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Female Excellence

The best teams are diverse teams. We are committed to a future in which everyone is equally supported – regardless of gender, religion, origin or other characteristics. Change does not happen overnight. Change is the result of many small steps. Our first step is to ensure gender equality. We are committed to increasing the proportion of women in the (currently) male-dominated consulting industry for financial services. Our Female Excellence initiative supports our female consultants on their individual career paths – and is always on the lookout for new talents! Join us in shaping the financial services industry of tomorrow – what are your plans for the future? 

Our offer

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  • Our internal network: Internal network for all female zeb consultants
  • Focus on mutual support, mentoring and specialist discussions
  • Regular meetings during the year – always on different topics
  • Workshops and a special seminar offer for female consultants
  • Get insights into our network meetings further down on the page 
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  • Exchange of ideas at management level: External female network for female board members and executives 
  • Professional and personal exchange between successful women – interdisciplinary and across companies
  • Annual meeting with discussions, cultural program and an evening for networking
     
Female Buddy program
  • Starting a new job made easy: Personal Female Buddy to answer questions about starting a job
  • First contact is established even before the first working day
  • Contact details of the Female Buddy are communicated with the contract
Work-life choice

Reconciling career and family life? Obviously, this topic is not only relevant for our Female Excellence network! In fact, it is a challenge that concerns many of our colleagues, both male and female – especially when they are thinking of starting their own families. 

  • Our workingparents@zeb network gives you the opportunity to network with other working moms and dads, to exchange ideas and to jointly find solutions. 
  • You can also flexibly adapt your working model with us: from part-time models and working from home to sabbaticals and unpaid leave, there are many options for creating your individual work-life balance. See our benefits page for more information.

Get to know us!

Female Excellence 

Learn more about our woman power and our Female Excellence network. These videos feature our female consultants talking about their experiences and what they value about working at zeb.

See for yourself and check out the videos now!

Development

Stay and Grow

You alone decide where your career should go! Career planning, flexible working models and a wide range of training programs make it possible for your career to fit in with your life in the long term.

Support

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From the moment you receive your contract documents, our Buddy Program places a female colleague at your side, who supports you in onboarding and provides you with helpful background information.

Network

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women@zeb creates a special framework for internal networking with other female consultants and offers you a platform to intensively exchange expertise and experience.

Stay and grow

In addition to our important internal network, zeb supports your further career steps with selected development programs. For example the iniative IWiL offers you the opportunity to network beyond our company and get to know various female leaders. As part of the program, you can exchange ideas with successful women from other companies and build valuable contacts. 

The MentorMe (cross-)mentoring program is another scheme that provides you with experienced mentors to support you on your individual career path. In addition to an intensive exchange of thoughts and ideas, you get to know other talented minds within the community. Learn more about it here!

IWiL: Initiative Women into Leadership

The “Initiative Women into Leadership” (IWiL) offers our top female consultants the opportunity to network outside zeb. The initiative aims to promote talent development across companies, one to two levels below top management, and to provide strategic support to female executives beyond company boundaries. By engaging outstanding female mentors from academia, society and business, we create visibility for our talented female consultants who are supported as mentees at IWiL. Click here to find out more.

  • 2021 kick-off: Having succeessfully participated in 2020, we are pleased that this year Kerttu Alpass will represent zeb among the mentees of the “Initiative Women into Leadership” (IWiL) in 2021. At the first digital kick-off event in February 2021, the mentees became better acquainted with each other and were able to exchange ideas with their potential mentors. We’re excited to see who will be at Kerttu’s side!
  • 2020 kickoff: We were present at the 2020 IWiL kick-off event and are happy to have enroled two dedicated mentees, Marion Pfaller and Sarah Brockhoff, for the Class of 2020.
MentorMe

MentorMe stands for women’s empowerment: this cross-mentoring offer enables our female consultants to individually develop their career path together with a mentor. In dialog sessions, the mentor provides a new perspective on professional topics and puts the mentee’s personal development center stage. In addition to cross-mentoring, the program includes a wide range of online training sessions on topics such as future vision, negotiating skills or personal branding. Overarching networking events and excursions give female consultants the opportunity to network with the MentorMe community outside of zeb and to exchange ideas. If you want to learn more about the mentoring program, check out the official MentorMe website here.

  • 2021 kick-off: The first MentorMe cooperation tandem started in winter 2021 – focusing on young professionals, four female colleagues are currently participating in the program. Their feedback is very positive! The mentors are available for valuable 1:1 discussions and offer advice on important decisions of all kinds.  
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Testimonial | Female Excellence
What makes working at zeb special for you?
"Reasoning is key—it’s not about where you come from, what position you are in or what background you have!"
Marion Pfaller | Senior Manager
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Testimonial | Female Excellence
What makes working at zeb special for you?
"Content over hierarchy—every idea is listened to regardless of your hierarchy level. " 
Franziska Händel | Senior Consultant
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Testimonial | Female Excellence
What makes working at zeb special for you?
“zeb places great trust in my ability to independently develop solutions.”
Carolin Kowallik | Alumni
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Testimonial | Female Excellence
What makes working at zeb special for you?
“The working atmosphere at zeb is warm and pleasant.“
Jil Birgel | Analyst
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Testimonial | Female Excellence
How would you describe the atmosphere at zeb?
"Relaxed, family-like, open and friendly."
Quynh Ngo | Senior Consultant
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Testimonial | Female Excellence
What makes working at zeb special for you?
„The overall mindset is to support you, whatever your aspirations.“
Kerttu Alpass | Senior Managerin

women@zeb network meeting 

Our internal women@zeb network promotes the exchange of ideas and experiences with each other. We meet several times a year to listen to and discuss exciting internal and external key notes on various topics.
To promote exchange – especially in challenging times – we have developed new digital formats in 2020/2021. One of these is the Leadership@Lunch format. You can find more details below. 

Im Vordergrund wird ein Blatt Papier mit der Aufschrift "I am remarkable" hochgehalten. Im Hintergrund arbeiten mehrere Beraterinnen an Tischen.
Networking women@zeb | spring 2023
#Iamremarkable: For the first time this year, we organized a meeting of our internal network women@zeb in Münster. Our female colleagues traveled from our various European locations to network and share experiences and ideas. The event was all about female empowerment: over the course of the afternoon, our colleagues addressed topics such as leadership behavior, hacks for their careers, and their own visibility. Leadership expert Anke Walossek gave an exciting talk entitled “Think manager – think (fe)male – Are women the better managers?”, and in the workshop “#I am remarkable” our colleagues reflected on their personal strengths.
Die Kolleginnen spielen ein Teambuilding-Spiel und halten dafür ein Maßband hoch.
Networking women@zeb | winter 2022
Teambuilding & challenges in Münster: The last networking event of the women@zeb initiative in 2022 took place in Münster. The PULS location, which was chosen for the event, is characterized by its industrial charm. In this atmosphere, Annegret Saxe, deputy member of the board of Sparkasse Münsterland Ost, started off by giving a guest lecture in which she addressed the question: “How can we make ESG come true?”. Besides a pitch duel and some team challenges organized by Strong Partners, the focus was on networking. The evening was rounded off with delicious catering by Al Hayatt and refreshing drinks – and whoever wanted to could stay and continue partying at PULS even after the event ended. 
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Network meeting women@zeb | June 2022
“For a woman, you’re already doing a pretty good job” – in order to quickly find a fitting response to inappropriate comments, we worked on our power of speech as part of the last women@zeb network meeting. On June 29, about 50 female consultants convened for this purpose. First, Mariesa, Melanie and Yola gave them theoretical input on rhetorical strategies, and then they tried out these tips in an interactive exercise. The day ended with a delicious bowl-meal and many exciting conversations on the roof terrace of POHA House Münster.
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Networking women@zeb | October 2021
How the right question can be a game changer: At our women@zeb fall event, our female colleagues met in Hamburg for a hybrid reunion. During an exciting workshop, Stefanie, Lisa, Lena and Susanne demonstrated how the right and targeted question can steer conversations in new directions. The event was followed by a lunch where there was plenty of time to talk to each other in person, which we sorely missed last year – therefore, we are already very much looking forward to next time!
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Networking women@zeb | summer 2021
Women@zeb – multifaceted diversity: this summer, our women@zeb initiative met with Dr. Emilia Roig to learn more about the many facets of diversity. To conclude the meeting, the participants took part in a sundowner yoga session to remind themselves of the importance of carving out personal time. 
We thank Ms. Roig and look forward to the next event!
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Networking Leadership@Lunch | May 2021
Role models and networking: at the most recent digital Leadership@Lunch, Isabel Tufet Bayona, CEO of Santander Consumer Operations Services, gave us exciting and honest insights into her career path, inspiring many of our colleagues. 
We thank Ms. Tufet Bayona and look forward to the next event!
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Networking Leadership@Lunch | January 2021
Learning from and with female role models: Our new digital format Leadership@Lunch is aimed at all colleagues who want to learn from female role models and broaden their horizons. We meet in a relaxed atmosphere, as if for a lunch date, and on each occasion a different female expert reports on her career path. At the end of each meeting, there is plenty of time to share personal experiences and answer questions. 

Insights into our recruiting events

We are always scouting for new female talents who will reinforce and boost the zeb team with their skills. To this end, we put in a great deal of effort: we regularly take part in different career events such as trade fairs or brunch meetings and thus continually get to know talented women with exciting personalities. In addition, we organize events to provide you with insights into our corporate culture and various specialist topics: whether we are holding virtual coffee breaks, discussions or networking sessions, our goal is to stage varied events and promote diversity.  

Take a look here to get an impression of our recruiting events: 
 

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Power Breakfast in Frankfurt: in June, we held our annual Power Breakfast – female students, graduates and young professionals had the chance to exchange ideas with our consultants over breakfast. As the meeting took place at the zeb office, the participants were also able to gain a first impression of our premises in Frankfurt. The three colleagues Tabea, Elvira and Lena talked about their individual career paths and answered all the participants’ questions. We’re already looking forward to the next event! 
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Female Power at the JCNetwork Days
Magdeburg, June 2022: at this year’s JCNetwork Days, we once again enjoyed a great program to which our colleagues Katharina, Mariesa and Emiliya contributed a mini case. In small groups, different solutions were presented and “challenged” by our three consultants to provide insights into their daily consulting and project work. Later on, at the opening session, Katharina talked about her personal experience and about new ways of working at zeb. In the evening, we met with many other students from Germany, Austria and Switzerland at our zeb exhibition stand and had the opportunity to engage in exciting discussions. 
At the end, we all agreed: the whole event was an immediate success!
 
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Insights into the consulting industry
Afterhours | women’s edition: the Afterhours event series offers students, graduates and young professionals, who are interested in the consulting industry, the opportunity to talk to consultants and hear about their work experience. In the women’s edition, Quynh, Sandra and Alina tell us more about three key topics in management consulting: traveling as a consultant, reconciling work and family life and diversity in the industry. During an online dinner, the participants learned a lot about the main features of the profession and had the opportunity to ask questions.
 
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Girls‘ Day 2022
A day in the life of a zeb consultant: our aim is to introduce the consulting and IT industry to young people – that’s why we were very happy to welcome so many girls from schools in the Münster area at our Girls’ Day in front of the zeb Tower in Münster. Of the approx. 120,000 schoolboys and schoolgirls who signed up for the nationwide Girls’ Day and Boys’ Day 2022, 17 pupils gained insights into working in the consulting and IT world – and were given the opportunity to spend a day acting as a consultant or IT developer themselves. 
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Seeing behind the curtain of the consulting industry
Virtual event “Ready, set, go!” as a kickoff to the pre-Christmas season: on December 2, we hosted a virtual event for women interested in consulting. Christina and Quynh talked about their experience in the industry and the varied tasks of their daily work routine. They provided authentic insights and dispelled clichés about the industry. Afterwards, the participants had time to ask professional and personal questions in order to find out for themselves whether a career as a consultant is the right choice for them.
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Participation at the herCAREER
zeb at the herCAREER fair in Munich: after more than a year of restrictions and lockdowns due to the coronavirus situation, herCAREER – one of the largest trade fairs in Europe for female career planning – finally took place again on September 16–17, 2021. We had our own stand at the fair and for the first time in a long time were able to hold exciting conversations with potential candidates. In our meetups, Elisa and Laura talked to visitors in small groups about their personal experience and career path in a male-dominated industry.  
We are already looking forward to attending next year’s fair! 
 
 

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