Sarah Gregoire, ICHEC, The full AIESEC Experience

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Aug
3

I joined AIESEC in 2006 in my university : ICHEC. Since the moment I entered, I had the opportunity to take several leadership positions : project manager, sales coordinator, national coordinator of Career Days. Today, I’m doing a management traineeship in a company called Sustainable Carbon, in São Paulo, Brazil. I am responsible to plan and execute sales and marketing strategies that are enabling the company to grow on the European market.

Thanks to this combined experience, I have developed personal and professional skills and competencies such as negotiation, planning, strategic thinking, flexibility, stakeholder focus, solution thinking, account management, coaching,… In both leadership and exchange, I also had the opportunity to work in an international environment with people from different countries, which enlarged my vision of the world and was pushing me to explore new directions. Living in another country allowed me to discover my inner self, my true passions but most of all, I discovered not one but many new cultures by working and living with people from different nationalities.

For me, the only way to fully explore your potential and discover what you are your limits, is exchange + leadership ! I would not exchange this experience for any other ! I can definitely say that AIESEC changed my life !