Session: How to support Women in Remote Work
As a Founder of a Woman-led Remote solution based startup, Marion Balandra shares how she chose to support women from impoverished backgrounds to empower, uplift and train them to work for brands scaling across the world fully remote.
Bio
Marion Balandra is a Filipino American mother of three and Founder/CEO of Star Mars Tech Inc., a San Francisco, Silicon Valley IT Business and Solutions consulting corporation since 2013. Marion is a UN Youth Global Leader, a speaker and active member of numerous Women’s Leadership and Diversity groups. She was 1st Place Winner of The Swarovski Black Swan by New York Best Author and Famous FBI Negotiator Chris Voss of the MasterClass “Art of Negotiation” and The Black Swan Group. Ambassadress to many brands like GFE, World Blockchain Hackathon and many more. She is a serial entrepreneur of over 20 years in education, real-estate, jewelry and technology. Her years in Technology, Blockchain and startups global business and political connections that have led to her huge success and notoriety as a power Business Development and Strategic Partnerships figure. She is currently working on her startup, MERIDIAN REMOTE TEAMS, the first Remote Based Outsourced Talent startup built on Blockchain technology that aims to create jobs and opportunities for the impoverished communities in the Philippines.
Marion currently sits on numerous Advisory Boards for Business Development and Partnerships like Ubuntu Tribe, PublicBloc to name a few.