Joël JEGO

I founded Active Transition ( www.activetransition.net ) early 2011 in order to coach corporate executives and their teams, with the aim to bring to the corporate organisations a dimensions where everybody want to give and apply its skills, in order to reinforce its difference vs. its competitors and consequently to accelerate its growth.


We provide:

*Executive coaching
We support the coachee in defining its objective, in searching the strategies to achieve and in implementating the related action plan. To this end, the coach develops awareness and encourages the exploration of solutions with a method of active listening and questioning always in a positive and proactive spirit, which value the coachee. The sessions between the coach and the coachee lasting between 1 to 2 hours are held at regular intervals; outside these sessions the coach remains available if required either through phone conversations or emails exchange.

*Team coaching
The benefit of a team coaching is working on a broader goal whose success relies entirely upon the cohesion and the team membership. To achieve this, the coach will have some appointments with the team leader, some working sessions with the team during which he will support the team to identify the values and strategies that will bind members towards the success. Often some team members will be coached on a one to one basis in parallel. Depending on the issues to deal with, the team coaching will last from several weeks to several months.

www.activetransition.net

RBI Australia: Revenue A$ 86m - 350 employees
Scope of responsabilities: 55 employees, 4 as direct reports
--> 55 FTE's, out of which 4 as direct report
* In charge of Finance, Circulation and Production Dept: organisation improved in order to help the business to shift from print to on-line
* Efficiency of the Finance Dept improved: new team, better skills, more customer focus, month end and budget processes optimised as well as systems
* Good adaptation to new country, culture, markets and business models, with good learning in management
* Projects management: procurement tenders, some restructure within the business, systems implementation

www.reedbusiness.com.au ; www.hotfrog.com.au ; www.newscientist.com ; www.australiandoctor.com.au, http://www.infolink.com.au/

RBI France: Revenue € 59m, 330 employees
Scope of responsabilities: 30 employees, 8 as direct report

• Driving external growth project --> identification of acquisition targets, 3 projects studied until due diligences, 1 company acquired (DoubleTrade)
• Optimisation of the whole organisation in gathering together support services of operational divisions --> taking over Production and Layout Dept., organisation optimised and back up improved,
• Centralization of purchasing --> 15% of savings within 3 years.

www.reedbusiness.fr, www.strategies.fr, www.doubletrade.com

• Take over of Finance and Office management Dept. of RBI Belgium --> reliability and transparency of financial data, implementation of new systems and procedures within the 2 first months,
• Quick implementation of a costs saving plan --> distributed thru the group in Europe as a reference,
• Coordination of one branch in Joint Venture, negotiation with the US group partner --> credibility regained and successful transaction,
• Repositioning of Belgium assets  selling to the US group and internal transfers (to both RBI NL and RBI France),
• Closing of RBI Belgium --> respect of constraints and business continuity achieved,
• Integration of one third of Belgium assets in France --> revenue € 6m, costs rationalization and synergies optimisation.

• Coordination of several acquisition projects --> negotiation and deals conclusion (Les Rencontres d’Affaires, Médiation),
• Integration of Finance and Office management Dept. of both the publishing (Prat, ESF, Médiation) and the training (LRA) activities --> implementation of new systems and procedures within the 6 first months, merger of the 4 acquired legal entities within 12 months,
• Driving of new activities (books and loose leave publishing, and later on training) --> adaptation of monthly results and budget processes, implementation of group rules…

• Significant contribution to the CEO in order to reach profitability --> profitability recovered in 1998,
• Management of Human Resources in a difficult context --> closing of an activity and management of the redundancy plan (16 lay-off), coordination of relationship with staff representatives,
• Management of legal issues (statutory, business, author rights, brands, lease, competition) and litigations --> better risk management,
• Take over of Office management Dept. --> move of 80 FTE to new premises without any production disruption, with an improvement of the team cohesiveness and 30% savings on rental costs.

• Redesign of the Accounting Dept. organisation --> tasks organisation instead of per legal entities approach, headcount reduced by 20%,
• Implementation of reliable accounting results per profit centres --> monthly results produced the 5 of each month,
• Management of mergers in taking into account the taxes optimisation --> plan drawn in order to go from 5 legal entities to only one within 4 years,
• Management of overheads --> 12% reduction costs within 2 years,
• Implementation of new credit collection organisation --> DSO reduced from circa 300 days to 80 days within 18 months.

www.delifrance.fr

• Centralization of results per profit centres, production of balance sheet, statutory accounts and financial analysis, internal audit of the accounts of the 8 factories spread over the country, management of the headquarter accounting Dept.--> Learning of the way to run a company as subsidiary of a group, first and exciting experience in managing both a dedicated Dept. and a decentralised team with functional links, and successful implementation of a unique accounting system

• Production of monthly results, tax and social statements, general accounting, payables, receivables, credit collection, cash management
--> Learning of the management of the accounting and tax life of a family business company