Veronica Llorca-Smith 🍋

Want to find a speaker for your next leadership event?

I design customized keynotes and workshops to motivate and build high-performing teams and help develop new leadership skills.

Blending my 20-year corporate experience (Apple, Estée Lauder), my personal experience living in 9 countries and my journey as an amateur triathlete, I create engaging sessions that bring both inspiration and actionable frameworks. 

Topics:

Inclusive leadership
Unconscious Bias
Cultural Agility
Inclusive Language
Allyship

Growth Mindset: 
An Athlete's Mindset
Becoming Your Best Ambassador

Previous clients: UBS, AIA, ManpowerGroup, BioRad, Native Union, UK Cabinet, Michael Page, DASH...

Motivational Speaker & Author: DEI & growth mindset

🎙Public Speaking: I create customized presentations and workshops for organizations and events. My content leverages my 15-year corporate experience (Apple, Estée Lauder) as well as my personal experience as a triathlete and an author. 

🎓 Topics:

- Cultural agility as a competitive advantage in the workplace

- Inclusive leadership: mindset, behavior and processes

- Inclusive language as a catalyst for inclusion 

- An athlete's mindset: mental frameworks to get results 
  
- Thriving as a woman in the workplace

- Maximizing your influence with a personal brand

Languages available: English, Spanish, French, Italian & Portuguese

Veronica Llorca-Smith 💎

Llorcaa International Project Management SLP

Based in Alicante, Spain, and taking advantage of the international contacts I have collated throughout my past
professional career, and currently managing several retail construction projects in Spain, UK and Netherlands from
scratch throughout completion acting as client representative and coordinating several site managers in different
locations. My international network of collaborators also includes countries throughout Europe, Saudi Arabia and
Caucasus, where I have developed my professional career
Visiting the sites regularly and reporting to clients in regards of progress, cost and quality. A non-exhaustive scope of
works includes:
 Due diligence/feasibility reports
 Project reviewal against local regulations guaranteeing compliance
 M&E design projects, if required
 Construction Management, if required
 Finding, managing and follow up of 3rd party Engineers required depending on the scope of works (i.e. Structural
Engineers, etc…)
 Construction permits issuance and follow-up till approval
 Client representative against Landlords and local Authorities
 Regular site visits
 Snagging after completion
 As built documentation
Key accounts managed: Inditex, ISRG (Sprinter, Perry Sports, Aktiesport, …), Mango, NTT Data, Impress, Cosentino, Michael Koors, Jimmy Choo, Versace, ...

International Project Manager

VARO CONSULTING LTD

VARO Consulting Ltd is an independent, multi-disciplinary construction and property consultancy where Jose has been the main responsible for the Retail accounts as well as the Design and Build Dept. Responsible to deliver on time and in cost the projects we've had in the pipeline. From private contractors to big accounts such as Inditex

Other activities developed at his current position are:

- Party Wall
- Condition surveys
- Planning permissions and Building regulations
- Building surveying
- Quantity surveying
- Asbestos awareness advice
- Fire Risk Assessment
- Dilapidations
- CDM 2015 advice and management
- Landlords responsibilities assistance
- Project Management 
- Construction Management
- Contract Administration
- Client Management

At VARO Consulting our customers are at the heart of our business strategy. Our focus on their needs and expectations has given us a strong customer portfolio

Senior Construction Project Manager - Inditex account

Area Best Professional Football Development Centre

Our vision is to identify, nurture and develop talented kids and make them ready for a career in football. The proposed model is based on a holistic approach to physical, psychological and nutritional coaching offered at the highest professional standards. Our boys come from a variety of backgrounds many play at other football clubs, and some have already been signed to Pro Academy clubs. We support them at all stages, whether they are new to a development centre, or on trials for an Academy club, or have been released from a club and need to continue training. We offer also extra coaching and 1-to-1 sessions to improve some aspects of the game to already-signed players. Area Best is committed to make the “I want to become a footballer” dream a bit more possible and less traumatic for a larger number of kids as possible, while at the same time installing values and principles that would be valuable for life. Please visit our website www.areabestfootball.co.uk for further information. Due to the connection of our coaches to Africa, and the willingness to support the immense, yet underdeveloped talents in Africa, Area Best profits (if any) will be invested to develop a football development centre and facilities in Africa

Co-founder and Director

Fawaz Alhokair Group

Development, coordination and management of assigned projects meeting the business and technical requirements of each brand
Study and management of each of the project phases: feasibility, technical team selection, preliminary cost estimates and deadlines
Coordination of internal and external teams to execute the project
Optimizing effective and sustainable solutions, based on available resources thus providing the best possible outcome for the project
Supervision of project documentation so the executed will always comply with the contracted
Collaboration and technical advice on new projects with the commercial department
Regular visits to all the works of the Group

PROJECT MANAGER RETAIL CONSTRUCTION AT ZARA & INDITEX

SAUDI OGER LTD

Site evaluations, cost estimating, value engineering, permitting and construction. Supervised on-site construction teams of up to 45 staff and consultants. Managed permitting and construction of staff buildings, offices, and warehouses for Ritz Carlton Hotel project of €1B and villas and administrative buildings for Princess Noura University for Women, and central library, convention center and main Mosque in Riyadh totalling €5

PROJECT COORDINATION & MANAGEMENT

PUNTAL ARQUITECTURA

Involved with design and pre-construction contract negotiations with Architect and General Contractor. Used integrated project delivery concepts and LEAN principles. Oversaw 35 staff with three direct reports. Project included construction of 107 new single-family detached homes and social buildings in multiple sites

PROJECT MANAGER-TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

METROVACESA, S.A.

Served as company’s technical representative responsible for managing planning, design, and construction activities for multiple 16-story buildings with special expertise in financial analysis and management. Managed project planning, budget development and analysis, coordination of design professionals, regulatory agency compliance planning and reviews, and construction. Managed up to 25 staff and consultants

General Consultant and Site Company Representative

Grupo Justo Quesada

Managed project delivering over 400 projects of single-family homes and up to 40 staff. Provided health, safety and environment (HSE) technical expertise and coaching support to management and employees. Developed and implemented health, safety, and environment policy and related directives in line with legislation and company policy. Contributed to overall safety culture, best practice sharing and improvement of performance. Ensured HSE trainings were conducted and delivered trainings ensuring new techniques, tools and new ways of working were understood and used.

General Consultant and Safe and Safety Coordinator

Servicios y Obras Canarios, S.A.

Site Project Manager

Always adopting the most agile processes due to the multidisciplinary and multicultural environment in which I operate, I have incorporated Project Management methodologies as well as, whenever possible, agile methodologies (Scrum Master Certified) to my professional work. I greatly enjoy the international environment, always trying to look for new challenges that provide added value to the service I provide

Always actively engaged in at least two projects related to Project Management and/or Health and Safety Consulting in construction and development in work environments, taking advantage of my past experience, focused on the retail sector and international environments, I don't set boundaries for myself, being able to organize work teams in the countries where I´m focused (Europe, UK, Saudi Arabia and the Caucasus). All this from my professional office, being CEO of my own company, Llorcaa International Project Management, since 2021

Among my most recent projects are the expansion of the IRSG group (Sprinter, Sport Zone, Perry and Aktiesports) in the Netherlands, as well as participation in the continuous growth of Inditex in Saudi Arabia, the Caucasus and UK. Other clients with whom I have collaborated are Mango, NTT Data and Impress in UK, Grupo Restalia in the Netherlands, Capri Holding (Versace Jimmy Choo and Michael Koors) in Spain, France and Italy, Cosentino in different locations in Europe as well as Radio Liberty at Tbilisi, Georgia

Since 2019, I have also enjoyed collaborating selflessly in the development of Area Best Football Club, an amateur football club based in London and focused on disadvantaged areas of the city

Contact me at admin@josellorcaprojectmanager.com or, by phone, at +34 659021982 or +44 (0) 7874054216

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