Combining expertise as CEO and DHR, Joe Beauduin helps business leaders address the people and leadership challenges of succesful change management and high performance strategy execution.
He acts as consultant, change manager and board member in change situations: new strategy, restructuring, mergers, turn around, crisis management, (family) succession planning and performance improvement initiatives.
Joe focusses on the people levers of performance: leadership, alignment with strategy, engagement, internal communication, company culture and behaviors, organization effectiveness and structure, talent management, trade-union relations, good governance and corporate social responsibility.
As CEO, Joe led successful business strategy and organisational transformations (turn-arounds, strong growth,..). At 32 he was CEO of American Hospital Supplies International (a Baxter subsidiary); later he led business units of Reader’s Digest (in Belgium, Canada and Holland) and more recently Joe co-owned and ran Famidoo Media, before selling it in 2009.
As functional leader, he held Executive Committee positions in Human Resources (DHR GB/Carrefour Belgium; DHR a.i. Spadel Group), Communications (GB/Carrefour) and Marketing (Marketing Director AB Inbev, GB and Tienen Sugar).
Joe has a profound understanding of trade-unions, acquired in the labor intensive retail industry: he negotiated collective labor agreements (company and sector), handled sensitive labor issues (e.g. restructuring, outsourcing), delt with conflict and established constructive relations.
As Senior Associate of MCE (Management Centre Europe / AMA), he runs “talent and performance management” and “strategic change communication” workshops.
Joe is a member of Guberna, the Belgian Institute of Directors, and sits on the Board of the Canada Belgium Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce.
A Business Engineer from Solvay VUB, Joe holds an MBA from IMD Lausanne.
Joe is fluent in Dutch, French and English and has a working knowledge of German. He studied and worked in 5 countries.
