Passionate about high-level challenges for her clients, Hortense works to ensure the success of their environmental and digital transitions. Her expertise also includes transforming the culture and performance of organizations.
She assists companies in these sectors with their strategy and transformation projects, focusing on organizational and performance aspects. Her scope of action extends from the strategic repositioning of the company to the implementation of projects. She mainly advises large European industrial groups and assists them in all the regions in which they operate, especially in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
Hortense also supports culture change and executive transitions across all sectors. She coaches top-teams on increasing their effectiveness by aligning around a shared strategic vision and improving the quality of their working dynamic. As part of this coaching, Hortense frequently supports executives transitioning to new positions. She leads executive-transition master classes, which have reached 100 executives taking on new roles, many in new sectors and geographies.
PUBLISHED WORK
“Transforming safety culture: Insights from the trenches at a leading oil and gas company,” McKinsey & Company, July 2019
“Overcoming limiting mind-sets to improve safety,” McKinsey & Company, May 2019
“Linking employee engagement to customer satisfaction at Starwood,” blog entry, McKinsey & Company, April 2019
“Celebrate mindsets that value the customer AND the employee,” blog entry, McKinsey & Company, February 2019
“Master these mindsets to enchant customers,” blog entry, McKinsey & Company, January 2019
“New leaders: Tap your team ASAP,” blog entry, McKinsey & Company, October 2018
“It really isn’t about 100 days,” blog entry, McKinsey & Company, November 2017
“Ascending to the C-Suite,” McKinsey & Company, April 2015
Past experience
BNP Paribas
Analyst
Education
L’École Polytechnique
MSc, science
National School Des Ponts Et Chaussées
MSc, engineering
INSEAD
MBA