Emmelie Zipson

What advice would you give your younger self?

Stay true to yourself, you’re good and beautiful as you are. Take your time and try not to compare yourself with others. It’s okay to not know where you’re going (this one is still very helpful)

What do you do for work?

I’m a moderator and host for online and live events and conferences, I’m a voice-over and a singer. I mainly moderate events around themes like (female) leadership, innovation digital transformation, education, and sustainability in the broadest sense of the word. Expressing myself on a stage with my voice, expression, and stories in cooperation with others is a privilege and a way to speak up and celebrate and to connect and encourage other people-women to do the same. I still sing and hope to start sharing my own stories on stage again.

Background

I come from a creative family, my mother used to write and sing songs with her guitar but became a teacher and psychiatrist and my father originally trained as an actor and became a theatre director and teacher.

My dream was to become an actress and attended, after many rejections, the Amsterdam school of Arts (Hogeschool voor de kunsten) and Central School of Speech & drama (London) and became an actress and singer.

After some years of writing and performing my own theatre shows I became a mother of my daughter Sue. Shortly after that I had a break-up and needed to find other work to make a steadier living. I started presenting and my career slowly turned into becoming a moderator, for all sorts of industry.

(Nowadays I mainly moderate events around themes like (female) leadership, innovation digital transformation, education, and sustainability in the broadest sense of the word._