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I have more than 20 years experience leading change and transformation in Europe, Africa and Asia. I have had the privilege of managing and contributing to diverse industries, organisation (Humanitarian and corporate) to secure engagement and impact. In my last role I worked in a large MNC supply chain environment engaging external partners to increase our impact in sustainability.
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Share my experience and support others in identifying their own focus areas and plan.
Both my personal and professional journey brought me to sustainability. On a professional level I have worked in a humanitarian organization and in corporate firms. Professionally I went from witnessing firsthand how climate change was adding to the struggles that some communities are facing to concretely working for a company that has ambitious sustainability goals.
In my last role I have learned about the challenges and opportunities facing large companies and supply chain in pushing their industry to decrease its environmental impact while securing the perennity of their business.
Concretely learning about sustainable KPI, Sustainable reporting, green electricity project for suppliers or circularity challenges. I have also led the internal fitting of an office having the sustainable challenges in mind.
On a more personal note, as a mother I feel an extra sense of responsibility in ensuring my actions and my efforts are aligned with the future I hope for my children.
Concretly I have implemented waste reduction and energy reduction initiative for our office.
I have also worked on collaboration initiatives focused on green energy and circularity within the industry.
I was lucky enough to work for a company that had strong commitments to reducing its environmental impact. That commitment was shared at all levels of the company.
This being said the reality of a private company needing to make profit sometimes does clash with steps needed to secure a change in the business. Finding ways to solve this contradictions and securing everyone is on board could be challenging and require to find common grounds and be clear about the objectives and the means to get there.
I have also faced challenges outside the company. Those challenges could either be availability of the needed in fracture or tools to secure circularity of green energy or to understand what are beyond talk the real steps other are ready to make in reducing their environmental impact.
In all of those challenges being clear about our own goals and actions and open minded to understand others motivation has helped find common grounds.
The small and the big projects where different people came together to achieve something together