Episode Notes

About Raquel Ramirez

Raquel Ramirez is the founder of RR Consulting, as well as a proud mentor and an active member of SheLeads. Growing up in Mexico City, Raquel has had 15 years of experience working in the public, private and international sectors all around the world including Mexico, USA, and China. During which she has held positions such as Sub-director in the United Nations Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico in the General Assembly and the UNESCO, Conventional Disarmament and Financial Affairs. Additionally, when working in academia she held the positions of Director of Bicultural Program and Department Director of Social Sciences at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. Currently She runs her own consulting company in China. Raquel is passionate about positive social impact through education, community building and empowerment through self-awareness. She has strongly devoted herself in relevant programs for female empowerment.

Episode Content

This episode will address the following topics：

• How did Raquel get her first internship with the Mexico office for the UN?

• What qualities helped Raquel move forward way faster than her peers in her career?

• What made Raquel choose to give up her career in diplomacy, but came to China starting her own business?

• Her experience in mentoring young female professionals in China

• Raquel’s new life experience after having her first child

• The balance between work, passion, and family

• What should women do to support each other more professionally?

• The importance of self-care

Episode Mentions：

• RR consulting and Career Master online workshops WeChat program

• Find Raquel at [email protected]

• Find Anita on LinkedIn

• Get to know more about SheLeads, follow our Wechat official account: sheleads
  or Linkedin: Sheleads Female Professionals Network

About Sheleads

Sheleads is an empowering female platform, which is run by women and specially for women. This international network is created to build long-term valuable relationships among female professionals at workplace. Sheleads only enables women to share their expertise, learn from each other in a safe and comfortable environment where common challenges are shared particularly to females, but also helps emphasize the role of female leaders in professional careers.

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