ANNELIES NOBLESSE
About me
Need a fresh perspective on your strategy work? Let’s connect and explore how I can support you.In today's unpredictable world, organizations across industries are continuously navigating the challenge of transformation. Over the past decade, I’ve led various change initiatives in the retail and finance sectors. As my career evolved, my focus shifted toward the bigger picture—understanding the vision, the purpose, and how they align with the broader strategy.This growing interest led me to deepen my expertise in strategic management, earning my certification as a strategist from the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School.Looking for an experienced professional who can inject energy, take a hands-on approach, and help translate your strategy into actionable plans? Let’s make it happen.**
Services
-Strategic Support: Assistance in developing and implementing effective strategies tailored to your business.
-Business Insights & Advice: Expert analysis and analytic thinking to identify challenges and optimize operations.
-Execution & Implementation: Turning strategic goals into a clear roadmap with actionable, operational plans, ensuring measurable results.
-Executive Leadership Support: Acting as a Chief of Staff or key advisor to the CEO, ensuring alignment within the management team and providing operational oversight.
-Evaluation & Communication: Transform complex challenges into a concise, engaging narrative. Assess the progress of strategic plans, providing recommendations for enhancements. Document and summarize key strategic milestones to monitor success and ensure alignment.
CV HIGHLIGHTS
2 years Strategy management experience
-Oxford-Said business school: Oxford View of Strategy Programme, score of 97,8%
-5 years project management experience in retail at Colruyt Group
-Vlerick business school: 'Take the lead in digital transformation'
-5 years project management experience in finance at ING
-2 years Project management traineeship at Ormit
-5 years consultancy experience
-Catholic University of Leuven: Master Political Science, graduated Cum Laude
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Client Testimonials
"I had the pleasure of working with Annelies, who served as a Strategy Consultant at Esri BeLux. Annelies excels in bringing structure to complex projects, defining long-term goals, and planning accordingly. Her ability to keep the team focused on the chosen direction ensures that everyone moves cohesively towards our objectives. Beyond her professional skills, Annelies is a very nice and warm personality, making her nice to work with. I highly recommend Annelies for any role that requires strategic vision and implementation."Regis Verschueren, Marketing Manager
"Thanks again, Annelies, for the beautiful work and valuable cooperation. During these past 5 years, you have provided a lot of support at OKay & Bio-Planet, business units of Colruyt Group. You soon became part of our team. You were quick to detect and to understand challenges and opportunities. This both on a strategic, tactical and even operational level. I also saw you quickly taking action, translating & elaborating actions, federating … each time with the aim of being able to deliver on the expected output."Fabrice Gobbato, General Director OKay and Bio-Planet
"Thank you for taking into account my feedback and challenging yourself with each assignment.
**IMPRESSIVE WORK!When assessing the playbook, I look at purpose as well as actual or anticipated challenges and opportunities interrogating strategic direction, through the use of scenarios to moving to future state through strategic agility. **These were excellently met!Your playbook starts off with purpose and provides reasoning as to why you are exploring scenario’s (...) You used your strategic skills to steer the organization into a possible direction. Well done. You can be proud of the work you delivered. Keep leading."Lesley Katts, Assessor Oxford Executive Programmes presented by Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
_"I got to know Annelies through a collaboration in a European Innovation project of EIT Food with various partners from home and abroad. Annelies acted there as a representative of Colruyt Group. (…)KU Leuven was involved in this project with various student teams that developed an eco-innovative food concept. Annelies was immediately charmed by the commitment and dynamism of the student teams, and was spontaneously willing to think along with them. This quickly showed that Annelies not only knows the retail sector from the inside out and that she could perfectly coach the students to work out a go-to-market plan, but also as an inspired foodie could think along and provide inspiring suggestions. (…)Eric Lens, Docent Innovation & Product Development in the Master Industrial Engineering, KU Leuven.
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