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:

Corporate Sponsors of the European Professional Womens Network in 2009 included the pan-european and global companies: Orange, IE, Deloitte, Coca-Cola, Sodexo, Mercer, AON, Alcatel-Lucent, Mexx, BNP Paribas. Their financial and in kind donations to the network in the form of memberships, venues, speakers, and technologies are extremely important to sustain the organization and to augment the programming. In Amsterdam the 51 individuals making up the Corporate Member category are distributed as follows:

The distribution of participating partners is known to vary by city. This data applies only to Amsterdam in the 4th quarter of 2009.

Below we would also like to look a bit more in detail into the composition of each of the membership categories.

Here we see that the “sponsoring” Corporate members (51) are one third of all participating members from large corporations (144) so actually this figure could also be drawn as follows:

The majority of our Members find the EuropeanPWN network “on their own” – this is to say, they are not officially corporate members, they are not students, they are international and Dutch born business women looking to network “cross” B2B borders. Of these Members, nearly half of them work at companies that are considered to be large corporations (90) but participate as individual members and not as part of a corporate sponsorship program. There are also compositional differences in the corporate members from sponsoring organizations and from corporate members that find us by their own affiliations.

As you can see all of our Executive VP's and C-level members come from our "regular" membership

One third of our total members (93) direct, own, or work in smaller companies and enterpreneurships. In this “Independent” category 20 % are business owners/directors, 15 % experts (doctors, lawyers, professors, engineers), and 51 % are consultants and/or coaches.

Honorary Members number three in Amsterdam. Our Honorary members are chosen by a unanimous vote of the Board of Directors. Amsterdam honors founding member Agnes Benjamin, Advisory Board member Annette Nijs and Pauline van der Meer Mohr. Josephine Green one of our past (and founding) members of WIN in Amsterdam, is Senior Director of
Trends and Strategy at Philips Design she is an Honorary Member to the Federation from it’s beginnings in 2005.

MBA Student Members. Amsterdam has a strategic alliance with Erasmus University and offers memberships to students in the Rotterdam School of Management and MBAOne programs. This alliance in addition to membership also includes supporting joint programming initiatives. In addition to drawing upon our membership for speakers, panel participants, and guest lecturers, MBA students also take advantage of our mentoring program and publications series.

The last category – is the “staff” designation. This designation at the moment is reserved for the Board of Directors but other times in recent history has also included non-board positions such as Mentoring Coordinator, Webmaster etc. Amsterdam is organized 100% by volunteer efforts. We had no paid staff positions in 2009. Our Board of Directors in 2009 included: Rieke Smakman, Lucia Lloyo,Tip Atkins, Camilla Bjorkqvist, Judith Dieleman (first half of the year), Caroline van Leuven (second half of the year), Clara Ko, Katharina Pohl, and Anna Farrenkopf

Our summer program was packed with fun out-of-door terraces and the ever popular St. Nik boat club canal trip. In September Paula O’Connell introduced us to strategies on how to make ourselves relevant in a recession and to develop a personal career plan. Together with the Rotterdam School of Management EPWN Amsterdam also organized the panel ‘Female entrepreneurs – the saviors of our economy!?’ during which successful female entrepreneurs including Eleonore Breukel shared their visions on their contributions to our economy. In October Michelle Brailsford, president of our EuropeanPWN chapter in London and founding partner of Jupiter Consulting Group, codified for us the rules of the political game in organizations and Andrea Martins, director and co-founder of ExpatWomen.com, shared with us inspirational stories of a variety of (hugely successful) expat women. Stephanie Ward ignited the Wisdom Wildfire during our annual Speed Networking session in November. During our December event ‘DSM: Passion for People, Commitment to Diversity’ we welcomed Jackie Cuthbert, Senior Vice President Global Recruitment and Learning and Xander Wessels, President DSM Food Specialties at Royal DSM N.V.

On January 11th we are going to kick off the New Year with a genuine highlight: Fons Trompenaars, one of the most influential management thinkers and true guru on culture and business, will share his views on ‘Riding the Whirlwind: Culture & Innovation’. Please register for the event as seats are limited.

We would like to thank all of you – also in the name of the entire board of EuropeanPWN Amsterdam – for your interest in our events, your active participation, your inspiration and support. We are looking forward to see you at many events in 2010; you are welcome to spread the word about our network amongst your colleagues and friends. If there is anything that you missed in our programming or if you would like to suggest speakers, topics or themes, please get in touch with one of us. The folks in The Hague will welcome you on January 5th for a new year’s borrel and the Amsterdam board welcomes you January 27th in Amsterdam.
Mentors/mentees, don’t forget to fill in your online “matching” applications as promised.

Wishing you a very Happy New Year and all the best in 2010!

On behalf of the board of EuropeanPWN Amsterdam,
Anna Farrenkopf & Katharina Pohl

The venue is arranged. Eleonore is flying back the day before. The website should be “ready” for show and tell…(sorry my html is a bit rusty and it’s taking a bit more time than I planned. I struggled for far too long yesterday on the Table of Contents – it’s almost done).

This is a member only event – so there is no guest registration.

Please join us at the Renaissance Hotel on 16 December for an overview of the mentoring program, to fill in your mentor/mentee profile, and to work toward your perfect mentoring match.

This year we also have a possibilty to work with other EuropeanPWN networks to share with their excess mentor’s & mentees. All kinds of new possibilities exist for 2010! Come hear about them.

Folks that pre-register will be sent a link to the new Mentoring workbook that we’ve been working on so you’ll have a chance to read up a bit before we begin on the 16th.

Anna’s also promised to bake some of her xmas cookies so save some room for dessert.

Gone already on the 16th – don’t worry. Send me an email and I’ll fill you in in January.

mentoring@europeanpwn-amsterdam.net

p.s.
html wizards are also welcome to contact me to browse through my code to see what I missed first time round…

We’ve taken a poll and decided to try something new – spread some cheer in the run up to the holi-daze. Join us at a new new venue.

Bar Italia
www.bar-italia.nl/

Rokin 83
Amsterdam

Beginning 18:30
23 December 2009

Speaker: Jackie Cuthbert

Jackie Cuthbert: Senior Vice President Global Recruitment & Learning

December 7^th 2009, Renaissance Hotel, Kattegat 1, Amsterdam

DSM: Passion for People, Commitment to Diversity

Jackie Cuthbert: Senior Vice President Global Recruitment & Learning

Jackie Cuthbert is the Senior Vice President Global Recruitment & Learning at Royal DSM N.V. She started her career in her homeland UK where she held various senior HR positions in Retail, Merchant Banking and the ICT industry (Sainsbury’s, Credit Suisse and Unisys). Having worked amongst others in the US and Germany, Jackie moved to the Netherlands when she joined DSM in 2002.

Jackie’s career focus has primarily been on establishing best practice performance management programs to develop and retain highly skilled resources within international businesses. Her current responsibilities also include Diversity and Change Management in DSM.

Royal DSM N.V., a € 9.3 billion company, creates innovative products and services in Life and Material Sciences. End markets include human and animal nutrition and health, personal care, pharmaceuticals, automotive, coatings and paint, electrical and electronics, life protection and housing. The company is headquartered in the Netherlands and employs about 23.500 people worldwide.

At DSM the Passion for People strategy has been a major driver in strengthening the diversity of the leadership team, not only in terms of gender and nationality but also in terms of leadership styles. A key element of Passion for People is to support employees in dealing with the challenges of a changing company in a fast-moving global marketplace. The intensified efforts with regard to diversity pay off: the number of non-Dutch and female professionals entering DSM continues to grow and we will hopefully see many women crossing the board border.

Jackie Cuthbert will talk about the Diversity at DSM and her view on the critical success criteria. In addition, her colleague Xander Wessels, President DSM Food Specialties, will share his experiences from a business perspective. Following their presentations, Dana Krueger from Russell Reynolds Associates will facilitate an interactive discussion.

Registration and Guest Policy

Registration is required for members (free including dinner and drinks) and guests (guests are welcome at a cost of 25 Euro which includes dinner and drinks). Guests are allowed to attend two EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam functions per year.
Please contact Caroline van Leuven, our VP Membership.

Speaker: Peter Ackerley

Let’s go GOLFING!!

Dorhout Mees B.V.
Strandgaperweg 30
8256 PZ Biddinghuizen (NL)
Tel.: 0321-331138
Fax.: 0321-331057

Meeting at the club house 13:00
Tee off for experienced golfers at 13:30
Lesson for beginners at 13:30
Borrel at 17:30 with prizes

Our golf pro is Peter Ackerley. Peter is a golf pro since 1966. He has twice won the Dutch National Golf Championship and has played on the European Tour Circuit. Since 1984, Peter is a professional golfing instructor.

The Course “http://www.dorhoutmees.nl”

Dorhout Mees is in Flevoland (about 45 min/1 hour from Amsterdam and Utrecht). The course is good and there are 4 9-hole courses, which means that we can play at our leisure. Flevoland can be windy which makes a bit of a challenge to the average golfer. The course, while challenging, is not exceptionally difficult.

Peter suggests the following program.

for the golfers: 18 holes tournament
for the beginners: 1.5 hours learn a bit of golf: swing, chip and putt + 0.5 hour break + 1 hour on the par 3 course to play some holes

Peter will provide the lesson and take care of the beginners while the experienced golfers are on the course.

Early birds are welcome to reserve a table in the restaurant for lunch before-hand.

Folks that rather stay on after the borrel are also encouraged to make dinner reservations with the restaurant. (You are free to adapt the pre/after program to your Saturday schedule).

Anna is handling the web & logistics.

FEES – the precise cost will vary based on the number of participants. We are trying to keep the lesson, green fees, and practice balls inclusive golfing price to about 50 Euros (very very reasonable).

If you are less mobile – we have not yet included the cost of a golf cart (for example) that would cost extra. Just let me know and I will make the necessary arrangements. Also if you are an experienced golfer but need to hire clubs – that is also not presently included in the price. (not to worry: Clubs are included in the lesson package).

REFRESHMENTS – are not included in the “inclusive” golfing price and will be paid per consumption on site.

Andrea van der Loos is our member golfer-liason with the pro and course. (She will answer “inhoudelijk” questions).
Rieke is the instigator of this activity. (She gets credit for organizing).

We look forward to welcoming you on the links!
If you don’t want to golf but do want to join – you are also welcome to keep Anna company in the clubhouse.

If the weather is truly terrible we can reschedule for the 24th.  Do come rain or shine on the 10th.  The weather in Amsterdam is not the same as in Flevoland.

If you need transportation – please contact Anna and she will be happy to help you to coordinate.  Please also specify if you will be joining the lesson or the round with Andrea.

Welcome

Join Den Haag borrel coordinator Catherine Burns for face to face Networking – meeting new folks from around the Netherlands and the globe is our focus.

Join us at Sucre beginning at 7 pm on November 4th

Sucre Restaurant is known as a dessert & cocktail bar.

Open in Amsterdam for about a year and a half , this restaurant concept is borrowed from a tremendous success in Barcelona.

Amstelveenseweg 152

1075 XM Amsterdam

www.sucrerestaurant.nl

Welcome Back

Join EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam’s Den Haag borrel coordinator Catherine Burns

The borrel schedule is a bit discombobulated this term – but for fantastic speakers like Stephanie Ward & London Network President Michelle Brailsford – we are willing to toast on different days, right?!

So – thanks to the usual suspects for checking in with the on line updates and stay tuned for another fabulous occasion to work your network: up close & in person.  You don’t have to wait for special introductions  - we will facilitate to be sure you meet the folks that may be helpful in your network.

Especially welcome to join this particular borrel are folks interested in getting a head start on 4th quarter goal setting by coming to discuss your mentor/mentee wishes.

Feel free to contact me in advance for more information.

See you at Harry’s (tegen over Luden) beginning 18:30

Spuistraat 285

1012 VR Amsterdam