"Adopt, adapt and improve"
Marc TimmermanWith more than 20 years executive and consulting experience, Marc combines deep insight with real-world operational experience to develop practical yet high-impact HR and Talent Management solutions. Marc has a particular interest in working with multinational organizations to address challenges in the fields of talent management strategy, HR effectiveness, high potential identification, leadership development, talent engagement, competency management, talent identification, succession planning, and diversity management. Marc’s passion for solving client issues through innovative thinking and problem solving from concept through implementation define his work and consulting style. He has partnered extensively with leading organizations including Nike Europe, Pfizer Europe, Orange, BP, GDF/Suez group, Electrabel, Belgacom, Baxter Europe, Toyota Europe, Novo Nordisk, KBC group, ING, Ernst & Young, Volvo Cars Europe, Schering-Plough EMEA, Picanol Group, Goodyear EMEA, Loeff-Claeys-Verbeke, Sociéte Générale, GE Europe, Johnson & Johnson, and ABB.
Prior to joining Axiom, Marc was the Head and Executive Director of the European Talent Management practice of Hudson Highland Group (NASDAQ HHGP), where he was a member of the European Executive Team. Before this, he led the HR consulting practice and founded the assessment and competency management practice for leading Belgian consulting firm De Witte & Morel. Between 1995 and 2001, he was a Partner at Ernst & Young in Belgium.
Marc is an executive member of the European HR Forum and vice-chairman of the Board of the non-profit organization “Cocom – Ode aan de Mens”, an organization uniting important entrepreneurs, professors and thinkers in order to improve the social-economical and emotional identity of people. Marc is also a regular speaker on Talent Management matters and he is a guest-lector at the Royal Belgian Military Academy, the Vlerick Management School, the Free University of Brussels, and the CPA Management School in France. He is a frequent speaker throughout Europe on the topic of High Potentials, Talent Management, Employee Engagement, HR aspect of M&A, and Leadership Development. Since 2008 he has deepened his expertise in diversity management, resulting in him being nominated as the first male chairman for the 2010 Jump Women Leadership Conference in Brussels and as the expert for the nomination of the AXA Wo/Men@Work Award. In 2007, he was the author of the book “High Potentials: the Competitive Edge within your Company”. Since then, he has published multiple articles on Talent Management issues in the European press, including The Irish Times, HR Magazine, and Le Figaro.
Marc has a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology and Psychoanalysis from the University of Ghent, and a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from EHSAL in Brussels.
My favorite quote is one from the French writer Paul Valéry: "The problem of our times is that the future no longer is what it once was".