diagram with her podcast Riviera Firefly Podcast and her Facebook Group Cote d’Azur Living with 11000 members.
Antonia’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoniabeauvoisinbrown/
Antonia’s Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/antoniabeauvoisinbrown/
Kidooland site : https://www.kidooland.com/
Kidooland Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KidoolandPetiteEcoleAnglaise/
Kidooland YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/KidooLand
Kidooland Instagram : www.instagram.com/kidooland
Kidooland Twitter : https://twitter.com/kidooant
Riviera Firefly Podcast : www.rivierafirefly.com/podcasts/
Cote d’Azur Living Facebook Group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/cotedazurliving
Podcast referenced : https://bizchix.com/category/bizchix/
Serena’s LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/serena-benedetti-649068b4/
Serena’s activities : https://www.canva.com/design/DAEeLo-qPhs/dYdtNYVuMuJjlnspfof4kQ/view
Professional Women’s Network Nice Côte d’Azur : https://www.pwnnice.net/
“When employees have found their place, have found what they enjoy, have found their reason for working, they are going to be more engaged, more motivated which is obviously going to have the advantage for the team”
Jacqueline Syndercombe is South African and has been living in France for the past 20 years. She has
worked in the corporate world in various administrative and financial positions in South Africa,
England and France.
In 2005, she became very interested in gardening and very sensitive to the
ecology and the impact we as humans have on the environment.
In 2019, she left the corporate environment to retrain as a Systemic Team Coach with the aim of accompanying employees at all levels of the organisation to finding their purpose and place and to help organisations transform to a sustainable and regenerative future.
She launched her business in the first quarter of 2021 and believes business and organisations have a fundamental role in driving the change for the world.
We talked about :
How she arrived on the French riviera and the challenges she faced
Her personality and how she is a waste warrior
Leap of faith to quit the corporate world at over 50 years old and start her own business
Systemic team coaching and how to make your team thrive
References :
Jacqui’s website: www.syndercombe.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqui-syndercombe-808bb44b/
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken
Serena’s LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/serena-benedetti-649068b4/
Serena’s activities : https://www.canva.com/design/DAEeLo-qPhs/dYdtNYVuMuJjlnspfof4kQ/view
Subscribe to our newsletter on Professional Women’s Network Nice Côte d’Azur : https://pwnnice.net/
“You have to have the joy and the sustainability in the way you do everything”
Today my guest is Liisa Hamalainen ,she is 31 years old, half Russian half Finnish and it is almost 10 years that she lives on the French Riviera
She originally came here to dance with Les Ballets de Monte Carlo. She is a former principal dancer of the company and it’s been now 3 years now that she “retired” from dancing
She got certified as a Stott Pilates instructor and has her own company Mindbodyfitmc where she teaches her own LH Method.
She is full of energy and motivation and she needs to accomplish something every day to use her energy tank fully. She is also a nature soul and loves to be active in the nature; hiking, paddling, swimming, skiing...
She is passionate about holistic and healthy lifestyles and constantly learning about it.
We talked about her life as a ballerina
We talked about what it means to be healthy and Liisa shared some tips to have a healthy posture
She is a beginner Biohacker and she share some tips and tricks with us
We also talk about personal branding on social media
References :
Liisa’s Instagram account : https://www.instagram.com/lhmethod_byliisa/
Aleancabrand : www.aleancabrandessence.com/welcome
Marina Matkova : https://www.instagram.com/marina.biohacker.monaco/
Podcast : Bulletproof Radio https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/bulletproof-radio/id451295014
Books :
-The Power of Now by Eckart Tolle
-In the Flo by Alisa Vitti
Serena’s LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/serena-benedetti-649068b4/
Serena’s activities : https://www.canva.com/design/DAEeLo-qPhs/dYdtNYVuMuJjlnspfof4kQ/view
Professional Women’s Network Nice Côte d’Azur : https://www.pwnnice.net/
“Go back to the basics. Find out what do you like to do, what are you good at, where do you find your flow and in what environment do you really like to work. Start with that.”
Sandra Richez is the Global MBA Program Director at EDHEC Business School in Nice, which a partner of PWN.
She has been working in higher education for over 20 years. It is a real vocation to help others to open their minds to global perspectives, to constantly learn and build their skills, giving confidence to reach their potential.
She also holds prior experience in services and hospitality in firms like Véolia, Disney and Marriott in HR and operations.
Sandra has lived in France for over 25 years. Her husband, her 3 grown children, dog and cat are all French, but they still enjoy her American culture, cooking and recipes (barbeques, hamburgers, and Sunday brunch).
When she is not working, you'll find Sandra most often on the water in summer and in the mountains in the winter. She is an avid boater and sails as crew most summers anywhere from 500 to 1000km in the Southern Mediterrannean. Come wintertime, she enjoys wintersports as well, skiiing and hiking, so the Riviera and our beautiful region is the perfect home for her!
You can reach out to her for any questions about further education and careers, and especially if you might be thinking of getting an MBA!
We talked about :
-changing career fields
-staying relevant on the job market and keeping your employability level high
-how to make the best use of your alumni network
-negotiating your salary
Sandra’s Linkedin profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandrarichez/
The Global MBA Program at EDHEC Business School typically has 70 participants from all over the world. They are champions of diversity in all areas, but only 38% of their MBAs are women. They are trying hard to reach parity. https://mba.edhec.edu/
Partnership EDHEC Business School – PWN Nice Côte d’Azur : https://mba.edhec.edu/blog/professional-womens-network-now-partnership-edhec-global-mba-nice-france
Podcast : The Daily, The New York Times
Books :
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Serena’s LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/serena-benedetti-649068b4/
Serena’s activities : https://www.canva.com/design/DAEeLo-qPhs/dYdtNYVuMuJjlnspfof4kQ/view
Professional Women’s Network Nice Côte d’Azur : https://www.pwnnice.net/
“If I was not reacting, he wouldn’t have shown enough respect to me and I thought I had to make sure that I stand on my feet and tell him”
As an international executive, Beatrice de la Masseliere is what we can call today a fulfilled businesswoman! She has spent most of her professional life motivating teams to embrace company objectives. Change has been her main driver and has led her along her professional career and personal life. She has been adapting, growing, learning, transforming herself through change.
Along with change, Beatrice has also been driven by “her international exposure” and enjoying life. She has lived in France, the UK and Italy and she travelled to Namibia, Borneo, Bali and Burma.
She also visited Brazil and Argentina a number of times where she fell in love with lambada and tango.
A more recent change in her life has been her new transition as a retired woman. However, she has not stopped travelling and motivating others. She might have had a corporate career, but she loves spending time with friends and grow her own vegetables!
Now that she has more free time, Beatrice has decided to support young professional women to grow their career and help them to overcome challenges they might face, making sure they use confidence as a lever and change as an opportunity.
In this podcast we talked about the key moments of her career and the hurdles she went through as a woman in the corporate world
Beatrice gave some tips to women who feel stuck in their job and would like to reach the next step in their career.
Beatrice also shared some good habits.
References :
Book : Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers
Podcast : Elles ont osé https://www.lesechos.fr/podcasts/elles-ont-ose
Serena’s LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/serena-benedetti-649068b4/
Serena’s activities : https://www.canva.com/design/DAEeLo-qPhs/dYdtNYVuMuJjlnspfof4kQ/view
Professional Women’s Network Nice Côte d’Azur : https://www.pwnnice.net/
“I don’t think I let the fact I wanted to become a mum stop me or slow me down. In fact when I was pregnant I actually applied for a position to manage a team.”
Born and raised on the beautiful island of Malta, Gillian has lived all over Europe for half of her life. Her husband is Austrian, their daughters are "French", and she considers herself an international European! :) She graduated in Computer Science and worked as a front-end developer. She then discovered her passion for people and orchestrating projects, so she followed an MBA in General Management. The mix of studies opened great opportunities for her. She has held functions such as Product Management & Ownership, Business Analysis and Team & Business Relationship Management. She loved all her jobs but being a BRM is her favorite as her objective is to help customers reach their goals. Gillian loves diversity in her personal life as well. Her islander life has made her love diving and sailing, and her travels have thought her to enjoy discovering new places. Finally, Gillian is a partisan of Marie Kondo-ing, her secret to a healthy work-life balance!
In this episode we talked about :
· The journey that brought Gillian from Malta to the French Riviera
· Amadeus, we all know it’s a big company but we don’t really know what they do.. so Gillian told us about their core business and her career in the company
· The decision of having kids while navigating her career and her tips to be present for her kids, thrive in her career and achieve her goals
· PWN and how she joined to invest in herself and what she learned through mentoring, especially a method to feel more self-confident.
References :
Gillian’s LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/gillianattard/
Carmen Blike Photography https://www.carmenblike.com
Books she’s currently reading :
-Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
-Mayo clinic guide to stress-free living, by Amit Sood, M.D.
Video she recommends :
Dare to lead like a girl https://www.ted.com/talks/dalia_feldheim_dare_to_lead_like_a_girl
Video mentioned in the episode : Don’t leave before you leave by Sheryl Sandberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGIyOR62dlU
Serena’s LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/serena-benedetti-649068b4/
Serena’s activities : https://www.canva.com/design/DAEeLo-qPhs/dYdtNYVuMuJjlnspfof4kQ/view
Professional Women’s Network Nice Côte d’Azur : https://www.pwnnice.net/
“Change your environment and see things differently through your neocortex, the logical brain, rather than the emotional one.”
Cynthia Milani is American and Italian. She spent a lot of time in the middle east and now she lives in France. She has been a part of the intercultural training world for 30 years, she worked in over 60 countries, with offices in France and Italy. Cynthia is currently working as a neuroanthropologist for leading corporations such as SAP and BP Amaco, Credit Suisse, Chanel and public entities interested in understanding the basics of neuroleadership, bias, inclusion & diversity. as well as all aspects of intercultural training. She is the director of IgD's NeuroLeadership & Diversity in Sophia Antipolis, France but still have a home office in Milan.
In this episode, Cynthia demystified what neuroscience and neuroleadership are and explained us how she got into this field.
We talked about how the brain works and Cynthia shared some tips on how to use our brain to make better decisions and control our emotions.
Cynthia shared her views on the controversial topic of male brain versus female brain from an anthropologic perspective.
Cynthia shared some of her experience working as a consultant for leading international companies and since we recorded this episode during the pandemic, she shared a neuroleadership model that can help managers to navigate through these difficult times with their teams
Recommended book : The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself, Michael A. Singer
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/IgDCenterForNeuroleadership/
Cynthia's Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthia-milani-8735585/
Serena’s LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/serena-benedetti-649068b4/
Serena’s activities : https://www.canva.com/design/DAEeLo-qPhs/dYdtNYVuMuJjlnspfof4kQ/view
Professional Women’s Network Nice Côte d’Azur : https://www.pwnnice.net/
“I think that’s always a good way to start by networking and getting involved in different types of associations, maybe even doing volunteer work. I’ve done that too here on the French Riviera and it's helped me meet different people.”
How many of us can say that they are a US American with Welsh-Irish-Cuban origins, the big sister to four siblings and have spent over 40 years abroad in Latin America, Italy and France? Not many of us! Yet, Ruth Ann is not only an intense traveller with a passion for snorkelling, she has also over 30 years’ experience leading Management development workshops on topics such as Leadership & Change Management, Cross Cultural Teams, Leading Virtual Teams, Building your Influence and Credibility, and other areas.
During this podcast episode, Ruth is going to share with us how to be a fulfilled expat woman, hardworking and still letting herself to “Celebrate life” with friends and family!
We also talked about Women in leadership and some pitfalls women should pay attention to in order to be recognized as leaders.Ruth also explained the importance of a sponsor for your next career move-As always we talked good habits and lifestyle.
References :
-Ruth Ann website : https://www.ruthannlake.com
-Photo credit : Carmen Blike https://www.carmenblike.com
-Sylvia Ann Hewlett, founding president of Center for Talent Innovation, Welsh speaker on the importance of finding a sponsor:
-short version 3 min from Harvard Business Review : https://hbr.org/video/2226612760001/the-importance-of-sponsors
- 45 min youtube video of Sylvia Hewlett speaking at Google about the difference between mentorship and sponsorship and why you need to find a sponsor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i83HLA3a0DQ
Book: The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conservation by Julie Barlow
websites:compare the country/culture of where you are from with the county/culture of France
https://www.hofstede-insights.com/country-comparison/
From Fons Trompenaars : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompenaars%27s_model_of_national_culture_differenceshttps://businessculture.org/western-europe/business-culture-in-france/business-etiquette-in-france/
https://www.thelocal.fr/20130304/top-ten---french-business-etiquette
Serena’s LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/serena-benedetti-649068b4/
Serena’s activities : https://www.canva.com/design/DAEeLo-qPhs/dYdtNYVuMuJjlnspfof4kQ/view
Professional Women’s Network Nice Côte d’Azur : https://www.pwnnice.net/
Rositsa Lazova - The toolkit of a new manager“If you want to grow in your professional life, you need to go and talk to people who are not close to you on a daily basis because they would give you another point of view. You have to go and ask for advice and be clear about what you want.”Today my guest is Rositsa Lazova. Rositsa is Bulgarian and her background is in IT engineering. As a self driven professional, she grew in her career, got her MBA and is now a manager at the multinational company SAP.We talked about :-how to design a career in a big corporation and how to grow on what Rossi calls a winding road.-becoming a manager and especially about the importance of not losing our authentic self and also the importance of compromising.-Rossi shared some tips on managing teams, specifically virtual teams.For sake of clarity, this podcast was recorded before the Covid 19 pandemic.
References:
Coaching recommendation: Jane Clare https://www.linkedin.com/in/%F0%9F%8C%9F-jane-clare-coaching-solutions-313051149/
Restaurant Lou Colonial, 5 Place Saint Francois, 06000 Nice
Restaurant l’Ulivo, 21 Place du Cap, 06500 Menton
Rositsa's photography teacher : https://www.rebecca-marshall.com
“To have real balanced leadership, women need to be women and men need to be men. We’re fundamentally different, we need to bring the competencies that we excel in to the table so that we have this great mix of yin and yang.” Rebecca Fountain is currently the Head of Marketing and Communications for PWN Global. Rebecca worked in the global educational technology market for 15 years. In 2008, she made a life changing jump to live a quieter paced life in the beautiful Ardèche Gorges in south-east France. Rebecca continues to live her dream balancing her day job from her virtual office, as a strategic and operational marketer for PWN Global, and the remainder of her time is split between canoeing in the prehistoric gorges, managing her gîtes and spending time with her Yorkshire-born husband, and their 13 years old son. In this episode, we talked about:-the origin of PWN and the mission of the association today-engaging men in the association and in the workplace-the benefits of the global network of PWN (webinar, members directory of 3500)-the importance to say No-Rebecca shared a very powerful professional advice to set you up for success for a future job search: to get references.Books:The SecretThe Code of the Extraordinary Mind Meditation:The Six Phase Meditation Gîtes:https://www.airbnb.fr/rooms/12857694https://www.airbnb.fr/rooms/12077742
03 – Vanessa Jarrett - Grow through mentoring“People have a tendency sometimes to really hold back - what if I do this or if I do that? Sometimes just to be more efficient we have to take that moderate risk and set those goals and just do it.”Vanessa Jarrett is a career coach and leadership trainer with over 20 years’ experience. She has a real interest and deep experience in helping people craft their continued professional development, elevate their leadership and make career transitions. Vanessa is the VP mentoring of PWN and also acting president. In the episode we talked about :-Public speaking and how to feel more comfortable when talking to an audience.-Career transition, what are the signals that it’s time to change and move on to something else-Mentoring and The PWN mentoring Program. By the way a new mentoring program will start beginning of 2021. We talked about the benefits of being a mentor also the concept of reverse mentoring.-Different types of personality. Vanessa took us into the details of one of the most famous personality test MBTI. Vanessa explained how people may have different preferences, for example on how they manage information, how they make decisions and that there is no right or wrong.For sake of clarity, this episode was recorded before the covid 19 pandemic.Vanessa’s contact: vanessa@profilassociates.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessa-jarrett-61280010/Book recommendation: Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a TeamPWN website : https://pwnnice.net/
“What if I can’t, what if I don’t know? You are never prepared. Don’t be afraid, go for it, you’ll figure it out. At the end you’re always better than you think”Carmen Redondo is the Vice President for Membership of PWN Nice Cote d’Azur. Carmen is currently Global Marketing Manager at AVX, a company specialised in antennas. She has over 12 years of experience in this field, having held different roles from engineering, project management to general management. In the episode Carmen demystifies what antennas are and explains us what is waiting for us, the consumers, with the future technology.We talked about :-being a young women in the tech industry and what she calls the “30 minute interview”-productivity : how to get more things done in a day-the importance of mentoring as a real push for a career-how to go out of our comfort zone and take on responsibilities despite the fearBook : Lean in, by Sheryl Sandberg
“Whatever that you are afraid to do, that is exactly what you need to do”Theresa Destrebecq began her life as an entrepreneur 8 years ago, after she realized how much she was giving away her power and emotional well-being to those around her. Since then, she has committed to inspiring women to step more fully into their personal power, both personally and professionally, allowing them to live what she refers to as a self-full life. She does this work through her education and coaching business, her global book club, and through her role as President of the PWN Nice Cote d'Azur. We talked about :- career shift and choosing possibilities instead of the barriers and excuses-the signs that show that we give away our power and emotional well-being (complaining, pointing the finger, blaming other people …)-Accepting our emotions and the feedback they tell us-How to make the most of self-growth books-Scheduling prioritiesJoin Theresa’s Emerge Book Circle, a community of 1000 women around the globe. www.emergebookcircle.comBooks : -A complaint free world, by Will Bowen-The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Steven CoveyQuote : “Your job is to fill your own cup, so it overflows. Then you can serve others, joyfully, from your saucer” Lisa NicholsSubscribe to the Newsletter : www.pwnnice.net
The members of Professional Women's Network - Nice Côte d'Azur share their story, the lessons they learned along the way, the good habits that help them be more productive and much more. We hope these mentoring moments will inspire you and help you grow in your professional career.https://www.pwnnice.net/