Villars-sur-Glâne, Fribourg, Switzerland
🎯 I support SME leaders in achieving sustainable and profitable growth. Through a structured approach, I help companies accelerate their growth, improve profitability, and refine their strategy to reach their full potential. 🚀 What I deliver: 🔹 Implementation of measurable and profitable growth plans 🔹 Margin optimization and business model improvement 🔹 Strategic repositioning and team alignment 🔹 Turning vision into concrete, actionable plans 🧭 My background: ✔ General management and successful restructuring of several industrial SMEs ✔ Financial turnaround achievements (+10% revenue growth, return to profitability) ✔ Inspirational leadership and pragmatic governance 💬 My mission: helping companies move from potential to performance — achieving controlled, profitable, and sustainable growth.
I support Swiss SME leaders in their strategic and operational decision-making, focusing on: 📈 Growth and scaling: identifying opportunities, optimizing the client portfolio, structuring commercial operations, and driving acquisitions 🗂️ Strategy and governance: defining strategic plans, improving governance, and leading change initiatives 🔄 Succession and transformation: preparing business succession, organizational transformation, and business turnaround ⚡ Operational interventions: providing hands-on, pragmatic support in complex situations My methodology combines hands-on experience, strategic rigor, and the Wikane methodology, specifically designed to generate strong, sustainable, and controlled growth, and to enable companies to successfully scale up.
I offer my services as a consultant or interim manager to organizations facing challenges such as restructuring, financial recovery, or strategic repositioning. I intervene to: - Conduct a thorough strategic diagnosis, align stakeholders, and define a pragmatic action plan. - Lead transformation initiatives or take on interim executive roles, ensuring continuity and operational effectiveness. - Optimize commercial, industrial, or organizational activities to restore profitability through adjusted financial management. - Act as an independent board member, bringing structured governance, organizational innovation, and oversight of key performance indicators (KPIs). ✅ What I bring to the table Proven leadership: management of SMEs (up to 150 employees) involving restructuring, financial turnaround, and profitable growth. Multisector expertise: industry, hospitality & spa, agri-food, chemicals, fashion — leading complex projects in multicultural environments. Cross-functional skills: strategy, finance, HR, marketing, quality, IT — enhanced by certifications in IPMA-D, change management, and governance. 🎯 In summary I am ready to lead, advise, and transform your organization by bringing reliable leadership, strategic expertise and effective operational structure. My goal: to actively contribute to your success while delivering sense and innovation.
Within Innopark, he InnoBoard is a committee of experts providing consultancy and mentoring to project initiators. The board advises on the strategical, operational and financial viability of the respective proposals, analysing the business model and providing feedback and recommendations.
Responsibilities: General management of the company (150 employees): daily management of staff and operations, general management and finance, definition and realization of strategy and budget Restructuration: reorganization of the structure and of the processes and objectives, revision of the commercial offer (products, pricing, positioning) and sales development, restructuration and realignment of personal resources Achievements: • Re-established trust and confidence from commercial and institutional partners (suppliers and creditors, bank, owners, authorities, local tourism partners) as well as customers • Established clear perspectives for the new Board • Redeveloped commercial partnerships • Implemented efficient HR processes • Maintained activities during the transfer of the company to new owner
Regional bakery creating artisan products since 1949 Responsibilities: General management of the company (120 employees): human resources, operations, general administration, finance, definition and realization of strategy and budget, reporting. Change and recovery management: revision of business plan and commercial offer, restructuration and realignment of personal resources, development of new company culture, financing and cash management Achievements: • Recovered profitability after several years of losses • Increases direct sales in own shops by 10%, developed new sales channels • Implemented price increases • Closed unprofitable points of sales and opened a new one