2025 Unknown Community Celebration The Hague

On 11th September 2025, I attended the Unknown Community Celebration at Titaan in The Hague. This event brought together founders, students, and changemakers to reflect on achievements from the past year and look ahead to future impact. The afternoon focused on connection, inspiration, and strengthening the ecosystem that supports entrepreneurs. Like the 2024 Unknown Campus … Continue reading 2025 Unknown Community Celebration The Hague

United Nations AI for Good

Yesterday, I met up with one of my AI inspirations, Fleur Prince, at The Hague Tech. I first met Fleur when she gave an AI presentation at the WBII on Unleashing the Potential of AI in Business and have worked with her since on several AI related projects, including Alumni & AI events and THT … Continue reading United Nations AI for Good

2025 Summer School @ THUAS

For the 2nd year, I taught in the summer school @ The Hague University of Applied Sciences. Again I had the pleasure of working with Mandy. One of my favourite things is the diversity in this group. This year our field trip was to The Hague Tech. For more information: https://www.thuas.com/programmes/exchange-programmes-other-courses/hague-summer-school

2024 ImpactFest The Hague

Welcome to ImpactFest! ImpactFest was created in 2016 to bring together ImpactCity’s ecosystem of purpose-driven organisations from all corners of the world. ImpactFest provides a platform to present oneself, where investors pitch for entrepreneurs and where entrepreneurs and experts exchange experiences to scale together. In the past years, ImpactFest has become the leading impact event … Continue reading 2024 ImpactFest The Hague

2024 Society 5.0 Festival Amsterdam

9 & 10 October | The Social Hub Amsterdam City Amidst rapid technologisation, polarisation, the climate crisis, and burnout, it can be easy to sink into apathy and despair. But now is the time to gather and find agency, to do something: We need to transform society's social fabric. How? By listening, nurturing, and repairing our … Continue reading 2024 Society 5.0 Festival Amsterdam

2024 Internationalisering in de praktijk

On 15 March 2024, I attended a conference at my work The Hague University of Applied Sciences / de Haagse Hogeschool: Internationalising in de praktijk (Internationalisation in practice). I've been very interested in and involved in internationalisation in higher education for my whole teaching career, of almost 10 years now. However being based in the … Continue reading 2024 Internationalisering in de praktijk

International and European Law: LinkedIn Inspiration

On 6 February 2024, I gave a LinkedIn Inspiration lecture to International and European Law students at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. Thanks to Rebecca Kumi for the invite.... Also a huge thank you to Max Fulham for the fabulous photographs! Renee Tentori Guest Lecture in the Global Citizenship and Professional Development Module of … Continue reading International and European Law: LinkedIn Inspiration

Why do networks fail and what can we do to reverse this process? Dr Liliya Terzieva lecture.

As part of the International Week for the BFM students at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, we recently had the wonderful opportunity to listen in to a series of lectures. On 30 January 2024, Dr Liliya Terzieva gave a really interesting lecture about Why do networks fail and what can we do to reverse … Continue reading Why do networks fail and what can we do to reverse this process? Dr Liliya Terzieva lecture.

2023 Talent for Good Fair

On 8 November 2023, I attended the Talent for Good Fair, held where I work at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. Organised by The Hague Humanity Hub, I'm sharing some screenshots and link below. Unfortunately I couldn't attend many of the events as I had other work scheduled for the day, but was great … Continue reading 2023 Talent for Good Fair

A critical lens on inclusive internationalisation

On 22 June 2023, I attended this workshop for higher education lecturers at the Hogeschool Rotterdam. Internationalisation is a topic that has held my interest for some time, though it's one of those concepts that you can't really completely grasp, or define completely. In fact, one of the first activities we did was really interesting, … Continue reading A critical lens on inclusive internationalisation

2019 LinkedInLocalTheHague

On 10 October 2019, my students of the International Business programme at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands, ran a #LinkedInLocal event. This formed part of their Minor "Trends in Marketing". Around 60 students from around the world formed 14 teams, each of which needed to learn more about producing digital content. Each … Continue reading 2019 LinkedInLocalTheHague

What are your intercultural communication challenges?

What are your intercultural communication challenges? I asked participants this at a recent workshop. Here's some of theirs: Time (too many messages to respond to, not enough time)Conflict (wanting to avoid this or not knowing how to handle it)Different perspective (trying to understand these)Laugh (would like to make people laugh, but can be difficult)Message (making … Continue reading What are your intercultural communication challenges?

2019 Global Entrepreneurship Summit

On Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th June 2019, I had the amazing experience of attending the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (#GES2019) in The Hague, the Netherlands. Co-hosted by the governments of the United States and the Netherlands, it showcased the depth and breadth of innovations that are improving lives around the world, and the critical role … Continue reading 2019 Global Entrepreneurship Summit

2019 #LinkedInLocalTheHague

We held our first #LinkedInLocalTheHague at The Hague University of Applied Sciences on Thursday 16 May from 10.30am-12pm. International Business THUAS - Trends in Marketing This event was part of a "Trends in Marketing" minor in the International Business programme at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. My colleagues teach neuromarketing and big data for … Continue reading 2019 #LinkedInLocalTheHague

Welcome to the Zestee Blog

Welcome to the Zestee blog - this is portfolio of my work as well as a a treasure trove of more than 15 years of my favourite topics, articles, resources, book reviews, summaries of events I've been to and more.  You can navigate by scrolling, or via the category and archive dropdowns in the sidebar … Continue reading Welcome to the Zestee Blog