Background
- Led (as both HR and line manager) and project managed a vast range of change management and organisational design programmes, also co-ordinated in different countries
- 35 years leading global teams with different nationalities & cultures
- Certified to use William Bridges Transition Management material & concepts
- Certified to use and teach Professor Fons Trompenaars’ (Trompenaars-Hampden-Turner Consulting) tools and processes to integrate and manage differences that arise in national, organisational, functional, disciplinary and cultural orientations, including dilemma reconciliation
- Many HR roles included responsibility for organisational design & development (for example Deputy VP HR & OD for TNK-BP)
- Designed & presented workshops on understanding cultural differences
- Worked with many different external consultants in different countries
- Management Centre Europe Internal Consultant Course
Previous examples
- Multiple major reorganisations & reduction rounds within Shell, locally within The Netherlands & globally (including mergers, takeovers & divestments)
- Major reorganisation including governance and management structure in Shell’s global shared service centre network
- Project managing the move and reorganisation of senior Corporate Centre positions leading to the creation of a single Headquarters for the Shell Group
- Review of organisation design & processes of Sibur’s R&D and research centres to stimulate innovation
- Workforce planning and organisation design for a large petrochemical company in the Middle East
- Kazakhstan Sovereign Wealth Fund, National Company & Corporate University Transformation programmes
- Consulted on organisational development and capability of TNK-BP’s International Business
- Advised on the organisation and transformation of TNK-BP’s Upstream business
- Creation of a new organisation for Fonterra Europe in Amsterdam (after the closure of Hamburg)
- Inter-cultural business partnerships (e.g. Eataly restaurant complex in Moscow with Italian global company; Kubota European organisation of the Japanese company; TNK-BP International Businesses)
- New ways of working & introduction of values/cultural change in Shell & Fonterra
- Organisational change consultancy within TNT
- Strategic development & change management in non-profit, volunteer foundation
- Designed & presented THIS Masterclass on Hospitality and how different cultural expectations can be managed for Dutch businessmen, women & entrepreneurs
- Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI) Young DPI Day on cultural awareness
- Invited presentation on my personal experiences of doing business in the BRICS countries at Nijenrode Business School
- Co-writer & organizer of the ‘Great Expatations’ film on how other nationalities living in Holland view the Netherlands
Offering
Advice, facilitation, project management & training for managers, management teams & organisations on organisational change, design & development, and other aspects of change management
Including:
- Reorganisation, restructuring, organisational design
- Divestments, mergers, acquisitions, takeovers
- Manpower planning, reduction rounds
- New Business and People Strategies
- New ways of working, culture, values
- Cultural differences
- Transformation
- Improvement and changes in people processes
