Stocktaking on my international outreach since year 2000

As my birthday month is approaching I always like to do some kind of stocktaking and reflecting on my past performance, achievements, and failures too (these always carry the most important lessons).  

This time I tracked and codified “all” my working trips, courses, workshops, conferences, and the people I have interacted with along the way. Not an easy task. Took a full week and I don’t think I have captured everything and everyone, but at least all major events should be covered. Keeping track of my activities on Social Media made this daunting task a lot easier. I just wish I would have started doing so a bit earlier. 

Here is a little visual summary of the very long and boring excel file. In the next weeks I am planning to look at the data from different perspectives in order to:

✅ Identify my next goals & opportunities 
✅ Recognise my international outreach 
✅ See areas where I could do better 
✅ Ask myself what I have learned
✅ Rate my well-being 😅

In a nutshell, these are the overall figures behind this map…

1️⃣1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣➕Visits to this blog!
1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣➕Professionals inspired via events
3️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣➕Citations 👉 See Google Scholar
2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣➕People trained via executive education
3️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ ➕Events organised since year 1999
2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣➕ Publications (incl. reports/briefs) 
1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣➕ Countries influenced 
5️⃣0️⃣➕Countries visited for work
7️⃣0️⃣➕Research & innovation projects led
7️⃣ Knowledge platforms developed
5️⃣ Start-up companies created (3 failed)
1️⃣ Award-winning research centre founded

Most common types of activities:

Most common types of activities:
7️⃣0️⃣➕ Executive education and trainings
7️⃣0️⃣➕ Conferences and policy events
6️⃣0️⃣➕ Outreach and IT developments
6️⃣0️⃣➕ Foresight and co-creation events  
5️⃣0️⃣➕ Matchmaking and coaching events
7️⃣ Postgraduate courses taught
4️⃣ Children co-created and raised 👦👦👦👧
1️⃣ Marriage sustained and nurtured ❤️
➕ Countless colleagues and friends 🤝

Here are the Top 5 countries I’ve worked with in the last 25 years:

🇬🇧 United Kingdom 
🇧🇪 Belgium (ie. European Commission 🇪🇺) 
🇫🇮 Finland 
🇵🇱 Poland 
🇩🇪 Germany 

To get the big picture, check out the map 🗺️ #FuturesThinkingApplied

Ps. Numbers in the map reflect individual experts I have interacted with in f2f or virtual settings. Figures do not make justice as many conferences and online events included hundreds of participants, which are not captured in my records.