Rania Mohammad Felemban has over 13 years of experience; around eight of them spent across the clinical research field. Since 2017 as Director of Clinical Research for King Abdullah Medical City, Holy Capital, she is known for her professionalism and ability to get things done, Rania earned a master’s degree in Clinical Research from Eastern Michigan University in 2017. In addition to the WNA membership, she is a certified member of the Society of Clinical Research Associates (SOCRA), and a certified member of the Return on Investment Institute (ROI), who has had her intellectual work featured in a book, journals, and other media. Her critical assets are clinical research, research administration, presenting, project management, proposal writing, strategic planning, and team building.

Before her current role, she has held multiple positions in the clinical research field at King Abdullah Medical City in Holy Capital as one of the founders of the Research Center since 2012. She has climbed the research career path steadily as a junior staff to a leadership position. Besides, her education and experiences firmly lined up with her development master plan. As part of her master’s program, she joined the University of Michigan Cancer Center Clinical Trials Office as a Clinical Research Professional Intern.

She is an experienced presenter leading groups to present virtual and interactive clinical research topics to enhance the research culture, orient concerned parties, train research teams, and guide those who have challenges in research compliance. Rania has shown that she is a passionate leader who brings experience taking charge of teams in research and project management settings. She has outstanding skills in communication with people of all ages, genders, races, and across all levels. Energy and enthusiasm are her inner drive that leads to her flexibility and command of any situation.

In addition to her research career, she is a passionate writer and well educated who has studied in both Saudi Arabia and abroad in the United States. She is also a blogger, content writer for a TV program and a YouTube show, and has published a book called “هكذا ظننت.”

If you would like to connect or know more about Rania’s story, please send her an email at raniafelemban@gmail.com

Looking ahead, she hopes to incorporate a more international element to the scope of her work. She credits her success to continuous learning and updating her skills. She is looking forward to networking and connecting with other like-minded professionals and gaining the recognition of being a member.

Women’s Networking Association Member, Rania Mohammad Felemban, can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
 

Marlies De Vries has spent 20 years as an Organization Advisor at her own company, Gloria Counseling. In this role, she advises her clients on strategic cultural corporate issues, assesses staff, and develops plans to optimize performance and realize efficiencies for management and staff. She also provides research, leadership coaching and training. Marlies received her PhD in Cultural Organization from the Free University in Amsterdam.

She developed a holistic perspective during the time she worked in public healthcare as a physiotherapist and acupuncturist. During that time she specialized in being a coach. She learned about human behavior and psychology. The knowledge and the techniques she learned about then, became very helpful in her career as an organizational cultural advisor and independent researcher.

Blending the two careers together and learning all about people behavior at different levels, Marlies developed a theory about time and beyond. She foresees a pivotal change about understanding time; ‘as humans we are shifting timelines’. From scientific point of view, she says, we are heading from the fourth (time & lineair) to the fifth dimension, which is all about becoming a circular society. In short her theory is about time speeding up and at the same time running out due to the accelerator of this process, which is IT. The several worldwide events, like the financial crisis in 2008 and recently the corona crisis, are showing this is happening right now.

Marlies is mission driven and wants to help to make the world a better place by bringing understanding about the fifth dimension, which is the concept circularity and ‘unity in diversity’. All is written down in her book ‘The Time is Now’ (only in Dutch).

Moving forward, she wants to expand her horizon across borders and to work together internationally  with likeminded professionals worldwide.

Marlies also volunteers locally in her community. In her spare time, she enjoys sculpture (stone), chess, astronomy, playing tennis, and motorcycles.

Women’s Networking Association Member, Marlies De Vries, can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
 

Concetta Battaglia is a very successful and exceptional businesswoman and a Senior Project Manager at Kuoni Destination Management. She is a highly motivated, multilingual professional and a veteran in her industry, Meeting & Events. Her expertise spans over 25 years and includes a plethora of different types of complex & prestigious events and projects delivered across geographies and sectors as well as finances, budgets and operations.

After covering various managerial roles, in her current role, Sports Events Manager, Concetta pronominally provides logistics for professional football teams participating in the Champions and Europa League, as well as for national teams playing qualifying games for major tournaments. She brings innovative ideas and inspiring concepts to help the company grow.

Concetta is well respected and appreciated for her skills, as well as her entrepreneurial spirit with can-do attitude and strong work ethic. She is great at forging long lasting strategic partnerships at all levels. Concetta is doing what she loves and feels strongly that her passion, drive and dedication are the keys to her success. Moving forward, she plans to continue to grow with the company, being recognized as a leader in event management, keep her eyes and ears open to the changing demographics of travel in order to better serve and advise her clients, and hopes to network as much as possible with likeminded professionals worldwide.

She is also a member of MPI – Meeting Professionals International.

In her spare time, Concetta enjoys travel, yoga, jogging and flowers arrangements.

Women’s Networking Association Member, Concetta Battaglia, can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.

Julia Lindberg is an Economist and founder of JP Management & Logistics – a financial advisory. In this role, Julia is known for her unmatched expertise in compliance, economics and taxation.

Julia holds her Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Copenhagen with academical focus on international tax policies. She is a member of the IFA – International Fiscal Association and the Association of Compliance Specialists.

Julia has a great experience of work in international environment on different levels of management. Able to deliver the structured and relevant solutions. Analytically strong with a high degree of finance and strategic understanding. She is very passionate about dynamic and complex nature of international business with understanding of multicultural environment. Constantly working on improving her knowledge and qualifications.

In her spare time, she enjoys yoga and reading books on economics.

Women’s Networking Association Member, Julia Lindberg, can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.