Stronger together: Best practice for crisis management
Panellists:
Marina Seet, Speedwing
Iza Gyuricza, Smaller Earth
Mariapia Inurritegui, USE
Marina started off working in the travel and tourism industry, handling corporate and educational travel arrangements, events and MICE – Meetings, Incentives, Conferences & Exhibitions in the 90s.
She was transferred to manage Speedwing in 2000 and has been in this role since. She has helped to set up Speedwing Malaysia, Australia, Indonesia and Vietnam through her years at Speedwing. She is passionate about her work and believes that when an opportunity comes, you just have to grab it before someone else does.
She was transferred to manage Speedwing in 2000 and has been in this role since. She has helped to set up Speedwing Malaysia, Australia, Indonesia and Vietnam through her years at Speedwing. She is passionate about her work and believes that when an opportunity comes, you just have to grab it before someone else does.
Iza was introduced to the Cultural Exchange Community back in 2005, when she applied for a US work and travel program for the first time. She spent two summers in a private camp in Pennsylvania, and used her grace period mainly to study the public transportation system of NYC for her upcoming thesis. Upon returning to her home country – Hungary – she could not stop talking about her experience and its positive impacts.
As a result of her powerful experience, right after receiving her degree she began recruiting students for US exchange programs full time, and became the country director of the Hungarian Smaller Earth Office. She dedicated 10 years to this position before she joined Smaller Earth Group Head Office in Liverpool as the COO. Smaller Earth operates in 15 countries and offers exchange programs to the US, Canada, China and to the Caribbean.
As a result of her powerful experience, right after receiving her degree she began recruiting students for US exchange programs full time, and became the country director of the Hungarian Smaller Earth Office. She dedicated 10 years to this position before she joined Smaller Earth Group Head Office in Liverpool as the COO. Smaller Earth operates in 15 countries and offers exchange programs to the US, Canada, China and to the Caribbean.
With a degree in Business Administration from Universidad del Pacifico located in Lima, Peru, Mariapia has been working with cultural exchange programmes and international recruitment for 21+ years. Mariapia has been part of the development and growth of what is now the largest winter work & travel agency in Latin America, with over 40,000 students traveled throughout the US on the Work and Travel and Internship/Trainee Programs.