A dedicated Team

Inis alga® team is composed of multilingual professionals, experts in their respective field, driven by seeking and sharing solutions. They are complementary by their culture, and their know-how. They share values, professional ethics, a vision of excellence, but also a good sense of humour. They work in interaction to assist Inis alga® clients.

We priviledge quality to quantity ; therefore, the team is voluntarily limited to a strictly limited number of people.

Coordination of actions

Marc Beretta

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.

Inis alga® in Europe

The Inis alga® Consultant Network is composed of bilingual professionals who have already worked together in several missions.

Tim Ball

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.

Anne-Claire de Lavigerie

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).

Michelle Jean-Baptiste

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).

Alain Pollard

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.

Emmanuelle Affidi

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.

Philippe Aboubadra

He is fluent in French, English and Arabic.

His fields of experise are:

• Management : business unit management, team development, complex project drive, international negotiation
  
  
• Commercial : surveying new markets, sales force motivation
  
  
• Communication : global campaigns
  
  

Educational background and working experiences:

• Business unit Manager in fast-growing advertising agencies, in Paris (France) and in Algiers (Algeria)
• Brand Manager in the Paris Publicis agency (France)
• International Customer Relationship Director in the D’Arcy agency in Paris (France)
• In-charge of international advertising in agencies based in Paris, London and Jeddah
• Graduated from 'Sup de Pub' School in 1990 and from 'Beaux-Arts' School in 1989

Philippe is married, and has two children.

Joanna Cendlak

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 !

Sonia Erhard

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.

Gracco Gracci

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.

Inis alga® in Asia-Pacific

Do Thuy Duong

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.