Women with Passion
“Inspiring and motivating people to find and follow their passion”
2022
Radina is a dedicated vocal coach, singer, songwriter and artist. At the age of six, she started playing cello but soon, the instrument voice became her main passion. Since 2001, Radina has studied different vocal techniques. She was first trained at the Unique Voice Studios – a private school for contemporary music and studied jazz vocals at the Prayner Conservatory in Vienna. For years she has studied with different mix singing teachers and private vocal coaches Romana Caren Lakinger, Sandy Cressman, Monika Ballwein and others and has been mentored by the renowned vocal coach Rocio Guitard in the Bay area, CA. Radina holds a Master of Science Degree from the University of Vienna and speaks English, German, Bulgarian and French. She is an associate teacher and member of IVTOM – International Voice Teachers of Mix. IVTOM is a non-profit organization and network of like minded teachers of mix singing who continually strive to be the best in their field. Radina is also known as songwriter and front singer of the award winning and internationally touring electronic music duo Fatmagic and therefor knows the demands and needs for a healthy vocal technique for performers and any singer in general; hobbyist and professional. She helps her students to achieve their goals and become the best singers they can be. Radina constantly perfects her vocal education and performing techniques, and always tries to challenge herself to provide up to date first row information to her students. She teaches contemporary music, Pop, Dance, Rock, Soul, Blues, Jazz, R’n’B, Country and Musical. For the past 15 years Radina has been working as a vocal coach in Vienna, San Francisco, Hawaii and Los Angeles, giving private and group lessons and founded the vocal program Vocals-on-Stage in 2010. Her clients range from complete beginners to touring artists, boy bands, a cappella groups, solo artists, choir member, musical theater singers of all ages and backgrounds. Vocals-on-Stage is based in Los Angeles and lessons can be booked in person or online.
Ceri is a life coach whose aim is to assist in understanding who you truly are and with that achieve your goals and targets. She wants to take her clients on a journey of self-discovery, put them out of their comfort zone and inspire them to be a better version of themselves.
Anna Schmitzberger is an artist, a traveler and a systemic coach, who always tries to look beneath the surface of life. She was born and grew up in Salzburg, Austria, and studied graphic design in Berlin. After a year in Rome where she worked in a publishing agency and a photography studio, she became self-employed in the field of photography. Through that profession she visited regions such as the middle east, India, Australia or Central & South America, was published by magazines such as Zenith Berlin or Vice UK, and her pictures were shown in Melbourne, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Venice and Bogotà. Today she is living and working in Vienna, where she also studies Social and Cultural Anthropology. She runs her own agency and label called PINC.
Andra is a Growth Hacker by heart and soul. Her growth journey started 29 years ago in Romania and 9 years ago she included the marketing competence to this growth. She acquired extensive advertising knowledge, going from traditional ad agencies in Vienna to acting as Marketing Manager in tech startups and Growth Strategist in digital marketing agencies. She helped the programmable robots startup Robo Wunderkind collect 100.000 Euro in pre-orders and the Augmented Reality Art startup Artivive gain 20% month-over-month traction in terms of users. Growth is her passion. Now she created Holistic Traction with the purpose of helping founders of early-stage companies find traction and build a solid growth foundation for their services or products.
Alexandra Passion: SOULutions, asking questions, movement, implementing ideas, dragons and Donkeys. Dream: Transformation: A world in which holistic solutions are lived, liveliness is encouraged, loud laughter is welcome and the world can be discovered with curiosity. Background: agent of change, art therapist, systemic coach, supervisor, organizational development, author, online congress organizer, trainer, SELFcare, BUSINESScare and WORLDcare expert Projects: Care2Go – WeCare-Impulses, Preserving individual, social, economic and ecological capital with #littlehealthysteps and #littlegreensteps. For all those seeking to achieve their own satisfaction and find meaning in life, and to leave a world worth living in for the next generations. It bridges the gap between private “malaise” and joint shaping - in private as well as in professional fields. Moving people and organisations towards #SELFcare, #BUSINESScare and #WORLDcare. EMA – authentic visibility 4 KMUs. School Workshops: Filming4change – the little prince meets SDGs
Elena is a multilingual, multicultural holistic health and wellness coach. She has traveled the world on a mission to empower women and girls to be true to themselves, and to guide them along their paths. She inspires, motivates and serves them to reach their ultimate goals, be that to overcome issues in a relationship, to make a career move, or simply to look and feel ten years younger! She is a fitness instructor, motivational speaker, and creative mastermind, but above all, a woman on a journey to inspire. She could lift you out of your comfort zone and put some courage in your gut and soul! If you’re ready to transform a standardised mindset and explore the infinite possibilities that await once you let go of negative self-talk, then why not ... The time is NOW!
Rita Isiba is Founding Director of Aphropean Partners. She is passionate about forging global partnerships in business to establish a common purpose.
Krista is a partner and co-owner at Redbox Studio, a company based in Penang, Malaysia, that helps business owners leverage their websites as marketing tools. With 20 years of experience in copywriting, PR and marketing, Krista is regularly sought after to speak and present on women and entrepreneurship. She also trains and consults specifically on using websites to market. She is the co-founder of WomenBizSENSE, a women entrepreneur organisation in Penang, Malaysia. She was its president until 2016 and is currently its advisor.
Mukisa Hellen is 22 years old and running a project called mama wright foundation which helps vulnerable kids street kids orphan kids and is also helping the elders
Hannah is a Personal Branding Specialist focused on supporting solopreneurs and entrepreneurs to launch powerful personal brands and digital businesses. Hannah’s mission is to bring inspiring, impact-driven leaders into the world through the power of 'being known' online. Hannah’s passion for personal branding started in 2012 and became her full time focus in 2018 with the launch of Powerful Leaders, a personal branding agency, and later the publication of her book ‘The Power of You'. Hannah now focuses on coaching and teaching to support business owners find the clarity and direction to build strong personal brand based businesses. Hannah’s goal is to inspire and teach as many people as possible to step into their light, share their message and lead their tribe. Personal Branding is not about self promotion, fancy logos, or Instagram filters. It’s about standing for something, it’s about leading a movement, it’s about serving an audience. Hannah believes we have a duty to lead, to adapt and to learn and that by making small changes and individually contributing we can make the world a better, more positive place.
Genny Jones Aka Confident Queen is a Confidence Builder and Happiness Coach based in Northfleet Kent (UK) She studied Accountancy and worked for a number of accountants before setting up her own Accountancy Training Services. After some life changing perusal experiences which had rocked her confidence, she decided to train to be a life coach and this helped her to regain her confidence and created her persona Confident Queen with a mission of helping others to build their inner and outer confidence. Genny has received and been nominated for various awards and has been interviewed in various radio and TV shows such as ITV Britain’s Got Talent, Who’s Doing the Dishes. Greatest Dancer, BBC Genius and Good Morning Britain She is the author of her popular self help book Crown of smiles, which contains practical tips to help uplift and encourage those who need a boost of feel good and happy vibes. She also runs her popular half day inspirational session – Escape to happiness Island where she empowers and equips attendees with tools to live a happy and fulfilled life no matter what they may be going through. Genny’s mission now is to help give people hope and a reason to smile each day no matter what they are going through.
Francesca Binetti has proven project management experience in the framework of EU funded projects with outstanding planning and organizational skills and a high level of precision and keen ability to communicate effectively with diverse individuals within international contexts.
Naomi was born in London shortly before the end of WW2. “I feel that I have lived several lives, each with its own special passion:- First Life: - Growing up in postwar London with a shellshocked German Mother (ballet dancer) and an emotionally absent Father (pianist), my passion was „calling people’s bluff“. The values of the adult World didn’t make much sense to me at the time – still doesn’t sometimes. Second Life: - Studying and Teaching School (teenagers). Loved teaching, hated school. My passion? Encouraging neglected teenage girls to make choices about the way they wanted to live; to take their lives into their own hands and create their own future. Third Life: - Marriage and relocation to Munich. Learning German and „how the real World functions“. Became a good typist and „the perfect wife“. My passion during this phase? Housekeeping, entertaining guests, my vegetable garden, our three cats, „getting „it“ right“! Interesting phase. Learnt a lot! Sixth Life: - Now, way past retiring age, I feel I am only just beginning. My pupils and coachees range from people who believe they can’t sing to experienced singers, actors, business executives and all who wish to enhance their charisma and maximize their communications skills, whether for professional or private reasons.”
Sarah is a speaker, an avid blogger and a foodie.
She started and ran a company offering a multi-cultural networking event for food lovers in Lagos, Nigeria, and more recently has run many such events from her home in VIenna.
She is also a published author, having written several books of thought-provoking true-life-based stories, and is a member of The Society of Authors. Sarah writes from the heart, to touch hearts and inspire action. Her goal is to help women gain the incredibly uplifting power of self-realisation through her movement #FromFearfulToFierce. One of her poems, Mirror Image, which was written to honour women with breast cancer, was converted into the theme song for a breast cancer awareness concert in Nigeria in 2005.
Éva Fekete says “I am a social entrepreneur, so my passion is to do something with the community, for the community, to do things which have positive social impact. For me, happiness, over the family, starts with a high quality social network so I opened a community Café for my local community, and I am happy with it. I am also working on my PhD thesis. My topic is the opportunities of social value measurement of open community places.”
Dionne Victoria Milton
Renaissance Woman: Artist/Educator/Social Entreprenuer With solid experience in community outreach, conducting workshops, collaborating with community leaders and developing programming, I am well prepared to contribute to any team!
Claudia is an artist and textile & surface designer located in Berlin, Germany. For many years she toured with the Canadian Cirque du Soleil as a dance teacher and Alexander technique coach. In 2017 Claudia began to study textile design at the College of Arts, Central St Martins. What began as a means to improve her painting skills has now turned into her passion and a new artistic career. “I love every aspect of textile art. Textiles are so much more than just something we sit on or wear, they shape our world and environment, the way we move and how we feel.” She spends her time energetically and boldly using colour as a form of storytelling, bringing the movement of patterns to life and researching the possibilities of natural fibre, thereby creating living textiles that support us in being the individuals we are. At the moment she is working on a textile art project in nature which will be part of her official collection launch in autumn 2019.
As a conceptual artist Louise aims to inspire as many people as possible through art so as to become the best version of themselves. Through GYCO she is Building an empowered youth for a more sustainable, positive and peaceful society - to realize the vision of UNLOCKING THE FULL POTENTIAL of these young adults by transforming their mindset to break the vicious cycle of economic dependency, cultural decline, and collective trauma.
Matanat is a Career Transition Coach, Performance Consultant and International Speaker. She uses a unique approach combining leadership, business discipline and impact achievement approaches from Western business culture with the established Eastern impact mind-set. Her coachees can make career transition and achieve performance success through a positive transformational change in their own career, life and work. She has many years of non-linear, but progressive managerial and HR career in the private sector, the United Nations and intergovernmental organizations. She worked in various domains (from artificial intelligence, IT, social development, nuclear security, to HR and Learning Technologies). As a founder of The Talent-Tech she now delivers engaging learning programmes that support people all over the world to achieve their career, leadership, and life dreams!
Christiana Gardikioti (MBA) is a Canadian Thespian, graduate of U of R Drama Department, an Educator (French Immersion and TESL) and a Financial Advisor with Investors Group and NYSE Trader with Merrill Lynch. She is also a Greek entrepreneur that moved back to her village of Agiannis, Founder of the “Meraki People”: a mission oriented for profit company set out to create a pilot regenerative community in Southern Greece that assists the creation of natured based enterprises via its BIO FAB lab. Bridging Eco(nomy) with Eco(logy) creates an ecosystem that respects all life, creates employment conditions for young and young at heart and invites an unprecedented biodiversity tourism opportunity.
Trina:- Native of Pennsylvania, USA – Academic higher education in France and Germany - Coaching training: International Coach Academy – Licensed Insights™ Practitioner - Business languages: English (native speaker), German (fluent) & Dutch (good business comprehension) – Proud mother, grandmother and life partner. – Enjoy writing, genealogy, travel, and my dachshunds – HR Development professional with a strong background in marketing and advertising – Emphasis: Leadership Development - Special Areas of Expertise: Presentation Skills, Storytelling, Negotiation Skills, Diversity Management – Passionate about supporting (future) leaders step outside of their comfort zone and undertake the exhilarating journey to (self-)mastery and professional excellence – Style: Empathetic but persistent, conscious and intuitive, knowledgeable and straightforward – Experience with local, regional and global players.
Angelika is a passionate effectuator, improver and enabler, “... excited to offer a diverse set of services, inspiring others with my passion for integrated management systems and systems transformation for fundamental peace. Foturis - The Lightful Management Works supports the public sector, non-profits and social businesses/enterprises: from short-term consultancy for developing or transforming organisations (culture, structure, strategy) to longer-term coaching or audit/assessment/advisory board engagements. I'm also an inspiring speaker, effective proposal writer and empathic editor of impactful English and German texts. Previously she started a cafe/restaurant together with a Mexican employee-turned friend. The restaurant - Happy Cafe Al Chile! - gave her the possibility to have a direct exchange with her customers, be creative and do physical work.
Sophie is a community and program manager at Impact Hub Vienna. She is passionate about enacting change and building a better world as well as supporting those working to make this vision happen.
Photo - Lea Fabienne Photography
I am Amanda the Creative Nut on a Mission. Creating fun things and making a positive change in someone’s life is what I am about. Hopefully when you look at my art, especially if you own it and it is living in your space, that you will feel lifted up by the colours and subject matter I chose for you. Amanda Tomasoa - International selling Artist. Exhibited in 4 continents and Co Partner of a Furniture Gallery in Seminyak, Bali. Amanda started her art career in Indonesia back in 1995 while caring for her four year old boy in a foreign land. She started with whatever she could find and created cartoon characters with positive words using colour pencils. Then she went on to crayons on cutting boards and started a little gift shop in her home. Soon she had a clientele made up of her singer producer friends whom her singer husband worked with. Feeling bold, she took the bus to meet with the owners of a huge gift store in Jakarta and pitched her ideas to them. They were sold and bought 7 of her 8 drawings. Soon Amanda’s art were on kids t shirts, posters, stationary etc. and she had a wonderful career in Indonesia as a full time artist.
Alis Shumanova Education • Innovation • Cognitive Science
Axinia promotes polymathy as a way of education and professional life and is an education visionary with a strong background in HR and headhunting A polymath is a person with several different specializations. Many people are in fact polymaths but are unaware because society values specialization over versatility. Being herself a polymath Axinia creates the missing link between the worlds of work and education. In POLYMATH HOUSE successful polymaths give lectures and courses to children and adults on a wide range of subjects - from neuroscience to filmmaking. Her next step is launching a private school for children in Vienna.
Alexandra Oana Pintea is a Financial Educator, Entrepreneur and Physiotherapist. She runs “Ladies Money Talk” - Empowering women to take control over their finances and make the best out of their money in order to live the life they always wanted! Subjects covered include Financial education, Pension Loop as well as Saving, Investing and financing
Valerie or “Grandma Valerie” … Passion: Grandparents passing on knowledge
Dream: "reuniting of the generations and removal of any digital age gap by sharing skills, love & knowledge across the generations, using the internet as a bridge " Background: Sales and Marketing in Business, Trips to Africa and Europe spreading the word about Grandmas
Popularly known as Gratitude Champion and a Good Samaritan, Vibha lives with awareness of her ’being’ and ’doing’. Vibha’s purpose is to inspire people to integrate gratitude in daily life, and enhance holistic well-being. She lives her purpose by gifting inspirational Gratitude Joyshops and has so far offered 200+ Gratitude Joyshops globally. Vibha pursued a rewarding career in the social development sector for 15 years in India. She now works as a Facilitator, and creates life-nurturing spaces for groups to convene and navigate through social issues and solutions. Her skillful Whole Person engagement taps experience and collective intelligence of teams/groups to achieve optimal results, with inspiration to take actions. Vibha initiated non-profit Muskaan (Smile), that implements projects in the domain of social-emotional learning and builds capacity of small and genuine non-profits.
Franziska - Her Passions: Engaging with people, Learning & Education, Learning new things, Helping others achieve. Her Dream: Engaging with people throughout the world, learning about different cultures. Her Background: Have lived most of my life in England, but twice lived in Vienna for seven years, separated by forty years in England and Scotland! In the UK I was actively involved in running several community initiatives - often on a voluntary basis - with intriguingly different aims such as fundraising, marketing, developing educational resources, improving local internet access, developing and maintaining community or private websites. I also co-founded and ran a fun club for German-speaking children, so that my own children could improve their German language skills, ran a Kumon maths club for children aged 2 to 16, and co-founded and ran a storysacks service based at a local village school. In recent years I have taught a rich diversity of people aged 2 to 85 English and Business English.
Barbara Alli was born in Ghana and grew up in Nigeria with the Yoruba culture. She has lived in Vienna, Austria, since 2004. Her talent as a singer was discovered at the age of 10 in a choir. When she came to Austria, Barbara sang in a Protestant choir, and also began to compose. Many of her songs she wrote in her mother tongue “Yoruba”. Soon she took professional singing lessons and learned to play the piano. Many artists inspired Barbara Alli to make her own style of music and to find her own personal style which she calls “Afro-Pop”. In the early years of her career she designed and made her own costumes. When she became an established artist and singer she wanted to realize her long cherished idea of helping people in her homeland live a better life. She started the shop “Hand Made Story”, trading high quality african goods and fashion. The fabrics are bought direct on public markets in and around her hometown. Only Handmade is the motto, with fabrics manufactured by the people themselves, in traditional colours, and from unique patterns.
Anna Her Passions: Lifelong Learning for All, MOOCs. Her Dream: Affordable education for all in a safe world. Her Background: PhD and over 25 years experience in distance learning. Founding member of Academic Association of eLearning. EU Projects An example: The EU ICT Project offers two concepts that need to be integrated with each other for a better future in the new world: Seniors and ICT. The aging population will be isolated from social life and have bigger difficulties to cope with the different situations brought by aging if they are left alone and cannot integrate with technology. Seniors, who may have difficulty in leaving their homes, will not be excluded from social life thanks to technology, they will be able to undertake their tasks, shopping, bank transactions more easily, connect with their loved ones through technological means and access lifelong learning opportunities on the internet. Thus, the technology will not only eliminate the feelings of loneliness but will also contribute to their participation in social life through various platforms.
Selina A cultural enthusiast and a lover of sports and outdoors activities as well as gardening. Building sustainable communities where every child is given equal opportunities to thrive, a society where no one has to go to bed hungry Experience and trainings on cultural tourism, grassroot activism, social work and community development, advocacy and policy communication, meaningful youth engagement, social entrepreneurship, child protection and permaculture. Selina runs the Nashipai Maasai Community Projects - rehabilitation and restoration of Naning’oi School and rescue center so as to give girls of Mosiro equal access to education and a safe place free from any form of violence - Girls education campaigns to ensure that no girl is left behind in sustainable development - permaculture; coming from a nomadic pastoral community, there is need to introduce permaculture/Agroecology to the Maasai so as to address food and nutrition security.- community demonstration garden to teach locals permaculture and how to grow their own food
Tracy The very people who work with our children on a daily bases are being blamed for the educational systems failures but who have the least control over making positive change. We need our teachers to investigate and implement a new educational model; one that eliminates artificial grade expectancies and allows students to learn in a seamless, mastery-based curriculum geared to their individual learning styles and needs. We need to empower teachers to facilitate individual learners rather then try to direct group learning. Give teachers the tools and support to make these changes and in doing so, we can turn a consistently failing situation into one that breeds motivation, excitement, and success for everyone. Specialties: ESL, Professional Development, Curriculum Development
Neba Grace Her Passion: permaculture, education and training, culture, empowerment, healing and more. From her work with Better World Cameroon she has a background in ecovillage building and design, education, public relations, agriculture, health and healing, entrepreneurship and more. She has a Master’s degree in English Language and Literature/Letters, and has been working online with Readers Theater as a group leader. She is working on a Project to create an African peace village in Europe, and her dream is to create peace villages for all.
“WE’RE ALL THE SAME IN A DIFFERENT WAY.” As a singer, songwriter and music producer, Yalani seeks to empower others to embrace their individuality and authentic self-expression through her candid and courageously vulnerable lyricism that addresses the more hidden aspects of human emotions. Her musical style can be described as alternative pop with mellifluous melodies, persuasive grooves and experimental sound design elements.
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