European Network for Women in Leadership (WIL Europe)
WIL Europe is a nonprofit committed to the promotion and advancement of the professional and social interests of women in leadership positions and aspiring female leaders across Europe. Since 2010, we have acting as a platform whereby such women can meet and exchange, network, enlarge their horizons, and identify opportunities and ideas that are not readily available in their social and professional environments. We achieve our mission to connect, inspire and empower women to lead the way through our high-level events, networking and activities to raise our members’ visibility, as well as through our Women Talent Pool Leadership programme.
Content participation
Career-MeetUpEN
13/10/2023 12:15 PM - 01:00 PM
MeetUp H.42 | Halle / hall 3
Thread / thematic series: Leadership & Communication, Business, Work & New Work
Joblevel: Career entry, Professional, Leading position
Personal advocacy: Learning from lobbyists
It’s a lobbyist’s job to convince – a skill that is extremely useful in other professions as well. The toolbox and skill set of a professional lobbyist can help you reach your professional goals – get support for a project you are working on, and find the right arguments to communicate your point of view. Learn about stakeholder analysis, agenda setting, messaging and alliance building from a lobbyist and become your personal career advocate.
Presented by European Network for Women in
Leadership (WIL Europe)
Details about the speaker Inga Karten
Vita: Inga is a Government Relations and Public Affairs professional who has lived and worked in Berlin, Brussels, Washington D.C. and London. She advises international corporations on their political strategy with a focus on German and EU politics. Her main fields of activity are political analysis, stakeholder management, strategy development.
Inga has been working at Miller & Meier Consulting since 2008. During this time she worked among others as German spokesperson for the billion Euro project of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel between Denmark and Germany. Between 2013 and 2017 Inga founded and headed the U.S. office of Miller & Meier Consulting in Washington D.C. Before her time with Miller & Meier Inga worked as political consultant in Brussels. Inga is now based in London where she works as Senior Special Advisor and additionally focuses on projects in the area of Sustainability and Diversity & Inclusion.
Inga is WIL Board Member, co-founder of de'ge'pol W, the network for women in political consulting in Germany active mentor.
Inga holds a Master's degree in political science, German language and literature as well as media science from the University of Cologne and recently studied Business Sustainability Management at the University of Cambridge.
