Infoblox

Sr. Director, Customer Assurance

KG Consulting

🤖 AI Integration for Business Decisions: Utilizing AI to Improve Decision-making processes.
⚙️ Prompt Engineering and AI Application: Advancing Understanding and Usage of AI for Business Enhancement.
🗃️ Project & Program Management: Ensuring efficient, goal-oriented project outcomes.
💼 Strategic Planning & Execution: Crafting and implementing business strategies informed by extensive industry experience.
📊 Organizational Resilience Assessment: Evaluating and strengthening resilience to market fluctuations.
🚨 Guidance in Crisis Management: Offering leadership to navigate through complex challenges.
🗂️ Process Optimization: Refining operations for optimal efficiency and effectiveness
📑 Customized Consulting Solutions: Developing personalized strategies for unique business needs.
📂 Industry Insights: Providing knowledge and expertise across diverse sectors.

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Uniphore

Vice President Of Global Customer Support & Technical Services

Cisco

Director:  New Product Intoduction (NPI) and Serviceability

CAP Americas Senior Manager

Critical Accounts Executive

GBS:  Shared Service Operations Manager

Manager Strategy & Operations

Finance Business Manager

I'm an executive specializing in AI operations, program management, strategic leadership, and financial management. With a keen focus on enhancing customer experiences and driving operational excellence, I bring a forward-thinking approach to business challenges. 📈 Proficient in Generative AI, crisis management, and prompt engineering, I skillfully navigate complex scenarios with agility and creativity. 🤖

My MBA and professional certifications equip me to excel in diverse, international environments, combining innovative thinking with effective vendor management. 🌍 I'm committed to operational effectiveness and continuous improvement.

Leadership for me is about mentoring and developing teams, fostering a culture of collaboration and fostering proactive change. 🌱 My program management expertise is evident in streamlined processes and robust training initiatives, ensuring peak team performance. 🛠️

As a strategic thinker and advisor, I prioritize innovative solutions and value customer insights. 🎧 My objective is to lead with expertise and humility, striving to not just meet but exceed organizational goals while empowering and uplifting my team. 💪

⎸Kristin │Gault

Connector of Talent and Success 💼 | Empowering Businesses to Thrive through People | Culture Growth Strategist | Coach | Writer | HR leader | #1 LinkedIn Belgium | Top #150 LinkedIn 🌍

Who I help: Ambitious introverts and people-first companies

Problems: Visibility without burnout, quiet leadership, culture that enables deep work

Outcomes: Promotions, role transitions, retention, high-trust cultures

STRATEGIC HR LEADER AND COACH WITH HANDS-ON APPROACH AIMING FOR THE BEST EMPLOYEE/BUSINESS EXPERIENCE - INTROVERT ADVOCATE

International HR Executive passionate about the link between employee experience and business dynamics. Combining a strong focus on strategic thinking and planning with a structured and factual hands-on approach. A positive well connected team coach with a natural sense of empowering team members in a spirit of challenge, learning and mutual recognition. Sound decision making capabilities based on critical reflections within companies focusing on innovation, change, digital transformation and learning.

A. Group HR Director Alter Pharma (200 FTE - BE/IRL/US) – private equity backed firm defining & implementing HR strategy (from strategy to operations) including definition of mission/vision/strategy & values.
B. Global HR Business Partner BU Kerley international/Tessenderlo Group (+/-300 employees - 11 countries) developing/transforming key HR processes (talent resource planning, talent acquisition, performance management, competency management, learning, reward,..) - HR project lead new factory Rouen, France. 
C. Global HR Executive SWIFT (+/- 3.000 employees in +25 countries) transforming/coaching business and HR into new ways of (digital) working/thinking to improve the employee and business experience 
D. Global Head of Reward Tessenderlo Group (+/- 5.000 employees in +25 countries) - strategic development/transformation reward strategy
E. Development new holistic performance management framework for Tessenderlo Group, including full implementation recognition stream.
F. HR Project Manager : move of the Chiquita EME Headquarters from Belgium to Switzerland (social plan negotiations, c&b setup, recruitment, mobility, new policy/process design,...)

Professional coaching certification Better Minds at Work               2018 - 2019
Centre for Creative Leadership - senior leadership program           Q1-2 2018
Management Development Programme Vlerick (17 days)		  2010 - 2011
Strategic Compensation & Benefits Management, Vlerick 		  2007      
Master degree in Law&Taxation, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven    1997 - 1998

Steven Claes

Her team thinks she doesn't care.
She's one of the most passionate leaders I know.
She just happens to be an introvert.

Harvard Business School found introverted leaders receive higher team performance ratings.
Another study showed they drive 28% higher productivity from proactive employees.

And yet we still get overlooked for promotions.
Still get told to "speak up more."
Still get judged by volume instead of value.

What companies miss when they overlook introverts:
→ We spot patterns others miss because we process deeply
→ We build trust through listening, not talking
→ We create safety by holding space, not taking it

The future of work doesn't need louder leaders.
It needs ones who think before they speak.
Who listen before they solve.
Who create space for everyone, not just the loudest voice.

Quiet leadership isn’t a flaw.
It’s your edge.

♻️ Repost if you know a quiet leader who needs to hear this

📩 If you're an introvert trying to lead your way, you’ll find more here:
→ https://lnkd.in/eSdKpkMs

Introversion isn't a bug. It's an operating system. I spent years apologizing for who I am.

Too quiet. Too reserved. Too much "in my head."

I tried to fix myself.
Fake energy. Forced small talk. Endless networking events that drained me by Tuesday.

Then something shifted.

I stopped treating introversion as a bug to fix.
And started seeing it as my operating system.

My quiet? It's deep listening.
My reserved? It's strategic thinking.
My "in my head"? It's where the best ideas live.

20+ years as a CHRO taught me this:
The leaders who know how they're wired outperform those who fight it.

Every time.

So I wrote this on my whiteboard.
As a reminder.
As a declaration.

I'm done apologizing.

And if you've ever felt like you needed to become someone else to succeed, I see you.

♻️ Repost for the introvert in your network who needs to hear this.

📩 These are the daily techniques that helped me stop fighting my wiring:
https://lnkd.in/eSdKpkMs

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