Celebrating 15 years The Hague International Centre

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The Hague International Centre marked its 15th anniversary with a celebratory gathering at Greens Restaurant and Garden in The Hague on 25 September 2025. The afternoon brought together partners, stakeholders and community members to highlight THIC's long-standing role in supporting internationals and strengthening the city’s international community. As I was teaching that day, I was … Continue reading Celebrating 15 years The Hague International Centre

2025 Unknown Community Celebration The Hague

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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

First Impressions Who Am I Activity

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In many of my workshops, I've started with an activity that I created a few years ago from an idea I had when preparing for a personal branding workshop. I've then developed further and used for various workshops on topics like (neuro)diversity and inclusion, networking and even just as an icebreaker. Usually participants have never … Continue reading First Impressions Who Am I Activity

2025 Summer School @ THUAS

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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

2025 Den Haag Inspireert / The Hague Inspires

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On Friday 13th June 2025, I enjoyed attending Den Haag Inspireert (The Hague Inspires) @ the Fokker Terminal. I've been several times to this annual event and always enjoy seeing the showcase of amazing entrepreneurial ideas in our city. https://youtu.be/YrKOATUs6Jw?feature=shared The afternoon offered a combination of workshops, presentations, awards and networking. A translation of the … Continue reading 2025 Den Haag Inspireert / The Hague Inspires

2023 Stories Unfold Self-Publishing Conference, Amsterdam

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On 20 March 2025, I I travelled from The Hague to Amsterdam for the Stories Unfold Self-Publishing Conference. Here's the promo blurb: Join us for a full day packed with inspirational talks from successful self-published authors, practical workshops on topics like Print on Demand, digital distribution, editor/author relationship, book advertising and promotion, writing workshops, paper industry, imposter syndrome, book cover … Continue reading 2023 Stories Unfold Self-Publishing Conference, Amsterdam

2024 ImpactFest The Hague

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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

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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

The Hague University Toastmasters Networking Workshop

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On 15 May 2024, I really enjoyed delivering a networking workshop at The Hague University Toastmasters. Thanks to for the great photos Thomas Bwire! Labels We always give ourselves and each other "labels" - whether we like it or not! There are some benefits to doing this, in helping our brain process all the information … Continue reading The Hague University Toastmasters Networking Workshop

Networking workshop Leiden University

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On 29 April 2024, I gave an in person networking workshop for the Career Information Meeting Astronomy at Leiden University. This was my first time to this impressive building at the Universiteit Leiden Faculty of Science. It was fun to see the chalkboards when I arrived, I haven't seen these for a long time! I … Continue reading Networking workshop Leiden University

2024 IWD: A Spotlight on Female Expertise @ The Hague Tech

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There were numerous events to choose from on Friday 8 March 2024 - International Women's Day. I have very mixed feelings about this day. I absolutely believe we need to focus on and address the ongoing gender gaps in our world. However I feel uncomfortable at events with only women - inclusion is so important … Continue reading 2024 IWD: A Spotlight on Female Expertise @ The Hague Tech

Building Your Network in The Netherlands (February 2024)

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On 29 February 2024, I very much enjoyed giving a workshop to a fabulous group at the Delft University of Technology Thanks to the Coming to Delft Service for organising and hosting these sessions, wonderful to have you with us this time: Malika Khalifa Camila Acero This great service supports international employees and their partners, … Continue reading Building Your Network in The Netherlands (February 2024)

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

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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.

Volunteer The Hague Mix & Match Fair

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Volunteer The Hague offer a great opportunity a couple of times a year for those looking for opportunities to volunteer with not for profit organisations in The Hague, in English. At this edition on Saturday 18 November, 2023, I was one of the keynote speakers, and gave a half hour presentation on "LinkedIn" Top tips … Continue reading Volunteer The Hague Mix & Match Fair

2023 Talent for Good Fair

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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

2023 Female Ventures Networking (August) Delft

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On Friday 25th August 2023, I had a lovely evening celebrating summer with Female Ventures & Friends in Delft. All the colours! The name badges were given a coloured sticker to indicate the following: Blue: International Organisation/Government (I work for THUAS) Yellow: Entrepreneur (my business Zestee) Red: Other (I'm open to more work and studying … Continue reading 2023 Female Ventures Networking (August) Delft

2022 (October) TU Delft Building your Network in the Netherlands workshop

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A few times a year, I have the fabulous opportunity to meet PhD's and their partners at TU Delft to help them settle into life here in the Netherlands. This is offered by the Coming to Delft service. It's always a very international group, and I lead them through a workshop with tips and tricks … Continue reading 2022 (October) TU Delft Building your Network in the Netherlands workshop

2020 TU Delft Networking in The Netherlands workshops

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This is now my second year of teaching TU Delft PhD students and their partners a "Networking in The Netherlands" workshop. Offered through the "Coming to Delft" service, the purpose is to support those who have moved to the Netherlands to build their network here. I moved to The Netherlands from Australia many years ago … Continue reading 2020 TU Delft Networking in The Netherlands workshops