As a female entrepreneur and looking at diversity as a business case, I have invested quite some effort in supporting more females onto a path to a leadership position. Either in their own company as startup founder or thriving an ambitious career in an SME or...
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Interview with Iryna Pakhomova
To get more insights on the terrible crisis in Ukraine, Iryna Pakhomova, a Ukrainian entrepreneur (CEO and co-founder of Nurtio Technologies) living in the Netherlands, shares her vision on the war and explains how we could help with our Female Ventures community....
Why having friends of different ages matters.
In this blogpost we highlight a wonderful article on one of our key values; building a cross generation community. As Female Ventures we strongly believe why it is so important to not only talk to your companion school friends or student mates, who are all similar...
Connecting to Tessa de Flines, city coordinator at Delft/the Hague
I wish I had had the knowledge I have now when I was starting my career about the internal barriers and unconscious biases that women face. I really only became aware of these when I read Lean In 8 years ago. If we as Female Ventures can create more awareness on these...
In conversation with Marjolein Steinebach
Marjolein Steinebach is the Female Ventures City Coordinator for The Hague and Delft. She took over as City Coordinator at a challenging time – March 2020 to be exact. However, that hasn’t stopped her motivations to uplift business women and host engaging events...
Interview Delft/The Hague Willemien van Musschenbroek Greve
Female Ventures is there to give support to conscious planning of women’s careers! But who are these women, what is driving them and how do they make their career choices? We kick off a series of interviews with the women of Female Ventures with Willemien van...
A Women Makes A Plan
‘A woman makes a plan’ according to May Musk, the mother of Elon Musk, in her latest book. May brings an inspiring story about ‘out of the box’ thinking parents and shows the bravery to make harsh decisions for her and her kids. May tells us a story of how you can be...
Female leadership in tough times. Are you resilient enough?
Extra-ordinary times ask for leadership on your part. Whether you are in a formal leadership role, or working as a professional in remote modus. Leadership however is not that evident for us women. A lot of us take care of others before we take care of ourselves....
Diversity and Innovation in Westland
Talking to Colinda de Beer; Colinda, can you tell us a bit more about your activities ? ‘I am a business developer for InnovationQuarter, the regional development agency for the South Holland province in the Netherlands. My focus is facilitate innovation by bringing...
Building a Relationship With Your Mentor
Written for the Female Ventures Blog by Anne Pleun van EijsdenIn this third part of the series about mentors in your business and career, I would like to dive into the topic of how to work with a mentor. Now that the real difficult part of finding a mentor is over,...