Our guest, Nicolas Petit is a 50 year old executive, with 25 years career in management consultancy and in the industry in a wide variety of roles. He is passionate about people and data.
Nicolas occupied roles of increasing responsibility in a wide variety of functions, ranging from Marketing to R&D, manufacturing, Lean Management and HR transformation.
Nicolas main area of focus is culture transformation, ranging from the active shaping of internal ways of working to reach project driven organizational excellence (Merck, Ciba Geigy), to management of culture synergies in the context of mergers & acquisitions (sanofi & aventis), digitalization and data driven decision making transformation (GSK) and many more.
Recently global company culture transformation lead in a Fortune 500 corporation, Nicolas has pioneered innovative approaches to culture change, applying peer-to-peer behavioural science principles, orchestrating a community of 1200 influencers Worldwide.
Nicolas worked in many countries and cultures around the World, including the US, China, France, UK, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. He speaks French, English and German.
He owns a European Master’s degree in Management from ESCP (Paris business school) as well as a German ‘Diplom Kaufmann’. He is also an alumni of INSEAD – Singapore (on AI applied to employee engagement), and is currently completing a Master’s in applied mathematics at UCL in Belgium (on the use of machine learning to measure culture).
Nicolas founded “Humanize” in 2021, a consultancy aiming at leveraging the power of data to help organizations put humanity at the center of their operating models.
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