Mag. Soledad Pons

Trained in Berlin ‘09. Became a practitioner of participatory leadership methods and social technologies like World Café, Open Space, Circle, Pro-Action Cafe, Appreciative Inquiry and other group activities that enable the emergence of collective intelligence and collaboration. Co-hosted AoH trainings in Madrid ‘11 and ‘13, Berlin ‘11, Buenos Aires. ‘12, Madrid ‘15, San Sebastian ’16. Have also co-organised an online course called "The Art of Online Collaboration" in June-July 2015.

Global search of high quality talent. Management of events, parties, campaigns, social media, employer branding and relationship with headhunters, recruitment agents and active sourcing platforms. In charge of candidate pipeline optimization as well as onboarding and support with relocation of new colleagues.

Design and deliver workshops and processes for teams according to client needs in different sectors and different degrees of formality. For example, "Trust and principles in teams" for Paymentwall in Kiev, the WISE Program in Barcelona, Zagreb and Crete, "INTEGRA Seminar" or "DiverCITY OnBoard" for Citizens for Europe GER and "Boosting startups and SME's in Smart Urban Mobility" for the Mobility and Transport Directorate of the EU Commission in Berlin. Trainer at the Startup Institute in 2014.

Whether as a project manager, experience designer and/or facilitator/host, I started collaborating with Somos Más Europe long before 2015, but then the working relationship consolidated. Lead the Quality and Wellness Circle in the organization and was involved in Business Development as well as Governance.

During the past years I have supported The Hub Network through different positions, not only as part of the Hub Talent working group co-designing, project-managing and delivering successful Gatherings like ’11 Milan or ’12 Sao Paulo, but also through the co-creation of the Hub Practice Academy, a way to codify, share and evolve knowledge in the network. Provided feedback to feasibility studies of Lima, San Sebastian, Geneva, Barcelona, Brno, Ostrava and Birmingham.

Community Manager, host and administrator of HUBnet, the network's virtual space to enable impact with cross national and cultural connections for 6000+ members (now 11000+ members) as well as provide guidance, share knowledge, support and train 40 local teams across 5 continents.

Co-created and managed a successful meaningful/social enterprise. Project-managed the beginnings, from the refurbishment of the building and co-creation process with its members, to strategy design and work on the field community bulding and hosting social entrepreneurs and innovators.

I was part of an elected council that developed the process for the new organizational form and governance model that evolved from a more traditional franchise model that was never actually seeked but ocurred due to rapd growth, to a global distributed network that combines a Hub Association that owns the brand and where each Hub holds a vote on its General Assembly, and a Hub Company, the operational branch of the Association of Hubs.

I started as a mentee of the MET program (Women, Enterprise and Technology) in 2007 while doing the MBA, but due to my passion and feedback evolved into being the Coordinator and Community Manager of the first international mentoring program in Spain, a collaboration between IE Business School and Research in Motion (RIM), the company behind BlackBerry smartphones. With them we co-developed an application to manage the program from the smartphone for both, mentors and mentees.

Madrid (España). Summer Internship while finishing MBA. Managed a market research related to the world of media and newspapers in Spain.

Mainly responsible for editing and publishing training manuals, but also rotated in several business units of the company for training in managing e-learning educational programmes and courses.

Managed trading proposals between chinese and spanish companies.

Barcelona (España). Started as part of the admin staff, sales support and contact center of a new magazine for English speakers in Barcelona. Then in charge of the planning, writing and editing of content, as well as writers liason.

Responsible for the communications department (media, internet, advertising, events), and for planning internal and external communications. Envisioning of this project imported from Chile to Argentina. With the core team, defined the Mission, Vision and Principles and gave it the legal form of a Foundation.

Electives: Innovation from two perspectives: investor and entrepreneur; Balanced Scorecard; Negotiation; Leadership, Power and Influence; CRM; Marketing Strategy for decision making and Change Management.

Corporate Communications

Journalism (radio, TV, newspaper), MKT, PR, Institutional Communications, Social Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology.