Speakers

Catherine is originally from New York but has lived in Europe almost half her life. After a varied career in everything from fashion merchandising to television production and project management in IT in New York City, in 2013 Catherine moved to Belgrade to start the Serbian branch of leading the Swiss digital agency, a Merkle Company where she built the company from 0 to 50 software engineers in two years while achieving a 50/50 male/female ratio.

From 2020 to 2023 Catherine was the Chief People Officer of Scaleway where she recruited over 400 people in two years while maintaining 4.6+ Glassdoor ratings and high internal engagement scores. She’s currently an interim Chief People Officer, stepping in to ensure continuity during breaks in leadership to boost performance in People Teams in tech. Catherine is passionate about organizational development, live music (especially her husband’s), and her four children.

Philipp fuels personal branding journeys and he helps individuals discover their true calling.

Background: Personal branding expert blending HR and marketing.

Education: MBA, certified marketing manager, certified yoga teacher.

Professional Odyssey: In almost two decades around 10,000 interviews, diverse roles across continents.

Passions: Speaker, perpetual learner, mindset explorer and sales.

Mission: Craft authenticity, ignite careers, ace interviews, embrace joy.

Essence: Be simple, be happy.

Michel Poulaert, CSP, has been a french professional speaker since 2006.

In France he is known has “the man of 1000 speeches”. With a fluent english he brings an exotic touch to your event and an unexpected look on universal topics and issues.

2 TEDx to his credit, he is author and Youtuber.

The culture of failure, sales and optimism are his expertise.

With generosity he share his mindset and passion, about the love of Life, for Sales and Entrepreneurship.

Where does he get all his (true) stories and expertise?

What did he experience and achieve before inspiring his audience?

Why does his optimism, boldness and vision of failure make him such an eloquent and compelling speaker?

WHAT I DO

I help senior executives (CEO, CXO, EVP, MD, BU Lead) & their teams to transform their organizations to achieve profitable growth through exceptional, measurable improvements in personal and organizational performance & results. Accelerated personal & team development, exceptional improvements in individual & organizational performance, organizational transformation, accelerated profitable growth.

HOW I WORK

I work as a transformation coach with individual executives & with entire executive teams and their organizations. My coaching & consulting approaches are based on global best practices, tested and scientifically validated more than 10,000 times, with exceptional & measurable impact on the success of yourself, your team & your company.

WHOM I HAVE WORKED WITH

I work mostly with larger, growth-oriented companies and dynamic medium-sized companies with an international outlook, including AVL List, Bitmovin, BMW, Bosch (BSH), Coca-Cola, Cortical, Gebrüder Weiss, Johnson & Johnson, Harman International, IBM, Mondi, Montana Tech Components, T-Mobile & more than 50 other leading organizations.

WHAT WE CAN ACHIEVE:

EXECUTIVE COACHING

• Executives successfully take on a new position or role (e.g. CEO)
• Effective behavior in difficult leadership & change situations
• Improved team leadership & team development
• Improved self-management
• Strategy development & successful tactical implementation

EXECUTIVE TEAM COACHING & TRANSFORMATION COACHING

• Realization of growth strategy: profitable growth of 15% p.a.
• Expanding market leadership through selective geographic expansion
• EBITDA up by 20% y/y by rapidly growing the service business
• Securing long-term future of family-owned business through profitable growth
• Penetration of new markets & growth of 20% p.a. by executing M&A Strategy

INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE SPEAKING

I have written 8 management books, including the “CEO-Handbook” & “Instructions for the Management Revolution”, more than 200 articles on management topics, incl. a regular management column in a leading quality newspaper, am frequently asked by the press to comment on management issues & speak at conferences & major events worldwide. If you would like to discuss any of the above in more detail, please feel free to message me on LinkedIn.

I am a certified Career Coach specializing in helping internationals upgrade their career or get their dream jobs. I am a Dane, Former hiring Manager for 12+ years, a wingwoman and professional Networker. I can’t wait to show you how to groew, maintain and use your network more effectively in your career.

Nischa is also the founder of Careerclub.dk, a free network for career women in Denmark, where more than 6000 women from 98 different countries unites to be stronger together.

A former carpenter, I chose to change direction after cancer in 2014. It was after meeting an incredible psychologist that I discovered a new path: NLP.

Neuro-linguistic programming, a tool that changed my life.

Later, a CSP-certified international professional speaker discovered me on social networks and chose to train me in public speaking.

Today, as a professional speaker, I give motivational speeches at corporate seminars all over France. I am also the author of two books on personal development and motivation (“your life in your hands” and “the day when the bold will inherit the earth”).

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Ancien charpentier, j’ai choisi de changer d’orientation suite à un cancer en 2014. C’est suite à ma rencontre avec une psychologue incroyable que j’ai découvert une nouvelle voie : la PNL.

La programmation neurolinguistique, un outil qui a changé ma vie.

par la suite, c’est un conférencier professionnel international certifié CSP qui m’a découvert sur les réseaux sociaux et qui a choisi de me former à l’art oratoire.

Aujourd’hui, en tant que conférencier professionnel, j’interviens partout en France pour donner un discours motivant lors des séminaires d’entreprises. Je suis également auteur de deux livres de développement personnel axés sur la motivation et le dépassement de soi (“ta vie dans tes mains” et “le jour où les audacieux hériteront de la terre”)