Executive Biography
Jasmine De Clerck
Founder, Managing Director & Coach
Jasmine's experience spans coaching, advisory and business leadership roles at international scale. She lived and worked in South Africa, India, the United States and France. She has been advising global organisations in talent acquisition & executive development for well over 15 years.
At the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), a global, Financial Times ranked institution specialised in leadership development, she worked as consultant and coach to senior executives of global and EMEA organisations. She has led one of the largest business regions in EMEA, as General Manager France, Benelux and the Nordics.
“I am passionate about Effectiveness AND Transformation. Managing current operations effectively while preparing for a possibly disruptive future is key to any leadership role."
Her business transformation experience involves building the business scenario's for a global consumer goods company on how to transform its HR services in EMEA, implementing EMEA-wide IT-systems in a telecommunications company, and investigating outsourcing opportunities across the value chain for a global life sciences company. The latter involved a one-year assignment in India. She started her career as Foreign Direct Investment Advisor to companies interested in setting up shop in Flanders, Belgium.
Most recently, Jasmine worked for Spencer Stuart’s Leadership Advisory Services as consultant on executive assessments based on Spencer Stuart’s proprietary methodology (Executive Intelligence). Projects involved succession planning, selection, individual development planning and the evaluation of management teams post merger and acquisition or buy-out by private equity.
Voluntary Work: Mentor to young entrepreneurs selected by the Prince Albert Fund, Jury Member/Chairwoman and Advisor to the Board for over 12 years (princealbertfund.be); Coach at the Humanitarian Coaching Network (hcn.org), a network serving leaders in the humanitarian sector.
Memberships: International Coaching Federation, Global Peter Drucker Society, and ChangeMakers (Ashoka).
Her educational background includes a Master Degree in Applied Economic Sciences & International Management at the Catholic University of Antwerp; management programs at Harvard, the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development, and the Antwerp Management School. She is ICF-accredited coach since 2014 and certified in various psychometric instruments, assessment tools, methodologies and models.
In her coaching practice, Jasmine guides clients through their transition to a new role which requires adaptation to a broader and more complex range of responsibilities. Jasmine works with her coachees to shape their agenda across the full range of leadership competencies. Her assignments most often cover one or several of these aspects:
- Self-awareness and self-management
- Team leadership
- Building effective networks that support the business today and tomorrow
- Strategic influencing, thinking and acting
- Shaping increased organisational engagement, and driving change
Depending on whether the organisation needs to build strategic alignment to support business transformation or accelerated growth, Jasmine can help you to build a solid story and talent support program. She has access to a wide network of global experts.
Clients include well-known brands in the life sciences, financial services, engineering, FMCG, food ingredients, retail, environmental technologies and petrochemicals industry. In addition to working with strategic consultants and digital disruptors.