Cécile Demailly
Biography of Cécile Demailly
Cécile Demailly is an international consultant on corporate change and new corporate trends within the consultancy she founded, Early Strategies. She formerly worked as Program Director at GE Healthcare, Global Technical Marketing Director in AT&T Business, and held managerial and expert roles in IBM in multiple business areas such as product management, marketing, US export regulation, operations, IT project management. She joined EuropeanPWN in 2003, rapidly became involved with oversight for the network’s marketing and communication for Paris and then for the European federation.
Together with Avivah Wittenberg-Cox and Margaret Milan at the end of 2004, she was the instigator of EuropeanPWN’s publications initiative, and was Publisher for the network until June 2007 (eight widely distributed books of the Women@work collection). In January 2007, she launched EuropeanPWN’s new strategic initiative: the Think Tank Groups in which some two hundred members across Europe got involved. Late in 2008, she co-authored with Marie-Claude Peyrache (President EuropeanPWN-Paris and Vice President of the Federation) two books: Networking, the new Ariadne’s Thread and its French version “Réseaux, le nouveau fil d’Ariane”. She is French, a mother of three, graduate of the Institut Superieur de Gestion, and currently studying at Oxford Saïd Business School/HEC executive for her MSc Consulting & Coaching for Change.
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How do women network?
The survey found that a typical senior international professional woman forms her networks primarily for social/personal reasons (e.g. meet new people, personal development), and ...
Poll result October 2008
How many crises do we need to move from wishful thinking to gender diversity reality ...
Nicole Notat, founder of Vigeo, the first European CSR rating agency
Nicole Notat founded the CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) rating agency Vigeo in 2002, through a fundraising operation that brought to the table 13 M€ from around 50 investors ...
Stress tactics
It is interesting to see that while this poll’s number of propositions were many, it also gathered the more respondents then usual (134 compared to an average of 80). How to ...
What holds you back from “showing-up” professionally
This month we asked to members from the HR consultancy and executive coaching fields to comment the poll results. Here are five reactions full of insights ...
Dec 2008 Poll Results - Businesswomen 2.0
Are we 2.0 business persons yet? In fact, we are, since we are using the greatest ever collaborative business platform from EuropeanPWN - business networking, collaborative ...
Think Tank 2.0
It’s hard to remember the exact genesis of our Think Tank Groups. As often, with good ideas, it surfaced from a beam of little hints ...
What women want ..
Despite the rise of the new economies in India and China and the ongoing tendency to shift offshore, corporations are starting to feel the effects of babyboomers retiring and are ...
Editorial October 2007: Let’s raise our voice and encourage the change!
Early morning on Sunday, 23 September, we were delighted to learn that Mirella Visser has been nominated by the prestigious European Voices (a publication from the Economist Group ...
Quotas : for or against ?
Do you think governments should set quotas for women on boards, as is currently planned by the government in Norway ...
What women want ..
What makes you chooseor stay in a company? Despite the rise of the new economies in India and China and the ongoing tendency to shift offshore, corporations are starting to feel ...
Being a Successful Global Team Leader
What are the most important qualities needed to lead an international team successfully? Going Global: Life Experience is the Best Training By Cécile Demailly and Maureen Rabotin ...
What do you think about Multitasking?
Multitasking is in women’s DNA Which one of us has never brushed her teeth while organizing her day, or done her nails while talking on the phone, or rehearsed her presentation ...
"Dream boss" poll: is managing women a matter of guiding them?
What would your dream boss provide? I asked four people their thoughts about the results of this poll: a manager, a coach, a mentor and a shrink, all respected experts in their ...
Should professional equality start at home?
What helps achieve professional equality? For many of you professional equality starts with the right division of tasks within the home. Is this because you want to have more ...
Poll debrief: Social interaction crucial for Work-Life Balance
Last month’s EuropeanPWN poll asked members to share the essentials that allow them to achieve work-life balance. Although we may not always succeed, most of us strive for some ...
