Now that we’ve fattened up, listened to enough Mariah Carey, and hopefully were able to see some of our loved ones, it’s time to send this [pick your adjective] year away.

In the past week, I received many heart-warming LinkedIn messages congratulating me for 7 years with my company. They made me smile, because I started to reflect on the past, which in turn gave me more energy to strive towards what I want us to achieve in the years to come.

Meet alumna from North Macedonia Bisera Savoska: a theatre lover, a person who launched her company at 23 and a marketing expert who works with the world’s top organizations to bring social change.

Was your company going to sponsor a big event this spring? Then the coronavirus outbreak happened and threw the whole of Europe in a massive panic: thousands of events and gatherings have been cancelled all over the continent. Brussels was no exception.

At the end of October, when I told one of my business partners that I was going to the Web Summit, the biggest technology conference in Europe, he said: “I have one question for you: Is it really worth the hype?”

What if we don’t need to take months to create a strategy? If we can build the strategy over an extended period in increments and implement it one step at a time?