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What are the commonalities between going on a youth camp in Italy at the age of 11, working in consulting and leading a sales team without any experience in managing & sales? It is all about mindset and the way you can get comfortable in uncomfortable situations.

Sometimes it is necessary to reinvent yourself, the business or a brand. Also for an established A-brand like Campina. A rapidly changing environment and a different view on dairy required a new vision, strategy and market approach. Not an easy task within a cooperative with different stakeholders. Carien de Bas, Marketing Manager Campina, provides insight into this transformation process and how to take stakeholders both internally at FrieslandCampina and externally with the consumer on this journey.

Bojana Duovski has felt like an outsider growing up. She build her own career with a fighter mentality, whilst most colleagues didn’t know her Story. She will share on our stage the origin of this fighter mentality, what she missed along the way and what you could do to create equal opportunities.

In our working life, there is an unwritten rule that we need to return to work shortly after one of our loved ones has passed away. This often conflicts with the emotions we feel, which has a negative effect on both our healing process and our productivity at work. Expert by experience Marrit van Exel lost her husband (47) and daughter (32) and has a clear view on how companies should cope with mourning employees. She advocates a statutory right to bereavement leave for employees.

In todays rushed society, more and more is expected from us. This is a catalyst for insomnia. What starts with one bad night, eventually turns into more. What are the consequences? How can you recover and return to a healthy sleep routine so you can make more out of life? Sleepexpert, veteran, and a father Mark Schadenberg brings his expertise to our stage.

Your Spotify playlist, the books on your shelf, the series you binge: all of these will get better if we reconceptualize the freedom of speech. Emma Harjadi Herman will show why we need to update our understanding of the universal declaration of human rights and offer thoughts on how we might get started.

Inès Gaston will share her observations of current behavior and what this says about our state of mind and will elaborate on what processes are likely to be triggered during this phase of quarantine.

Tey El-Rjula will share his experience with being isolated for a long time, as he has to stay in refugee camps for about 2 years. He will share how this affected him, his lows and how he eventually managed to cope with the extreme situation resulting in coming out of it stronger than ever before.

Every company is becoming a tech company. With fancy workplaces, data & AI as the new fuel of our business models and trendy young hipsters as our employees. What is the CSR of the future? What is your identity and reputation when you become a tech company or entrepreneur? What responsibility do we have when it comes to this new market with its unknown dynamics? The future of work is not about work and the future of tech is not about tech! We have the possibility to act now and work closely as human and tech together.

In his role as Area Coach, Mo is responsible for 5 KFC restaurants representing over 150 employees. It was not all success that characterized his life. Until the age of 15 years his life could have taken a completely different path. Mo will share his incredible story and the importance of giving all people equal chances and inclusivity.

Picture credit: Marjolein van Damme / Het Parool

We all know what turbulent times the airline business is in due to Covid-19. Karin will take us on her and the company’s rollercoaster journey. She will shed her light on how to turn around management focus and how to keep a team motivated under extreme pressure.

Carsten Meijer is Commercial Director of VICE, the world’s preeminent youth media company operating in over 30 countries and distributing its programming to viewers across a.o. digital, mobile, and social channels. They also conduct surveys and therefore have a vast amount of insights on the Employees of the future. Carsten will share the latest insights on how Covid affects GenZ and therefore the future workplace.