Training Course & Study Tour: Talent Attraction for Cities, Municipalities, Regions and Governments – Amsterdam / Zaanstad Feb 4-5, 2025

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In today’s competitive landscape, cities and regions must excel at attracting, receiving, and retaining international talent. This comprehensive training offers essential skills and insights to help you stand out as a top career destination amidst ongoing global changes like remote work and shifting life priorities. As cities and regions worldwide vie to become top destinations for talent, understanding and implementing effective talent attraction strategies is critical. This shift, driven by changes in remote work preferences and global uncertainties, demands a strong, appealing value proposition for the international workforce. Our training equips organizations with best practices to stand out in this competitive landscape.

This sought after training program will be hosted in the Greater Amsterdam region combining hands on training and a study tour to experience the great progress within talent attraction and retention the region has accomplished as well as across The Netherlands as a whole.

Dates:

February 4-5, 2025

 

Why Attend?
  • Understand and Implement Best Practices: Learn the industry standards and best practices to effectively attract international talent.
  • Expert-Led Insights: Gain actionable strategies from Morten King-Grubert and Nicole van Haelst, seasoned experts in place marketing and talent attraction.
  • Interactive Sessions: Engage in sessions on collaborative attraction strategies with stakeholders, real-world case studies from across Europe, and data-driven insights on global workforce preferences.
  • Study tour program to visit regional benchmarks

 

Training Benefits:
  • Collaborative techniques with stakeholders, universities, and employers.
  • Inspiration from best practices in cities from Copenhagen to Berlin.
  • Tools for building a compelling value proposition.
  • Strategies to plan and execute successful talent attraction campaigns.
  • Creation of a talent ambassador network.
  • KPI development and monitoring frameworks.

 

Who Should Attend?
This program is ideal for anyone involved in economic development, place marketing, and human capital agendas, including public sector policy units, economic development arms, and representatives from science parks and educational institutions.

 

Course Details:
  • Location: Day 1: Zaanstad (25 min from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport). Day 2 (Zaanstad and Amsterdam (Study visit)
  • Date: From 12 noon September 25  to 3 PM, September 26, 2024
  • Price: EUR 1375, (excl. VAT). Discounts available for multiple attendees from the same organization.
Flexible Options: Can’t make the date? Contact us for on-site training options for up to 20 participants.

 

Meet the Course Leaders:
  • Morten King-Grubert: Expert in international marketing and branding of cities, with a focus on talent attraction and retention strategies.
  • Nicole van Haelst: Specialist in regional collaboration and innovative solutions for talent attraction, with extensive experience in data and insights and talent acquisition.

 

For additional information or to register:

 

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Get in touch with us today to see how Future Place Leadership can help your organization succeed. 

 

 

About the course leaders

Morten King-Grubert

After successfully leveraging a background in international business, particularly related to the globalisation and export activities of Danish enterprises, Morten’s efforts and expertise today primarily focus on the international marketing and branding of cities, regions and countries as a study and career destination for international talents.

Morten was one of the original architects behind Copenhagen Capacity’s talent attraction and retention programmes with a core focus of aligning foreign direct investments with talent attraction and retention as well as the development of all services, stakeholder engagement, funding, ambassador programmes, and marketing activities.

As a director with Future Place Leadership Morten has supported governments, regions and cities all over Europe in optimizing their talent attraction management efforts ranging from benchmark and policy recommendations to strategy, global best practices and operational activities.

He is the co-author of  the acclaimed boon: Innovating Talent Attraction and the architect behind the recently launched European Talent Mobility Forum. Morten holds a Masters Degree in International Business. Having studied, worked and lived internationally in the UK, Austria and the United States as well as expatriated to the United States in recent years, Morten has personally experienced the talent attracting and retention journey extensively and uses that experience in his professional work proactively.

 

Nicole van Haelst

Nicole has over 15 years experience in the field of strategy development and regional collaboration to find new and innovative solutions for public and private employers to attract and recruit talent

As an expert and entrepreneur, Nicole shapes the interface between place making, talent attraction, foreign direct investment (FDI) and technology. She has a track record as a founder, setting up and scaling meaningful businesses by applying research and technology.. She adds value to any venture with her expertise in funding, strategy & business development, digital marketing and implementing change. 

As a strategic director and advisor to regional investment policies, Nicole’s influence in Talent Acquisition and Retention transcends  borders. The International Community Platform (ICP) has been the vehicle she initiated (2008) to do so. ICP is an employer driven platform to optimize the quality of life and career for global talent. She has contributed to the flourishing of The Hague and Rotterdam area as a global talent hub and worked with INSEAD to have both cities rank in the Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI). Driven by the fact that ‘business follows talent’, she has secured ‘talent’ as a solid pillar in foreign investment organisations. 

Nicole holds Master’s degrees in Political Science from the University of Groningen and Germanic Philology from Ghent University (cum laude).



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