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Swarm evening: Theory U and embodiment

We will meet on March 20, 2024 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in person in the conference area of ​​WeiberWirtschaft eG in Berlin , together with Lukas Herrmann and moderated by Dr. Claudia Neusüß , to discuss ideas on Theory U and Embodiment (according to Otto Scharmer) and test out selectively. What potential does…

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Congratulations on International Women’s Day!

To all extraordinary women, business partners, colleagues and friends – whether they are starting or leading companies, advancing science or enduring hardship in conflict zones – your strength, resilience and determination show us a path forward. Your stories inspire us to overcome borders, defend democracy and build a world of equality. We feel honored to…

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Addressing the gender pay gap in 2024 as well

Pay equity stands for fairness and job satisfaction. The Gender Pay Gap (GPG) is unfair. It’s good that legislators are also constantly dealing with this in order to create a better normative framework. Around a year ago, the European Parliament and Council passed the Pay Transparency Directive 2023/970, which aims to further close the GPG…

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Outstanding: Dr. Philine Sandhu

Dr. Philine Sandhu is researching how more diversity can be introduced and maintained in management positions, executive boards and supervisory boards. More diversity promotes better risk management and better ESG performance in companies, she explains in the Berlin University of Science and Law podcast . Philine Sandhu was recently named one of the leading 100…

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Networking of business women: event

The networking and exchange of experiences with Ukrainian businesswomen will continue in the digital event “Crisis Management Experiences from NEDS in Ukraine” on February 16, 2024. Hosted by Women on Boards Ukraine | WoB.ua and the Berlin School of Economics and Law / HWR. Here is the link to the event (English). The co-founder of…

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Happy New Year

Here’s to a new year full of action. What we can do? Exchange ideas, pool skills, broaden perspectives. Overcome obstacles together. In good company. We look forward to working together and exchanging ideas with you this year! Let’s make change.   “I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They’re really wonderful, but nothing…

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Zweifeln als Talk & Walk des Führungsalltags

Führungskräfte wollen die Kreativität, Diversität und Eigenständigkeit von Teammitgliedern und Mitarbeiter*innen unterstützen. Sie wollen Innovation und einen sichtbaren, nachhaltigen Wandel der Organisation ermöglichen. Gleichzeitig agieren sie häufig unter großem Zeit-, Effizienz- und Ergebnisdruck. Wie können Führungskräfte entscheiden, ohne gleichermaßen relevante Dimension zu vernachlässigen? Mit dem französischen Philosophen Jaques Derrida kommen wir hierbei nicht ohne Zweifel…

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AI think tank for female entrepreneurs

KITE II has gained momentum. The AI-supported application to be developed in the KITE project is intended to support female founders in becoming more resilient in dealing with discriminatory experiences in the start-up process. At the first advisory board meeting in an extended circle with the new project management by Nicola Marsden Lab for Social…

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Empowerment of Ukrainian women entrepreneurs

We are pleased to support the empowerment of Ukrainian women entrepreneurs and their market access to the European Union, even in times of the Russian war of aggression. Claudia Neusüß & Sabine Hübner from the compassorange team support the conception, speakers and implementation of the “Women in Business” event with giz / giz Ukraine .…

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What moves the experts in our swarm? Jana Hornberger about spaces for a new way of working together

As an independent trainer, consultant, coach and process facilitator, I am primarily concerned with the question of how we can learn to interact constructively and benevolently with one another and how we can succeed in sustainably changing societal structures of inequality and discrimination. I am committed to a society in which connection and constructive cooperation…

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Female Career Days 2023

The hybrid Career Days also met with great interest in 2023. The Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg organized the Career Days with partner institutions, including the German Research Foundation and the Female Scientist Network. The welcoming speech was given by Prof. Dr. Daniela Dieterich (Dean of the Medical Faculty, OVGU). Organization and inputs from Dr.…

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Empowering Ukrainian Businesswomen in Export Sector

Ukrainian businesswomen working in the export sector are welcomed to participate in the #WomenInBusinessInspirationalTalks on November 2, 2023. The talks take place to stimulate the empowerment of the sector’s businesswomen and their market access to the European Union, even in times of the Russian war of aggression. In collaboration with giz and giz Ukraine Claudia…

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Feminist leadership

Feminist foreign policy is discussed a lot, thanks in part to Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and author and activist Kristina Lunz, co-CEO of the Center for Feminist Foreign Policy. But feminist leadership? Feminist leadership does not describe women in leadership positions. It’s more about questioning common attitudes and translating feminist principles into forms of…

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Katrin Unger moderating: women start a business, digitally and sustainably

In the 2nd expert hearing of the project “Female founders promote green business”, organized by bundesweite gründerinnenagentur (bga), women brought together their concentrated (practical) know-how about founding, digitization and sustainability. Because women are already rocking a lot in social enterprises, reports the German Entrepreneurship Monitor, but are underrepresented in the start-up scene. Senior consultant Katrin…

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#Equality Now!

On July 1, 2023, Martha Büllesbach, Head of the Women’s and Equal Opportunities Policy/Organization Department of the DGB district of Bavaria, and Lida Andric-Geuder from her team invited trade unionists from DGB district and city associations to a summer retreat. Goal of the retreat: Strengthen the participation of women on a full-time and voluntary level,…

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Black (dis)abled Power

Our compassorange consultant Judy Gummich supports a project that we would like to draw attention to. Das Projekt heißt Afro-diasporische Communities und Behinderung (AdiCoBe) – Black (dis) abled Power. AdiCoBe aims to make visible people with African roots and disabilities as a particularly vulnerable group and in their individual life situations. This is because the…

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Fight gender-based violence!

This year’s Anne Klein Women’s Prize went to Joumana Seif. The Syrian lawyer fights for human and women’s rights, for women’s participation and for the recognition of gender-based violence as a crime against humanity. dr Imme Scholz, board member of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, honored the award winner, Lotte Leicht, a lawyer specializing in international…

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Compatibility of science and motherhood

In our career advice and support for female scientists, the issue of reconciling work and family is still an important issue and an area of conflict for many women. This is despite the fact that many organizations are struggling to be more family-friendly and universities have improved their offers in many cases. It’s not enough.…

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Season Greetings

We would like to thank our business partners and swarm partners for the trusting cooperation in 2022 in fruitful cooperation, numerous learning journeys, in change and development processes. Have a good end of the year, time for the things that are important to you and best wishes for 2023! We look forward to working with…

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Sustainable business needs innovators – Dr. Philine Sandhu

The network for sustainable management (B.A.U.M.) has awarded this year’s sustainability prize. Since 1993, the award has been given to people who are responsible for and operationalize environmental and sustainability management and who set innovations in motion to do so. Philine Sandhu received this year’s B.A.U.M. prize in the science category. She heads the continuing…

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Save the date: October 25, 2022 – Unconscious bias in companies. How prejudice affects careers.

On October 25, 2022, Patricia Redzewsky and Dr. Claudia Neusüß provide a digital interactive input on the topic: How do stereotypes and prejudices show up in everyday work and how do they influence professional development? How will recruiting and performance appraisal become inclusive, diverse and gender-focused? The organizer is Mission Female. Interested parties can register…

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Fair working conditions: Digital Female Leader Award

Congratulations to our strategic partners Dr. Tanja Schmidt and Dr. Verena Tobsch | Ines Analytics for the Digital Female Leader Award! Fair_Solution offers a highly innovative science-based software tool for companies and organizations that analyzes working conditions and shows options for fair working conditions. Coordinates such as payment, promotion, recruitment, and diversity, equal opportunities and…

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