Carine Wittwer is the Founder and Director of Art Bond Agency, a boutique fine arts agency dedicated to supporting emerging artists and enabling them to pursue projects unencumbered to their artistic visions and voices. Having identified many parallels between how artists and executives direct their work, Carine decided apply artistic principles and practices to business endeavors. Established on a model that encourages the corporate, public and private sectors to increase involvement in the culture of arts appreciation, Art Bond helps unseen artists to reach their audience.
 
Establishing Art Bond was the direct result of Carine’s experience and her interest in art and its ability to impact and affect people on the individual and societal levels. She was always fascinated by art, and is passionate about developing new artists and helping them find their voice and a platform upon which to present their work. With over 16 years of experience in the hotel industry, Carine is driven by the desire to introduce artists to the corporate world. She travels internationally, and focuses on the work of African art and artists, including from South Africa, Tanzania, Ghana, Kenya and Mozambique. She is especially known for her work representing street artists and contemporary artists, and for her marketing and communications skills.
 
In 1998, Carine received a Diploma in Hotel Business from the Ecole Hoteliere de Geneve. With a natural talent for project management and communications, she quickly established herself in the hospitality and hotel management sector, and relocated to the Serengeti National Park of Tanzania as General Manager of the Bilila Lodge Kempinski, part of the Kempinski Hotels group. Her time in the corporate and hotel sector helped demonstrate to Carine the impact that art can have in the corporate world, and she realized there was a true niche in helping corporations find artists whose works can augment not just their internal spaces, but their organizational missions. She notes that “[s]ince all great art pushes boundaries beyond established norms, it can teach us about leadership, empathy, ambiguity, change, courage and creativity.”
 
Initially from Switzerland, Carine speaks fluent English and French. Looking ahead, she plans to continue growing the Art Bond Agency, fostering exciting new artists and giving them a voice. A true optimist, she credits her success to keeping an open mind, having kindness and putting in the hard work needed to establish a thriving business. Outside of her professional endeavors, Carine enjoys travel, polo, swimming, snowboarding, meditation and reading.
 
Worldwide Women’s Association Member Carine Wittwer can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
 
 

 
Anna Miller is an experienced Lecturer and Module Leader with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. With over 12 years of experience in her field, she is highly skilled in peer support, lecturing, peer mentoring, teacher training, and academic skills. She is a strategic and forward-thinking professional, and has been part of Plymouth University London campus for the past two years. In her current role, she is responsible for conducting lectures, supporting her team and she lectures level 3 and level 4 students, although her experience in the education sector spans from secondary to further education, and from TEFL to University pathways programmes.
 
With a Master of Arts in Linguistics and English Language Studies and a Cambridge CELTA qualification focused in Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, Anna is currently studying towards a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Practice from the University of Plymouth and a Higher Education Academy Fellowship.
 
Anna is based in London, where she credits much of her success to the international friendships and lasting partnerships she has been able to foster. She is a strong, independent woman who aims high and sets clear goals for herself, which she has the tenacity to work towards until they have been achieved. Outside of her work and studies, Anna is affiliated with the British Heart Foundation and enjoys reading, travelling, jogging and extreme sports in her spare time.
 
Worldwide Women’s Association Member Anna Miller, MA can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
 
 

 
Susanne Wagner is CEO and founder of Passionate Digital W78 GmbH, a professional management and procurement consulting agency in Austria near Vienna:
 
Primary specializing in SAP solutions, supplier enablement, training and systems management, her company also offers digital project management, supply chain and coaching as well as workshops.
 
Working in their passionate and customer demand-driven way, Susanne and her ambitious team are strictly aligned to the customer’s benefits to find effective, reliable and affordable solutions in the rapidly evolving digital age. So, the main target of their work is to empower business owners and managers to break free of feeling like a “spider in the digital net”.
 
Based on over 13 years of professional experience in business administration, IT solutions and procurement, Susanne is an impassioned and dedicated leader personality, helping organizations understand and benefit from new technology systems directly relevant to their specific needs.
 
September 2017 she published her first book: “Einkauf mit SAP Ariba” published by Rheinwerk Verlag, together with Marcus Mock.
 
Susanne credits her success to good education and a strong professional foundation laid over many years:

• After having earned her Diploma in General Business Administration and Management from the University of Cooperative Education (Berufsakademie) Ravensburg (Germany),
• Susanne launched her career as a Junior Purchaser for Boehringer Ingelheim: Rising quickly through the ranks of the company, she ultimately became Senior Process Expert Procure to Pay. In this position she led an international project team to implement procure to pay processes within a global system.
• Susanne also worked as a Senior Consultant for CNT Management Consulting (Vienna, Austria)
• and as a Senior Master Data and Contract Management Expert for Swarovski (Tirol, Austria) before she founded her own company, Passionate Digital W78 GesmbH, in November 2017.

 
She is proud to run an ecologically minded company and helping her client’s transition into more sustainable, lower carbon footprint entities via digitization.
 
Susanne lives with her family in Austria. Her mother tongue is German, and she fluently speaks English.  Outside of running Passionate Digital W78 GmbH, Susanne enjoys traveling and culture, choral singing and ecological gardening in her leisure time.
 

Maria Nebres is a dynamic entrepreneur and seasoned human resources practitioner, drawing on over twenty-five years of comprehensive human resources experience and gained insights in human potential development and growth. Maria’s facilitation specialty focuses on helping at various levels: at the professional level for leaders and teams development performing under high workplace change conditions such as mergers, acquisitions and business growth expansions; and at the individual level for personal leadership, growth, development and mindset transformation. With her strong belief that sustaining success in anything starts and permeates from within, Maria brings substantial experience in the collaborative design, delivery, facilitation, coaching and implementation of people-centered programs for success management. For over thirteen of her twenty-five years in her profession, she has run her own HR consulting business, MPCS Inc., where she has proven to help businesses and individuals, through her passion “to help others to show up in their vigorous love for life because they live life by deliberate design and not by default”.

Maria’s deliberate design of her career gained her a clear and focused track to success momentum and helping others, despite her own life challenges faced. Her own personal journey overcoming abuse, toxic relationships and health struggles ultimately inspired her to learn from her darkest moments and transform her lessons into valuable skills and services she applies and shares in her thriving business, in her promotion of healthy relationships, and in modeling passion and drive for creative solutions to taking action for positive results.

Maria is founder, HR Business Partner/Director-Facilitator-Speaker of MPCS Inc. for her HR corporate clients in their human resources management needs; and is also founder-Facilitator-Speaker-Trainer of The Factor Of Corporation which provides an additional line of service offering, dedicated to one’s ongoing personal leadership development, growth, and related mindset transformation. Based out of Toronto, Canada, she is proud to provide both corporate and individual clients with a complementary suite of transformative services to existing clients across sectors/industries such as the general public, healthcare, financial services, pharmaceutical, translation services, high-tech, research & development, and management consulting sectors.

After earning her bachelor of art’s degree in Sociology and English from the University of Western Ontario, Maria launched her career in talent acquisition. Quickly establishing herself as a rising talent in the field of human resources , Maria’s earlier HR career was cultivated by employers such as CIBC Finance Inc. and CIBC Group of Companies for several years, where she was awarded the President’s Award for Entrepreneurial Spirit, and bonus for performance, year over year; and achieving the Top Performer Award as Senior Human Resources Associate for Leitch Technology International INC Today, Maria continues her inspiration for helping others through her business, with a seasoned expertise to awaken and inspire the human potential spirit with her bold mission statement: “To help enable and inspire people to act from their source of empowerment for reaching their greatest heights of success and fulfillment in what matters most to them – personally and professionally – and within the context of love, connection, and joy.”