Here is a collection of articles and interviews where I got to talk about topics that matter a lot to me. For interview or other related requests please contact iam@simonemenne.de
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Handelsblatt
At the Handelsblatt C-Suite, I did a short video interview on what it was like to work in my first leadership position at 32 – and what I would do differently today.
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FOM – DigiTalk 2019
As part of the initiative “Digitale Stadt Düsseldorf”, I joined Frank Thelen (entrepreneur and author), Klaus Weber (Director Business Excellence and member of the executive board of Janssen-Cilag GmbH) and David Matusiewicz (University chair at FOM and start-up founder) for the “DigiTalk 2019”. Among other things, we discussed how “German Angst” may keep companies and people from being innovative. You can read more about the event on the FOM website (German only).
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Human Ressources Manager
It’s all about changes: In an interview with the German Human Ressources Manager, I talked about what changes and starting fresh mean to me – and why companies should be more open to them as well.
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Rheinische Post
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, I was interviewed by Rheinische Post. I talked about the lack of women both in parliament and in leadership positions – and suggested some ideas how that could change, such as employees being able to manage their time and physical presence in their office more independently.
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Deutschlandfunk
Currently, there are only very few women in the German IT industry. Starting already in kindergarden, girls are discouraged from testing their logical skills or becoming interested in the STEM fields. For a Deutschlandfunk piece, I got to talk about what could help increase the numbers of women in STEM jobs – from Home Office options to legislation.
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Anne Will talkshow
I recently had the great opportunity to discuss how innovation and digitalization are impacting the workforce on a German primetime talk show called Anne Will. You can find the video of the show here.
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z.ett
For a podcast with the magazine ze.tt, Christoph Bornschein and I talked about power in the work space, hierarchies and how work environments could change if power was distributed more equally.
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Edition F
After speaking at Female Future Force Day, I had an interesting conversation with Edition F magazine on how the representation of women within companies has changed – and what we still have to work on in the next years.
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Finance Magazin
With the German Finance Magazine, I talked about whether fixed quota for women in board positions make sense or not.
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Handelsblatt
The German Handelsblatt stopped by my office for a chat on the meaning of power in companies – especially for women.
[Handelsblatt, Kirsten Ludowig, “Ich mag Macht – ohne ist man ohnmächtig”, 11.08.2018. ]
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Handelsblatt
Supervising companies and loving art are two completely different things? I don’t think so – and the German Handelsblatt agrees with me in this nice portrait.
[Handelsblatt, Kirsten Ludowig, “Simone Menne – die künstlerische Kontrolleurin”, 11.08.2018.]
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Handelsblatt
The German Newpaper “Handelsblatt” issued an article about the developments in German Supervisory Boards. There is a promising trend towards more diversity in gender as well as background and boards are becoming more colourful. I strongly believe that various perspectives will help to see the customer and employee point of view better and therefore help the management in steering the company successfully.
[Handelsblatt, Dieter Fockenbrock, „Immer mehr Digitalexperten und Ausländer in Deutschlands Aufsichtsräten“, 20.07.2018.]
