A dedicated Team

Coordination of actions

Marc Beretta

Inis alga® Coordinator Consultant, founder and CEO Marc Beretta is both French and Irish (double nationalities). He started his career Managing people in Finance before becoming an International Consultant. As a consultant, he works for executives, Board members and the Top Management of companies; he has also worked for International Institutions in Europe and in Asia. He lectures in Universities for executive MBA programmes and professional trainings in Europe and Asia.

His areas of expertise are:

• Management : management & leadership, driving change, team building, team working, team motivating, intercultural management, project management
  
  
• Negotiation : international negotiation, negotiation skills, negotiation across cultures
  
  
• Coaching : executive coaching, career management, personal development
  
  

He previously worked as:

• Finance analyst at Nomura Securities in Tokyo, Japan
• Financial auditor at Arthur Andersen
• In charge of the International Treasury (team located in France, in Hong Kong, and in Singapore) and of the Controlling of Hennessy (Louis Vuitton Moet-Hennessy, LVMH group)
• Assistant CFO and in charge of transverse missions at Bacardi Martini
• Chairman and founder of TOPTONIC Ltd., sport and internet service company, supported, by Mr. Jean-François Lamour, former French Minister for Youth and Sports, Olympic Gold Champion in fencing. He still runs the company today.
  
  

He is graduated from ESCP, European School of Management (year 89), and he is certified from MBTI® (Myers Briggs Type Indicator) and from OPR® (Optimisation of the Potential of Relationships) since 2006.

He has been elected member of the Board of the ESCP-EAP Alumni Association (30.000 members in 112 countries), and has been elected President of the Career Management Commission in 2004. He is member of the Strategic Committee of Greenwich Consulting, a European consulting company in new technologies.

He did his military service in the French Navy as an officer, as the Aide-de-camp and principal private secretary of an Admiral in Brest, France.

He organized and led a polar expedition in Greenland. He has been practising martial arts (karate) for 15 years.

Marc is married and has 3 children.

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Tim Ball

International Consultant for Inis alga® The Inis alga® head representative in the UK Tim specialises in helping organisations to grow through the sustained development of their people. He works either with small groups, or on a one-to-one coaching basis. His credo is that "combining the development of individual leadership and followership skills with the re-ignition of enthusiasm and commitment of individuals" really makes a difference in organisations. Tim is British.

He was a Visiting Fellow at the Southampton University Management School, where he lectured and examined on the MBA programme, and is currently an Associate Professor at the Paris-based Business School, ESCP-EAP. He has been a member of the Institute of Personnel and Development and of the Institute of Directors for whom he co-presented the Role of the Managing Director course.

His areas of expertise are:

• Change leadership in organisations
  
  
• Leadership, followership and team development
  
  
• Negotiating and influencing strategies
  
  
• Building better working relationships
  
  

Background:

• Prior to becoming a full-time development consultant in 1990, Tim qualified as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse and spent two years in an audit management role. He joined Deloitte Haskins & Sells in a training capacity where he was to become Director of Management Education and Training, and then National Director of Training and Development for the UK and Europe.
  
  

Married to Christine, with three sons and four dogs, Tim lives near Winchester, England. He enjoys rugby(watching), music, holidays, and dog-walking.

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	Anne-Claire de Lavigerie
	International Consultant for Inis alga The Inis alga® head representative in Belgium Anne-Claire de Lavigerie started her professional career in Marketing before becoming an __International Consultant to the Top Management of leading companies. She lectures in executive MBA programmes of International Business Schools.

Her areas of expertise are:

• Strategy: positioning, client relationship: mentoring the launching of a subsidiary
  
  
• Management, Vision & Leadership: collective intelligence, Board seminars
  
  
• Drving Change: reorganization, identity and company projects.
  
  

She previously worked as:

• Product Manager for Procter & Gamble
• Customers & Advertising Director for Interdeco, Hachette Media Group
• Commercial Director for EMAP
  
  

She is graduated from ESCP, European School of Management (year 90) and from Paris Dauphine University. She is a sociologist. She has been elected member of the Board of the ESCP-EAP Alumni Association (28.000 members in 120 countries).

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	Michelle Jean-Baptiste
	Consultant for Inis alga Michelle Jean-Bapstiste started her professional career as a business counsel before becoming an International Consultant. She lectures in major executive business schools.

Her areas of expertise are:

• Business Law & Negotiation: European law, legal mentoring, commercial, business, legal and international development, international negotiation
  
  
• Ownership Law : patent right, author's copyright, especially in New Technologies and Media
  
  
• Coaching: coaching of leaders and assistance in media, multi-media and artistic projects.
  
  

She previously worked as:

• Business Lawyer specialized in international business law , successively for Bspline, Octobus and Bentley Systems France SA
• Legal and Tax Adviser on New technologies for the CNAM.
  
  

She has a PhD in Media Management and Law from Cambridge University, a degree in Management and Business Law from the Paris Dauphine University, a degree in International Busines Law with an option on Intellectual Property Rights from the Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne University.
She is graduated es Eastern Languages (in Chinese), from the London Chamber of Commerce, and from the Institute of criminology of the Paris II Assas University.
She wrote several articles on Business Law, and a book Créer et exploiter un commerce électronique, which won the 1999 AFDIT (French Association for the Right of data processing and Telecoms) Award Price. She is the President and Founder of a legal association supporting artists, member of the Circle of Arts (a European Union label).

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	Alain Pollard
	Consultant for Inis alga Alain Pollard started his professional career in the Organization and IT fields before becoming an International Consultant.

His areas of expertise are:

• Commercial Effectiveness: large accounts, B to B, B to C, positioning and client relationships
  
  
• Management & Leadership: change management, identity, values, behaviours, M&A, durable management, merger of intercultural teams, team building
  
  

He previously worked as:

• Organization & IT Director for Yves Rocher
• Customer Services Director for Avon France
• Director of a Profit Center for la Compagnie Bancaire.
  
  

He is graduate from Les Arts et Métiers and from Stanford Business School.

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Emmanuelle Affidi

Inis alga® International Consultant Recognized Expert in Asian World Emmanuelle is French, but her continent of adoption definitely is Asia. She likes associating knowledge and practice, in an open-minded approach, due to her educational background. As a Doctor es History and Civilization, and a French Air Force reserve officer, she has developed an expertise in Asia through an interdisciplinary education; she has been able to put into practise her learnings in professional life in various environments, such as military, scientific, research, teaching and conference areas. She specializes in cross-cultural issues, especially on the knowledge transition from one culture to an other.

She loves languages and she has been practicing English, Spanish and Vietnamese for many years. She also studied Japanese and Russian.

Her fields of expertise are:

• Intercultural issues
  
  
• Initiation in Martial Arts (karate, aikido, taiji quan) and Energy (Qi công) she has been practising since 1986
  
  

Working experiences :

• Conferences and Training, in the context of the French-speaking communities, and in the 3A (Africa, Asia, Americas) International Trade and Development School (International Professional University), in Lyon (France): in particular, the course of Vietnamese and religious Ethnology (1 year)
• Scientific research in the CNRS SEDET laboratory in France, on "Intercultural knowledge and power in the Europe / Asia context" (5 years)
• Officer Expert in International Relation Department of Defense (2 years).
  
  

Educational background :

• Doctorate "Compared Dynamics of developing societies " with Distinction, Paris-VII Diderot University - Thesis: "Western knowledge Spreading & Reception in East Asia"
• Degree in Philosophy, Paris-I Panthéon - Sorbonne University
• DULCO and 4-year Degree in Vietnamese in Oriental Languages and Civilizations University - INALCO, Paris (France)
• Doctorate es Oriental Languages, literature and societies - Thesis: "Asian values and contemporary Việt Nam" - INALCO, Paris (France)
• Doctorate es foreign world History and international relations - option: "diplomatic strategy and international negotiations") - Paris-I Panthéon - Sorbonne University (France)
• 2- year Degree in Japanese, Aix-Marseille-I University

Emmanuelle is a humanist, who is interested in all forms of belief and spirituality. She is concerned with protecting nature and wild life environment. She has a first aid degree. But also, she enjoys travelling and meeting people.

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	Joanna Cendlak
	International Consultant for Inis alga® Artist Joanna is Polish and French (double nationality). Above all, she is an artist ! She enjoys sharing her passion, sometimes source of frustration, but always source of opening up. She thinks we can draw parallels between the art universe and the managerial world, and we could get some learnings from it

Joanna is gifted in arts as well as in languages; she can speak seven of them: Polish, French, English, Spanish, Portugese, German, Russian.

Her areas of expertise are:

• Artistic work: drawing, painting, poetry
  
  
• Culture through words
  
  

Background:

• Founder of Excusiv'Art, a private company which objective is to promote contemporary art, through the organisation of events or the selling of some master pieces.
  
  
• Plastic Art ADAC studies (Paris)
  
  
• Compared litterature (Paris IV Sorbonne), Degree of Spanish language and civilization (Salamanque University), Polish Language and Civilisation’s Studies (Paris IV Sorbonne), Foreign Languages Applied to law and management : English-Russian (Paris IV Sorbonne)
  
  
• Translator-Interpreter : Public Relations, international conferences
  
  

Joanna enjoys dansing, yoga, music and cinema. But, of course, what Joanna enjoys most is … travelling !

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Sonia Erhard

International Consultant for Inis alga® Actress Sonia is a professional actress and singer since 1999. She has put on different plays such as "les Sardines Grillées", "le Malade Imaginaire", "Frankenstein", "Salina". She decided to share her know-how to the Management world because it creates added value ; it helps to deal with people's emotions and to improve communication and creativity : it opens mind.

She participated in different training sessions, in different environment, from children workshops to the very serious Paris Chamber of Commerce. She has worked in England, Spain and France.

Her areas of expertise are:

• Communication: corporal and verbal expression for adults
  
  
• Relaxation: position, voice, body
  
  
• Imagination & Creativity: improvisation, masks, mime, buffoon
  
  
• Human relationships: exploration of human relations through arts
  
  

Background:

• Master in Communication
• Théâtre de poche, in Paris
• Theatre school of AFTC, in Chatellerault
• School of Physical Theatre, in London (theatrical acrobatics, stage combat)
• Théâtre du Lierre, in Paris
  
  

Sonia plays musical saw, accordion and classical piano. She enjoys singing, yoga, masks and juggling.

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Gracco Gracci

Inis alga® International Consultant Actor and Writer Gracco was born in Caracas, in Venezuela. He studied in France. After being graduated from ESCP, the European business school of Management, he decided to go to a drama school, and to embark on an artistic career. He became an actor and a writer. He has been working as such in firms for fifteen years now. He acts, he writes, or he directs employees in playlets that show the problems they encounter in their firm. At the same time he works as a life coach, specifically for people who need work direction, or need to progress in their work. He also trains people in the area of communication and presentation.

He is fluent in English, French, Italian, and Spanish languages.

His areas of expertise are:

• Communication: corporal and verbal expression; presentation skills.
  
  
• Management & Leadership: change management; team development.
  
  
• Creativity: creative mind training; creative mind put into practice in business.
  
  

Background:

• ESCP, European School of Management (Paris).
• Drama schools, Juana Sujo (Caracas), Florent, J. Lecoq (Paris).
• Writing and direction workshops with Alain Knapp.
• Writing workshops with Dixit, ADAC, Robert McKee, CEEA.
• Paris 8 University, DESU Coaching.
  
  

Gracco is married, and has two children.

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	Do Thuy Duong
	Mrs. Do Thuy Duong is our head representative in Asia-Pacific. Our office is located in Hanoi, Vietnam. She started her career in International Marketing before becoming an __International Consultant. She is working for the Board and the Top Management of companies

Her expertise is as follows:

• Management : management & leadership, driving change, team building, team working, team motivating, intercultural management
  
  
• Negotiation : international negotiation, negotiation skills, negotiation across cultures
  
  
• Marketing : market study

She previously worked as:

• Account Manager at Asian Production and Trading Company
• Sales Manager at Hung Yen Steel Corporation
• Marketing & Event Manager, Program Coordinator at the Business School of National Economics University
• Country Researcher at Euromonitor International
• Consultant for Metalimex JSC and Intekco JSC.
  
  

Her educational background is:

• MBA in English, majoring in Marketing from the Business School of National Economic University.
• Bachelor of International Trade from Hanoi Foreign Trade University.
  
  

She is fluent in Vietnamese and English, and has a good level in French. She likes social activities, reading, working and traveling abraod: Singapore, Lao, Malaysia, India, Australia, USA.

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