Session: Follow your heart to find the meaning at work
Time to turn on your creativity! Get your crayons and highlighters ready, and explore how to find meaning and direction in your professional life.
In this session, we will look into developing a career based on the ancient Japanese art of Ikigai - or - the “life well-lived” and introduce four big steps of building a successful career strategy. There will be also an opportunity to use your creativity in practice to figure out how to bridge your passions with professional opportunities, so bring pens in different colours and a piece of paper.
Bio
I am a former journalist, facilitator and agile expert passionate about sustainability, career development and women empowerment. I kick-started my career as a reporter in a daily newspaper. For seven years, I worked for the European Commission, where I gained broad experience in communication and PR focusing on research & innovation. Today, I am a founder of Work Ally, where I coach women on how to accelerate their careers, and a senior agile consultant leading stakeholder engagement efforts in EU-funded sustainability projects, with a strong focus on creative moderation and facilitation. In my free time, I am a freelance career advisor for Chaperone, the world’s first platform providing career management services for researchers.