Vanessa Viard, Senior Consultant

Vanessa Viard

Senior Consultant

Leading Concepts LLC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Psychology
Experience
20 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :20 years, 10 Months

Senior Consultant at Leading Concepts LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since May 2007

Part-time Consultant and Trainer (maternity leave), delivering agreed projects and management trainings, including:

- Interim Director HR at ATIC: Responsible for entire HR function.

- Competency-based training, in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, clients include among others ADTA, Areva and Etisalat.

Senior Consultant at Leading Concepts
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2004 to July 2006

Managing consulting projects in alliance with Mercer HR Consulting, mainly in the field of compensation and benefits, e.g.

- Development and implementation of a future-oriented competency framework linked with a performance management system and set up of a new grading and remuneration system for a semi-government organization in Saudi Arabia.

- Development of a competitive grading and remuneration structure for high calibre management staff for a Dubai based financial service organization.
Conducting competency-based training and experiential learning sessions, among others for Tetra Pack, UAE Offsets, Nissan Middle East, Wall Street Exchange, Al Ghurair.

Consultant at Strategie M
  • Germany
  • August 2002 to March 2004

Project Manager in a german management consulting firm: Consulting and managing various projects in the Human Resources area, e.g.

- Responsible for developing, implementing and continuous running of standardized assessment centre to recruit new employees and to analyse the leadership and sales potential in the middle management and sales department in the IT industry.

- Set up of team-specific performance-related pay system. Responsible for the implementation incl. road shows, management trainings and data handling.
Hosting and leading seminars, workshops and management trainings, e.g. Strategic HR Management and Competency Development.
Set up of the business unit “Assessment & Appraisal“

- Design of product brochures and coordination of marketing activities.

Education

Master's degree, Psychology
  • at RWTH University of Aachen
  • June 2002

Specialties & Skills

Compensation
HR Consulting
Assessment Center
MS Office

Languages

German
Expert
English
Expert
French
Intermediate

Memberships

DDI
  • Certified Facilitator
  • August 2004