Nicki: COO/Managing Director - France

 

iCEO™: 93468

Position: COO/Managing Director

Nationality: France

Home Country: Switzerland

 

An accomplished Chief Communications Officer and Non-Executive Director with extensive experience across 6 countries and diverse industries. I have successfully contributed to managing reputational challenges, shaping company strategy, driving ESG, guiding leadership, and steering organisations through change & transformation.

Leadership: Manage multicultural and multidisciplinary teams globally, delivering results across diverse industries. Overseen an 85-person global function and managing a $multi-million operational budget, guiding strategic decisions and fostering collaboration among the team and across the organisation. Strategy Development: Led strategic programmes to engage stakeholders like investors, media, government bodies, employees, and customers. Key team member in developing corporate strategies and overseeing communications for ISS’s turnaround, divestment, and M&A efforts. Also led global communication strategies for Syngenta and ISS to build and protect brand reputation. Corporate Governance: Member of ISS`s Transformation Board, shaping the cultural transformation and member of the ISS Disclosure Committee. Chair of the ISS Global Communications Leadership team overseeing governance and ethical compliance. Executive Board and Committee Member of the Asherah Foundation. Crisis, Reputation and Issue Management: Manage reputation and navigate crises and complex issues, including positioning and managing critical actors and stakeholders across challenges, such as fair labour issues in manufacturing sites, trade union liaison and employee industrial action and strikes. ESG: Promote significance of ESG in a contemporary business landscape, which is critical to a company’s license to operate. Developed partnership with Tent Partnership for Refugees, hiring 1K refugees over 3 years in Europe and US. Launched a programme for C-suite to mentor employees with a disability. Diversity & Inclusion: Promote diversity and inclusion, particularly gender equity, within large corporate organisations. Completed Executive Women in Leadership programme from Cornell University in the US focused on the gender biases women face in the workforce and strategies to break these down.