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On March 8, we’re shining a spotlight on women who are forging their own paths with passion and courage. One of them is Marième Ndoye and their journey shows how powerful it is to follow your own interests.

What makes her journey special:

✅ Passion as a starting point
Her journey began with a love of language and storytelling. From an early age, she was fascinated by how words can reach and connect people. A career in journalism was therefore a natural progression.

✅ Openness to change
During her studies, she discovered her passion for marketing. There, she was able to combine creativity and strategy and use words effectively to bring brands to life.

✅ Building on what we have instead of starting from scratch
The move into marketing wasn't a sudden change, but rather a natural progression of her strengths. Today, she enjoys working in this field and continues to grow professionally.

✅ The courage to break new ground
Her most important lesson: Career paths don't have to be linear. It's okay to change plans, seize opportunities, and reorient yourself.

Her message:
Stay open to life’s adventures. You never know where your path will take you.

Ingenieurbüro Nordhorn GmbH & Co. KG

On March 8, we’re shining a spotlight on women who lead with competence and courage. One of them is Ingrid van Bommel and her career path shows what really matters.

What makes Ingrid's path special:

✅ A solid foundation for success
From an early age, Ingrid invested in developing her analytical skills and maintaining high professional standards. This foundation continues to support her career to this day.

✅ Learning as an attitude
By earning her CA certification at the same time, she has demonstrated that professional development is not an afterthought, but an integral part of the journey.

✅ Diversity as a strength
By moving between industries and roles, Ingrid has gained diverse perspectives, and that is precisely what makes her decisions more effective today.

✅ Mentoring as the key
Two influential mentors have guided her along the way and shown her how important support and dialogue are.

✅ Leadership through trust
Today, as Chief Financial Officer, Ingrid embodies a leadership style based on trust, support, and autonomy.

Their journey makes it clear: successful careers flourish where people are supported, allowed to grow, and able to realize their potential.

Van Ameyde Group

It's the quiet, human moments that show how much power collective commitment can have. 💚 Our CEO Ralf Schade was allowed to present the donation check to Nils Schmitt and Mehmet Tanis from Villa Kunterbunt.

The donation arrives exactly where it's needed: in a lovingly designed meeting room. A place with a bright atmosphere, a cozy seating area, books, games, and space for imagination – so that children living in group homes or foster families can spend valuable time with their biological parents, siblings, and family members.

Such encounters are often accompanied by uncertainties. A friendly environment can help to relieve tension and enable genuine, positive interaction. We are grateful and proud to have been contributing to this together with TRAUMSTART e. V. and Villa Kunterbunt for many years. ✨

⚙️ 🏫 We are delighted to welcome a new in-house counsel to the RWTÜV Team! Sabine Chargé, LL.M. will head the Executive Office effective immediately and take over the organisation, legal support and documentation of board committee matters. She will also serve as "Group General Counsel", bringing her many years of expertise to the RWTÜV corporate group. Over 15 years she has gained extensive professional experience, including in-house positions at TÜV Rheinland, Covestro, Rheinische Post and Fressnapf, among others. Since 2023, the art, sports and cooking enthusiast – and mother of twin girls – has also been a lecturer at Hochschule Rhein-Waal for media, IT and data protection law.

👩🏼‍🎓 🌍 Sabine is embracing her new role with great enthusiasm: "I see myself as a service provider for the entire group and look forward to engaging with colleagues as a legal sparring partner and advisor on all legal matters to support them!"
📈 🚀 Fully in the spirit of move AS ONE, Sabine will facilitate the development of synergies across the group through legal support. She will provide legal briefings with information on relevant upcoming legislative changes and court rulings, and communicate the need for adaptation to changing legal requirements at an early stage. She will also contribute to training formats, standard contracts, templates and software tools.

👏 💙 Welcome to the RWTÜV Group!

🌎 💫 We present the proud winners of our internal innovation competition!

🏆 🥇 The best idea in the jury's view came from Maximilian Driessen from Ingenieurbüro Nordhorn GmbH & Co. KG, with a proposal to expand the TGA consulting portfolio with energy topics. Rik A. from Enoplan GmbH took second place with his idea on climate-resilient infrastructure. Jan-Ole Zülsdorf and Carsten Saldenholz from CONSULECTRA GmbH jointly developed a concept for a specialist forum on grid planning and expansion consulting, securing third place.

🏅💙 The internal RWTÜV community also honoured through an open vote the submission by colleagues Ralf Weiermann and Marcel Hellingrath from RWTÜV on sustainability consulting as their favourite. All winners receive from our Managing Directors Thomas Biedermann and Dr. Fabian Fechner valuable prizes and their certificates.

🚀💡 We congratulate the successful colleagues who are advancing our group with their ideas, innovative spirit and commitment! Thank you for participating!

🟢 ✨ After three intensive months, our first Innovation Manager training programme has been successfully completed. The participants from various companies within the RWTÜV Group have developed and applied key methods and tools of strategic innovation management in a hands-on manner.

🎓 📘 At the conclusion, certificates were presented to our proud graduates. Congratulations to Anika Corte and the other colleagues!

Blue highway Thomas Biedermann, CEO of RWTÜV, and Volker Höhnisch, Chairman of the Board of TÜV Thüringencongratulated the participants and were delighted with the expanded network and the results achieved, which were presented in four online pitches.

🤝 🚀 Special thanks also go to the innovation service network – isn Experts Reinhard Willfort and Victoria Wallnerwho accompanied the programme with their many years of experience.

👩‍💻 ⛰️ In 2025, HR development at RWTÜV was all about the YPS – Young Professional Summit: a development programme for ambitious (emerging) leaders!

🚀 🌎 Engaged talents from within our own ranks are identified early and supported with exciting content: strategy, innovation, business administration, communication and team dynamics.

🪜 ⛰️ Participants are challenged and demonstrate their aptitude in various roles. Together they develop a business case – usually based on ideas from the internal RWTÜV innovation competition – and pitch it to the group. The exciting part: neither team members nor topics are known in advance; cross-functional combinations and flexibility are required.

📝 💡From 3 to 6 November 2025, the third YPS group of participants from Enoplan GmbH, ENOMETRIK GmbH, Van Ameyde Group Germany, cetecom advanced, Ingenieurbüro Nordhorn GmbH & Co. KG and CONSULECTRA GmbH to Bonn. The Hotel Collegium Leonium, a former priest seminary including a church, provided a particularly inspiring setting for personal growth and networking in a diverse group under the motto move AS ONE.

🤝 🌍 Sunday is the International Day for Tolerance. Time to explain what it means to us.

💫 🫱 Tolerance is the foundation of trust. And trust is the basis of every successful collaboration. In a corporate group like RWTÜV, which operates in different industries and countries, people with different perspectives, experiences and backgrounds work together. This diversity is more than just a competitive advantage for us.

💡 🔧 Tolerance means, for us, allowing other perspectives, valuing critical questioning and finding better solutions together. Especially in technology, science and innovation, progress only occurs where people are willing to accept failure, learn from one another and dare to try new approaches.

🌱 🚀 For us at RWTÜV, tolerance therefore means: respectful interaction, open dialogue and shared responsibility – across borders.
In this way we create an environment in which ideas can grow and diversity becomes strength.

🎃 👨‍🍳 This is exactly what we had hoped for: Our CEO Thomas Biedermann cooks for the staff in the freshly renovated RWTÜV kitchen. Since today is Halloween, pumpkin soup is naturally on the menu!

🍫 🙏 And it actually tasted really great – thank you, Thomas!
Has your boss also cooked for you yet!?

🚀 📚 Innovation management is at the very top of the agenda within the RWTÜV Group. And not only since the Austrian agency isn – innovation service network became part of the group! With service offerings that are one step ahead, innovations that surprise, and services that grow with our clients, we retain existing and win new customers.

📈 🔍 That is why we promote structured, continuous innovation from within.

🧠 🎯 In training with isn innovation experts Reinhard Willfort and Victoria Wallner the 18 participants from the Enoplan GmbH, ENOMETRIK GmbH, Van Ameyde Group, Cetecom Advanced, RWTÜV and the TÜV Thüringen are working on strategic innovation management, creativity methods for workshops, and the management of innovation processes — including with a view to integrating AI.

👥 🙌 On 1 September, the kick-off meeting for our three-month innovation training took place at our headquarters in Essen, and we look forward to lots of exciting input and inspiring exchange. We will keep you posted!

🎉 🤝 With a ceremonial certificate presentation to all graduates, the first round of the training programme for women to become cybersecurity experts concluded at eurobits women academy | ewa.

🎓 📚 "But this is an intermediate step!" emphasised Christine Skropke, Chair of the Board eurobits e.V., who opened the event. "We are convinced that we are on the right track and firmly determined to make the programme permanent!" This was supported by patron and sponsor Mona Neubaur, Minister for Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Action and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, in her emotional and compelling plea for more women in IT security, but also more women in business overall. "Show your teeth!" she advised the graduates present. 
RWTÜV CEO Thomas Biedermann in his capacity as Chairman of the Board of the RWTÜV Foundation, which supported the programme with substantial funding, also delivered a welcoming address, as did Marc-Julian Siewert, CEO secunet Security Networks AG. Both also carried an encouraging message: "We need you, the women, in this important professional field of the future and are committed to significantly more diversity!"

🤖 🌐 After the certificate presentation to the ewa graduates, Prof. Dr. Martina Angela Sasse, Chair of Human-Centred Security at the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, dedicated her keynote to the mood in IT security departments, and in particular among CISOs. Her conclusion as well: the demand for female professionals in particular is enormous, in order to strengthen teams in many respects.

🚧 💨 The subsequent panel moderated by Birgitte Baardseth outlined opportunities, perspectives and hurdles for women in the cyber world. Joining her on the panel: Beatrice Huck, ewa graduate, NeoMINT; Evelyn Breitenstein, ewa mentor, secunet; Raik-Michael Meinshausen, Partner, Stanton Chase; and Robert Franken, DEIB expert, ConsciousU.

🍹 🌞 Nadine Nagel, the Board member responsible for ewa at eurobits, rounded off the event with her closing remarks, before a relaxed get-together turned to networking and forging future plans in what will hopefully soon be a much more female cybersecurity sector.

👥 🙌 The RWTÜV Foundation thanks the graduates and wishes them every success in the IT security industry!