A short intro
In the past 11 years I’ve taken up many professional challenges with passion and drive. This has allowed me to grow into an experienced HR professional & Change Agent with a broad knowledge base and expertise in evidence-based HR, strong interpersonal skills and solid business acumen. I’m always in for a laugh, I’m eager to learn, I have a strong passion for IT and I love building lasting relationships.
​
Next to my experience in HR I'm also a seasoned Sports Psychologist, a job I take up with a lot of passion and enthusiasm in secondary occupation.
Scroll down to get a glimpse of my personality and previous experience, but I’m more a fan of getting to know each other through personal contact, so please don’t hesitate to reach out!
CV
Experience & Expertise
November 2022 - current (Fulltime)
HR Generalist - L&D @ ST Engineering iDirect
Currently I work for ST Engineering iDirect, a global leader in Satellite Communications. My main focus area is global Learning & Development and Soft HR. I am taking up a mix of strategic, tactical and operational tasks and responsibilities. Some of my responsibilities and achievements are​
L&D
-
Successfully defined a long term strategy for "the Academy" that allows us to scale, increase productivity and realize our company strategy
-
Defined the 2024 global training roadmap and budget, leveraging data from various sources such as company goals, business needs, training data, ISO compliancy, social legislation and employee engagement survey
-
Crafted & implemented a global Leadership Framework, embedding these new standards into performance management processes, and leadership development programs
-
Initiator and driver of process improvement & automation projects to mature the Academy's organization
-
Identified the upskilling roadmap in crucial domains and technologies (such as cloud, 5G, security etc) in line with our company product strategy
-
Implemented global change training program to support internal reorganisation
-
Soundboard and coach to business stakeholders
-
Translate Performance Appraisal Cycle outcome to career development opportunities
-
Implement and run training campaigns through various learning formats (e-learning, instructor-led, hybrid learning,...)
-
Developed and rolled out first global mental health awareness campaign
-
Facilitate and coordinate compliancy training
-
Analytics & reporting on progress, learner engagement and training effectiveness
-
Facilitating technical integrations between other learning platforms and our LMS (SuccessFactors)
HR
-
Business Partner for Employee Relations
-
Supported and executed reorganisation in our factory in Erpe-Mere
-
Coordinator of the annual global performance management process
-
Driver of the People Managers Community
-
Regional coach (see certifications) to People Managers & IC's
-
Business advisor for Hiring process improvements
-
Advisor to the wellbeing committee
-
Spearheaded creation of a Wellbeing Framework
-
POC for the Employee Assistance Program
2016 - now (Secondary Occupation)
Sports Psychologist
In secondary occupation I'm active as a licensed Sports Psychologist. I work with individual athletes as well as teams in helping them acquire the necessary mental skills needed to excel in their sport and performance. I also work with sports clubs in developing strategies for mental training.
June 2021 - October 2022
Delivery Manager @ AE
AE is a Belgian consultancy company specialised in digital transformations, from roadmap to architecture, software development to tackling data challenges. In this consultancy context, delivery management entails the follow up and management of all of our client consulting activities.
Within delivery management I acted as a change agent and a servant leader, supporting the translation of business challenges into concrete actionable plans. I was responsible for developing and implementing a change strategy for our delivery structure and processes to enable our company strategy. This meant supporting and challenging leadership in their client & commercial strategy, development and introduction of new roles in the organization, creating training paths to strengthen the required competencies of these roles, introducing new projects and managing them from start to finish, building a learning community, etc.. In this role I bridged the gap between the executive leadership team, our sales team, HR and operations teams.
August 2015 - October 2022
HR Business Partner @ AE
At AE I started within technical recruitment and became the lead of University recruitment. After a couple of years I combined recruitment with HR BP responsibilities, transitioning to a full HR BP role for a Business Unit of 140 consultants and around 15 clients. Some of my responsibilities included:
-
Member of the leadership team and responsible for a business unit of 140 technology consultants
-
Building a strategic plan for the business unit, covering value propositioning, hiring, coaching and knowledge sharing
-
Providing insights and individual coaching to the people coaches supported by evidence-based frameworks
-
Building and maintaining strong relationships throughout the organization
-
Supporting personal career development with Big 5 personality testing
-
Owner of the annual evaluation process
-
Active link between consultant, client and the core organization
-
Facilitator in complex conflict situations, finding the right balance between employee wellbeing, customer satisfaction and company value
-
Supporting the implementation of changes in the organizational structure
-
HR process optimization
-
Driver and Project Manager of new initiatives
-
Playing an active role in business and sales processes
-
Developing and implementing training initiatives for People Managers
HR recruitment
-
Full cycle talent acquisition, with a distinct specialty in recruitment of technical profiles (Developers, architects, data engineers,..)
-
Gathering market insights and evolutions
-
Coaching of more junior colleagues
-
Developing the strategy of and driver behind campus recruitment
-
Developing a strong employer brand
-
Skilled at personality, content and competency based interviewing
September 2013 - August 2015
IT Recruitment Specialist @ Teksytems
As a member of the IT Permanent Placement Services team in Belgium, I specialised in niche profiles e.g. SAP consultants, Analysts and Project, Program & Product Managers.
Tasks included:
Developing and managing a client portfolio in diverse industries (e.g. Media, Insurance, Product Development, Production,...)
Maintaining high quality customer relationships
Thorough screening and qualification of suitable candidates
Contract negotiation
Projects
Besides my daily tasks and activities, I also take up several projects across different domains.
Global Talent Development
1. Introducing Leadership Dimensions
Crafted and implemented a high level, value-driven framework that captures the essence of what our company expects and values in our current and future leaders.
Its purpose is to standardize our definition of leadership and to ensure consistency in our discussions and interpretations of leadership roles and responsibilities by embedding these dimensions into performance management, recruitment processes and talent development programs.
2. Introducing a Personal Growth framework
Supporting our vast belief in building a mindset of continious growth, this framework provides structure, tools and guidelines to embrace a lifelong learning mindset and to unlock their full potential.
​
​
​
​
Training Initiatives
1. Mental Health Awareness Campaign
I have spearheaded a global wellbeing campaign containing insights and learning paths for both individuals and managers. This campaign laid the foundations of our wellbeing toolbox and offered numerous resources to our employees to increase their personal wellbeing and to encourage conversations about this topic.
2. Change Leadership Training
I have spearheaded a Leadership Program for all people managers (+-200) on how to deal with change during large-scale transformations our company was facing.
​
3. Cloud Mastery Journey
One of our large engineering upskilling initiatives centered around building and embedding our cloud skills. This training journey included self-paced and facilitated training paths, speaking to various skills levels and leveraging external partnership with RedHat and AWS for high quality content.
Sales Taskforce
During challenging COVID times, I spearheaded the Sales Taskforce, giving me the opportunity to further develop my commercial and economical mindset.
In this team I took on ownership for internal lead generation, identifying projects and staffing of all of our junior consultants.
This entailed developing creative pricing and project strategies, development of go-to-market material and driving change in processes. By the end of September all consultants were staffed on a short term or long term project.
Onboarding Value Propostion
I have played a key role in developing a new service for AE's consultancy business, more specifically within the training offering.
Working in a company with very mature HR policies and processes, combined with the inhouse expertise about knowledge sharing and training, we felt there was a market opportunity regarding end-to-end hiring and content onboarding services.
Our offering ensured a faster ROI on recruitment costs, optimizing HR processes and increasing employability, productivity and retention.
Selection & implementation of IT solutions
I have supported the implementation of a new Application Tracking System (ATS) by aiding in requirements gathering, platform comparison, selection and implementation. After the implementation I grew out to be the internal ATS expert, coaching colleagues and driving setup in reporting.
Additionally I took on a role as the business owner of a similar project regarding to our performance management process & tools.
Technovate Challenge
Since 2011 AE has been organizing annual student challenges. From 2016 to 2020 I was appointed project manager of this initiative. Since then the Technovate challenge evolved to a well-known and strategic event to allow students to walk in the shoes of a consultant, to get to know our company and to acquire important consultancy skills.
Its purpose is twofold, as part of our recruitment strategy but also as a part of building a strong employer brand. The concept and setup changes every year, allowing to work with different external stakeholders, to come up with creative ideas and to ensure we stayed ahead of competing initiatives in the market.
Education
2014 - 2016
Applied Sports Psychology - Catholic University of Leuven
After finishing my Master's degree, I applied for a 2 year course "Applied Sports Psychology" at the faculty of movement and rehabilitation sciences. Combining this with a fulltime job, the program only allowed 8 participants and required 300 hours of practical experience. I finished this program and I've been working as a freelance Sports Psychologist since 2016.
2007 - 2013
Master of Organizational Psychology - Catholic University of Leuven
After finishing an academic bachelor's degree in psychology, the master's degree required an internship of 7 months. I completed this internship as a Recruitment trainee at Imec in Leuven.
2015 - now
Extra courses
-
BeCoach Academy Advanced Coaching Program leading to ICF Level 2 Coaching Diploma
-
Intercultural Awareness - by Djengo Consultancy
-
Mastering the art of Feedback - by Streetwize
-
Client facing skills - by Perco
-
Value selling training
-
Leading & influencing skills - by Daan Sorgeloos
-
Sport Psychology - Smartmind coaching tool
-
Stakeholder Management by Daan Sorgeloos
-
Coach the coach by Kenaz
-
Storytelling by Streetwize
-
Proactive Creativity by Streetwize
-
Constructive feedback by Kenaz
-
Business Attitudes Questionnaire by Hudson
-
Resilience & Vitality by Elke Vanhoof
-
Sport Psychology - EMSEP International Intensive Course
A little bit about me
Positive attitude
Board game enthusiast
Analytical mindset
Can do mentality
Recent feedback
"You continue to challenge the status quo and are driving much needed maturity in our HR processes.
You have a very broad knowledge base on all HR related topics and you've been a very supportive business partner we rely on for advice and guidance." - Engineering Director
"With the creation of the global Leadership Framework, you've proven yourself to be resourceful, pragmatic, but above all able to communicate efficiently and convincly at executive level" - HR Director
"You are an excellent coach. You always seem to ask the right questions that make me think about things in a different way. This conversation again leaves me with food for thought." - Sales Engineer
​
"You are proactive, you care, you dare to address things that could be better, but you also take initiative to improve the situation. You come up with sharp analysis and search for solutions." - Technical Architect​