2025 wrap up🌍✨

What a year it’s been, filled with inspiring conversations, meaningful collaborations, many opportunities to champion inclusion, sustainability, and women’s entrepreneurship. Despite the many challenges also faced in 2025, I want to share some of my highlights.

🎙️ Podcast Highlights
This year, I had the joy of hosting several thought-provoking podcast episodes with incredible guests from Wolfgang Kowatsch to Edina DaSilva, Meg Stowe, Fanny Ganti, and Lisa Westgate, sharing insights on diversity, inclusion, and sustainable supply chains. I also had the pleasure of being a guest on Vivian Acquah’s podcast, “Humanizing the Workplace,” where we discussed Diversity and Inclusion in the supply chain.

🌐 Events & Speaking Engagements

  • Organized a WBE2WBE Zurich event to promote women’s business collaboration and supplier diversity & inclusion
  • Served as Sustainability Champion at the Eurovision Song Contest, driving inclusive and responsible engagement initiatives
  • Represented at global stages like WEConnect International Day, WBENC and Disability:IN in New Orleans and Orlando
  • Attended European Conferences like London Inclusive Sourcing Summit and the Madrid WEConnect Conference
  • Hosted a Supplier Inclusion Webinar during St. Gallen Inclusion Week
  • Delivered sessions for ZHAW’s DEI & Social Sustainability CAS Program and Supply Chain Master Class
  • Joined the SPP Supplier Diversity Chapter to help advance inclusive sourcing and strengthen opportunities for diverse suppliers
  • Reimagined and relaunched my website
  • Wrapped up the year by organizing the Swiss WBE Event in November

💡 I’m super grateful for a year full of purpose-driven impact, empowering communities, amplifying voices, and building bridges across borders, even amid political and economic challenges.

Let’s keep pushing forward and creating change together. 🚀

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Andrea Fimian is a dedicated Inclusive Sourcing Leader based in Zurich, Switzerland. She is the owner and founder of fips consulting, a Supply Chain consulting firm with core competencies in Supplier Diversity /Inclusive and Responsible Sourcing. Andrea spent over a decade in supply chain at IBM where she also led and developed the Supplier Diversity & Inclusion 1st Tier program for EMEA and the Global 2nd Tier program for several years.

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