After studying Wildlife Managment (BSc and MSc) I started my career at the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria in September 2014. EAZA represents and links more than 345 zoos and aquariums throughout Europe and the Middle East. EAZA assists our members with regard to the care and accommodation of the animals kept in their collections, and additionally facilitates cooperation in our key mission areas of conservation, education and research. With a membership drawn from more than 40 countries, languages and cultures, encompassing municipal zoos, charitable foundations, and private family‐owned operations, EAZA is probably the most complex and certainly the largest professional zoo and aquarium association worldwide. At EAZA, I was fully focused on supporting the implementation of the new EAZA Programme structure by using the One-Plan-Approach (Byers et al. 2013) and the IUCN 5-Step process (Traylor‐Holzer et al. 2018). Linking ex situ conservation actions with in situ conservation actions. I have been part of the team, planning and facilitating Regional Collection Planning workshops for EAZA Taxon Advisory Groups, using this new integrated process. Since April 2020 I am the new Conservation Coordinator at Zoologische Gärten Berlin (Berlin Zoo and Berlin Tierpark) harnessing my project management skills, species management experience and conservation planning facilitation skills to further conservation work done by Berlin Zoo and Berlin Tierpark.