May 18th, 2010 | by Felicity Lodge | published in Features, Info & Advice, Life & Culture
Felicity Lodge is a Grenoble-based financial planner with The Spectrum IFA Group, offering independent financial planning advice for expatriates in the Alps region. Here is her guide to life insurance in France.
May 11th, 2010 | by Patrick Owen | published in Comment, Features, Info & Advice, Work
Patrick Owen shares his experience starting an English teaching business, becoming an Auto-entrepreneur and dealing with France’s particular administrative complexity and love of acronyms.
April 28th, 2010 | by James Dalrymple | published in Features, Interviews, Work
Nearly one year on from their first meeting, Grenoble Life catches up with Kris Leroy, the American founder of Grenoble-based soft furnishings design company LEROY & SCARPA, France, previously Chic Throws.
April 14th, 2010 | by Shonah Kennedy | published in Comment, Features
Grenoble Life’s Shonah Kennedy shares her experience of coming to the city on the “coat-tails” of her husband and discovering she was not the only woman in Grenoble who had temporarily placed their life on hold to be with the man of their dreams.
April 13th, 2010 | by Sara Maltaverne | published in Features, Work
The Working Women’s Network of Grenoble (WWNG) will hold a Personal and Professional Development Seminar entitled “The Power of Feedback: Using Criticism Constructively” on Saturday, June 5, 2010 at Grenoble’s Mercure President hotel.
March 25th, 2010 | by James Dalrymple | published in Features, Interviews, Work
Michelle Mielly is MSc Marketing Program Director at Grenoble Graduate School of Business. She talks to Grenoble Life about her background, adapting to life in France and Odyssey Intercultural, the training consultancy she founded.
March 23rd, 2010 | by James Dalrymple | published in Features, Interviews, Work
Trudi Penkler is a psychologist, psychotherapist and ‘Intercultural Consultant’ with her own practice, Active Adaptation Counselling, in Grenoble. In the second of a two-part interview, she talks to Grenoble Life about the experiences families can have adapting to life in France.
March 16th, 2010 | by James Dalrymple | published in Features, Interviews, Work
Trudi Penkler is a psychologist, psychotherapist and ‘Intercultural Consultant’ with her own practice, Active Adaptation Counselling, in Grenoble. In the first of a two-part interview, she talks to Grenoble Life about helping foreigners adapt to life in a new culture, going professional in France, and being a Ghostbuster!
March 10th, 2010 | by James Dalrymple | published in Features, Info & Advice
Just landed in Grenoble? Grenoble Life editor James Dalrymple gives his rough guide to Grenoble’s expat clubs and Anglophone businesses and services.
March 8th, 2010 | by Mickey Farrance | published in Features
Mickey Farrance, President of the Working Women’s Network of Grenoble, announces a seminar on Saturday, March 20 at the Grenoble École de Management called ‘Face-to-face to FaceBook: Managing Your Professional “Brand” through Social Media’.