The transition

The time I spent in Rotterdam was very special. To be there and to work with most of my team members and also with Oriana, it was really incredible. I’m very happy with the results of our planning week and I'm sure that SSGN will do really good things this year.

Oriana is the current director for SSGN. She is an incredible person, full of energy and very competent. Probably the person that surprised me the most there (not that I thought she wasn’t competent, the fact is that I didn't know her before, I just met her there). She is the most active writer in AI blog (http://ai.myaiesec.net/), look what she wrote there about us and the transition:

“Here it to the new SSGN Board 06 07 (July 1st, 2006)
Besides giving transition to Araz, my successor, in the past weeks two very special guests for us and for AIESEC in Spanish Speaking Growth Network have been in Rotterdam to also receive transition and specially, plan as a team with Araz the way they will deliver on their role in the next year; these people are Filipe Balbi, Brazilian, and Piret Potisepp, Estonian with one year experience in Ecuador and the two of them are the full time members of the SSGN Board. Filipe will be managing the Corporate Responsibility Talent Development Program and Piret, the Social Entrepreneurship one, job that includes giving continuity to the so far called Explora Program, taking into to the next level.

The guys are working animals (yeah!) and I am sure they will move the GN forward, specially given the common understanding the we seam to have that GN initiatives are senseless if countries' key performance indicators are not going up because of them”.


Really nice, isn’t it? The problem is the photo that she used to illustrate the message:


I was really surprised when I saw this picture there. Now my fame as “Robertão Balbman Garanhão Tesudo” is spreading around the world… Imagine how many people saw that photo!

I didn't want to take this photo, you can see that I was embarrassed (as red as my t-shirt!).

Ok, I wanted to take it :P, but I never wanted to make it public like this. And she told me that the picture was only for fun, that she would not post that one in the blog (i'm so fool...).

There were some serious photos that we took only for this purpose (to publish in the blog), like this one:


Well, it is not exactly a serious photo… we were in a party, that’s why I have a beer in my hands…

Anyways… Let’s change the subject or I can complicate things for myself :P

(to see the original post in AI blog, click here: http://ai.myaiesec.net/2006/07/here-it-to-new-ssgn-board-06-07.html)