Simone works with individuals, teams and organizations in transition, with a focus on sustainable performance, building resilience and leadership. Through engaging in courageous conversations with senior management and teams she unlocks potential to challenge and support them to better serve their stakeholders.
Enhancing personal and distributed leadership capabilities, increasing connectedness, awareness and relational competencies, as well as driving purposeful and intentional outcomes are her areas of focus. Simone blends a strategic and systemic approach to complexity with a human-centered and innovative mindset.
Simone has over 20 years’ experience in global and regional HR leadership and Business Partnering roles, spanning multiple contexts and structures – private & not-for-profit sectors; start-up & conglomerate; matrix, functional, product, geographic; consulting, Oil&Gas, and Chemical industries. Simone has breadth and depth in all areas of HR practices. She has lead global HR functions, HR due-diligence and M&A processes, and organizational transitions. Previously she was Global Head of HR at Puma Energy International.
Clients value Simone’s grounded non-judgmental presence, her ability to create clarity in complexity, a capability to engage in intimate and intense conversations and combine human and business insight that translates into meaningful action. She has a knack for disrupting status quo thinking, and is compassionate, candid and passionate about working with people that care about people, planet and purpose.
Simone holds a triple-degree from the UK, Germany and France, where she read Law, Economics and Business Management and later completed an MBA in Barcelona. She is an accredited systems coach trained in various advanced coaching and facilitation methods and a faculty member of the Coaches Training Institute.
Simone’s partial client list spans both for profit and for benefit includes: ABB, Action contre la Faim, CERN, DuPont, Elizabeth Arden, Kaospilots, IOM, Puma Energy International, Proctor & Gamble, PwC, UBS, and the United Nations.
