Lone Hummelshoj is an entrepreneurial, result-oriented self starter, who thinks strategically, and makes things happen. She works on a freelance basis, specialising in business development and project management.

Lone has a proven track-record of corporate achievement, and prides herself on the delivery and implementation of complex projects on time and to budget.

Her clients will confirm this. They will also tell you that she is quite determined to get to an end result, and does not shy away from conflict and, more importantly: conflict resolution, in order to achieve a goal.

Lone finds solutions and makes things happen.

She is fluent in English and Danish, and has conversational ability in Norwegian, Swedish, and German. She can just about order a drink in French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish...

Before starting her own company in 1996, Lone spent 13 years with IBM in business development and sales, where amongst others she was in charge of the relationship at executive level with the financial services division of Barclays Bank, and closed millions of pounds worth of business. She managed internal and external partners to achieve this, and was - and is - known for her ability to make a team work and deliver results.

Parallel to her current business, Lone is very pro-active in the voluntary sector in the field of endometriosis:

Lone publishes the largest online global resource in endometriosis (www.endometriosis.org). The website provides evidence based facts on endometriosis and serves as a global platform for the exchange of news and information amongst clinicians, scientists, and women with the disease.

She received the 2007 Customer Service Innovation Award from Frost & Sullivan for the way in which she has leveraged www.endometriosis.org to not only deliver the latest clinical and scientific information, but also to provide a platform linking all the stakeholders in the field of endometriosis, and empowering sufferers to participate fully in making decisions about their treatment options.

Lone co-founded the Danish Endometriosis Society (Endometriose Foreningen) in 1997, chaired it for seven years, and was instrumental in the implementation of the first ever (and only) national legislation, which provides referral guidelines to specialist centres for the treatment of endometriosis.

In October 2004, Lone instigated, organised, raised funds for, and facilitated the founding meeting of the European Endometriosis Alliance where 19 representatives from 12 organisations in 11 countries were represented and agreed on a mutual agenda to move endometriosis-awareness forward in Europe. The Alliance has staged parallel events in Europe during endometriosis awareness week (2nd week in March) since 2005.

In June 2005 Lone succeeded in getting the highest number of signatures ever from MEPs on a human health issue with the 2005 Written Declaration of Endometriosis. Endometriosis was heard in the European Parliament in September 2005 as part of a report on gender discrimination in health systems as a direct result of this achievement. In January 2006, she made history in getting women’s health (with a specific reference to endometriosis) on the 2006 Work Plan of the European Commission. Subsequently, in May 2007 a pan-European coalition of patient organisations and universities was granted €296,000 by the European Commission to strengthen the work on endometriosis in Europe.

Lone took over the post as Secretary General for the World Endometriosis Society (WES) at the beginning of 2006, and in October that year she was appointed Chief Executive of the World Endometriosis Research Foundation (WERF).

Lone has published extensively on endometriosis, and is co-author of the “Guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis”, published in Human Reproduction in 2005 (she continues to project manage its regular updates). She has presented on the impact of endometriosis, and the need for patient centred care, at international congresses in Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia, and is regularly utilised as a session organiser, chair, and facilitator.

Lone is an active member of the Special Interest Groups on endometriosis within both ESHRE and the ASRM, a special advisor to the Journal of Endometriosis, and was appointed to the Faculty of F1000 Medicine for Women's Health in 2006. She serves as an ad hoc reviewer for Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Clinical Investigation.

These are just a few examples of what can be achieved with the right person in charge.

Whether your business is in the voluntary or private sector, you want someone determined and result orientated in charge of your project.

You want someone, who has a proven track-record of achievement and who can deliver results for you as well!

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