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I am many things: an entrepreneur, an EU policy advisor, a podcaster, a workplace transformer, a volunteer and a mum. After a 14 year career in European Public Affairs and running EU advocacy and communication campaigns, I co-founded my company the WorkLife HUB in 2014. We help companies create vibrant workplaces for employees to thrive. I am producing the WorkLife HUB podcast, which has 5000 listeners in over 20 countries.
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Now with a PhD in the psychology of human values and wellbeing, Jackie originally qualified as a behavioural ecology. After her first degree Jackie spent two years helping to reintroduce chimpanzees to the wild in River Gambia National Park. Subsequently her career has meandered through different roles in nature conservation and economic regeneration to the present day and specialising in values and culture - still working with behaviour within a context but the jungle is much more concrete nowadays. As a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and a member of the CMI Subject Matter Experts Group Jackie champions the part that values play in individual and collective performance and advocate for more consciously values based cultures in workplaces large and small. Values are a golden thread through all types and sizes of organisation. Values are key to understanding the 'why' behind 'what' gets decided and acted upon. Jackie has been working with one of the world’s leading values profiling tools since 2005 employing it with individuals, groups, teams, consortia and partnerships. Frequently values consciousness positively changes working practice and performance and sometimes even literally transform lives. While the theory of values and culture is interesting stuff, it is the everyday stories of real people and how values awareness can create meaning, increasing motivation, that audiences find really fascinating.
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Rabbi Avi Tawil is currently Director of the European Jewish Community Centre (EJCC), a Brussels based non-profit organisation that promotes Jewish Culture in Europe. The EJCC highlights the roots of Jewish culture in the European family for over millennia and its contribution to an inclusive European culture. In addition to that, it aims to encourage those who identify with Jewish culture to welcome our common responsibility and duty to the European Project which we are proud to belong. He was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied rabbinical studies, Jewish Philosophy, and Kabalah in the Rabbinical College of Canada in Montreal, Seminar of Jewish studies in Manchester, UK and at the Yeshivah Gedolah in Safed, Israel. He was ordained as Rabbi in the headquarters of Chabad in Brooklyn, NY, and taught Jewish Philosophy in the Yeshivah Gedolah of Buenos Aires. During 2001–2003 he was responsible for educational and humanitarian programmes with the Jewish community of Cuba and Patagonia. Since 2004, he lives in Brussels, Belgium with his wife and four young children, where he has developed a number of cultural projects aimed at intercultural dialogue in Europe. He has participated in several lectures and conferences where he advocated for better understanding and mutual respect between cultures and religions.
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Fields of interest: Brussels, Germany, Europe, Society of Jesus Alain Deneef (born in 1960) is a Belgian entrepreneur, urban expert and coalition builder. He is currently intendant of Brussels Metropolitan, a Belgian employers’ coalition at federal (Federation of Belgian Enterprises (FEB-VBO)) and regional (Brussels Entreprises Commerce and Industry (BECI), VOKA and Union wallonne des entreprises (UWE)) levels. As an expert in urban issues and civil society, he is the founder and president of Aula Magna, a Brussels based think-tank created in 2005. He helped to launch and coordinate in 2008 the Citizen’s Forum of Brussels, a unique effort in mobilizing civil society around the future of Brussels. This endeavor won the Flemish Prijs voor de Democratie in July 2010. As businessman, he has held top management positions in Canal+ Belgium (deputy general manager), Belgacom (Executive Vice-President) and the SNCB - the Belgian railway company (Chairman of the Board), among others, and several positions as director in BT Belgium, CIT Blaton and Carmeuse. Currently a strategic consultant, he helps medium and large organizations foresee the impact of technological, financial, social, demographic, environmental, urban and political change on their future. He has served as president of a number of clubs and associations amongst which the Alumni association of the Jesuit Collège Saint-Michel (Bruxelles). Since August 2013, he is the president of the World Union of Jesuit Alumni (WUJA). He was also president of the Brussels chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) and is currently a member of the World Presidents’ Organization (WPO). He is also the Executive Officer of the European Quarter Fund, a corporate fund managed by the King Baudouin Foundation, which acts as a bridge between public and private actors in the European Quarter in Brussels. Closely linked to the latter, he is also involved as president in the European Quarter Area Management Association (EQuAMA), which endeavors to animate public spaces and to create events in this area of Brussels. In the sport field, he is the Secretary General of the European Sports Academy (ESA), which aims at creating a center of excellence for the Belgian and European sporting elite. He is further a director of the Brussels Studies Institute. He was educated at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where he obtained the degrees of Business Engineer (Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management) and Law and Philosophy (1984). He is currently finalizing a Master in History at the same university. He is fluent in French, Dutch, English and German. He lives in Ixelles (Brussels Region).
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Alanda co-founded and manage Sinergi Muda, a youth-run social enterprise that connects likeminded youth from all across Indonesia to collaborate on creating social change through programmes like the Indonesian Youth Conference, which has become Indonesia's biggest independently-organised youth event in 5 years. She is a British Council's Global Changemaker and One Young World Ambassador. Alanda has published best-selling books on youth empowerment issues and spoken in high-level engagements, including the London G-20 Summit 2009, 100th International Labour Conference and Pontifical Council for Culture’s Plenary Assembly 2013, among others. Alanda has worked for Indonesia's Presidential Delivery Unit for Development Monitoring and Oversight, Microsoft, and Unilever prior to joining a social innovation fellowship at The DO School, which she is currently completing.
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Alvin campaigns for policy changes to address poverty. In 2015 he ran the First Job Opportunities programme. First Job Opportunities are jobs-with-training for people in poverty who have never had a job. The first major success was the use of a procurement model which states that for every £1m spent on public procurement, one first job opportunity is created. Now, contracts in total worth over £760m are implementing the model. As a community organiser, Alvin led the Citizens’ Inquiry into the Tottenham Riots. This was the community-led response to the events that shocked England in the summer of 2011. This grassroots effort engaged 10,000 local people and led to jobs for young people and the suspension of section 60 stop and searches in the area. Alvin advises governments and global corporations on leadership and social impact. He is an advisor to a €5 million research project that is examining the obstacles and opportunities affecting youth employment in Europe. He is currently advising the government of Trinidad and Tobago to support the establishment of its statutory National Youth Commission. In 2014 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship to research how community leaders are addressing social exclusion across the US. Alvin has lectured at the University of Connecticut, has delivered keynote speeches in the House of Lords, and has debated in Cambridge Union. He has also appeared on CNN, BBC, Televisión Española, AFP, and Channel 4 to discuss politics and economics. He was selected to attend the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 in Davos. Before completing his master’s degree in social policy at the LSE, Alvin ran soup kitchens and did research for the think-tank Demos. He has also worked for the social business Catch22 focused on crime, youth justice, and gangs. Outside of work he has been boxing since he was 16 and is a former British Grand Champion of the Korean martial art Tang Soo Do and won bronze in the world competition.
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Insightful and inspiring teacher with a deep understanding of team/group dynamics.
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I've been user interface designer, sitebuilder, e-learning specialist and now my focus is on growing a happy, effective and value-oriented team. Building an agile company for me is a cultural factor, and is not a matter of methodology. I am surrounded by a couple of excellent problem solvers. I am not good in this. The connection means more to me than the answer. I prefer the piano to chess. Jiu jitsu to swimming. I am engaged in building trust among team members. I am motivated to form a working environment where everyone can find his/her voice and expectations. Where growth and flow determine each day. Where common practice dictates the schedule. I am moving on borderlines. When I get into something, I always start seeking other areas where I can adopt the new knowledge. I appreciate when something is easily defined, and I can join the process from the very beginning. In my free time I am looking for new topics, when I get obsessed by something, it happens that I get addicted for years. Newly I got caught by Brasilian jiu jitsu and bowing folk music for Transylvanian folk dance of Szék.
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Professor; Jean Monnet Chair ad personam
Prof. Sharon Pardo (Ph.D., Ghent University, Faculty of Political and Social Studies) is a Jean Monnet Chair ad personam in European studies in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Chair of the National Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence – the Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society (CSEPS), as well as the Chair of the Bologna Training Centre (BTC) at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is the co-editor of Europe and the World book series by Lexington Books. Prof. Pardo is an adjunct fellow at the National Centre for Research on Europe (NCRE), University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and a member of the Board of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR). His research interests focus on the legal and political dimensions of European Union foreign and security policy. Prof. Pardo also has significant interest in the development of the Euro-Mediterranean region and in Israeli-European Union relations. He has published widely on these issues and is the author of Normative Power Europe Meets Israel: Perceptions and Realities (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015), and the co-author (with Joel Peters) of Israel and the European Union: A Documentary History (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012, 2014) and Uneasy Neighbors: Israel and the European Union (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010). Prof. Pardo teaches courses on the European integration process, diplomacy and public international law.
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Dr. Elizabeth O'Day is the CEO and founder of Olaris Therapeutics a pharmaceutical company that develops precision medicines for diseases with little to no treatment options and dismal survival rates. Olaris technology will fundamentally change how these diseases are treated and diagnosed. Dr. O'Day is also the founder of Lizzard Fashion, an apparel company that uses fashion to promote science. Like feedback loops studied by scientists, science inspires fashion and fashion supports science. Partial Lizzard proceeds support cancer research. Additionally, Dr. O'Day initiated Proyecto Chispa (Project Spark), which recycles electronics and uses the resale of parts to build computer centers in orphanages throughout Latin America. She is also the founder of "Women in Science & Technology" (WST) at Boston College. WST is in its 7th year and has provided over 500 high-school-aged females and college students the opportunity to learn about careers in science. Dr. O’Day received her PhD from Harvard University. where she was a National Science Foundation fellow. She was one of eleven America scientists awarded a Winston Churchill fellowship and received a Master’s of Philosophy in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge. She has a Bachelors of Science degree from Boston College in Biochemistry. She was awarded all of the nation’s top undergraduate research honors (Beckman scholar, Goldwater Scholar, Churchill Fellow, NSF Fellow, National Institute of Chemistry Excellence Award).
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Frank Fredericks is the founder of World Faith, a global interfaith development organization, and Mean Communications, a digital agency. After graduating from NYU, Frank worked in the music industry, managing artists such as Lady Gaga. In 2006, he founded World Faith, a youth-led interfaith organization active in 15 countries. As an active blogger, Frank has contributed to the Huffington Post, Washington Post, and Sojourners. Frank has been interviewed on Good Morning America, NPR, and New York Magazine. He is an alumnus of the IFYC Fellowship, Soliya Fellowship, AMENDS at Stanford, YouthActionNet Fellowship, and the Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship. Frank resides in New York with his wife, fervently reading, cooking, learning a language at any given time, and performing as a musician and songwriter. Frank is a Global Shapers Community Scholarship recipient at Oxford's Said Business School.
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