Catherine Hickel

- Individuals: providing career guidance and coaching to professionals dealing with career-related challenges. (competence assessment, career change, job search, burn out prevention, work-life balance, toxic manager etc) - Organizations: Providing executive coaching to address evolving needs of growing organizations, by changing beliefs, attitudes and structure. (talent retention, high potential coaching, dysfunctioning team, toxic manager, burn out prevention, work-life balance etc)

- Responsible for entire search process and assignment delivery from A to Z - Finding and attracting senior executives (from functional specialists to VP levels) - Searching internationally for talents operating in an international context - Covering all functions (R&D, Clinical/Medical Affairs, Finance, Marketing etc) - Sectorial expertise: lifesciences, chemicals, converting and processing industries - Integrating Client’s value proposition and adapting it to each assigned recruitment project

- Led & grew a team of highly educated international market makers (up to 10 people) - Change management: introduced matrix organization in operations, new processes - Translation of global policy guidelines into local operations specifics and processes - Shaped and actively contributed to strategic initiatives in high growth context (massive recruitment, induction program development) In an international, challenging and high growth American start-up environment !

including one year exchange program with the Sussex University, UK