Róisín Saunier

Dirigeante et Consultante Senior

Nationalité : irlandaise

Róisín met au service des dirigeants et de leurs équipes une expérience de plus de 20 ans dans le conseil, la formation et le management en contexte multiculturel.

Elle commence son parcours international en 1983 chez Gulf Air à Bahrein où elle passe deux ans. De retour en Irlande, elle occupe un poste de cadre au sein du Jefferson Smurfit Group avant de s’installer en France où elle réside actuellement. Elle se lance alors dans l’enseignement de l’anglais des affaires, puis comme consultante dans la traduction assistée par ordinateur. En 1995, elle participe à la création de la filiale européenne de Globalink Inc. et prend la direction des services de formation et relations clientèle au niveau européen.

En 1998, elle rejoint l’Enterprise Consulting Group de Lernout & Hauspie (Belgique) comme Consultante Senior auprès des agences gouvernementales et entreprises multinationales. Elle gère des projets faisant intervenir des équipes virtuelles dans plusieurs pays et coordonne une joint venture tehnologique belgo-américano-norvégienne.

Elle enseigne le management interculturel dans le Master Administration et Gestion des Entreprises à l’Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Partenaire du Master Gestion Interculturelle des Ressources Humaines à l’Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand), elle y intervient sur le management interculturel et la gestion de la mobilité internationale.

Róisín est titulaire d'une Maîtrise de Sciences du Langage et des Industries de la Langue (Université Paris X Nanterre) et d'un Diplôme Universitaire en langue, culture et civilisation françaises (Université Paris 1 Sorbonne). Elle est certifiée par le English Language Institute de Dublin en l'enseignement de l'anglais langue étrangère et a été formée aux techniques de Coaching Global Executives et Effecting Positive Change in Multicultural Groups au Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication, Oregon, USA.

Née en Irlande, Róisín a vécu à Bahrein et en Grande-Bretagne avant de s'installer en France. Elle a fait des voyages d’affaires et de découverte culturelle dans plus de 30 pays. Bilingue anglais-français, elle parle aussi l’espagnol.

Isabelle Bermijn Riggio

Consultante Senior

Nationalité : belge

Isabelle Bermijn Riggio has more than 15 years of experience with India, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

Interested in India from an early age, Isabelle went to study Indian Languages and Culture in Belgium before moving to India to perfect her knowledge. While studying in Delhi University and in Benares University, Isabelle lived with Indian families, thus acquiring a unique insight into the country, the people and their thinking. Her PhD research at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) brought her back to India.

After working as a representative for a Belgian tour operator in India and Nepal, in 1998 Isabelle opted for a career in the International Committee of the Red Cross, initially as a Hindi-Urdu interpreter in India. After two years, she moved on to becoming a delegate in Eritrea and Gaza, before taking over the post of coordinator in DR Congo and Sri Lanka. Because of her specific knowledge of South Asian languages and cultures, Isabelle also carried out missions in Nepal and in Pakistan.

While studying and working in India and Sri Lanka, Isabelle regularly assisted friends, colleagues and their families to adapt to their new life by introducing them into South Asian culture and customs. Her career with the ICRC gave Isabelle ample experience of working in and managing intercultural teams and taught her how to find solutions for “intercultural” problems.

Isabelle also has experience working as a a freelance journalist and photographer in India, contributing articles on current and social affairs.

She works in English, French, Hindi, Urdu and her mother tongue, Dutch.

Matthew Hill

Consultant Senior

Nationalité : britannique

Matthew Hill is an experienced coach, speaker, consultant and intercultural trainer working in a multi-national business setting with more than 20 years of experience in executive search, HR and training.

Today his work covers a number of training areas including Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Diversity and Difference, International Change Programmes, Virtual Team Building, Assertiveness, Project Management, International Marketing, Time and Self Management, International Leadership and Communication, International Presentation Skills, Executive Coaching, Raising Cultural Awareness, Repatriation and Country Culture Briefings (Russia, Poland, Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Austria, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Ireland the UK.)
Matthew has held the positions of Managing Director, HR Practice Leader, Client Operations Manager and Team Leader for two long-standing global executive search and HR consultancies.

Matthew graduated from London University (Psychology and Life Sciences) and has professional qualifications in advertising and marketing as well as extensive in-house training and development experience. He is a licensed practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and is currently Vice President of SIETAR UK.
He regularly writes, broadcasts and speaks for the BBC, the APU in Cambridge, Newcastle and Zlin Universities, the Belgian and Hungarian Embassies, the CIPD, The British, Australian and New Zealand Chambers of Commerce, UKTI, the Institute of Directors - IOD, SIETAR, The Association of European Businesses and IIR Conferences (Globally Mobile Executives).

Jérôme Dumetz

Consultant Senior

Nationalité : français

Born in France, Jérôme Dumetz has more than 10 years of experience with Russia. He has been working as the only foreigner in a state-owned organization with thousands of employees for many years. His deep knowledge of Russian culture and management stems from his MBA lectures with young Russian professionals and from his numerous cross-cultural projects in Russia.

He has organized major cross-cultural trainings for foreign and Russian corporations in Russia such as Enel, Microsoft, Total, Leroy-Merlin, NaDom, or Bonlife and runs cross-cultural managerial coaching for managers in companies such as JP Morgan, PepsiCo, Danone, SCA, Alcoa, or BP.

Jérôme combines his solid business experience in many countries with academic works in the field of cross-cultural management. In cooperation with Fons Trompenaars, he conducted exclusive research about modern Russian business management. He is teaching his specialty in various business schools such as the Plekhanov Academy and Aibec in Russia but also ESSEC, ESCE or IAE Aix in France, FH Steyr in Austria, VSE in Prague or FH Wuerzburg in Germany.