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Market Research Alert!! Dear beTwinos community, We would love to ask you for a favour. 🙏🏼 We have launched a Market Research for a solution. Thanks so much for taking less than 10 minutes to respond to the questions in an anonymous way. Reposting, Sharing with your network would be greatly appreciated❤️ The link can be found in the comments field 👇🏽

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Year End Reviews can be powerful, when used as a moment to reflect on the learnings and accomplishements as a jump start for the next year. So we did our reflection at beTwinos in 2023, which happens to be our first year! We would love to share the milestones with our dear community. Have a look here below 👇🏽 At the end of the reflection exercise, the betwinos team crystalized the vision to build inclusive and healthy workplaces, standing on 5 solid pillars: 1. Connecting people within self and with each other 2. Connecting organizations with their people  3. Connecting the dots between industries 4. Connecting the dots between tech and human skills 5. Connecting the challenges with opportunities last but not least taking a moment to thank our big supporters of the first hour: Iris Loew-Friedrich Myriam Broeders Loutfi Belghmidi Beatrice de Mahieu Marijke Schroos Leila Sellami elke 🌱 kraemer (she / her) Rein Meirte (She/her) Ionut Pasalau-Cioaba Joseph Grech PCC, FCIPD Become Coaching & Training team Leen Vermeersch ✨ Karolien Vanhelden Cosmin Alexandru Macovei Katrien Van EetveldeTom Paine 🌊, Prisca Buysmans 🌀 Career Expert A. Tusem Güngör Michael Taylor Alison JY Lee Saja Tawalbeh Georgia Brooks Christine Goffe Somaie Salajeghe Charlotte Dhont

It's your assets and success that threaten other people, for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior. The irony? Because of our insecurities we refuse to validate and include each other, which is the very thing that heals insecurities. The result? unmet needs expressed as resentment, contempt, cutting, exclusion etc. Message? If you are being cut or are cutting someone, try to find out what the unmet need is from both sides. Ref. Timothy R. Clark - Carol Dweck

Preparing on-site today for the LANGUAGE MATTERS event to kick off 2024! We are sooo ready to welcome and rumble with our invitees soon. We are impressed to see your massive across industries interest for the event👏 Samia Elyakhlifi Oana Pasalau-Cioaba

🎤 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭: 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬' 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 🎤 - Victoria Sarmiento Herrero   We are thrilled to host the Language Matters event, a beTwinos and Microsoft partnership, where we will explore how language and behavior can be leveraged to build healthy and inclusive workplaces.    Today’s spotlight goes to: Victoria Sarmiento Herrero, Government Affairs Specialist at Microsoft. 𝑉𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑎 𝑗𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑓𝑡’𝑠 𝐸𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝐺𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐴𝑓𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝑆𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 2020, 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑦𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑐𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑠. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 #𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑈𝑛𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑑, 𝑎 𝐸𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐸𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝐼𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑇𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠, 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑆𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 2022. 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑗𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑀𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑓𝑡, 𝑉𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑎 𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝐵𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑠-𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑐 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑦 (𝐿𝑂𝑊 𝐸𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒); 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡; 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐸𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑂𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒; 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑖𝑔𝑛 𝐴𝑓𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛; 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐶𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝐷𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑐𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝐵𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑛. 𝑉𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑎 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑠 𝑎 𝑀𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟’𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐸𝑈 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑅𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐷𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑐𝑦 𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐸𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝐵𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑟’𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑅𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑅𝑒𝑦 𝐽𝑢𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑜𝑠. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑒𝑥𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑠, 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑇𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑇𝑎𝑖𝑤𝑎𝑛 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦. Feel free to DM us should you have a buzzing question for Victoria.   We look forward to the #LanguageMatters event!

love the thought provoking discussion initiated by Georgia Brooks and the different opinions shared on the why and how we can avoid cutting in the workplace. Join the discussion and share your perspectives beTwinos community👇

🎤 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭: 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬' 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 🎤 - Alison JY Lee and Michael Taylor   We are thrilled to host the Language Matters event, a beTwinos and Microsoft partnership, where we will explore how language and behavior can be leveraged to build healthy and inclusive workplaces.    Today’s spotlight goes to the amazing duo at Urchin Insights: Alison JY Lee - Learning Lead, and Michael Taylor - Tech and Operations Lead. Alison is an Organizational Psychologist on a mission to supercharge soft skill development with data and tech. She has worked alongside Fortune 500 companies to build talent management solutions and major players in the European start-up and scale up scene to define and maintain their leadership culture in times of rapid growth. Alison brings her understanding of what makes learning engaging and meaningful to her role as Co-Founder and Learning Lead at Urchin Insights, where she leverages AI to develop impactful opportunities for learners to practice soft skills and receive personalised feedback.   Michael is also an Organizational Psychologist turned Data Scientist with the belief that personal growth enables us to do anything.   He spent 15 years in consulting, where he led a business unit dedicated to helping global organizations define what makes great leaders and to develop their leadership pipelines.   Through his experiences, Michael realized that leadership development in most companies is accessible only to a select group of talents, while happy and inclusive workplaces require everyone to be better skilled at communicating and collaborating.   That’s why, as Co-Founder and Head of Product at Urchin Insights, Michael is leading a team that’s developing new, AI-based solutions that change how we deliver, and who has access to, quality soft skills development. Feel free to DM us should you have a buzzing question for Alison and Michael.   We look forward to the #LanguageMatters event!

“Dare to surround yourself with a community of supporters” Today’s voice, in the I-Am-Unstoppable campaign is Rein Meirte (She/her) Meirte, Founder of Clusity 🌱 the #womenintech community, an inspiring #womenintech network providing connecting events, authentic stories and Diversity & Inclusion expertise for tech companies. Join us in reading Rein’s point of view on how the power of community can support and enable the personal and professional growth of a Tall Poppy. "The first time I heard about #tps I thought: ‘This is not me. I don’t think I stand out or have been cut down.’ But when I look around me, I do see it happening to people… ‘When a flower doesn’t bloom you don’t fix the flower, you fix the environment. In the context of the Tall Poppy Syndrome, it’s not about changing the person, nor about empowering them. But rather about bringing awareness to the system that brings about this negative behavior of cutting people down. By supporting each other, finding a community  that inspires that feeling of having “the wind in your back”, instead of “wind in your face”, you can navigate the challenges of being a Tall Poppy. This is also how we see things change at Clusity. Our community of women in tech enable each other by inspiring and connecting with like-minded people. You can’t always choose your colleagues or manager, but in your network you can surround yourself with people who support you and become your soundboard and cheerleader.   There’s much power in being able to recognize cutters. By becoming aware and labelling the phenomenon, you take away a lot of it’s negative power. I feel that this can give someone the confidence to continue being ambitious, different, ahead in their professional development. Something I’ve come across often, is people downplaying their achievements to not stand out, not come across as arrogant. ‘It’s by coincidence that I ended up in this role.’ or ‘I was just lucky.’ are often at the start of someone telling their story. I believe that part of this comes from the fear of  getting cut down. We can encourage each other to own up to your own achievements, making it more comfortable to stand tall as a Tall Poppy.  Let’s celebrate each other and our own achievements a bit more, by finding people who do the same. That’s what a community can do!" 

🎤 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭: 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬' 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 🎤- Delia Mensitieri   We are thrilled to invite you to the Language Matters event, a beTwinos and Microsoft partnership, where you will learn how to use language and behavior to build healthy and inclusive workplaces.   This event is for you, the business #leader, #HR representative, #deileader , #changemaker, #decisionmaker who is looking to create a positive impact in their team(s), workplace and beyond.    Today’s spotlight goes to: Delia Mensitieri, Head of Research at European Women on Boards (EWOB). 𝐷𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑎 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑, 𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒. 𝐷𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑎 𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑝 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑡 European Women on Boards (EWOB) 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑙 𝑜𝑓 #DEI 𝑎𝑡 𝘕𝐴𝘚𝐴. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑢𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑃ℎ𝐷 𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒.   Feel free to DM us should you have a buzzing question for Delia.   To register for this event, reach out to thrive@betwinos.com.    We look forward to seeing you at #LanguageMatters event!