Adrienne Axler
Partner
| Who am I? | My pledge – Why I do what I do? | What have I realised? |
| I was born in 1954, on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain. As far as I can remember, feeling deprived of freedom had been unacceptable and shaped my destiny. Today, I feel ‘European’ within a global world and I strongly believe that freedom has a sister called responsibility, both being the conditions for a fulfilling, creative and harmonious life leading to progress of society.
My 10 words: flow, limitless, unity, peace, nature, empathy, silence, elegance, heritage, simplicity, enchantment. My Values: freedom, responsibility, courage, tolerance, generosity, humility
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Helping individuals and teams in getting authentically free, and thus unleash their full potential. Happy individuals make happy teams make a better world!
What expertise I bring to GINPI clients? I bring a more than 40-years experience in building, training and inspiring teams to reach the top. Throughout this journey, I have experienced an increasing suffering and difficulty for those teams and individuals, to face the challenges of our changing world : more than ever, it is key to ’take care of ourselves’, align with the nature and with our higher «I». I have studied yoga and the eastern philosophies, and I combine my professional experience with these learnings to harmonize the energy flows.
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My professional journey starts in 1977, in Belgium, with my choice to join the food service industry – at its very beginning. I am proud of having contributed to 40 years of evolution and shaping of professional hospitality services all over Europe, for the last 30 years with Sodexo, a company with an authentic and very strong PURPOSE.
During these 30 years and in the different roles, I have acquired and put into practice a solid experience in operations, marketing, client relations, strategy and general management, this in Belgium, Western Europe – and finally, between 2012-2019, in the role of CEO for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, managing 15000 employees. This last assignment has been a « business case » on itself, a financial, strategic and organizational turnaround, including acquisitions integration – and a cultural transformation. Services are my passion – and so are people : there is no service without people, and no GOOD SERVICE without happy, inspired people. My conviction : global companies are one of the most efficient drivers for change in the world. I had the chance to experience how impactful, for all stakeholders, an organization can be, and I wish to help other organizations to embrace this road. |
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