Mirella Visser
Description
Mirella Visser is Dutch, holds a Masters degree in Law and completed the General Management Program at CEDEP in Fontainebleau, France.
Biography of Mirella Visser
Mirella spent most of her management career at ING in Asia, where she became member of the management board in Hong Kong, responsible for ING’s four business units in South-East Asia. At KPMG she managed Post Merger Integrations of international financial services companies. In 2004 she founded Mirella Visser International Management & Consultancy and the Centre for Inclusive Leadership, for international interim management, joint venture management and leadership coaching. She sits on the Supervisory Board of Royal Swets & Zeitlinger and on the Advisory Board of the European Leadership Platform. She has been co-founder and board member of several executive women’s organizations since 1993. In 2007 she was nominated by European Voice (Economist) as ‘European of the Year ’ and ‘Campaigner of the Year ’ for her work in promoting professional progress of women in The Netherlands and Europe.
Works cited
“Women@Work No8: Women on Boards – Moving Mountains”
Authors: Mirella Visser and Annalisa Gigante
Website
All articles of Mirella Visser
It’s often not the work but the surroundings that make women leave
As a platform for the exchange of best practices in promoting women to decision-making positions in the corporate and political world, EuropeanPWN regularly invites speakers with ...
Editorial December 2009
The number and size of women’s networks and conferences in Europe has grown dramatically over the past decade. The emergence of specific executive and professional women’s groups ...
Editorial October 2009
What is the magical recipe to get out of this economic crisis unscathed? And at the same time become better prepared for the next period of economic growth? According to the recent ...
Editorial June 2009
The image of a trailing partner has never really appealed to me. Trailing has a passive ring to it as it as it suggests that a person gives up her or his professional life to ...
Editorial, May 2009
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it”. We can only hope that these words of wisdom from Einstein are guiding our leaders out of the messy ...
Editorial April 2009
Supervisory authorities in our economic system have failed in their core duty of monitoring and controlling risks. The unbridled selling of financial products, bundling them into ...
Editorial March 2009
“What will be the impact of the crisis on women in the workforce and how can women increase their chances ...
Poll debrief, January 2009
Employers, be aware. If our January poll applies to your workforce, then more than half of your female employees have decided to change jobs this year; most of them will be looking ...
Editorial February 2009
When I was living in Hong Kong, in 1997, I witnessed the handover from British rule to China. Standing in the crowds at Hong Kong Harbour amidst the fireworks, I celebrated and ...
Editorial January 2009
Like Charles Dickens wrote almost 150 years ago in his novel “Great Expectations”, we emerge from a crisis with great expectations. Some of my friends have just lost their job and ...
The third meeting of the European Commission’s Network
The third meeting of the European Commission’s Network of Women in Decision-making in Politics and the Economy took place on December 5 in Brussels ...
Editorial December 2008
“More than ever, in the current economic downturn we will need the best minds and the best leadership to find the most creative solutions, revive growth and prevent such crises in ...
Editorial November 2008
What will be the impact of the financial crisis on the position of women in companies? Budget cuts, layoffs and reorganisations are taking place as we speak. Let’s be realistic: in ...
Editorial October 2008 - Inspiration in the inferno
Timing is everything. Our first edition of the Board Room Round Tables took place on 21 January, the day stock markets recorded a significant loss. The second one was held amidst ...
Editorial September 2008: So what did you miss?
My strategy is to regularly check my favourite newspapers and magazines for articles I may have missed during any absence. My keywords are always the same: women, career women, ...
EuropeanPWN’s annual meeting in Milan 2008
On June 27-28 the EuropeanPWN board and presidents of all networks gathered in Milan for the Annual General Meeting (AGM). In a 1 ½ day session they looked back on past ...
Editorial July 2008 Darwin and Diversity in St Petersburg
Not the most intelligent of species survive, nor the most beautiful or attractive, but it is those who adapt best to changing circumstances. Darwin’s theory of survival started off ...
BoardWomen Monitor 2008
One out of ten board members is female The top 300 European companies now have 9.7% of women on their boards, up from 8.5% in 2006 and 8% in 2004. Of a total 5,146 board seats, ...
EuropeanPWN joins European Commission's Network
EuropeanPWN has chosen to be an active partner in the recently launched European Commission’s network of Women in Decision-making in Politics and the Economy for more than one ...
Editorial May 2008: Solving the supply issues for women in top positions
“The perceived lack of supply” Sometimes an expression can hit you like a ton of bricks. That was what happened to me when I attended the International Colloquium on the UK FTSE ...
Editorial April 2008: Networking makes the world go around
There are as many definitions of networking as there are networkers and even more opinions about the value of networking. Some of us start running for the door when the word comes ...
Celebrating connections at International Women’s Day, March 2008
What started as a movement for women’s rights and universal suffrage has turned into a global day of celebrating women’s achievements. International Women’s Day has become an ...
Women Leading Change - Colette Lewiner PhD
How did a physicist and researcher in the field of energy become successful in the corporate world? What do the words ‘ambition’ and ‘power’ mean to her? What or who inspires her? ...
In the press: EuropeanPWN
Following the publication of our 8th book in the Women@Work series, Women on Boards - Moving Mountains, numerous reviews have been published across Europe. Here is a summary of the ...
From reinforcing to reframing, Feb 2008
The existence of stereotypes is like the elephant at the table; everybody knows about it but nobody talks about it. And like the parable of the blind men each touching a part of ...
Board Room Round Tables January 2008
What can be done to address activist shareholders who don’t comply with transparency rules that listed companies need to abide by? What are the implications on businesses in which ...
Editorial, January 2008
The plan comes together! We couldn’t have wished for a better start of the New EuropeanPWN Year: the successful launch of our first network in Germany and the first meeting of ...
TIAW Global Forum 2007: The European perspective
It never ceases to amaze me: the atmosphere in the room, the tone of voice, the choice of topics and themes, the diversity in speakers, and the colourful and lively audience: ...
Moving Mountains, Moving Minds, November 2007
At the moment of writing this editorial, our next publication in the Women@Work series, 'Women on Boards – Moving Mountains', is being printed. Over the past few months, a ...
Editorial Sept 2007: Celebrating growth and diversity
Celebrating growth and diversity EuropeanPWN’s third annual general meeting took place in June, in the beautiful city of Madrid. This time more than 20 presidents, ...
Women good fit in supervision on pension funds
More women should become part of the supervision on pension funds. A significant part of Dutch pension funds, totalling Euro 700 billion, has been saved up by women and for women. ...
Netherlands “Women in the Picture initiative"
Following the publication of the EPWN European BoardWomen Monitor, Mirella Visser (VP EPWN) along with a group of influential men and women in Amsterdam, decided to take the bull ...
Editorial June 2007: Europe’s hidden treasure
Over 1,000 female leaders from around the world, from business, politics and government, gathered to network in Berlin last week. The conference, called ‘Davos for Women’, focused ...
Editorial July 2006: Striding Ahead For Women's Professional Progress
Did you know that in the past year over 400 events were organised, more than 10,000 women attended EuropeanPWN events all across Europe, and our platform saw 2,500 messages posted ...
Editorial Oct 2006: WINning mood!
There was definitely a WINning mood again, at the 8 th WIN conference in Rome two weeks ago. Again this year inspirational female role models shared their very personal stories ...
Editorial Nov 2006: New solutions for a persistent problem?
The recently published report on the number of women on company boards in the UK paints a bleak picture, which is illustrative for many European countries today. The good news is ...
First Female government a Fact, May 2007
On April 23rd the first-ever cabinet in which women hold a majority was installed in Finland. A world record in this European Year of Equal Opportunities. How did this happen? What ...
It's not who you know, it's who knows you
Interview with Mieke Damen, Vice President Operations of Mexx Europe, EuropeanPWN corporate partner and sponsor of our Women@Work publication no 7: 'Mentoring - A Powerful Tool for ...
Celebrating the Europe in our name, April 2007
March is traditionally the month in which we focus on International Women’s Day, the day to celebrate women’s role in society and business ...
