As part of the BreakING mentoring program, the second fireside evening of this year took place on Thursday, 25.04.2024. The speaker was Dr. Stephanie Wohlgemuth, Director Commercial Operations at Elementis, Amsterdam.

Mrs. Wohlgemuth, a self-described "management generalist" with more than 10 years of management experience in the chemical industry, began her career as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, where she earned her doctorate in 2012. In 2019, her career led her through various management positions at Evonik Industries AG (2013 - 2018) to DSM as Global Business Manager for several business lines. In 2022, she moved to Elementis Global, where she initially worked as Director Business Development and Marketing for Talcum and has been Director of Commercial Operations Performance Specialties since 2023.

In her presentation, she discussed, among other things, how to use established networks to shape one's own career, how to reconcile family and career and what skills are needed to communicate across several functional and organizational levels.