Teia comes from Romania but her intense AIESEC experience offer her the opportunity to work in 5 different countries including Belgium, Germany and Costa Rica where she served as national president.
Teia 32 years old
‘’Everything you do in AIESEC is about leadership; to join the organization in Bucharest I had to apply and be selected among 400 other students. I had to pass through a selection process where it’s important to have a vision for the future of the organization, share it with the others and get them on board to actually make it happen!’’ Teia mentions during an interview with AIESEC members.
Teia Gavrilescu
After her AIESEC experience Teia worked for ABN Amro Bank during tree years in The Netherlands and Romania. After that FuturePlus (ViitorPlus) she worked in the national department on President and founder of Future Plus Strategic Planning for Sustainable DevelRomania opment within the National Ministry of Environment in Romania. Teia was in charge of the National Sustainability Strategy revision, approval and implementation. Moreover she was also the focal point for Romania’s Sustainability strategy within the EU institution. In 2006 she started her own NGO and today Teia is the President of ViitorPlus (www.viitorplus.ro). ViitorPlus is dedicated to implement sustainable development at individual, organizational and community level. Some of the latest projects of ViitorPlus include ‘’Adopt a Tree”, “La Recyclette” and “ECOmmunity” these projects are focus on environmental sustainability. Teia idea if happiness: “Living my dreams. The ones related to my life, what it’s up to me, what I consider important and relevant, what makes sense for now and the future.”
Mohamed has been always interested in projects that can support the education system and development of kids in Egypt and after working during two years in projects related with education Mohamed decided with another 3 CoFounders to start Taleeda Foundation which is the envision to be social venture launch pad. Educate-Me is one of the projects that Taleeda is driving right now. This project aims to enable unprivileged children to discover their own aspirations and dreams, they guide them on what changes can make evolve their community and they train them on transferable skills such as being proactive, building their own vision, problem solving, active listening, deductive thinking and team work using a highly creative and experiential learning approach. AIESEC was a great university and platform for Mohamed to discover, practice and develop most the necessary skills for him to start his own foundation as well as holding such an important position in Alcatel-Lucent as the Head Employee Learning in Middle East and Africa at such a young age. Mohamed’s favourite quote: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.’ We ask ourselves, who am I to be CEO and Co-Founder at Taleeda Foundation brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, Head of Employee Learning in Alcatel-Lucent MEA who are you not to be?...” Marianne Williamson Egypt 26 years old
Mohamed Fawzy El-Haw
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