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

This visual stopped me mid-scroll.

Not because it was poetic.
Because it was accurate.

For 20 years as CHRO, I sat across from introverts who apologized for being exactly this.

For needing silence after back-to-back meetings.
For choosing one real conversation over five surface-level ones.
For slipping out before the small talk started.

Last year, a senior director asked me permission to skip the team dinner.

He thought I'd mark him as "not a team player."

I told him I'd been doing the same thing for two decades.

What most people get wrong about us:

They confuse selectivity with coldness.
Solitude with sadness.
Quiet with empty.

All three are dead wrong.

What work actually taught me:

→ Selectivity is a self-management skill
Choosing fewer interactions protects your best thinking. Not coldness.

→ Solitude is a recharge, not a retreat
The best boardroom decisions? Made by someone who sat alone with the problem first.

→ Quiet is not empty. It is focused.
That depth is a career advantage most never develop because they're too busy performing.

The quiet life is not a consolation prize.
It is a chosen one.

And if you are in an introvert's inner circle, know this.
You were not a convenience.
You were a deliberate choice.

That is quiet confidence in action.

Which line on the visual hit you the hardest?

♻️ Repost to help a fellow introvert feel seen

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

Altum AI

★ Agile ★ Full-Stack Data Science ★ Management ★ Mentoring ★ Technical Product Owner ★ AWS

► Responsible for the end-to-end development and maintainability of internal & external AI products
► Leading & supervising a team of Data Scientists, Data Engineers & Back-end Engineers
► Automating processes in Data Science pipeline
► Increasing company's revenue by 20% per quarter by developing AI products
► Cost Reduction on AWS as well as on Elasticsearch by 50%
► Agile implementation of AI products utilizing state-of-the-art approaches
► Mentoring team members
► Recruiting and development of worldwide engineering talents to scale the existing team
► Designing APIs Architecture
► Incorporation of Fast API

Lead Data Scientist | Technical Product Owner

★ Elasticsearch ★ Docker ★ AWS ★ EDA ★ Time-Series  ★ Clustering ★ Agile 

► Responsible for the end-to-end development and growth of Automated Valuation Model (AVM) product
► Using Curator API on Elasticsearch to data back up and restoring
► Deploying docker container on AWS EC2 / ECS / EBS
► Agile implementation in AI products
► Gathering, Researching, Pre-processing & Wrangling Data (EDA)
► Building, training & forecasting Time-Series model
► Developing Clustering model

Data Scientist

★ Regression ★ Deep Learning ★ AWS ★ Keras ★ Classification ★ ArcGis

► Data Pre-processing, Visualization (EDA)
► Predicting housing prices using ML algorithms & Deep Learning methods
► Developing classification models using Deep Learning (Keras framework)
► Building, training ML & DL models using AWS (Sagemaker, EC2)
► Calculating actual driving distances using ArcGis & OSMnx packages

Data Scientist Intern 

ecm.ai

★ AWS ★ Visualization ★ API ★ Database

► Creating value for the customers
► Data visualization
► Build pipelines on AWS
► Recruiting and development of worldwide engineering talents to scale the existing team
► Designing API's architecture
► Database research & architecture

Brainbox Technology

★ Laravel ★ PHP ★ MVC ★ API ★ JSON ★ Alexa 

►  Developing applications using MVC methodology, PHP frameworks (Laravel) & designed API’s
►  Encoding, decoding & building JSON files of loading Big Data
►  Developing Alexa in Greek language using Python
►  Communicating with customers, analyzing their requirements & developing systems

Junior Software Developer | Web Developer 

Traditional Grocery / Family Business

★ Communication ★ Responsibility ★ Soft Skills ★ Budget

►  Developed empathy and solution orientation by serving 100 customers per day
►  Responsible for the communication with suppliers

Customer Service

I empower rookie leaders to get 1% closer to their full potential playfully without burning out • 28% increase in client ARR • from crawling to walking | The Leadership Apex Coach

Oh, you're stuck in your career or life and don't know where to start?

Cool, cz…

I unlock minds from stagnant spots.

The last 2 years, I’ve seen professionals and executives share the same sentiment: “Is this it?”

4 years ago my life was:

- I was juggling gigs at two companies
- From the comfort of my home
- Making $5,000+ per month

Sounds cool right?
Well. It wasn’t.

- My days stretched into 14-hour marathons
- I was buried under 5+ hours of meetings daily
- Burnout and an unwelcome autoimmune said hello

(not the dream I signed up for)

So 4 years ago I decided life was too short…

- For “what ifs'” and workplaces that don’t spark joy
- Stagnation is the silent career and life killer
- Quitted from a toxic work environment

And I decided to get my coaching certification to help professionals with their career & life transitions.

This is how the Life First Mind was birth, my coaching program.
↳ for taking leadership of your own mindset, life, and career (with this order).

How did that play out for me?
(I'm grinning as I write this because…)

I've worked 1:1 with the most ambitious professionals and executives:

- Transforming stuck into start
- Elevating careers & lives, 1 mindset shift at a time
- Getting rid of 2nd thoughts, guilts, and regrets (pretty wild, right?)

I now collaborate with…

↳ the absolute game-changers.

That’s the power of reshaping your mindset.

- You define your own career path w/o hopping every 2-3 years
- You get unstuck from a 5+ years job that no longer excites you
- You attract ridiculous opportunities just bc your values are in sync

(cz who loves to feel stuck, right?)

↳ “Stop manipulating me Giannis, what’s your offer…”
Heh no reason to distrust me just yet, ok?
(you’ll get your chance when we discuss)

Here’s the deal:
I’m on a mission to guide you, navigate through career and life transitions w/o burning out or having to spend endless hours in recorded videos.

(+ making you brave again for: landing your dream job (remote or not), getting a promotion, asking for a raise, quitting smoking, having more personal & family time, leaving a toxic work environment and much more)

You in?

P.S. DM me “MIND” and let's get started.

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