About me:
I am French and live in Heidelberg, Germany since 1999. I have more than 25 years professional experience in international companies as project manager and team leader with focus on adult Education and knowledge exchange.
While gratuating in Computing Sciences in Paris, I worked as IT project manager in a bank and then in a food producer company. Early in my professional life I realized that the most important element for a successful project is the people, both the development team and the business users. So while making sure the projects were complying to the requirements, I also mentored the team members, developed team spirit and ensured business users’ confidence in new ways of working.
Then I specialized in Training and made my first experience of self-employment in France, before moving to Germany.
After more than seven years at the international headquarter of a software company, where I managed Education programs for Customers and Consultants with worlwide teams, I started my own business as Consultant-Trainer in Human Resource development working with a network of talented consultants and trainers from various expertise.
My motivation is to facilitate change and communication focusing on the human aspects.
Not only in my professional life, but also in my private life, I have experienced several changes such as moving in a foreign country and I am communicating daily with people from different cultures, raising a tri-cultural daughter, having friends and relatives in and from diverse countries.
In 2001 I started theater courses to improve my German and was delighted by Improvisation Theater that I would like to share with others as a wonderful tool for personal development, team building or communication skills development.
My motto: "Enjoy change and have fun at learning"
Every individual, every organization, every situation has potential. And yet it is challenging to develop this potential, mainly because we can't make sense of a new situation, we don't understand each other or we are afraid of the necessary change which takes us out of our comfort zone.
All of these drive us in unknown places where we lose our marks.
Still I believe it is possible to enjoy these new places and even have fun at exploring them. Like me, you can reach "the serenity of uncertainty" in new situations by relying on your inner strengths.
Let me guide you : learn how to see the world from a different point of view , discover the capabilities hidden in you or in your organization and gain confidence.
My offer :
Either you are a international company implementing a new strategy, changing the organization or implementing new business processes, if you want to be efficient, you have to develop the skills and competencies of your people and make sure they will adopt the change, gain confidence and enjoy new ways of working. This means :
- Transforming your managers into leaders
- Inspiring a team spirit across departments or national borders
- Encouraging business users to gain confidence in new ways of working
- Enabling technical people and business people to better communicate which each other
- Or more
When you are looking for an experienced consultant-trainer to support you in the development of your internal competencies, and make you succeed, see below the services I can offer you.
To support your company’s goals, I can create specific programs to progress in a playful and cooperative way on the following topics:
- Leadership
- Change Management
- Performance Management
- Cross-cultural team management and virtual team management
- Intercultural communication, interpersonal communication, gender communication
- Personal effectiveness
As people need to learn, practice and integrate the changes, I combine consulting, training and coaching services tailored to your specific needs and company culture. This can include:
- Defining competency frameworks, training needs and managing your training plans
- Training course development , course delivery (Classroom seminars or workshops), evaluation and follow-up
- Train the Trainer
- Team building, Team and individual coaching
- Development of instructional games
- Business Theater for behavioral change management
- Identification of possible improvements in processes
Some of the main drivers for these services will be :
- Communicating the companie's goals and values to give people direction and meaning
- Facilitating change dealing with the different phases and emotions
More on my profile:
STRENGTHS AND COMPETENCIES
· 25 years international professional experience as project manager
· 20 years as team manager and mentor in multicultural environment with remote team members
· Effective multicultural networking and team building with people from diverse countries worlswide and various backgrounds.
· Expert in adult education
· Experience of several industries such as Banking, IT or Manufacturing and many functional areas.
· Proven leadership in process optimization and implementation of changes.
MAIN AREAS OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
· International Project Management and Education Programs Management
· People Development and Mentoring
· Training
· Performance Management
· Change Management
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING/ EDUCATION
M.S., Computer Science, Specialization in Business Administration/ University of Paris VI Pierre et Marie Curie
From 1982 until today, an average of 10 days/year was devoted to training sessions for further learning and development, in area such as People management, Project Management, Leadership, Training, Communication. E.g.:
· Train the Trainer / University of Paris I Sorbonne
· Instructional Design / Clark Training & Consulting
· Developing Leadership Potential / Roffey Park, UK
· Performace Management/ Roffey Park, UK
· Co-Active Coaching / Co-Activity, CTI
· Theater and Improvisation theater since 2001 in German, English and French
LANGUAGES
English Fluent
French Native speaker
German Good
INTERESTS
Theater Writing multilingual plays, Improvisation Theater
Culture Active in French-German cultural associations
