Dr. Myriam Hadnes, Founder of Workshops Work, shares her journey from academia to entrepreneurship and the creation of her companies NeverDoneBefore.org and Workshops.Work. She discusses the challenges she faced in transitioning to entrepreneurship and the importance of building a community and creating a safe space for collaboration. Myriam also explains her facilitation agency model and the value of investing in branding and design. She emphasizes the power of understanding human behavior and communication in facilitating workshops and building successful businesses.
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📌TALKING POINTS
06:39 Creating a Safe Space for Collaboration
10:14 Building a Community and Overcoming Challenges
13:10 Transitioning to a Facilitation Agency Model
25:54 Overcoming Obstacles and Negotiating Deals
27:57 Investing in Branding and Design
30:01 Understanding Human Behavior and Communication
🌟ABOUT DR. MYRIAM HADNES
Myriam is driven by the vision to create an ecosystem for facilitators, helping them leverage their work's impact through community, collaboration, and co-creation. She holds a PhD in Behavioural Economics and a Master's in Sociology. In her facilitation work, she combines academic knowledge with practical experience in group collaboration.
During the Pandemic in 2020, Myriam founded NeverDoneBefore (https://neverdonebefore.org) (NBD), a global online community of facilitators who aim to spark fresh trends in group collaboration. The community includes over 100 members from more than 40 countries.
Her business workshops.work (http://workshops.work), has grown into a boutique agency that connects facilitators of the NDB community with multi-national companies to deliver state-of-the-art online training to their remote teams. Together, they deliver more than 100 training workshops in more than 10 languages per year.
Before starting her business as a freelancer in 2017 and a limited company in 2022, Myriam worked in the higher education sector as a researcher and lecturer, as coordinator of a study programme in Vietnam, and as a strategic advisor of the university president in Luxembourg.
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Every week on the Talent Empowerment Podcast, Tom Finn, the dynamic Co-Founder and CEO of LeggUP, ventures into the minds of trailblazing CEOs, HR executives, and talent development savants from various industries to dive deep into their career paths, dissect their strategies for growing people-first culture in their organizations, and uncover how they’re driving talent innovation.
