Asetila Köstinger is an innovation economist, educator, community builder, and impact entrepreneur based in Vienna.
She is the founder of the GoodStartup School -a global virtual incubator that aims to help women and underrepresented communities worldwide to build tech and non-tech impact startups. And also the initiator of the SDG Innovation LAB Vienna and accelerator-like for SMEs to design solutions that are aligned to the SDGs
Asetila speaks, trains, and writes regularly about the implications of inclusiveness, impact, and innovation in sustainable entrepreneurship.
She was awarded the European Good Practice Award in training in SME Internationalisation by the ETF European Training Foundation in 2018.
As an impact entrepreneur and CEO she runs her two companies – Greenwell Energy and Koestinger International Consulting both aligned with at least one of the SDGs. For over a decade she has worked as a consultant and expert in different SME projects, private ventures, and start-up ecosystems.
Asetila holds a Master of Science in International Business, a Bachelor’s degree in Economics, and a prospective Ph.D. in International Economic Relations and Management.
#darecareshare #givefirst #socialchange #environmentaljustice #wedo5
Onyi Anyado is a UK based global leadership speaker, futurist and corporate trainer.
From his message of Cutting Edge Distinction Onyi trains and coaches leaders and organisations on how to lead with their distinction in the 2020’s and beyond.
Onyi has worked with companies such as EY, Barclays and Microsoft and has spoken in various countries such as Canada, Czech Republic and Norway. Onyi’s clients list includes clients from countries such as Mauritius, Nigeria, Sweden and America.
“Leadership is bringing people into new realms of excellence and challenging them to become distinguished in their chosen field”. ~ Onyi Anyado.
Adela Mehic-Dzanic is a Forbes featured female tech leader, frequent international speaker, and a WomenTech mentor. Originally from Bosnia, 7 years ago she moved to Austria with her husband and started building her career in Tech from scratch. Without any job, contacts and not knowing German language.
Today, she works at the executive level of the IoT software company MAVOCO AG and serves as the VP of the Female Leaders Network of the WU Executive Academy (Business School of Vienna University of Economics) as well the VP of the Association of Business Women of B&H.
In December 2020 she launched her own YouTube Channel – Making IT IN Austria, where she interviews real people who share a similar story like herself and who have made a successful career in Austria.She strongly believes in the power of networking and building long-lasting relationships for advancing one’s career and she had been very vocal about it through her extensive LinkedIn network.
Adela’s mission for 2020 was to impact 1000 women and girls in IT and beyond with her career story. This experience allowed her to meet women from all walks of life, who are determined, ambitious, supportive and very often the only woman in the room.
As Vice President of WU EA Female Leaders Network, she is committed to serving the global community of WU MBA Alumnae and finding the right tools to support them on taking their career to the next level. Under the motto “Together we are stronger!”.
Some of my favourite quotes.
Think bigger than you can imagine, keep your eyes open and stand up against all odds. Then the opportunities will come!
My network is my Google.
Create the life you want to live.
When you take care of your network, your network takes care of you.
Desiree Jonek’s mantra is ‘Be the change you want to see in the world’. She is an expert in Social Innovation and especially passionate about Gender Equality & Diversity.
She has +10 years international work experience in the digital media industry and in management and brand consulting, from Germany, to France, Scandinavia and Austria. Her strengths lie in strategic and hands-on development of digital and social business projects. She empowers corporates, start-ups and especially female founders with Design Thinking and systemic coaching methodology.
In 2018, she decided to follow her professional vocation instead of the safe management career. To empower women* to dare more in their careers, she founded the mentoring platform WoMentor.at. WoMentor received more than 400 applications from women* & men* all over the world, who want to make an impact in Gender Equality. In 2021, the business expands with WoMentor Impact OG, offering awareness, workshops & mentoring to companies who are ready to make an impact in Gender Equality.
As a business graduate (Univ.) With over 18 years of activity in business and consulting at home and abroad has Mirjam Sandlos depth knowledge and many years of experience in business consulting, training development, systemic Consulting / Coaching & NLP. Regular Fort -. and developments of your work developed with and through your customers steadily project, process, change management, consulting on strategic issues and organizational development, to the accompaniment of expats you are just as familiar as the challenges of the knowledge society and Topics such as digitization & work-life blending.
Free and Open Source Software contributor. Open Source Ambassador, MBition/Daimler. KDE contributor since 1997 (including several years on the KDE e.V. board). Co-founder, Endocode. Visiting lecturer and researcher at the Technical University of Berlin. Contributed to Open Source Initiative, Open Invention Network, others. Qt-certified specialist and trainer. Openforum Academy fellow. Berlin, Germany.
