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At Sanofi, everyone gets parental leave: all parents of all genders, irrespective of which country they’re in. “People feel like it’s...

Dr Irène Kilubi in the MyCollective podcast: Developing a personal brand on social media offers enormous career opportunities!

Parenting skills are leadership skills – this has long been a mantra of ours at MyCollective. So it was fantastic to meet someone as...

We cover topics at the intersection of parenting and careers, but keep coming back to what we call the “golden triangle” - that perfect...

We’ve been running Real World Role Models sessions at MyCollective for over two years now, and it’s one of my favourite formats -...

🤷‍♀️ Is equal care an issue that only women care about? (I really wish it wasn’t, but why didn’t a single man show up to this...

MyCollective invited DEI changemakers and partners in crime to a roundtable discussion at #MMK24 for a deep dive into the essence of...

Different generations expect different things from their work environments - which is where Lea Haep comes in. The MD at STARTUP TEENS &...

Different generations expect different things from their work environments - which is where Lea Haep comes in. The MD at STARTUP TEENS &...

… this was my experience at MMK24 (Münchner Management Kolloquium) this week, where we had a fantastic lineup of top C-Level speakers,...

Why should I care about equal care? Well, it’s a tricky topic which at some point will crop up in every relationship. It’s hard for all...

We talk a lot about all the leadership skills that we hone as we parent our kids - but as the research published in a recent Harvard...

“Everyone is talking about AI and where to use AI,” says Christina Sontheim-Leven in our newest podcast - and as CHRO and board member...

This year, a man came up to me after one of my talks to tell me about the heartbreak of being a working dad. There are lots of statistics...

Christmas is around the corner; it’s the season to spend time with family, reflect on the year and start thinking about resolutions for...

𝐓𝐖𝐎 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐎 - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐦, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐍𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐆𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐧 Tandem solutions may...

This is crazy, We just can’t afford to keep losing parents in the workplace when skilled labour is already so scarce. These figures were...

Stell dir vor, du hast Elternzeit genommen und wirst nach deiner Rückkehr befördert. Stell dir vor, Elternzeit wäre ein berufliches...

I’m always on the lookout for #RoleModels - both for myself and for our network of parents and professionals at MyCollective, because, in...

First, the Wo*Men in Leadership Convention hosted by Beiersdorf and then the German Diversity Award, meant that I got to pack two...

This is the last issue of what for us has been an iconic magazine to hit newsstands before Emotion Verlag hands over to its new owners....

As a start-up founder myself, I really loved being able to sit on the jury at the Public Value Award for Startups 2023 and gain a new...

It was so much fun to be back at herCAREER last week — it’s so much more than the careers fair that it’s billed to be, thanks to...

Anne Theiss wrote a book while she was pregnant with and then nursing her baby - her new novel, “Die Abwertung der Mütter - Wie überholte...

We have exciting news! We have decided to open up our parental leave programme to make it available for everyone ❤️ It was always my...

Munich is a melting pot of startups right now because it's Bits & Pretzels time, and one of the hottest topics for the 5,000 founders,...

Recently, our founder Ricarda Engelmeier was interviewed by OMR. "Three questions for Ricarda Engelmeier" appeared in the OMR5050...

Thousands of tech founders from the world will be descending on Munich for Bits & Pretzels these days, and speaking to some of them this...

It’s the Bits & Pretzels founders festival in Munich the next days and with 5,000 founders, investors, and industry leaders coming...

That’s the topic of this year’s Children’s Day. It got us thinking at MyCollective how we as a team - and also as a collective of parents...

Isabel Hochgesand's meteoric career took her from Managing Director and Procurement VP at Procter&Gamble to Chief Procurement Officer at...

Last week I spent a few days at the DLD Conference focusing on circularity and AI. The thought in the back of my mind was - if AI is...

We made it to the final round in the 2023 Rise and Lead Women Awards 🙌 This award recognises initiatives and companies that champion...

Germany is one of just a handful of countries around the world where - since 1958 - couples have been able to declare their income...

"The underlying concept of our modern, very fast communication tools is to lower the transactional cost per bit of communication.”...

You all know that I believe that parents can change the world ✊ The experience of parenting makes us great managers, delegators, empaths,...

I recently spoke with two fantastic Supervisory Board Members – Ann-Kristin Achleitner and Manuela Rousseau – to ask them if there’s a...

Antonella Mei-Pochtler has combined parenthood with an incredibly successful career - a linear trajectory first, taking her to the top...

This was the podcast that turned me into a football fan ⚽️🙌💙 Ariane Hingst is arguably one of Germany’s most successful soccer players....

Tanja Dr. Prinzessin zu Waldeck turned her sitting room into an office just after she had her first baby - she used the space for her...

Those of you who know me well will know that I’ve been on what feels like an eternal search for a role-model. It may even have been one...

Sabine Scheunert’s big career breakthrough came when her son had just turned 1 and she got a call from Citroën, asking her if she wanted...

“After women, people with disability are the biggest minority.” D&I - diversity & inclusion - suddenly seems to be on everyone’s agenda....

What if you could take an established business and transform it into exactly the kind of company that you would like to work in? As CEO...

For many new parents, getting back to work after having a baby is the first - and biggest - hurdle to staying in a career. What can...

Financial Literacy - time to check your piggy bank with Astrid Zehbe Although during your parental leave you’ll be focused on spending...

Last week, BurdaForward invited me to be their first ever guest at #CultureCocktail - a talk circle where it’s not so much about drinking...

🎧 Listen to the podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/ricarda-engelmaier-so-wird-deine-elternzeit-zum-karrierebooster/id1...

Leadership isn’t a position, it's a behaviour. And no matter where we are in our company's hierarchy, we can all change our behaviour,...

Seeing time out as an opportunity and making the most of parental leave & sabbaticals How we work is changing. For employers, that means...