Inside InterNations
Last Thursday, our team members Theresa (Head of Business Solutions) and Christa (Team Lead Human Resources) started their working day in a most unusual manner: Together with the Monteverdi Choir Hamburg and 1,500 other people, they performed Beethoven’s famous “Ode to Joy” in the “Elphi”, Hamburg’s spectacular new concert hall.
International Women’s Day, on 8 March, is an occasion to celebrate women’s achievements, but also to look at areas where there’s still room for improvement.
In Germany, the percentage of women in management (i.e. members of management boards and managing directors) is being widely discussed: the current share of 29% is somewhat below the EU average (34%).
Frankly, InterNations doesn’t do any better than the average German company, though we don’t perform any worse, either. If we count our two founders and co-CEOS as regular members of our management board, three of ten board members are women. At 30%, this corresponds more or less to the national average.
The women on our management board are anything but average, though, and they have a lot to share about leadership in general, as well as women and leadership in particular.
In the series “Off Duty”, various members of the InterNations team share their personal stories about a global lifestyle and the international experience.
For this post, we have talked to Christian, our Team Lead Member Relations, who grew up as a so-called “third-culture kid” (TCK for short).
In the “Alumni” series, we talk to former team members about their career change and how working at InterNations has influenced them.
In this first installment, we’re introducing Lena, who left InterNations in July 2018 to start her own business.
In the series “Job Profiles”, we talk to various members of the InterNations team about their position and the work they do.
In this post, we’d like to introduce Lisa, who is part of the Human Resources Team at our Munich office.
