Checkin’ in at your hotel at 2 am in the morning in Dar es Salaam and finding a bar of the best Dutch chocolate waiting for you at the reception, is just such an amazing way to start your work week. Meeting millionaire female traders at Kariaako market in Dar es Salaam and smallholder farmers […]
Visiting our clients is always such a treat! Especially when our client is using finance to solve world problems. And that is exactly what IFMR capital does. They use sophisticated financial instruments to tackle financial inclusion. In India 75% of the population has no access to finance. Given the population of 1.2b it is not […]
“Boys focus on the ball, girls on the game.” This remark by my sorority mate, who also manages a girls’ soccer team, vividly describes how men and women approach life and therefore end up making different choices. According to data on the best-performing companies, business success is a balancing act. Mixed teams and mixed boards […]
In 1967 a little girl named Karla was born in ‘Hopital el Retiro’ a few years before it was destroyed in the devastating 1972 earthquake. Today the regional retail banking group where Karla works, is built on exactly the same spot. During the earthquake Karla remembers roof tiles falling down like rain and her dad […]
Today I wish to share this incredibly beautiful, inspiring and touching e-mail I received from Kshama Fernandes, CEO of Northern Arc in India. “When I was born, I was the daughter my parents craved for When my brother was born, I became a sister to him When I got married, I became a wife When I had […]
On my way to Kaunda International Airport in Lusaka, enduring the country music of my gentle driver, I truly start to sink into the sisterhood experience. The magnitude of what I have witnessed the past week slowly starts to dawn on me. As I take my sunshine walk towards the South African Airways plane I […]
There is an alchemy that goes on in the best boardrooms – as well as in the best teams. An alchemy that creates value from the combination of diverse individuals with differing views. It amazes me that anno 2019 we still need a BalanceforBetter hashtag. This beautiful hashtag is used globally in celebration of March […]