Talk:Women's International Networking Conference

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Engvig has an international experience working for JPMorgan and Citibank and as a trainer and strategic consultant. She has an MBA from SDA Bocconi University in Milan and a BA from BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo.

Convinced by the success of the initiatives and the need for corporate women to gather in order to exchange experiences and to excel in their career she quit her job dedicate her time entirely to WIN. She later decided to set up her base in Lausanne, Switzerland where the company is still based.

"When I left the bank, I had an inkling of an intuition: that the secret to having a successful and enjoyable career was not having the “perfect job”, but being a part of a dynamic environment that is creative, and even – at times – somewhat chaotic. I came to this realization thanks to my membership of an association of professional women who meet in Milan twice a month. We all lived in Milan, but had come from many different countries. We had two things in common: that none of us had a cosy family background to fall back on, and that we all understood the importance of having a supranational outlook. At the time, globalization was starting to make the headlines in Italy. For most people, though, it was an abstraction. For the members of the PWA, it was what had brought us to Milan in the first place and what made us sought -after in the job market. These meetings also taught me something else: that I was good at organizing events. […]