MENTORING PROGRAMME 2012
EPWN Madrid’s Mentoring Programme 2012 is starting on Feb. 9th with a special session organized at the Centro de Innovación BBVA (CIBBVA). Two weeks ago, the Mentoring Team shared with members all the information about this year’s edition, that included the 18 different Mentoring opportunities that are available thanks to the generosity of our senior members.
The Mentoring Programme is one of most valuable contributions of EPWN to help develop women’s professional progress.
If you’d like to acces to the information shared and Mentor’s profiles please click here
Mentoring is for EPWN members only, but we’re making a last call to new members, so you are still on time to join us and send us your choice.
If you’ve already applied as Mentee, you are welcome to register to attend Mentoring Kick-off session on Feb 9th.
EPWN Madrid’s Christmas Lunch
Ana García Fau, President of EPWN MAdrid
European Professional Women’s Network, celebrated the end of it’s 5th Anniversary year, during the 2011 Christmas Lunch in Madrid with over 150 people. Among those attending were members, guests and representatives from Alcatel Lucent, Cisco, IE Business School, Ford, Oracle, Orange and Accenture, who is recently joining EPWN’s panel of corporate partners.
“The exchange of knowledge with our corporate partners is essential to keep on progressing” said Ana García Fau, President of EPWN Madrid “For 2012 we are proposing them an intense level of activity to identify factors, experiences and best practices to jointly promote the professional advancement of women”.
“EPWN is a firm believer in the value proposal of the role of women and their style of leadership to business competitiveness and economic growth. We are convinced,” added García Fau, “that the strengthening of women’s representation in government bodies must be promoted from within the organization, recognizing and making viable the development of their careers”.
The President of EPWN Madrid pointed out the importance of Mentoring programs to members, that has benefited more than 400 professionals through these 5 years. In 2012, EPWN is putting special focus on entrepreneurial women, creating two specific mentoring programs for entrepreneurship to help them implement, consolidate, expand and internationalize their business. It will feature two renowned mentors: Catherine Hoffmann, CEO of Vitalia Day Centres, who has just presented her company’s case study at Harvard, and Ana María Picó, founder of the chain of frozen yogurt Oh!myGod, in full expansion.
EPWN is devising a one-to-one senior mentoring program for women situated in upper management positions with the objective to orient them to boards. High executives from the companies that support to the association, will be among mentors for these sessions.
Equally EPWN will continue to innovate with new proposals such as the cross-company Mentoring program created between Coca-Cola, IBM and American Express.
To this gathering attended Eva Levy, Human Resources consultant, Inma Castellanos of Acens, Margarita de Cos of WWF and Delegate of the Global Summit of Women in Spain, the Founder of Sapos y Princesas Norah Curtin, along with all the Board of EPWN Madrid, amongst others.
At the end of the meeting, the Board of EWPN Madrid appreciated the collaboration of the sponsors of the lunch: Agoranews, Acens, BBVA, Efecto Energía, Hostal Cardenal and Living the City.
Excellent photos by Ania from http://www.fotobranding.com
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Living the Mentoring Experience
EPWN Madrid Mentoring Event hosted at ESADE Business School, Nov. 2011
On November 22nd, EPWN Madrid closed its 5th Annual Mentoring Program, with an event in which human resource directors of Accenture and Coca-Cola and other positions of responsibility from IBM, Oracle and American Express, shared their best practices on Mentoring.
The event was hosted by ESADE Business School and over 120 participants attended. Elisa Andres, Career Services Manager of ESADE Alumni, welcomed the audience and Ana Garcia Fau, President of EPWN Madrid presented the event. She pointed out “the proven effectiveness of mentoring as a tool for motivation and learning, which is crucial to lever the professional careers of women within organizations. And therefore, EPWN offers these programs to their associates since 2006 and has inspired companies like Oracle, Coca-Cola and American Express to develop innovative mentoring programs such as the cross-company Mentoring within Coca-Cola, Oracle and American Express” .
During the event, EPWN showcased the main findings and conclusions of mentors and mentees who have participated in this 5th Group Mentoring program. This Mentoring format was created in 2006 by Araceli Cabezon and Rosa de la Calzada, both now members of the Board of EPWN Madrid.
Since its creation in 2006, 47 mentors and 263 mentees have participated.
On January 2012, the 6th Edition of the EPWN Madrid Mentoring program will be announced.
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EPWN Madrid’s Mentoring Event Program
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EPWN Madrid’s Mentoring Event
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A Successful Event for Entrepreneurs in Madrid
On October 24, EuropeanPWN Madrid celebrated its first event on Entrepreneurship, within this new stage headed by Ana García Fau.
A mass gathering with over a hundred attendees, brought together women and men with a common denominator: passion for entrepreneurship and success. As founders and directors of companies that cover different segments of the leisure and tourism sector, they offered EPWN audience an interesting and valuable testimony about his entrepreneurial adventure.
Carlota Mateos founder of Rusticae, Ana Picó owner of O!MyGood, Diego Ballesteros co-founder of SinDelantal.com and Sarah Hailoua creator of Chance, unveiled us the motivations that led them to launch their businesses. They shared the main keys to their success, best advice, and even a Decalogue to avoid the most common errors for start-ups.
Marta Gil-Casares, Vice President of Entrepreneurs of EPWN Madrid, chaired and moderated the event along with Ignacio Llorente, Director of the San Pablo CEU business school, who highlighted the enormous interest of knowledge exchange shared during this meeting. Both agreed on the relevance of the questions from the audience and the warm generosity of the speakers, to give the best of if in this meeting.
After the talk, there was plenty of time for Networking among atendees and our guest speakers, which is one of core purposes of EuropeanPWN. The event was hosted at the NH Principe de Vergara, thanks to the generosity of our corporate partner, NH Hotels.
In the photo, from left to right: Ignacio Llorente, director of San Pablo CEU Business School, Carlota Mateos Partner and President of Rusticae, Diego Ballesteros co-Founder of SinDelantal.com, Marta Gil-Casares VP of Entrepreneurship and Analena Coronado VP of Events both from EPWN Madrid, Ana Picó owner of O!MyGood, Sarah Halioua founder of Chance, Evaristo Babé co-Founder of SinDelantal.com
EPWN Spain: Julia López, new VP of Corporate Partnership
Julia López, has just been unanimously appointed new VP of Corporate Partnership by the EPWN Madrid’s Board. Former VP, Paloma Pérez Bravo let the position at the Board’s disposition due increasing responsibilities, consequence of a professional promotion.
Julia López, joined EPWN in 2006 and has been a very active member since. Among other contributions, she’s led the Events organization within the EPWN Planning Committee from 2008-2011, making possible that EPWN members enjoy a vast number of seminars, workshops and events.
In 2009 she started the program Women Interest Network (WIN) in Spain to foster leadership for women at American Express where she has implemented successfully a series of different initiatives.
As VP of Corporate Partnership Julia intends to “tap into our alliances network and through knowledge exchange from our partners, to have a bearing on the professional development reality of women in Spain”
Julia has been involved on Professional Women matters achieving visibility for EPWN and playing an important role as speaker on major events. She is an appreciated member of the Spanish delegation attending the Global Summit of Women, and was speaker on the Global Diversity Colloquium 2011, in Washington DC. She’s just come back from the 3rd European Congress of Women in Varsovia, where she’s participated on the round table : “How to strengthen the leadership of women”.
Congratulations Julia!
FACE-TO-FACE WITH INNOVATION
EPWN Madrid "Innovation: The Path to Growth" Click to watch complete video footage from the event
EPWN Madrid has offered members the opportunity of a close experience with acknowledged innovation experts coming from different sectors, and representing BBVA, Ford, Everis and La Red Innova. Closing speech was carried out by the General Secretary of Innovation, from the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain.
The event was held under the claim “Innovation: the Path to Growth”. EPWN, along with corporate partners BBVA and Ford, gathered more than 70 attendees at the Centro de Innovación BBVA. This outstanding venue hosted a brilliant and diverse group of guests. Each offered a different approach on Innovation as key driver to businesses growth and evolution.
Main topics have been: talent management as a driver to organizational innovation; innovation as the key to growth on a traditional industry such as Banking; product innovation based on consumer insights, and trends on entrepeneurshp based on new technologies and social communciation.
Marijo Bos, President of EPWN Federation, chaired and moderated a dynamic debate in which the attendees had the chance to join the discussion with our guest speakers.
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1st Pan European Event connects people from 18 countries
On 10 February, in Madrid, EuropeanPWN connected more than 200 of its leaders and stakeholders across cultures, generations, genders, functions and sectors….and TOGETHER, we pushed the progress of women in business! The 1st Pan European event titled, Tapping Into Talent, linked more than 15 partners/sponsors, 20 speakers from Women on Boards to the women and men across the leadership pipeline, entrepreneurs, authors, futurists and EuropeanPWN members and guests from 18 countries.
What is EuropeanPWN – Spain?
EuropeanPWN is a cross-sector networking and training platform for professional women with an international outlook. Our mission is to promote the professional progress of women in business. We believe that women can learn from other women by sharing success stories and experiences, management and leadership capabilities and business networks. Through regular guest speaker events, learning programs, networking activities and a rich online platform, EuropeanPWN – Spain brings together management-level women from a variety of industries and functions from large multinational companies, mid size and entrepreneurial businesses to public service and academic professionals. Our objective is to provide a setting for a cross-generational and diverse group of professional women to network, share experiences and participate in developmental programs.
As a member, you receive our local and European newsletters and have the opportunity to take part in our members-only events, such as our mentoring program and networking socials.
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¿Sabías que EuropeanPWN cuenta con más de 3.000 miembros de 75 nacionalidades y networks en 17 ciudades europeas? Es una plataforma multi-sectorial de contactos y formación para mujeres profesionales con perspectiva internacional. Nuestro objetivo es la promoción del progreso de las mujeres en el ámbito profesional y ofrecer los instrumentos, redes de contacto y formación necesarios para asumir cargos de responsabilidad. Saber más sobre la historia, fundadoras y actividades de EuropeanPWN en este artículo.
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Events
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Membership gives you access to EuropeanPWN’s state-of-the art on-line networking platform. You can connect with 3000 interesting, smart, international business women across Europe.
Membership costs just €135 for the 2011 calendar year. More info here…
Meet our members
Interested in joining EuropeanPWN – Spain? Just drop in to our Monthly Networking Cocktails every Last Thursday of the month (Madrid) or Second Tuesday (Barcelona) – locations and times are published on the EuropeanPWN member’s calendar.
Getting involved
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How are we doing?
We want to get feedback from you, our members! Please let us know what we can do to make the association more relevant for you. What do you think of our guest speakers, mentoring program, networking drinks? Please feel free to suggest activities, events and programs to support the mission of EuropeanPWN-Spain: Connecting, Sharing and Learning for Women across levels.
Now we are running EPWN Spain 2011 Members Survey You can complete the survey by clicking here
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