Keep Moving Forward with Vera Hooijdonk, Managing Director at Avantpage Life Sciences | CSuiteHotSeatE57

Episode 56 May 16, 2024 00:17:45
Keep Moving Forward with Vera Hooijdonk, Managing Director at Avantpage Life Sciences | CSuiteHotSeatE57
C-Suite HotSeat
Keep Moving Forward with Vera Hooijdonk, Managing Director at Avantpage Life Sciences | CSuiteHotSeatE57

May 16 2024 | 00:17:45

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Show Notes

As Managing Director of Avantpage Life Sciences, Vera Hooijdonk is adept at juggling projects, time, and people. Vera manages all aspects of the translation process: assessing and distributing workloads, monitoring performance and productivity, managing training and support for team members, communicating client needs to the translation team, overseeing translation technology tools, ensuring that processes and procedures remain cost-effective throughout the life of a project and maintaining quality standards. As a problem solver and troubleshooter, Vera loves working with Avantpage’s clients, understanding their linguistic needs, and learning about new industries and technologies.

Host:
Eddie Arrieta, CEO, MultiLingual
Eddie has a decade of experience in startups, comms, and growth. He's now focused on global expansion through AI, ML, and blockchain to create opportunities for all.

Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry.

Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news in the language industry.

This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design

00:00 Vera Hooijdonk - Managing Director at Avantpage
00:50 What does your company do?
01:13 What is your role?
01:31 How do you like to spend your free time?
02:10 Career path
04:11 How has the industry changed?
06:13 Advice for newcomers
07:58 Valuable business lesson
10:04 How do you motivate your team?
11:21 Key things to spend time on
12:00 What does success mean to you?
13:04 Would you rehire your current team?
13:39 What makes you a great leader?
14:52 Music or silence?
15:01 Where would you live?
15:24 Most productive time of day
15:32 Most misunderstood part of your job
15:47 Book recommendation
16:12 Favorite drink
16:37 Shoutout

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