Speakers

Joe Mier is an Amsterdam-based career coach. After moving to the Netherlands from the US to complete a Research MA in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, he spent over 10 years working in marketing and creative teams at purpose-driven companies and B Corps like WeTransfer, Ace & Tate, and Fairphone.

Now he uses his firsthand experience of the Dutch job market and training in the Co-Active Coaching method to help job seekers and career shifters find meaningful work.Joe supports creative and tech industry professionals to grow their careers, whether that be searching for a new career, gaining clarity on their next step, or tackling a challenge at work. His clients span industries like technology, advertising/creative agency, hospitality, and NGOs, and in roles like Product Manager, Business Consultant, Marketing Director, and Digital Designer.

Helena is known as the Queen of UX because she’s been actively working on raising the industry standard of UX for over 7 years. She has built CPHUX (Copenhagen user experience), Denmark’s largest UX community today. On the website, they have built the only UX-focused job board in Denmark and an up-to-date event calendar, both with curated content to ensure high quality. With over 400+ events under her belt, she holds unique insights into Denmark’s status quo.

She has released 2 job market reports which has enabled thousands of people to get knowledge about the job market. Besides all of these cool things is Helena a genuine and positive spirit. She is a powerhouse fuelled by the people around her and her belief that she can and is making a difference. Fun fact, Helena is half Danish and half Uruguayan which is where she believes she’s gotten her positive and warm personality from.

Besides being a proud father and devoted husband, Juan is a seasoned mindset & behavior expert, on a mission to empower people and organizations to unleash their potential for well-being and positive impact. He created the revolutionary Mind Canvas™ method, which makes psychology simple and intuitive. It kick-starts and accelerates Emotional Intelligence, empowering well-being and contribution for individuals, teams, and organizations.

TEDx Speaker, award-winning coach, and Amazon Best-Selling author, Juan has worked with some of the most prestigious training and consulting firms in Europe, and has helped more than 14 thousand people worldwide with his programs.

I became an entrepreneur 10 years ago when I decided to leave the corporate world, after 20 years of a long, challenging, painful but also amazing and successful career, as a Finance leader in the Oil & Gas and Consulting Industries. I founded my company Mind Bridges and I am an ICF Professional Accredited Coach and Mentor.

Today, I still have people questioning me; ‘How do you do it?’, ‘How are you so resilient?’, ‘How you don’t give up?’, ‘Where are you going to find so much energy and enthusiasm?’…

Today, I still hear people saying … ‘You are a coach…that is for people who don’t have a job or want to work’…, ‘Now everyone is a coach….’, ‘Coaching… I don’t believe in that…’, ‘I don’t have patience for that…’…, ‘Coaching is not going pay for your bills…’ and so many more!

I worked in different countries in Europe and Africa, and my daily life and workplace were, and still are, always full of diversity, I worked and led teams with more than 10 different nationalities, I traveled around the world, and I visited more than 30 countries and I lived in 3, being now based in Estoril, Portugal.

I see diversity as a way to grow, and I search for that, through meeting different people, different businesses, different ideas, and different places. I learn more about what is different from me, the difference that stretches me out of my comfort zone, and there, is where the magic happens.

As soon as I finally saw myself as an entrepreneur, everything started flowing. Not that everything is sorted out, but it is so much easier to work all the muscles that I need to keep me going, and what I believe is the difference that can make a real difference.

I believe in what I do, which is supporting others to believe in themselves too.

I love to co-create with my clients, entrepreneurs or not, people who want to lead change, real people who struggle, feel pain, and fear, and want to be free to make their own choices.

Get into action and join us in the webinar of the Tech Jobs Fair to find out more about how to surf the journey and what strategies to develop to start, or restart a new chapter of your career, life, or entrepreneurship journey.

Joana Pais belongs to a generation of Millennials who changed careers and reskilled for the “jobs of the future” or “future of work”. She currently works on a global role as Global Communications & Culture role at OSF Digital. Her last roles on Future of Work offer in Human Capital Consulting and Employer Branding were born on this new world of work, where skills are transferable, and talent looks for purpose and attractive companies to work for. The current ecosystem requires companies to adapt very fast in order to transform, enable and communicate a memorable experience for best talent, in all kinds of remote, onsite or hybrid work environments.

That is exactly where she focused: she started working in Technology and Consulting global companies in 2018 (Deloitte and OutSystems) after spending close to decade and a half in sales and marketing. She is also a speaker, trainer and co-author. In her free time she loves travelling, practicing sports, networking and enjoying good moments with family and friends.

I am a danish career and job search expert that specializes in using AI (mostly ChatGPT) to leverage my clients job search. My main focus is on the CV, LinkedIn and networking. Through my company Arbeit, I do various thing: Work shops, webinars, private clients, external consulting. And I have the CV builder cv.arbeit.dk where people can work in my CV and cover letter templates and get help writing their documents with AI solutions.