Brussels Region, Belgium
Vision driven Change leader - Impactful HR Director - CHRO +20 years of international HR experience in Europe, USA, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Lead several M&A and major international change projects in Europe, Middle East and Latin America. Main Sectors: Retail - FMCG - Pharma & Healthcare - Industry - Media and Finance Fields of Expertise: Strategic & Operational Human Resources - Change Management Strategy & Implementations - The Future of Work - Organisational Design - HR Technology & Innovation - Leadership Development - International Employee Relations - Merger & Acquisitions - Executive Coaching HR Key words: Customer centric - Simplify HR - Smart data
Leading the EMEA-US-India-China HR transformation project driven by CARE - BELONG - PERFORM. Building a High Performance culture and a Great Place to Work.
ThinkTalent unlocks human potential through HR interim projects - team and individual coaching and international Reload programs. Personal HR Projects I have worked on: + Lead HR Transformation project for a stock-listed healthcare company with EMEA-US-India-China as geographical scope (2019-now) + Enhancing the trade union relations - building a high performance culture and implementing an employee engagement action plan in a Belgian industrial company.(2018) + Advised the HR-Tech start-up 'Meet Roger' on their go-to-market strategy and HR needs (2016-17) + Lead successfully the People strategy & implementation of a major Media merge (4 media brands into 1 new brand). (2015-2016) + Defined, implemented & coordinated a new Learning & Development strategy for the social enterprise 'Streetwize - Mobile School'. Results: a yearly top line consecutive growth of 34%, 29% and 72% respectively. (2013-2015) + Coached executives and senior managers in the following sectors: retail – industry – finance and media (2013-2018)
Overall HR responsibility Nike Retail Europe: $750m revenue, 180 stores, 3500 employees. Main focus on Talent Management, Organizational Design and Leadership. Coordinated community projects in Romania and Amsterdam Interim role as HRD Nike France (2010)
Final regional HR responsibility for Russia - Turkey - South Africa - Middle East and Distributors. Business scope of 1bn Euro with a forecasted yearly growth of 30%.
Final regional HR responsibility for 15 countries, 3 divisions, 26 management teams. Business scope of €800m with yearly net sales growth of 25-30%.
Founder and Managing partner of an HR Development & Organisational Development company (15-20 consultants), active in Europe, Africa and Middle East. Created 7 years of double digit growth. Activity: HR consulting in M&A and start-up companies - Leadership & Management Development programs - Executive Coaching Major clients: DHL - Microsoft - Nike - Honda Europe - Nawras Oman - Coca-Cola - Proximus - Bekaert - Eastern Sugar - Equator Valley Farm Uganda - Exonmobile - Kraft - VRT- Batelco Bahrain. A European top ten score (3.9/4) in the independent European Q*For Quality audit. Introduced as first consulting company in Europe to donate 3% of the yearly turnover(!) towards international social projects.