Borrel Organizers
Anna has been coordinating the borrel since 2005. She enjoys searching out new restaurants, cocktail bars and exploring the Netherlands. She welcomes all suggestions to share in your favorite places. Member suggestions brought us all over Amsteram and as far as Enschede, Paris and London! By daytime Anna is a research and development chemist specializing in hardware and software debugging. She has been recently involved in quality control and quality assurance for an instrumentation manufacturer but her personal life required (1) a sabbatical and (2) relocation to Friesland: summer is coming and she is a passionate sail racing crew. Her specialty is trimming the spinnaker and winning races! focus focus focus concentrate concentrate concentrate hold your course
Ariëlle Brouwer is a pioneer, an initiator and a specialist in creativity. She originally comes from the world of theater and now brings her unique skills and talents into the field of training and coaching. Using special techniques from theatre, Ariëlle creates interesting workshops to enable people to explore openness, communication and authentic self-expression at a deeper level.
www.brouwertheater.nl and www.globalworkersexperience.com
Camilla is a Project Management professional employed by Deloitte Enterprise Risk Services since 2001. Currently she is supporting the leadership team with a strategic European initiative involving 22 European countries, and her expertise lies in communication, cross-cultural business, change management and business development. Camilla returned to the Amstelveen office in 2007 after having worked in the Princeton, New Jersey office for approximately 3 years. Her years in the US as a Product Manager, involved her working with teams across most of North America. Prior to working for Deloitte NL she was employed by Hewlett-Packard/Agilent Technologies, erVenture Capitals and Viking Line (cruise line) in Finland.
Camilla is a Swedish-speaking Finn who has lived most of her life abroad. She graduated from a European Business Administration double-degree program in both Finland and the Netherlands. Camilla was a member of EPWN years 2002-2005 and after returning 2007 till present. She was elected as the Secretary of the Board EPWN-Amsterdam Chapter, June 2008 and VP Corporate and Student Membership in March 2009.
Catherine joined the borrel team in February 2009. She is happy to meet and greet EuropeanPWN women in the Hague the third Wednesday of the month. Catherine is a Strategic Relationship Manager working for Royal Dutch Shell as a Supplier Manager. Catherine joined Shell in 1997. Over the years she has held various positions all focused on alignment, integration, transformation and customer service. Key achievements are design and establishment of a global technical support service, which involved integration of processes across internal service delivery organizations and outsourced service providers, and most recently as a Supplier Manager for T-Systems, with a focus on establishing the next generation of strategic relationship management in a multi-sourced environment. This reaches beyond traditional relationships with a goal to align the companies’ strategic goals and objectives so as to deliver bi-lateral value to both parties.
Sustainability and meaningful engagement are at the heart of what Catherine does, whether it is her professional work or working with others to help create more sustainable life-styles, personal relationships and careers.
When not at work, Catherine is out exploring the Netherlands, reading mystery books and enjoying time with her husband Jim.
Eleonore Breukel is Managing Director of Intercultural Communication BV, an intercultural training and coaching firm. She assists global organizations and their people to develop cultural intelligence and enhance professional effectiveness in working in an international environment with multicultural clients and colleagues. Eleonore frequently speaks at conferences and gives guest lectures. She published over a 100 culture related articles, authored a book on ‘How to do business in 19 countries’ and coauthored The Cultural Detective The Netherlands, an intercultural training tool used by leading global organizations.
Erika loves to network and to bring international people together. After having lived and worked 10 years in the Algarve in Portugal and 7 years in the City of London, this Dutch born girl returned to Holland in 2004 and is therefore known as a “Repat”. In 2006 she started her own company, 'BOTH Assistance & Support', which offers a wide range of administrative support to companies, to individual households, and also to Expats. No job is too big or too small. She works both “on location” and provides virtual support from her own office. She creates and manages effective and efficient administrative systems while providing coaching for the administratively-impaired. She teaches and implements self-sustaining organisational systems for individuals and for companies. Fluent in Dutch, English and Portuguese, Erika joined the borrel team at the end of 2009 when we combined efforts with Connecting Women in The Hague.
With a passion for helping people to achieve their true potential, Jacinta Noonan’s long and successful career as a coach and trainer is more a divine calling than a job choice.
Jacinta achieves results using Transformative Coaching, and focuses on transforming and deepening the inside, in order to achieve the desired, lasting change on the outside.
She is the founder and Director of three companies. Each has a different focus and specialty, but her passion and devotion to transforming people is at the heart of each one.
For Corporate Training and Coaching: Branch Out - www.branchout.eu ; For Personal Coaching & Women in Transition: Soulworks - www.soulworks.nl ; For Improved Body Image & Weight Loss: Big on the Inside - www.bigontheinside.com. Jacinta is also a past member of the EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam Board of Directors.
