Welcome to EuropeanPWN, a unique on-line networking and learning community for women and companies seeking to promote women’s professional progress.
EuropeanPWN is Europe’s dynamic fast-growing online and offline networking and leadership development platform for professional women of all sectors and industries. With 3500 members and more than 90 nationalities, EuropeanPWN organizes around 600 events a year in 17 cities: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, London, Lyon, Madrid, Milan, Nice-Côte d’Azur, Oslo, Paris, Stockholm and Vienna.
EuropeanPWN has published 8 books in the Women@Work series and has been widely quoted in the media as opinion leaders on women’s professional progress.
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 up, expecting aggressive selling and overwhelming promotions of less than average products by people with more than average ‘flux de bouche’. After all, if you or your product is that good, you don’t need to sell them because people will actually come up and hire you or buy your product just like that. So why network? More
EuropeanPWN events calendar
Women leading change: Elvira Luykx
How a communications professional became the driving force of a sports innovation programme, teaming up with Olympic athletes from all over the world.
A personal interview with Elvira Luykx, Director Media Relations & Sponsoring at DSM.
personal interview
THINK TANK GROUP
Recognition and reward for efforts key to women’s career satisfaction
The Think Tank Group “What is it like for working women in your country” has finalized its survey. It concludes that women, across regions and demographics, desire first and foremost work environments which are, ideally, meritocratic and reward them fairly vis-à-vis their male colleagues for their efforts. However, most women believe this type of environment does not reflect reality due to the large pay-gap that continues to exist between men and women. Achieving parity in pay is a much more important driver of career satisfaction for women than ensuring strong social benefits, such as government run programs, child care, etc… more
Introducing EuropeanPWN’s BusinessXchange
Women mean business. We are delighted to announce the launch of a new functionality on our fantastic online platform : BusinessXchange.
BusinessXchange is designed to help members network for business. Whether you are the founder of a start-up in search of investors, an international tax advisor in Madrid, a manager of an Italian shoe manufacturer looking for distributors in the UK, or a coach who wants to advertise her next workshop in Paris, BusinessXchange will allow you to introduce your business in a short and crisp way, and to specify the type of contacts you are looking for: customers, suppliers, partners, distributors or investors.
This searchable directory is a resource for all members — those offering their services and those looking for providers. Just imagine that all 3,500 EuropeanPWN members’ businesses are listed – it will be our first resource when we urgently need to find a PR agency in a foreign city!
As a directory directly linked to the members who represent the business listed, BusinessXchange is unique in a community network. It was designed according to your specifications and to meet your needs for efficient and non-intrusive business promotion and business exchange.
For great business deals, we invite you to check BusinessXchange. You will find it on the menu of the members-only platform, together with greater detail on how it works. Your comments and suggestions are very welcome. Please send these to websteering@europeanpwn.net
Think Tank Groups: participate to the surveys
Both surveys will run until end April and are gathering information from members and non-members – feel free to distribute the information around you. Results will be published in EuropeanPWN newsletter.
How do women network?
Networking is key to a successful and balanced career. Some of us do it instinctively, others are trying to master it and the rest are still questioning. Measuring is key for understanding the state of the art, this is why we are running this survey ’How do women network?’: anyone can answer. Feel free to pass it to your own contact list! Click here for the survey (approx. 10 minutes)
International mobility
This survey will help depict values and issues of mobility for women; such knowledge being useful for HR departments, as well as for women themselves. It targets any woman having lived an expatriation, whether as the assignee or as the accompanying spouse. To complete the survey click here (approx. 4 minutes)
Board members address key issues on corporate governance at first EuropeanPWN – IMD Board Room Round Tables
Information gathering, long-term value creation and board composition are the key issues facing board members in the upcoming years. This notion was the consensus opinion expressed by 15 prominent female board members from different industries, different nationalities and from various European countries during the first Boardroom Roundtable discussion in Amsterdam organized
by the European Professional Women’s Network in cooperation with IMD, a leading business school based in Switzerland. More
EuropeanPWN’s contributing artist Caterina Zandonella awarded ‘Best Italian Illustration 2008’ award
EuropeanPWN proudly congratulates Caterina Zandonella, the young and gifted graphic artist who illustrated EuropeanPWN’s book Women@Work No. 7 Mentoring — A Powerful Tool For Women for winning one of the awards for ‘Best Italian Illustration’ from the Associazione Illustratori Italiani (Association of Italian illustrators) for one of the drawings she did for our mentoring book. Women have always been quite central to Caterina’s work. After she worked on the mentoring book, she continued to work with great success on illustrating the theme of ‘Women in business’. Visit her website
In the Press: EuropeanPWN
Following the publication of our 8th book in the Women@Work series Women on Boards – Moving Mountains numerous articles have been published across Europe. The article ‘Business misses the female touch’ in The Independent on 7 December 2007 (UK) mentions that the book has identified the key issues which hold women back from striving for a board position such as lack of visibility and lack of experience. It also highlights the fact that companies need to become more creative and take more risks in this area. Here is a summary of the wide variety of messages the press picked up on so far More
EuropeanPWN publishes its 8th book in the Women@Work series, ‘Women on Boards – Moving Mountains’
EuropeanPWN provides compelling evidence for the need to promote more women board members to European companies. The EuropeanPWN BoardWomen monitor conducted by Egon Zehnder in 2006 showed that only 8.5% of corporate boardroom seats in the top 300 European companies are held by women. In “Women on Boards – Moving Mountains”, EuropeanPWN in association with Mercer, analysed the profiles of the 100 top women compared to their male counterparts and provides advice for both companies and women on board diversity. More…
PRESS PRESENTATION WOB - MOVING MOUNTAINS
PRESS RELEASE WOB - MOVING MOUNTAINS
EuropeanPWN recognized as one of Europe’s leading voices!
EuropeanPWN’s president Mirella Visser has been nominated by the prestigious European Voices (a publication from the Economist Group) as European of the Year 2007 and Campaigner of the Year 2007.
The jury nominated EuropeanPWN “for promoting the professional progress of women and gender diversity programmes to help women and corporations succeed together”. Read the official Nomination Text here. More…
The winners have been announced at the Award Ceremony on November 27 in Brussels.
See the first article in European Voice here
www.ev50.org
Press release
EV50 Gala Photos
The EV50 – 2007’ magazine may be downloaded here
"EV50 presentation of Mirella Visser as campaigner of the year"
News
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 ...
TT Group: Recognition and reward for efforts key to women’s career satisfaction
“What is it like for working women in your country” Think Tank Group launched a survey in order to explore different experiences and perceptions, not only across European countries ...
Stress tactics
It is interesting to see that while this poll’s number of propositions were many, it also gathered the more respondents then usual (134 compared to an average of 80). How to ...
Interview with Elvira Luykx
How did you first get involved in sponsoring? ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ has always figured in my career. Sponsoring activities in this area have been part of my work from ...
