Business woman of the year 2017
Elske Doets
Next to being owner of the travel company Doets Reizen and initiator of the socially engaged startup BuddyBold Elske Doets is the founder of the Young Lady Business Academy (YLBA).
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About Elske Doets
Elske Doets is owner of travel company Doets Reizen, initiator of the socially engaged startup BuddyBold and founder of the Young Lady Business Academy (YLBA). With her striking vision on the future of society and economy she is a welcome guest in well-known Dutch tv-programs as Op1, WNL op Zondag and Nieuwsuur. Key message of Elske is that we collectively have to come off old thinking patterns and reflexes. Everywhere Elske appears, she creates movement. And in a charming and light-footed way she shifts the focus from the disagreement to the structural solution. Her latest book ‘Blossom’ (‘a new scenario for growth’) has inspired many people to make u turnaround in their life.
Next to being owner of the travel company Doets Reizen and initiator of the socially engaged startup BuddyBold Elske Doets is the founder of the Young Lady Business Academy (YLBA). She is a very independent mind and has a clear view on the future of society and economy. And presents herself frequently on major stages to propagate this view, for example in well-known Dutch tv-programs like Op1, WNL op Zondag and Nieuwsuur. Except the conviction that we collectively have to come off old thinking patterns and reflexes her central message is that a happy, clean and succesful society needs (more) women in key positions. And that you musn’t stage this shift in a cosmetic way by introducing imperative quota, but by making it inevitable, bottom-up, through an initiative like the Young Lady Business Academy that forcefully clears the way for female talent.
Meanwhile Elske wrote two books, from which ‘Blossom’ (‘a new scenario for growth’) is the most recent. Everywhere Elske appears, she creates movement. And in a charming and light-footed way she shifts the focus from the disagreement to the structural solution; whether it’s about sustainability, gender equality, overconsumption or aging. With a big smile Elske sometimes describes herself as ‘pastoral’: ‘I encourage people to choose a direction, because in my opinion every choice you make is better than to walk away from choosing.’