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Céline SCHILLINGER

Céline SCHILLINGER

Engagement Leadership

Engagement
Transformation
Innovation
Change
Leadership
A global Engagement influencer, I help organizations succeed through people mobilization at scale.
Change Agents Worldwide & Peter Drucker Society Europe member.

Knight of the French National Order of Merit (2017)

  • Inspiring Workplace Global Employee Engagement & Experience Influencer (2020)
  • Global Employee Engagement Influencer (2019 - 2018 - 2017)
  • Business Culture Lotus Excellence Award (2018 & 2017)
  • Employee Engagement Award (2018 & 2016)
  • Best Achievement of Operational Excellence in Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences (2017)
  • Platinum Award for Organizational Operational Excellence (2017)
  • Alliance for Corporate Social Responsibility Excellence Award (2017)
  • Organizational Culture Excellence Award (2016)
  • 40 Women to Watch Over 40 Honoree (2016)
  • Int'l Association of Business Communicators Gold Quill Award (2016)
  • Holmes Report Innovator top 25 EMEA (2015)
  • Most Impactful Emerging Initiative Award (2015)
  • Best Use of Social Media for Healthcare Award (2014)
  • La Tribune Women's Award, French national trophy (2013)
Experiences
  • We Need Social Consulting enables organizations to create value through engagement leadership
  • Create value by helping organizations and leaders mobilize their clients, partners and employees, through new leadership methods and behaviors
  • Public speaking, Engagement Strategy & Coaching
  • Together with our clients, we achieve blockbuster results faster than leaders believe possible: reinvigorating supply chains to save $134 million in 12 months, reducing turnaround time by 68%, exceeding revenue goals by $350 million (when a loss was projected), implementing SAP on budget and on schedule, successfully navigating mergers of former rivals, revolutionizing the customer experience…
    And we are enormously proud to say the list goes on.
  • Strategy execution & change, the Kotter way
  • Enable more leadership from more people and make our client organizations better day after day
  • Challenge: improve quality by changing the business culture and the way 10,000 people work globally.
  • Achievements:
    • Achieved unprecedented turnaround of quality in 2 years by leading a global movement for change that transformed leadership & business culture
    • Business gains confidential but extremely significant
    • 10 international Awards
  • Challenge: ensure successful launch of the 1st ever vaccine against Dengue, the company’s top priority program against a massive public health issue.
  • Achievements:
    • Designed and implemented a relational engagement strategy with internal and external stakeholders globally.
    • Created a global digital community against Dengue. Largest share of voice on dengue. 250,000 followers in less than a year.
    • Implemented a collaborative work platform and innovative information flows for 400+ internal stakeholders.
  • As Int'l Commercial Operations Director (Asia Pacific, EMEA, Latin America)
    Challenge: grow the vaccine business over Asia Pacific and other international areas by managing commercial operations and strategic planning.
    Achievements:
    • Successfully lead a major product launch in Japan: 17 M€ turnover in 1st year, >100 M€ in 3rd
    • Developed private and public markets over int’l areas; supported a ~400 M€ business over 15 countries; managed a 30 M€ P&L
      Cross-function project: Designed & implemented a global collaborative initiative around diversity & inclusion: 2,500 participants in 55 countries.
  • As Int'l HR Business Partner:
    Challenge: ensure organization’s continuous fit to business priorities, in a corporate transformation and high growth context.
    Achievements:
    Conducted deployment of a new performance management process over int’l subsidiaries (450 persons)
    Provided consultancy to managers, supported people motivation and development, Led the annual compensation process for the entire int’l entity (900 people).
  • Challenge: turn around a failing music radio business in China.
  • Achievements:
    • Successfully managed P&L and increased sales. 4 M€ turnover
    • Managed and developed a team of 60 Chinese and 8 int’l staff
    • Managed PR and relations with partners & regulation Authorities
  • Challenge: develop the Command, Control & Communication Systems business in Asia.
  • Achievements:
    • Promoted the system offer towards military & civilian prospects
    • Handled negotiation for a >100 M€ commercial deal in Asia

Country Manager, Vietnam

Setraco
January 1993 to January 1997
Hanoi
Vietnam
  • Challenge: run consulting services for foreign businesses in Vietnam.
  • Achievements:
    • Lead business development projects in oil and telecom fields
    • Managed the company’s representative office and staff in Hanoi.

Communication & Public Relations Manager

Lisa Engineering
1991 to 1992
Paris
France
  • Challenge: develop visibility of a small Information System business in France and China.
  • Achievements:
    • Developed communication strategy & material and press relations
    • Organized the visits of Chinese customer delegations
Skills

Change Leadership

  • Leadership, Engagement, Corporate Activism, Action Learning

Social & Digital Communications

  • Community Engagement, Social Media, Networks

Business Development

  • International Business Operations, Marketing

Languages

  • French (mother tongue), English (fluent), German, Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese (notions)
Education

Certificate, Organizational Analysis

Stanford University on Coursera

June 2018

Postgraduate Degree, Corporate Communication & Public Relations

Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV)

September 1990 to February 1992

Master's Degree, Public Affairs (Diplôme de Sciences Politiques)

Institut d'Etudes politiques de Bordeaux

September 1987 to June 1990
Interests

Arts, Culture, Sports (Rowing)

  • President, Board of Directors, SPHOTA - a music innovation cooperative (voluntary engagement)
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