Career Relaunch

26 January 2021 digital

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Career Relaunch

The conference for relaunchers and career transitioners.

Talks, a job fair, job speed dating and workshops - Career Relaunch 2021 is designed to inspire you.

Be a part of it – whether as a company representative or an individual.

26^th of January 2021
Inspiring Morning

Top-class speakers from business, academia and politics will share their thoughts and expertise on career relaunch and career transitions.

09.00 - 09.05
Let’s get started!
Dr. Patricia Widmer, Head of Diversity & Management Programmes, Universität St.Gallen
09.05 - 09.15
Welcome Address
Carmen Walker Späh, Regierungsrätin of the Canton of Zurich
09.15 - 09.45
Keynote Speech: Take a leap of faith
Sigrun Gudjonsdottir, CEO
09.50 - 10.00
Back to Business-Programm
Corinne Kuhn, Lead Employer Branding und Personalmarketing, SBB
10.00 - 10.10
Re-Ignite Return-to-Work Program
Sarah Swaney, Consumer Health EMEA Data Strategy Director, Johnson & Johnson
10.10 - 10.30
Break

10.30 - 10.40
Career Comeback Worldwide
Nisha Chopra, UBS
10.40 -10.50
Women Back to Work Programme
Vanessa Gentile, Alliance & Channel Lead, Salesforce Switzerland
10.50 - 11.00
Migrant women in professional networks - the career mentoring program for well-qualified migrant women
Catherine Pfaehler, cfd
11.00 - 11.10
NextGen Professionals Program
Maciej Czerwinski & Nick Winham, ServiceNow
11.10 - 11.20
Q&A Time

Awarding of the 1st Career Empowerment Label

Career Empowerment Label - find out which companies are committed to re-entry.

Prof. Dr. Gudrun Sander, University of St.Gallen
Helena Trachsel. Canton of Zurich
Dr. Barbara Künzle, Avenir
Dr. Patricia Widmer, University of St.Gallen

11.25 - 12.15

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Creative Afternoon

Take part in workshops to empower your job search or explore the possibilities of a career transition.

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Speakers & Moderators

Nisha
Chopra

Maciej
Czerwinski

Maciej Czerwinski is a sales leader with 10 years international experience working across Central, Southern and Eastern Europe. Since 2016 is helping customer accelerate their digital transformation and making world of work, work better for the people trough ServiceNow platform. Most recently in the role of Director of Solution Sales for Customer Workflow responsible for Central Europe at ServiceNow. Educated at London School of Economics, grounded in life trough meaning and 2 young children. In 2018 by aligning company mission with personal values initiated collaboration between University of St. Gallen and ServiceNow resulting in Women Return to Work initiative.

Vanessa
Gentile

Vanessa Gentile is of Brazilian and Italian descent and grew up in Frauenfeld. She speaks 6 languages and is fascinated by the tech industry, where she has worked since she completed her studies. Vanessa is Alliance & Channel Lead at Salesforce in Switzerland, based in Zurich. She is responsible for the Salesforce Partners Eco-System, focusing on partners’ capabilities and capacity according to the market growth and need. Vanessa is focused on transmitting and emphasizing the Salesforce journey through partners to transform, accelerate & innovate. That’s why in March 2020 she founded the program “Bring Women Back to Work” to reskill women who have taken a longer career break and to facilitate their return to the workplace through the Salesforce Eco-System.

Sigrun
Gudjonsdottir

Sigrun Gudjonsdottir is a leading mentor for online entrepreneurs in Europe, TEDx speaker, and moderator of the Sigrun Show podcast. Although she has no entrepreneurial background, she made a life-changing call and asked to become CEO of a software company after completing her Masters in Architecture - and she got the job! Three Masters degrees and several CEO roles later, Sigrun found herself in Switzerland. In 2014 Sigrun started her online business. Her flagship is SOMBA, Sigrun's Online MBA. Other programs include SOMBA Momentum, a group coaching program, VIP Mastermind, and the Red Circle, the first million dollar mastermind for female entrepreneurs in Europe.

Corinne
Kuhn

Dr. Barbara
Künzle

Barbara Künzle absolvierte ihr Studium der Psychologie an der Universität Zürich und schrieb anschliessend ihre Dissertation zum Thema „Adaptive Leadership in Anaesthesia Teams“ in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Universitätsspital Zürich und der ETH. Nach mehrjähriger Tätigkeit im Ausland, ist sie heute Partnerin bei Avenir und leitet unter anderem das Geschäftsfeld Assessment. Als Mutter zweier Töchter ist für Barbara die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Karriere eine zentrale Fragestellung. Deshalb liegt ihr Fokus darauf, für Frauen, Männer und Unternehmen Modelle zur Vereinbarkeit zu entwickeln und verfasst aktuell ein Buch zum Thema.

Catherine
Pfaehler

Catherine Pfaehler, lic.oec.HSG (business administration, human resources, organization) worked as a business organizer and trainer in an insurance company and was also managing director of a sustainable furniture workshop. Since 2011 she has headed the administrative office of cfd - the feminist peace organization. Her assistant is a well-qualified migrant for 6 months at a time. In the project "Migrant Women in Professional Networks", which was started in 2007, Catherine has been working since September 2019 to raise awareness in the private sector and to expand access to the Swiss labor market for well-qualified migrant women.

Prof. Dr. Gudrun
Sander

Gudrun Sander is Titular Professor of Business Administration with a special emphasis on Diversity Management, Director of the Competence Centre for Diversity and Inclusion, and Academic Director at the Executive School of the University of St. Gallen. She conducts research on diversity and inclusion issues from the perspective of strategy, leadership and corporate culture, heads the national Diversity Benchmarking and is an academic expert in various international and national committees.

Sarah
Swaney

Sarah Swaney studied Chinese and Business Studies at the University of Leeds, in the UK. This took her into a career in Fast Moving Consumer Goods, working in a number of roles in the UK, Russia and Germany. For the last 9 years, Sarah has worked in Johnson + Johnson, in both the Pharmaceutical and Consumer Health businesses. Within J+J, Sarah has worked in Global and Regional roles in Procurement and Marketing and is now in a Data Strategy Director role in EMEA Consumer Health, based in Zug in Switzerland.

Helena
Trachsel

Helena Trachsel has been the Head ofthe Office for Equality of the Canton of Zurich since 2011. Earlier, she passionately held leading positions as Head of Diversity Management, Employee Relations and Task Force at SwissRe. From early years on Helena Trachsel chose to work in diverse areas where she could live her strong dedication to equality and justice, social parity and foster social cohesion. Through family business she had been working in gastronomy, found her way later into the health and education sector, and the youth justice which had a mayor influence on her work experience and career path. After 6 years as the elected Head of VPOD of the Social Institutions she took on the challenge of diving into the corporate environment of a global reinsurance company. 14 years later she decided to join the Public Administration of the Canton of Zurich in a leading position in the field of gender equality. From a personal view, working on the subject of work and life balance e is a mayor motivation for Helena Trachsel.

Carmen
Walker Späh

Dr. Patricia
Widmer

Patricia Widmer studied business administration at the University of Zurich, majoring in banking and finance. She worked for several years in private banking at a major Swiss bank. During a stay abroad in the USA and in Germany she worked in leading positions for various charitable organizations.

Patricia is now Programme Director for Diversity and Management Programs at the Executive School of the University of St.Gallen. She teaches, moderates panel discussions and gives lectures on diversity & inclusion and unconscious bias.

Nick
Winham

Nick Winham is a Program Manager for the NextGen team at ServiceNow. Over the past 2 years Nick’s focus under NextGen has been to support the growth and demands of the ServiceNow ecosystem. Nick has a passion and aim to make sure that through NextGen, ServiceNow are building training programs with meaningful employment as an outcome for all, whether that’s women returning to work, veterans transitioning to the workplace or vulnerable young people being given an opportunity to thrive. One of the key programs Nick has been responsible for is teaming up with the University of St Gallen to form the Women Return to Work initiative. Nick is based in the UK, however has visited Switzerland on numerous occasions.

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Price for a day pass to Career Relaunch digital, including a workshop in advance:

CHF 125.-

And all this is included:

A whole morning packed with top-class presentations
Afternoon workshops to choose from
Inside look into the UBS Career Comeback Program

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Digital means...

This year the Career Relaunch conference will take place exclusively online, as the health of everyone is very important to us. After registration, you will receive all the details for the event broadcast as well as login information in time for the event.

If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us:
Career Academy
Sarah Lenz
career.relaunch@unisg.ch