Netherlands Speakers 2017

Sensitive, passionate, inspirational, Stephanie is true French gastronome who is born in one of the most culinary region in France: Lyon. She walks her career from successful international marketing, sales and communication, before focusing exclusively on food and wines business. From Madrid and during 7 years, she promoted the Spanish Serrano Ham all over the world, creating awareness and training chefs from Tokyo to San Francisco. She created ‘Appetit Voyage’ 9 years ago to translate her creativity and love for sharing flavorful experiences gathered around the world. Her colorful fusion cuisine blog is nurtured from working with and training chefs, and from meeting new people and cultures everywhere on the planet. ‘Yummy, Fun and Healthy Living’ was born a few years later, led by Stephanie’s own experience in changing her eating habits to healthier ones, with the will to find a better balance between body, mind and environment. Together with her nutritionist partner, they create unique cooking experiences throughout Europe! Curious and creative by nature, Stephanie is not afraid to experiment to find the perfect combination of ingredients for tasty healthy results. Today she inspires others to follow their heart and unique paths, whilst embracing change. As a consultant, she also leverages her digital business background to bring food companies to the next level.

Tanya Chernova is an accomplished, inspiring and passionate professional speaker and coach who has presented before audiences in over 30 countries. On December 4th 2013, Tanya was awarded Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada as a trendsetter and trailblazer for her proven track record for transforming companies and people with the mindset, skill set and systems to succeed. Click here to see Top 100 Business savvy, analytical and street smart, she understands how to help people be their best and what it takes to make business work. Her engaging and insightful breakthrough presentations are in the area of Business Growth, Emotional Intelligence and Empowerment. Over 30 topics that include: Embracing Change, Communicating with Diplomacy, Leading with E.I., Power Speaking, Resilience under Pressure and Vision for Success are timely, pertinent – and known for having a direct impact on bottom line results. Tanya combines her honors degree in business and psychology with her experience as an entrepreneur and industry executive. Her amazing career began in 1989, when she worked as a skin specialist and manager of a leading clinic in Winnipeg. In 1995, she joined a top Canadian skin care distributor as account representative and national educator, she hired and trained staff, secured new clients, established product lines and drove sales 316% above target. In 1999, she moved to France to join an international manufacturer and distributor of seaweed cosmetics and spent four years overseeing a worldwide distribution network. As an international educator, Tanya wrote 3 books advancing the aesthetics industry in the areas of stress recovery, immune system and lifestyle therapy. She also created a winning formula to turn sales teams into consultative business representatives and transformed the relationship between distributors and salons to be partners in profit. She was acclaimed as one of the top 10 speakers in Europe. Upon her return to North America Tanya founded Time Reverse Inc, a manufacturer and distributor of a non-surgical facelift and anti-aging cosmetics. She formulated a winning product line and branding strategy to bring in over $1 million in sales in the first year. While in this role, she was a live presenter on more than 50 prime-time sell-out shows on shopping channels in the US, Canada, Australia, UK and Russia. Currently Tanya is a professional speaker, NLP strategic business coach and co-founder of Courageous Living; a company committed to providing experiential education, tools and resources for a life of unyielding passion, purpose and boundless creativity. She is a regular contributor to magazines and sought after guest on radio and television. More than a dynamic leader, top producing sales executive and highly successful product innovator, Tanya is a master at emotional intelligence, communication and vitality. She is a people motivator with a reputation for consistently delivering cutting edge principles in down-to-earth content with a sense of urgency and – most important – a focus on bottom line results. You’ll love her warm and engaging style. And you’ll get excited about the lessons she shares – valuable lessons everyone can easily apply and quickly benefit from.

Edith Nordmann is a seasoned corporate and commercial lawyer and litigator. Her clients range from multinational corporations, privately held companies, to small- and medium-scale businesses. Over the years, Edith has developed an exemplary knowledge of business law, and is consistently following and analyzing current trends as well as legislative and regulatory developments. She is familiar with corporate and business law in other jurisdictions where her clients have operations or are looking to invest. She is fluent in German (native speaker and head of the German desk for 15 years), English, Dutch, French and Italian, which allows her to communicate with many of her international clients in their mother tongue and to understand the difference in mentality, culture and legal systems. This is vitally important in negotiations. Edith is ambitious, thrives on challenges and relentlessly pursues her clients’ goals, while remaining mindful of their reputations and the risks. Next to her professional career she engages in many charities using her professional expertise, not only helping others, but also empowering them in their endeavors.

Marianne J. Franzen, founder and Director of Franzen/partners the Netherlands and co-founder/ Director The Change Express® India, studied social sciences and business administration specializing in organizational and psychological issues. In 1985, she founded her own consultancy, interim and training firm in Innovation and Change Management. The core activities are directing, leading and training the implementation of change for profit and non-profit organizations. Sharing knowledge and experiences, coaching, and stimulating hidden talents within the client’s organization in order to strengthen the organization’s future are key elements in Marianne’s approach. She provides critical steps towards achieving innovative and sustainable goals of organizations. Whenever necessary, (international) partners from various disciplines are called in to help realize solutions for those issues concerning the client. First and foremost, however, she looks for talent and required competences within the organization.

Marina is founder and CEO of mYngle.com. Originally from Italy, she has lived and worked in different countries and speaks Italian, English, Dutch, French, Spanish and a bit of Mandarin. After 18 year of successful corporate career at Procter & Gamble, Philips, BHP Billiton, Sara Lee, The Boston Consulting Group and eBay, and an MBA from INSEAD, she decided to become an entrepreneur and started mYngle.com in 2007.Her drive besides languages and creating something from scratch, is to leverage the internet to change the traditional world of education from being supply-driven to being demand-drive.mYngle is a pioneer in live online language education and has become a significant player in its segment. mYngle offers customized language training programs through video conferencing in 45 different languages to learners located anywhere in the world.She is regularly presenting at international conferences on topics of women leadership and entrepreneurship. In the last year: European Women in Technology – Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Global WIN conference: Leading the way – Rome, Italy; European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship- Jyväskylä, Finland; Campus party: Feel the future – Utrecht, The Netherlands; The NextWomen Summit: The future is digital – Amsterdam, The Netherlands; QS in conversation: Advancing female leadership through higher education – Milan, Italy; INSEAD Global Business leaders’ conference: Europe that works! – Wien, Austria.

A global traveller and world citizen at heart, Carla has lived and worked across continents and cultures, namely in Brazil, USA, Mexico, Jamaica, Alaska, the Cayman Islands, Canada, England, Portugal and Spain, before settling in The Netherlands.A consummate makeover artiste, Carla has skills in hair couture, modeling and acting. A humanitarian leader, she is equally passionate about volunteering. She has spent caring hours with the elderly having Alzheimers, raised money for children with cancer, and travels to India often to teach hair and grooming skills to underprivileged boys and girls and provide them with a start-up toolkit to commence their own businesses.With a passion for precision and perfectionism, Carla is a celebrated stylist with her own signature salon CarlaH Hairstudio that has women clients from over 91 countries. Carla’s most inspirational journey to self-mastery and entrepreneurship despite the odds and despite constant movement and migration is a story of courage and inspiration to many.

Mo (Mohamed) El¬-Fatatry is the Founder & CEO of Masar, an award-winning smart energy company primarily focusing on the Middle East, Africa & the Global Sun Belt. Mo was the first immigrant in Finland’s history to receive the President of Finland’s Internationalization Award, was 3-times among entrepreneurs recognized by President Obama at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit and currently sits on the Task Force on Solar Power & Storage, an industry-led group driving market design reform discussions with the European Commission. Mo is a dual Finnish-Egyptian citizen who studied Computer Science at the American University of Sharjah (UAE) and International Business at Turku University of Applied Sciences (Finland).