Today marks five years of fips consulting 🎂 I never imagined I would run my own business. After many years of working on the corporate side, engaging with diverse-owned businesses, I gained a great appreciation for the impact of inclusive…
Here’s what actually helps: 🚨 Local Sourcing – if you source closer to home, with shorter distances, this means not only fewer things can go wrong but also less CO2 emission for transport and impact on your community like providing…
🚨Are you reducing your supplier base and pushing out local small suppliers? Think again. In today’s world, local sourcing is not a “nice to have” it’s really a resilience strategy. Did you consider all the advantages of local sourcing…: 🔺…
Everyone wants AI and automation in procurement, but as we know…. garbage in, garbage out.Your supplier data is the foundation. If it’s messy, your AI will be too. âś… I help you: No clean data? No AI magic. Let’s fix…
In this podcast from The Diversity Duo, which is hosted by Lisa Westgate & Maria Gonzalez, we tackled a question that’s been on many minds: “What does Europe really think of what’s happening in America?” As someone based in Switzerland,…
Great to see the ESDP Corporate-Ready Accelerator Program 2026 kick off so strongly 🚀 Together with the Program Host, Maria Halse Duloquin, ESDP introduced the 6-session roadmap and dived into the Corporate Readiness Scorecard, identifying key business gaps while opening…
Sustainability regulations such as CSRD and CSDDD may have narrowed in scope for now…., but the pressure on supply chains is very real. CSRD requires disclosure, CSDDD requires action. Together, they are pushing organizations to move from reactive compliance to…
Sustainable procurement in hospitality is no longer a “nice to have” , it’s a business imperative. This article from Avendra in the Supply & Demand Chain Executive highlights four practical steps hotel procurement leaders can take to build more sustainable,…
Following our first Collab Growth Lab in January in Geneva, where women business enterprises from Switzerland and Germany aligned on a shared ambition, we continued this journey this week in Zurich. With 28 participants from Switzerland, Germany, France and Spain…
I love innovative stories that drive real change đź’Ş That’s why I left yesterday’s SINERGIA Outreach Workshop 2026, hosted by Berner Fachhochschule BFH in Zurich, totally energized. It was wonderful to reconnect with familiar faces and dive into thought-provoking discussions…
