Ready to expand internationally? During this masterclass you will learn what it takes to expand your business to global markets. Learn first hand from experienced founders and experts about common internationalization mistakes, familiarize yourself with different go-international strategies and their applicability to your company.

This masterclass will lead to the discovery of new ideas and will give you the opportunity to network with entrepreneurs and creators of impact ecosystems from all over the world.

Topics masterclass

- What are the lessons learned

- What are the do’s and don’ts

- Where to start? What are the possible strategies

- How to find (commercial) partners

- Do I set up a foreign office and how to do that?

- Q&A

Speakers

- Danny den Hartog (International Business Coach)

Danny den Hartog’s superpower is using business as a force for good. Danny is an experienced managing director, founder, digital entrepreneur, international business & virtual event coach, public speaker, business development manager, course-creator with a passion for Africa. Driven by a strong drive and hunger to be every day a better version of himself.

Danny has helped social entrepreneurs scale internationally for the past 8 years through his own business coaching and interim management support. He was in charge of the internalization of the crowdfunding platform Lendahand and a former Managing Director of Energise Africa.

- Cathelijne Lania from a beautiful story

Back to the year 2006. A silver factory in Nepal is in trouble. No more customers. 12 jewelers face an uncertain future. It won’t let Cathelijne go. She worked in Nepal as a volunteer and knows all these guys personally. Her job in marketing at Sara Lee Douwe Egberts is nice but something is missing. Until one day she realizes “If I can sell coffee, I should be able to sell jewelry too”. And she makes a life altering decision.

Now, 15 years later, A Beautiful Story is still driven to create as many ‘lucky’ jobs as possible. You will find the jewelry collections in over 700 stores across Europe. In Nepal more than 120 artisans earn a living wage by creating the products. The dream is to speed up and create a 1000 jobs in 5 years.

Moderator

Bart Krull

Bart is working on a transition towards a circular economy as a freelance moderator and public affairs advisor at Waternet, the water company for the Amsterdam region. Until last year he was business developer at Social Enterprise NL. For Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (RVO) Bart matched Dutch entrepreneurs with international business partners.

Programme

The masterclass takes place via Zoom on Thursday, May 20th from 16:00–17:30. After the masterclass, there will be networking opportunities. This masterclass has limited spots available!

For who?

This Masterclass is for social entrepreneurs and impact companies.