Speakers

Lenarduzzi, Isabella

Belgium-Italy

Isabella Lenarduzzi is Founder and Managing Director of JUMP

Isabella Lenarduzzi has been a social entrepreneur, an expert in communication, event and conference organisation for 25 years. Her areas of interest include women empowerment, education, training, entrepreneurship, innovation and European integration (EU advocacy).

Isabella created the European student fairs in various countries of Europe. She also edited two monthly magazines “Univers-Cité” and “Kampus” aimed at young readers aged 15-25 and distributed the Student Welcome Pack to more than 1 million students all over Europe.

After having sold these companies to Reed-Elsevier, Isabella established a consultancy and training activity in Italy and worked as deputy director for the Naples Science Museum where she set up Italy’s “Guidance and Careers Resource Centre”. She then came back to Brussels and went on to organise a number of economical events including the European Business Summit, CréaWal 2004 and Wallinno 2005.

In 2005 she created for the Brussels Chamber of Commerce (BECI), the “Brussels Job Days”, a new concept of event for on-site job interviews from employers to jobseekers. In 5 years she has organised 30 editions which have given jobs to over 5000 people.

She got several awards, here are some:
- Nominee in 1992 as the woman of the year in Belgium
- Wimadame award (France) called “Femme entrepreneure européenne” in 2010
- “Femme d’Exception” (Woman of exception) in 2011 by the Belgian Minister for Equal Opportunities Joëlle Milquet

Isabella launched JUMP “Empowering Women, Advancing the Economy”in 2006.
Isabella actually manages 2 companies, one NGO and a team of 12 persons.

2012 catalogue

2011 VIDEO

Praises from the participants

Les jours passent et je ressens encore les bienfaits des rencontres et échanges de cette riche journée. Et félicitations pour la délicieuse atmosphère.

Bénédicte Duhaut

Congratulations on your successful organisation of such a stimulating event. It was great to be in the company of so many inspiring women.

Dorothy Dalton

Thank you for having me at the JUMP forum. I much appreciated to be there, meet with you and many other interesting women and attend the workshops.

Hebe Boonzaaijer