Andre de Wit

The Leadership Academy Amsterdam develops Learning journeys that support the development of Leadership skills, for Top-management, needed in the VUCA world. The developed modules can be used indepently from eachother and will always be a product that is co-created and co-delivered with the top management of your organization. Please have a look on our website www.LeadershipAcademyAmsterdam.com.

Responsible for the set up of the department Competency building and Learning for the Carlsberg group. In this department a team of functional experts is working together to build up learning curricula for the different areas (Marketing, Sales, Supply chain and Leadership) based on input from different stakeholders of the organization. Starting point for these curricula are the existing best practices in Carlsberg.

Responsible for worldwide Learning department reporting to the board of Metro A.G.. The Metro-group consists of Makro- and Metro Cash&Carry, Media Market/Saturn, REAL and Galaria Kaufhof. Learning solutions cover functional-, as well leadership programs and are centrally developed and implementated via training departments in the countries were Metro is active.

As CEO of Metro Cash&Carry Croatia my main responsibility was the re-structuring and re-positioning of Metro Cash&Carry as ´real´ wholesaler in the professional market. The re-structuring, in line with our re-positioning, impacted the a full re-organization of the HQ. On top a cost-efficiency program was implemented.

During my time as CEO of IKEA Iberica an aggressive expansion of the activities of IKEA on the Iberian Peninsula was realised. Number of stores increased from 3 to 13 and the turnover grew 5 times higher, a central warehouse was established and one IKEA factory was opened in Portugal.