Entrepreneurship
Sign up for our 2020 programme is now open
You can now sign up for the PWN Global Virtual Entrepreneurship Programme 2020! A hands-on, online course designed to enrich your personal, professional and business capacities while leveling and fostering sustainable goals. This programme is delivered over an 8 month period and features live webinars and coaching circles.
The original program was designed by PWN Global's former VP Entrepreneurship, Betina Mazzarino, PCC (https://betinamazzarino.com/), and certified by the EU Business School.
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Message from our Global VP of Entrepreneurship
"Where women work, economies grow" is a recent statement from the World Economic Forum. Combine that with the proven advantages of gender balanced leadership and the fact that small and medium sized business generate more than 99% of jobs in most countries around the world and it's an easy equation that we need to focus our attention making sure women step up in the world of entrepreneurs and build thriving businesses.
PWN, now more than 30 years the instigator of the gender balance leadership discussion is ideally suited to take on the challenge of bringing more women into the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and making sure they come prepared.
'Developing Business through Mind, Body and Heart' offers participants a hands-on resource to enhance personal and professional skills and capacities, discover and foster sustainable goals, build trust and relationships through collaborative methods, while attaining a greater sense of integrity.
This program not only offers women the necessary ongoing drive and support to achieve their goals, but most of all, it helps them build the stamina to change the conversation from what they can't do, to what they can do.
Patricia Zeegers
Global VP of Entrepreneurship
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