Successes
Engaging hearts and minds inside and outside the organization. BrightMagnet - Jean-Marie Bonthous
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Online community for leaders in global commercial real estate

• Developed an online forum for a global team of commercial real estate leaders. This included positioning, messaging, blogger relations, as well as word of mouth and community building. Within weeks, the forum gained massive market share and membership expanded to 40 countries. The client was able to rapidly negotiate valuable strategic alliances with other leading forums and publications in the US, Europe, China, Russia, India and the United Arab Emirates.

Online leadership development forum for a global pharmaceutical group
Developed an online leadership development forum and a strategy for building engagement. More than 80,000 employees worldwide joined, many of which engaged enthusiastically. This helped the client organization develop a new generation of leaders.

Community-building for a global leader in non-alcoholic beverages
• Designed and led a community-building initiative to restore trust and collaboration between the bottlers and the parent organization, after the relationship had been strained

Internal communications to support a large-scale, IT-enabled business transformation initiative
• Designed and headed a twenty-six month communication initiative, which led employees in this $13 billion electrical utility company to embrace the changes brought by a $90M business transformation effort. A key human outcome was the creation of a community of thousands of enthusiastic, well-informed and skilled adopters of the new systems and ways of working. This community included thousands of employees inside, and thousands of suppliers outside the organization.

Leadership development and community relations for a global top three electric utility company
Designed and led an enterprise-wide leadership development initiative which allowed all regional managers to develop effective, aligned, 3-year strategic plans. Until then, planning had been centralized and the regional centers had a limited say in the regional strategies.