BERNARD COULATY

37 Avenue du Clos Saint-Georges 77600 Bussy-Saint-Georges, FRANCE

+33788453834

bernard.coulaty@gmail.com

PROFILE SUMMARY

• VP Human Resources – FMCG organizations – EMEA, APAC (10 years in Asia) • HR Consulting – Transition Management • Expert of Employee Engagement – Author & Trainer • Lecturing in Executive Education & Business Schools

COMPETENCIES • Change management and HR transformation • Organizational and talent development • Leadership, individual and collective engagement • Managing multi-cultural and international teams • Native French – Fluent English

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Human Resources Consultant – Founder & CEO Since 2017 MOST ENGAGED , Hong Kong, Paris

• Human capital management, HR transformation • Employee engagement and experience platform: diagnosis, strategies and tools • Learning programs, inter and intra training seminars • Organizational coaching, individual engagement mentoring • HR teams and business leaders – Global firms and SMEs – France and international

Client references : Hermes Greater China, LVMH APAC, Essilor, Suez, SMCP, EuropaNova

Vice President Human Resources APAC 2009 – 2016 Pernod Ricard Asia, Hong Kong

• Asia region – 3500 employees – 12 countries (China, India, South Korea, Japan, SEA) • Leading the regional HR agenda in a strong growth and “war for talents” context • Employer branding platform – Design and roll out of a Management Trainee Program • Performance management systems revisited to enhance employee engagement • Creation of a leadership skills development program • Managing the HR community in Asia – Skills development and empowerment

Vice President Human Resources EMEA 2004 – 2009 Pernod Ricard Europe, Paris, France

• Europe region – 4500 employees – 32 countries (Western, Eastern, Middle East) • Monitoring a major acquisition – Integration of key managers, organizational alignment • Talent management policy and process reshaped, became a best practice for the Group • HR organizational development through clusters and SSC, centers of excellence

Human Resources Director 2001 – 2004 Pernod Ricard – Pernod, Paris, France

• French market – 1100 employees • Downsizing plan – Negociated and managed the closedown of a main factory • Change management project – new managerial organization and skills development • Alignment of the HR teams and organization on the business challenges and lines

Human Resources Director 1999 – 2001 Computacenter France Ltd, Paris, France

• IT service company with high growth – From 300 to 1200 employees in 2 years • Managed the attraction and integration of young managers and senior leaders • Smoothly managed the entry of trade-unions through a “35 heures” agreement

European Graduate Recruitment Project Manager 1997 – 1999 Danone Group – HQ, Paris, France

• Corporate project to build an employer branding in Europe • Designed and monitored a european graduate recruitement program • 120 fresh graduates from 9 nationalities recruited in all finance, marketing, sales • Roll out a similar project in Asia – Organization of an assessment center in China

Human Resources Manager 1994 – 1997 Danone Group – LU, Nantes, France

• Head of the HR department for the production plant – 450 employees • Declining business environment and very conflictual labor relations context • Negociated a collective agreement on flexi-time management

Human Resources and Finance Manager 1992 – 1994 Danone Group – Heudebert, Toulouse, France

• Head of the HR and Finance department for the production plant – 150 employees • Monitoring cost management and downsizing plans – Collective redundancy plan

Industrial Relations Manager 1989 – 1992 Danone Group – Heudebert, Vervins, France

• Creation of the HR department for the production plant – 300 employees

EDUCATION

INSEAD Singapore and Fontainebleau, 2008 • Pernod Ricard General Management Program

IAE Aix-en-Provence, France, 1987 • Master 2 RH – Post-Graduate Degree in Human Resources Management

Toulouse Business School, France, 1986 • Diplôme Grande Ecole – Master’s Degree in Business Management

Nottingham University, UK, 1986 • Bachelor of Arts (Honours) European Business

PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENT

Publications • New Deal of Employee Engagement – McGraw Hill 2015 • Engagement 4.0 – EMS 2018

Executive Education – HR Lecturing

• France: HEC Paris, Toulouse Business School, IESEG, Neoma Reims • International: HEC Qatar, EuropaNova, Singapore Management University

Professional Associations

• Founder & President of Mouvement Generation RH (France) • President of Human Resources Committee of French Chamber (Hong Kong) • Founding member of the Observatory of Engagement (France)