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About Jean HooksSpecialized in working with English-speaking executives working in multi-national organizations, seeking to enhance their personal fulfillment, professional development and business results.
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BIOGRAPHY
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Jean is an Executive Coach, Strategic Advisor and Facilitator working with senior executives, senior leadership teams and expatriates based in Europe, Asia and the Americas. She specializes in international work with leaders working for multi-national organizations, seeking to enhance their business performance, professional development and personal fulfillment. Some of her private and corporate clients today include executives within Vizrt (Nordic Capital), Sandoz (Novartis), Alcon (Novartis), General Electric, Allianz, Airbus Group, BSI (British Standards Institute), AMWAY, Siemens, Philips, and IDC (International Data Corporation) as well as smaller private global organizations and entrepreneurs.
Jean is an accomplished executive with over 30 years of experience working internationally in the Life Sciences, Financial Services, Industrial and Technology sectors. Prior to establishing The Executive Hat in 2009, she has served as the business leader for a global business within GE Healthcare based in Paris, started up Small Business Solutions in Japan for GE Capital Services, and served as Business Leader for Oncology at BrainLAB, a private global business operating out of Munich. She has worked on three venture start-ups, two major international acquisitions, a business divestiture and reverse merger. Additionally, she has served as a public spokesperson for media events and is experienced in crisis management communications. While maintaining her professional career, Jean has spent over 22 years as a facilitator, coach and mentor in business. She has coached senior national executives through difficult business restructuring efforts and acquisition integrations. In these significant events, very experienced leaders who are successful in their own right have found themselves struggling to cope with their situation despite all past successes. Additionally, she has coached top talent change agents and their business champions in well over 300 business re-engineering and change efforts across GE. Jean is also passionate about supporting the development of women in leadership positions. She has served as an active mentor in GE’s Women Network and in every business she has led. Her natural style, business experience, coaching and facilitative skills have brought more to all these individual leaders than technical skills alone. She has enabled them to tap into their own particular strengths, increase awareness and then develop behaviors and habits to increase their personal impact, influence skills and ability to lead when facing the toughest resistance to change. Through The Executive Hat, Jean brings the value of her diverse business and life experiences in the global arena together with her coaching skills to executives as they seek to challenge themselves in their own journey of development. She is a graduate of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has attended the Kellogg School of Management Executive Program in Strategic Marketing, and the GE Leadership Development Program. She has completed her accredited coach training with Coaching Development in London and is a member of both the International Coach Federation (ICF) and the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC). She is certified as a Master Black Belt, Change Management Coach and Facilitator, and she is also qualified as an instructor for these disciplines. THE EXECUTIVE HAT Jean T.F. Hooks |