Creating a Connected and Sustainable Society: Michaela Hogenboom Kindle at TEDxVaduz

Michaela Hogenboom Kindle (b. 1986, Dutch, living in Liechtenstein) is co-founder of SymBioSE Community and SymBioSE Consulting. Her mission is to foster a connected and sustainable society in the Alp-Rhine Valley region and beyond. She graduated from the Master's Program in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden. Previously, she has been the Dutch Youth Representative on Sustainable Development to the United Nations and worked as a Process Coordinator for Sustainable Development at HAN University of Applied Science, Netherlands. She has a BA in Human Resource and Quality Management and performed graduate research at Enviu—Innovators in Sustainability. Hogenboom strongly believes that we humans are able to live in balance with each other and our natural surroundings, raising the quality of life for all. This calls for a societal change and a shift of paradigms. In her opinion an entrepreneurial spirit, passion and personal leadership play a crucial role in this transition.

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