On Wednesday, 16 June 2010, the European Professional Women’s Network – Amsterdam will proudly welcome Nancy McKinstry, CEO of Wolters Kluwer, as our honored guest speaker. In the context of the annual theme, which revolves around ‘innovation’, Nancy will address the highly relevant topic of ‘Innovative Leadership’.

Nancy McKinstry was appointed CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of Wolters Kluwer in 2003 and is regularly included in annual rankings of the world’s top leaders. As one of the most powerful women in business, Nancy McKinstry has been honored by Forbes’ 100 Most Powerful Women, Fortune’s Global 50 Powerful Women in Business, and the Financial Times Top 50 Women in World Business.

Mrs. McKinstry engineered a successful transformation of Wolters Kluwer into a forward-looking, customer-focused information services organisation for professionals in the areas of legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and healthcare. She is leading the organization as it carries out its 2010-2012 strategy for Maximizing Value for Customers.

During her speech, which marks a highlight event in the 2010 program of EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam, Nancy McKinstry will share how the global, market-leading information services company is implementing innovation in its portfolio of products and services for professionals, based on the foundation of the company; deep customer insight and understanding. The company’s long-term strategy is focused on maximizing value for customers and is based on technology and innovation to drive success for the company as well as for its stakeholders. Moreover, innovation is embedded in the talent management strategy of the company to foster leadership.

The program will take place on 16 June 2010 at the Amsterdam Renaissance Hotel (Kattengat 1, 1012 SZ Amsterdam) and is scheduled to begin at 20h30 (8:30 p.m.).

Members: free and are required to pre-register. Guest fee: EUR 25.
Please sign up now through: http://bit.ly/doWNQQ

ABOUT EUROPEANPWN-AMSTERDAM

EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam is a not-for-profit, volunteer run, networking association for internationally operating professional women based in The Netherlands. The association offers an open online and offline platform for members across industries to communicate, develop and share expertise through organised meetings and informal networking sessions. EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam is a member network of European Professional Women’s Network, which connects more than 3,000 members across Europe. The Amsterdam City Network combines the knowledge and expertise of approximately 300 women – senior professionals, corporate directors, entrepreneurs, government leaders, and top executives alike.

Have you ever thought of becoming more active in EPWN Amsterdam City Network? About seizing the opportunity to create business opportunities for yourself, about learning from others, sharing what you know and learning about areas that you haven’t quite mastered?

It’s fun and it’s feasible to be more active in the network. Also if you hold a full-time job and need to juggle family commitments. It’s all about sharing the workload. We all hold fulltime jobs, and still we make it happen. Because we think it’s important, because we have fun together and because we take inspiration from our peers’ “can do” mentality.

We’re looking for new board members, committee leaders and committee members. We need your help.

Our goal is to keep up our high level quality and frequency of Programming that our members have become accustomed to.

The Federation’s ambition to grow to 5,001 members by the end of 2011 (60% growth). The Amsterdam City Network is serious about following suit.

To meet these ambitions and growth targets, we would like to ensure we have enough volunteers in our Programming Team, we need workshop leaders, new people to assist the work on the Amsterdam and the Federation Web Platform, volunteers to contribute to our membership retention and recruiment strategy. Perhaps you attend many of the social events and wouldn’t mind contributing to the organization of our Borrels. We are also in the look-out for a new Treasurer. Tip, our current treasurer, has done an amazing job and would like to make sure a successor is in place at the end of her tenure.

In short, we need you too. Contribute to the challenge – join our team of enthusiastic volunteers.

Did I mention that it’s fun and feasible?

Contact any of your Amsterdam board members today to chip in! Together, we CAN staff it, I’m sure.

It is with great pleasure that we announce that our fellow EuropeanPWN member of the Oslo City Network, Magali Rouyer-Johnsen, is the recipient of an IE EPWN Scholarship.   She will receive 20,000 Euros toward her academic program at IE Business School, Madrid, Spain.

Magali writes :  “Thank you so much for all your congratulations. I am awed to be part of such a wonderful organization and would like to thank you all at EuropeanPWN!  Special thanks go to Jennifer Varino who has been giving me her unconditional support since July 2009 and to Marijo Bos who has brilliantly negotiated this great scholarship!”

On behalf of the Amsterdam City Network, we once again congratulate Magali and we wish her all the best in completing the International Executive MBA June 2010 program, English track.

The IE-EuropeanPWN Scholarship Program

According to Margarita Alonso and Celia de Anca, professors and leaders at IE:  “We want to obtain from this partnership, open dialogue with top-level women professionals who want to make a career breakthrough by using top-level business education as a key component of their career progression strategy. This program is a way for us to do this and help them financially. A key factor for choosing to partner with EuropeanPWN in the EU to attract Masters degree candidates is that we believe EuropeanPWN’s leadership has what it takes to maintain and continue to grow a professional and credible organization. We look forward to developing a long term partnership, which benefits both organizations.”

It is because of the notable growth of the network over the past few years to a community of 17 strong networks made up of outstanding professional women that we are the recipients of this generous scholarship program. We want to thank you for making this possible and encourage you to apply and participate in this process.

Please contact any of the Amsterdam Board Members for further details.

Our very own Marijo Bos, miracle worker pur sang, thanks to voting support and comments, made it to the FINAL ROUND in the LinkedIn European Business Awards 2010 as candidate to win in the category “Rising Star of the Year”.

The Rising Star of the Year Award will be awarded to a non-board level individual whose initiative and determination has made an exceptional contribution to the success of their business over the last 12 months. They will also have demonstrated exceptional ability to make a difference when working with clients, suppliers, colleagues and stakeholders.”

If anyone deserves to win, it’s Marijo.

We can make that happen. Our Federation connects 3,500 professional women across Europe, many of whom are linked through Linkedin. We should be able to mobilize enough support to surpass the top of the leader board, the felllow who currently holds 931 votes… right?

Voting is easy, follow this link and click the red box: http://bit.ly/3QUnb7

We all stand to gain. How?
Each winner will receive a free year’s subscription to Cisco’s WebEx. It’s Marijo’s great wish to use WebEx to connect all of our growing networks at EuropeanPWN.

Need we say more? What an opportunity for all involved!
May we count on your support too to get the word out?

Vote for Marijo today, and please spread the word.

European Professional Womens Network has five main categories of membership: (1) Corporate (2) Members (3) Honorary (4) MBA Students (5) Staff. Each one of these designations is centrally defined at the Federation level for all of the affiliated networks.

Now-a-days membership in an organization is fairly fluid, in that we have a “rolling admissions” process. There is no fixed “apply by” date – so the membership database is constantly being updated. For the purposes of this data analysis – a capture of the membership data was taken in November 2009. Some of the data has previously been described in the December Newsletter article.

Amsterdam’s membership in 2009 totaled approximately 303 members and is distributed amongst the five categories.

We come from 36 different countries (43 if you include our second affiliation – dual citizenships). A representative distribution in percentages of those reporting data is show below. 214 of our 303 members are included in the following diagram:

Slightly more folks report their nationality as compared to their year of birth. Age is under reported in our database, however the distribution of reported ages is as follows:

The Presidents and leaders of the 17 City European Professional Women’s Network (EuropeanPWN) elected a new Board on Jan 22, 2010. The two day General Meeting was hosted in Barcelona, part of the federation since 2008. In addition to formal elections, the leaders exchanged ideas and insights on EuropeanPWN’s evolving vision, strategy and priorities for 2010 and beyond in response to significant growth in the number of networks, activities and strategic partners across Europe.

Twenty-one of our members gathered at the Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam on 27 January 2010 for New Year’s drinks, followed by an Open Board Meeting of the EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam Board.

Anna Farrenkopf opened the meeting and talked about the history of the network since it was incorporated in 1986, how we got involved in the Federation 5 years ago and the accomplishments of our network builders. This set the stage for an invigorating discussion on our City Network’s ambitions for the future, and our desire to continue to play a lead role in the Federation’s future successes.

The Amsterdam Board members shared their stories on what motivates them and their passion for the network. Their enthusiasm triggered interest with the attendees to collaborate and develop leadership skills by getting involved in exciting projects and opportunities that are unfolding within the Amsterdam City Network organization and on cross-network level.

OBA (the Bieb)
Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam
Oosterdokskade 143
1011 DL Amsterdam

Happy New Year
This is your chance to come borrel with the Amsterdam board.
Ideas, brainstorm, feedback, questions are welcome.

We’ll all be on hand to talk with you about the organization, logistics, planning, future board positions, what’s happening with the federation, and how you can help to grow and to sustain the organization with your participation. “Club business” and updates.

We will meet in the New Library – next to Amsterdam Centraal Station
(same as last year). Join us on the top floor at the bar for tapas and beverages in the La Place Restaurant.

We have also reserved a meeting room – on the 6th floor.

We really enjoyed the productive discussions last year in this format.
Please join us again!

New Year, New Chances.

Proost!

Launched right before Christmas of this year, our brand new newsletter is another great way for you to keep up with the latest news of EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam.

The newsletter will feature highlights from the website, notify you of upcoming events, and keep you updated on our latest initiatives.

To subscribe, simply fill in the form on our subscription page.

Sign up now to ensure you receive the next newsletter. In the mean time, read our first issue from December 2009 here.

This website is a platform for our members to reach each other. It is available to help you spread the ideas in your articles.

So, if you write articles that you would like to see published on the EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam site, here are the steps to follow: