Born in Paris, France, I built my reputation for strong customer focus, reliability, and flawless delivery during the course of my 35+ years professional career.
My expertise covers the fields of employee development, organizational change, operations and management consulting in the hospitality, oil & gas/energy, and engineering industries, across the globe.
An alumnus of the world's best Hospitality Business School, EHL in Switzerland, I held various Human Resources, large project management, operational, reorganization and Leadership roles for Fortune 100 and large multinational companies.
Over a decade of working for Royal Dutch Shell, I became a recognized subject matter expert in the field of Learning & Development -L&D- operations, learning facilities and services design as well as the design and delivery of large corporate events. My expertise lies as much with the “how” as the “what” in these areas. Jeroen van der Veer, former CEO of Royal Dutch Shell describes me as “an on the ball organizer and multi-tasker who combines Dutch efficiency and Latin charm”.
As an independent consultant, I take on projects where I leverage my international management expertise to increase operations' effectiveness and thus boost business performance while enhancing customers' experience.
Member of the hotel's Executive Committee , in charge of managing the whole Human Resources function.
Led > 450 employees and fully accountable for the HR (Personnel & Training) department's activities such as “Saudisation” programme, catering, staff housing, transport and employees welfare.
The HR department received the “Hyatt E.A.M.E. Hotels - Best HR Operation" award in 1990.
Supported and motivated employees throughout the distressing period of the 1990-1991 first Gulf-War when the US Army Command used our hotel as their military operations base and communications center.
