Victoria V. Doebbel
France/Switzerland
- Change Management and institutional /organizational Development expert
- Individual and executive teams coaching
- Public speaker in Leadership, Interpersonal Effectiveness and Leading and Managing Change
- Executive Leadership Development expert
- Facilitation, Mediation and conflict management in Top Management teams
- Management of large, long-term projects in both the private and public sectors
- Multi-cultural and worldwide experience
QUICK OVERVIEW:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
09/1991 – today INDEPENDENT MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT France / Switzerland
- Coaching: executive coaching and senior team coaching
- Design management & follow up of change management projects both in the public & private sector
- Management development, communication, leadership competence at the top level
- Develop and facilitate corporate strategic alignment processes and cascading and implementation of strategies
- Facilitation of complex meetings & workshops : conflict resolution, decision making, strategy development, mediation
- Organizational diagnosis, management audits, restructuring, development and implementation of strategic and operational change. Management turn around of medium-size companies
- Strategic, operational and management audits prior and after acquisitions, mergers and fusions of industrial and service companies throughout Europe
- Clients include: , Nestlé, Crédit Agricole, Philips, UCB,GDF- Suez, Procter & Gamble, Mc Kinsey, Dexia, Arthur D Little, Elsevier, Plan International, World Bank, ICM, Société Générale, ABB, Caisse des Dépôts, Holderbank, Diax, British Petroleum, Matignon, Cabinet du Président du Brésil, Calyon, ING, Euroclear, MCE (Management Centre Europe)…
09/1986 – 02/1991 CEGOS GROUP Paris, France
French management consulting group founded in 1926
500 consultants in France, 800 worldwide
Strategy and Management Division
Senior Consultant and Project Manager
- Management of large, medium-term projects dealing with strategic, cultural and managerial organizational change throughout Europe, both in private and public sectors
- Diagnosis, implementation and follow up of intervention strategies contracted with top management
- Commercial development and product manager
09/1982 – 06/1986 PETROLEOS DE VENEZUELA Caracas, Venezuela
Corpoven (affiliate), 6400 employees
Organizational Development Consultant
Internal Consultant on organizational management and development
- Management of post merger change project in the oil industry
- Diagnosis, implementation and evaluation of change programs negotiated with top management
- Participation in the creation of the O.D. department, directly attached tthe Presidency. Elaboration of its mission, philosophy, strategy and plan of action
- Design and implementation of organizational, group and individual change strategies
EDUCATION
1980 – 1982 HARVARD UNIVERSITY Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
- Masters and Doctorate studies (Certificate of Advanced Studies) in Organizational Behavior and Counseling and Consulting Psychology.
- Multi-school program at the Business School, School of Government School of Education.
- Areas of specialization : Consulting, Organizational Behavior and Development, Prevention and Intervention Strategies. Career Development, Counseling, Coaching, Conflict mediation
1976 – 1980 NEW-YORK UNIVERSITY New-York, U.S.A.
- B.A. In Psychology (Clinical, Community and Organizational)
- Summa cum Laude, Honors in Psychology
- Thesis : “Burnout and Turnover among Human Service Professionals”
TEACHING, TRAINING AND CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
01/1990 – today
Arthur D Little CORPORATE UNIVERSITY
GDF - SUEZ CORPORATE UNIVERSITY
DEXIA CORPORATE UNIVERSITY
MANAGEMENT CENTRE EUROPE
CASA CORPORATE UNIVERSITY
- Expert and Faculty member in the areas of Change Management, Leading management change, Coaching: from individual tteam coaching
- Communication, Leadership, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Organizational
- Learning, Facilitation, Complexities of People Management, Conflict Management
09/1984 – 06/1986 UNIVERSIDAD ANDRES BELLO Caracas, Venezuela
- Professor at the graduate level
- “Organizational Behavior and Development” and “Group Dynamics”
- Creation of the Masters program in “Organizational Development”
09/1981 – 06/1982 HARVARD UNIVERSITY Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
- Assistant to the Dean of Freshman
- Counseling, Coaching and Academic Advisor (Proctor)
- Counseling, Coaching and administrative responsibilities
07/1975 – 09/1977 GMA FOUNDATION New-York, U.S.A.
Venezuelan Government Scholarship Foundation
- Senior Counselor and Administrator
- Administration, counseling and follow up of 900 Venezuelan students
- pursuing undergraduate and graduate studies
01/1981 – 06/1981 BOSTON CITY HOSPITAL Boston, MA; U.S.A.
- Clinical diagnosis, family therapy
CONTINUING EDUCATION
01/1990 – today Advanced training received in the areas of
- Advanced System Thinking, Boston
- Organizational Learning, London
- Team Learning, Boston
- Leadership & Mastery, London
- Visionary & Leadership Planning, Brussels
- Mediation, Paris
- Coaching, Boston
1989 MANAGEMENT CENTRE EUROPE Brussels, Belgium
- “Beyond the Quick Fix: Sustained Organizational Change”
R. Kilman, University of Pittsburgh
- “The Learning Organization”
R. Pascale, Stanford University
1988 CEGOS Paris, France
- “Management Cycle” Three-week training on strategy implementation, management information systems and organizational structure
1987 INSTITUT D’ETUDES POLITIQUES Paris, France
- Intensive seminar on “The changing France”; economical, financial, social, political and international development.
02/1985 QUALITY CIRCLES AND PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT
- METHODS Maraven, Venezuela
08/1984 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles, U.S.A.
- Inter-Organizational leadership and management laboratory
06/1984 – 08/1984 ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTING Caracas, Venezuela
- Organizational Ressources Center
- Decision-making, Intervention Strategies, Transactional Analysis for Organizations
02/1984 STRATEGIC PLANNING Caracas, Venezuela
- IESA – Venezuela’s business school
10/1982 – 09/1983 INTERNAL CONSULTANT TRAINING PROGRAM New-York, U.S.A.
- O.R.C. Organization Ressources Councelor
- Conferences, case studies and macro-project on a global organizational diagnosis model
HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
- “Outstanding Woman in Psychology 1980” and
- “Catherine Vassilakis Gold Pin and Scroll” given tthe highest achieving student on 1980
- Summa cum Laude, Honors in Psychology
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Prize for the Best Thesis in Psychology
- Full scholarship to pursue undergraduate and graduate studies in the U.S.A.
LANGUAGES
- Spanish
- English
- French
- Portuguese
- Good knowledge of German
CERTIFICATION
- Clinical Psychologist
- Certified in Psychometrics
- MBTI
- DISC
- 360° PDI Certified coach
- Member of ICF/ International Coach Federation
REFERENCES
3 children
4 nationalities: French, Swiss, Chilean, Venezuelan
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