A call for collaboration! Grow your business in a team! Our January interactive “growing by doing meeting” is for all business owners and for those who are thinking of starting their own businesses. We will learn an effective team technique to grow our businesses. We ask everyone to come...
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PWG needs your help!
Are you attending a PWG event? Are you good with a camera or written word? PWG is looking for volunteers to help write brief reviews of PWG events as well as generate interesting and relevant content for the PWG website. If you have good at communications, here’s you opportunity...
Miriam Blocher, President of Läckerli Huus Presents to PWG
Article by Erminia Leali and Meredith Augustine PWG November meeting hosted a presentation by one of the most successful Swiss business women, Miriam Blocher, President of Läckerli Huus. Miriam was born in Zürich, has a degree as a Food Engineer from the prestigious ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich). She...
Save the DATE!
The PWG Annual General Meeting will take place January 24, 2014. The committee is working hard on planning and will post more information as it becomes available. In the meanwhile be sure to mark your calendar and save the date!
New Member Spotlight – Olivia Butler
This week PWG welcomes new member Olivia Butler. After six years of commuting back and forth from Basel to London, Olivia moved to Basel permanently in February 2013. Olivia held a position in senior management in local government in the UK. She also holds an MBA and is a...
CV Workshop a Success
PWG extends a big thank you to Chair, Isabelle Valibus, for sharing her insights and expertise at last weeks CV Workshop. A well-attended event, the participants originally from all parts of the world, represented diverse professions and work experiences. Workshop highlights included: Identifying aspects of the job hunting process...
Women Entrepreneurs November Meeting – Say “no”!
At our november women entrepreneurs meeting, the last in the “juggle your many talents” serie, Kirstin Barton – Coach and Workshop Leader will help us develop ourselves when and how to say “no” to things that distract us from going forward and from achieving our goals. The meeting will...
Main Meeting – November 13, Läckerli Huus
For the month of November we have a special guest at the Lohnhof: Miriam Blocher will talk about her experience of taking over the Läckerli Huus in 2007 and its history. She will focus on how she has innovated a traditional company with a traditional product. She will also...
PWG Welcomes New Members
PWG welcomes two new members this week. Erminia Leali and Meredith Augustine. Erminia recently moved to Basel from Milan. Her most recent position was working as a brand manager for a watch company. Erminia is looking for her next career opportunity in marketing, ideally in a multinational company. Erminia...
Spouse Power-Back to work Conference
Today we had the opportunity to experience a whole day talk about ourselves, we spouses, highly qualified women living in Basel. The integration department of Basel organised a one day conference with the title: Spouse Power – Back to work. The overall organisation was a great success thanks to...