Soulaima Gourani Speaker, Author, Advisor, Investor

@soulaimagourani [email protected] www.soulaima.com

I am the founder and CEO of Tradeconductor (2007), a highly successful business and global trade marketing consultancy that has helped countless major corporations become what they are today. I am a frequent speaker at conferences + author of several bestseller books and have contributed to more than 14 books on lifedesign & (self) leadership. Everything I do always serve a common purpose: to create more innovators, critical thinkers and problem solvers–more peace in the world. I am an official expert at World Economic Forum’s (Expert Network) Behavioural Sciences & Education and Skills. I am a columnist at FORBES on Leadership Skills in the Era of Diversity and Inclusion

Today I work for clients as Samsung, Roche A/S, Leo-Pharma, NNIT, Genzyme, Aberdeen, DuPont, LEGO, McKinsey, DELL, Microsoft, Adecco, ManSoft, Alk Abello, Aon Hewitt, Citroen, Colliers, Diageo, Cisco, Ernst & Young, Volvo, FL Smidth, H. , IBM, TDC, SimCorp, , , , and Deloitte etc. I work in Scandinavia, USA, Finland, Greenland, Austria, Hungary, Germany, UK, France, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Russia, Mongolia, Dubai, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, India, Greece, Thailand, Egypt, Venezuela, Morocco, Turkey, USA, China, Lebanon, Japan, Switzerland, Mexico and Bahrain.

Current positions:

Owner & Co-founder of: Getcapitalaid (2015), Tradeconductor.com (2007), Nerdyspeakers.com (DK) and nerduspeaker.com (UK), Fremilivet.dk (2016), presidentspeak.com (2016)

Previous positions:

- 2013 –2016 Strategic partner TATA Group/ CMC Limited, India - 2006-2007: International Group Sales Manager hos EDWMG / PNN Medical - 2005-2006: Practice Principal, Hewlett Packard A/S, - 2005-2005: Solution Principal Hewlett-Packard A/S., Denmark (FLP Microsoft) - 2004-2005: Key Account Manager Data, Denmark ( A P Moeller Maersk) - 1999-2004: Head of Office/ country manager hos SU Soft ASA, Norway

Guest Lecturer at CBS, HULT University Dubai, CBS, Århus University, RUC (DK) & Harvard Kennedy School (US), INCAE Business School (Costa Rica), ISB (India) and other universities. Current Boards and advisory boards

• Global Dignity (Denmark)1 • UN Women (Denmark) – Advisor to UN Women Consultation Group • Chair Global Dignity 2 (world wide) • Miracle Foundation Board (Austin)3 • Jury, Global Teacher Prize 4 • TED Mentor • Social Labs, India, advisory board 5 • IamTheCode, ambassador 6 • Judge, The School Enterprise Challenge Team 7 • EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Jury • New Scholars, Palo Alto, California

Previous positions and ambassadorships • Member of Think Tank - Danish Agency for Science, Tech..and Innovation, Denmark • Tech London Advocates, UK • Aveny-theater, Denmark • GO DREAM A/S, Denmark/USA • Co-chair Brandts Museum, Denmark • The Danish Foundation for Entrepreneurship Denmark • Ruths Hotel, Denmark • Gopubli.sh, Denmark • Bundgaard, Lund & Simoni Capital Management Fondsmæglerselskab A/S (BLS), Denmark • “ChickStarter” Board (New York)8 • Think Tank Member, Better Place, world wide • Childrens Day (children without a home), Denmark • Mansoft A/S, Denmark • TEDxÖrsund, Nordics

1 http://www.globaldignity.dk 2 http://www.globaldignity.org 3 http://www.miraclefoundation.org/about-us/board/ 4 http://www.globalteacherprize.org 5 https://social-labs.org 6 http://www.iamthecode.org 7 https://teachamantofish.org.uk/school-enterprise-challenge 8 http://thechickstarter.com Current

Columnist at Jyllandsposten.dk. (Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten has been owned and published by JP/Politikens Hus A/S.[16] JP/Politikens Hus is owned in equal parts by Jyllands- Posten Holding A/S and A/S Politiken Holding, the holding companies of Jyllands- Posten and Politiken respectively.) I am a columnist at Berlingske.dk. Berlingske Media is a Danish news publisher located in . They publish three national daily newspapers, Berlingske BT and Metroexpress as well as the acclaimed national weekly Weekendavisen.

Keynotespeaker to be booked from BigSpeak Speakers Bureau and leade.rs

Education

 Export technician, Odense (1998 -2001)  E-MBA Copenhagen Business School 2005-2007  Executive training; Stanford University (2006)  Innovation. Berkeley University (2006)  Design-thinking. Indian School of Business (ISB), 2012.  Innovations and Lessons from Emerging Markets: A South Asia Perspective.  Harvard Kennedy School (2013 & 2014),  Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century and “Leadership and decision making”. The Jackson Institute For Global Affairs, Yale University (2014).  Leadership and Decision Making in the 21st Century,  INCAE Business school, Costa Rica (2015) Leadership for Sustainable Development. Recipient of awards and honors

 Rising Star Award (2004)  European list of talents (2004, Magazine Courrier)  Talent 100 Award, Berlingske, 2004  Young Global Leader (YGL; 2012, World Economic Forum)  Top 100 Women, FEMINA, Denmark, 2012  Nordic Thinkers 20, 2013  EUROMAN top 100 women, 2013  "40 under 40" Europe, 2014  ”Womenomics Influencer Award 2015”  Women's Media Center's SheSource expert, 2016  INSPIRING FIFTY, 2016  Top 100 business women, 20179  Kraks Blå Bog (Danish for Krak's Blue Book) is a Danish for-profit biographical dictionary service in a format comparable to Marquis Who's Who, 2018.  UP & COMING WOMEN SOLOPRENEURS TO KNOW, 201810

I am the author of two bestseller books, many e-books and co-written 16 books http://soulaima.com/books-by-soulaima-gourani/

Private; Live in Palo Alto, Waverley street 933.

Married to Brian P. Frandsen (online community builder)

Two kids, age 9 and 11 (I am a proud mom)

9 https://www.business.dk/navne/se-listen-100-kvinder-paa-toppen-i-2017 10 issuer https://betterafter50.com/up-and-coming-women-solopreneurs-to-know/