Tag: diversity

The Human Awakening Date: 22 September 2022 | Author: Edina de Jong – Hodžić Human collective consciousness has been changing rapidly for more than a decade and the changes continue to accelerate. While we can believe that those changes are driven by external events, in reality they are created by us through our individual consciousness that is Read More

Feminine Power is Universal Date: 13 March 2021 | Author: Edina de Jong – Hodžić I grew up in a socialist country, (former) Yugoslavia and as a little girl I remember the 8th of March tradition. I can still see my mom looking forward to a day off from work, receiving flowers (carnation) and meeting her female Read More

How I redefined ‘success’ Date: 11 September 2020 | Author: Edina de Jong – Hodžić Rarely do we ask ourselves what it means to be successful? Most of us have adopted a definition of success that our parents, teachers and society has dictated without questioning it. In the Western society and probably in majority of Read More

Restoring the power imbalance Date: 21 February 2020 | Author: Edina de Jong – Hodzic The International Women’s Day on 8th of March is approaching and I see lots of events being organised for women on the topic of diversity, empowerment, female power etc.Although I encourage any initiative that brings out the best in women Read More

Evolution of Leadership Date: 27 January 2020 | Author: Edina de Jong – Hodzic The role of a Leader is probably one of the most challenging and rewarding roles that one can take in one’s lifetime. I call Leadership a ‘role’ because that is essentially what it is. We often confuse the roles we take Read More

A Leader integrates both Feminine and Masculine qualities Date: 17 December 2019 | Author: Edina de Jong – Hodzic The topic of ‘balanced’ leadership is on the agenda of many companies and institutions for quite some years now. Some are looking for a solution in redefining the traits of a leader including a more feminine Read More

How much feminine expression does your company culture allow? Date: 15 November 2019 | Author: Edina de Jong – Hodzic In my previous blogs I have addressed employees on their role and responsibility in the diversity discussion guided by the key principle ‘if you want to change something on the outside, you need to start Read More

From a gender focused diversity discussion to an all-inclusive solution Date: 1 October 2019 | Author: Edina de Jong – Hodzic When we talk about Diversity and Inclusion, I noticed we most often jump to the gender aspect. I find that by doing that, we’re creating an (un)conscious separation between the two traditional genders: women Read More

Collective Diversity starts with an Individual journey! Date: 20 August 2019 | Author: Edina de Jong – Hodzic The topic of Diversity has been intriguing me for a while. What is Diversity? When you look at how this topic is defined within the media, corporations, institutions and societies we tend to stick to popular themes Read More