Niclas Wrms BBA, MBA, PhD Niclas is an Assciate f Quilibra Cnsulting, a Senir Assciate f Ashridge, and the MiL institute in Sweden. He is als Funder and Directr f Acceleris SA, a cnsulting firm based in Geneva Switzerland. Niclas started his management career after graduating frm the Lausanne Htel Management Schl. He als hlds a Masters in Business Administratin frm Ashridge Business Schl. He has lived and wrked in Britain, France, Mexic, Spain, in the Spanish speaking Caribbean, in Switzerland, and in the US. Niclas is a qualified Thery f Cnstraints facilitatr and is fluent in English, French and Spanish. Over the last 15 years Niclas has gained extensive experience as an rganisatinal develpment cnsultant, cnsulting t cmpanies such as: In the private sectr: Agilent Technlgies, Acergy, BBC, Bts Internatinal, Bsh Siemens, British Airways, Cap Gemini, Hewlett Packard, Lafarge, Masterfds, Nvartis, Unilever, Sanfi Aventis, and Sun Micrsystems. In the develpment and humanitarian sectr: ICRC, ILO, The Glbal Fund, GAVI, PATH, The Rll Back Malaria Partnership, UNAIDS, UNESCO, UNITAID, UNHCR, the United Natins Staff Cllege, ICRC, WHO and WMO. Niclas s areas f cnsulting fcus have included: - Pst merger integratin - Strategy review, design and implementatin - Structure design and implementatin - Prcess imprvement - Knwledge management - Learning needs analysis - Design and delivery f leadership and management prgrammes, frm 5 t 500 participants Updated Nvember 2013
Bigraphical Details Male Swiss and French Natinal Current Psitin Funder & Directr Acceleris Cnsulting, Switzerland Senir Assciate Cnsultant Quilibra Cnsulting, UK Senir Assciate Cnsultant Ashridge Cnsulting, UK Overview f Experience & Recent Cnsulting Assignments 2004 : Funder & Directr f Acceleris Cnsulting, Switzerland 2004 : Senir Assciate Cnsultant, Ashridge Cnsulting, UK Current and recent cnsulting assignments include: Wrld Health Organisatin: Lead the design and delivery f a Glbal Leadership and Management Develpment Prgramme fr WHO s tp 350 managers; supprting the develpment f the Business Plan 2011 2020 fr QSS as well as the develpment f a threeyear Wrk Plan fr the Climate Change, Green Health Services, and Sustainable Develpment Team ICRC: Leading the design and delivery f a Management Develpment Prgramme fr ICRC s middle managers (600 participants); supprting the team develpment f the Cmmunicatin and Infrmatin Management Team UNAIDS: C lead the design and delivery f a Glbal Leadership and Management Develpment Prgramme fr the cmpany s tp 100 managers The Glbal Fund: Facilitated varius retreats at team (Dnr Gvernment Team), unit (Knwledge Management Unit) and cluster level (ESP) Rll Back Malaria: Supprting the develpment f a partnership wide Knwledge Management Strategy Bsh Siemens: Supprting the capacity develpment f the after sales team Sanfi Aventis: Supprted the develpment and cmmunicatin rll ut f a Glbal Marketing Strategy UNESCO: lead the develpment and delivery f varius Management Develpment Prgrammes ILO: Designed and delivered varius team develpment interventins Updated Nvember 2013
1999 2004: Senir Cnsultant fr Ashridge Cnsulting Niclas wrked in particular in the intercnnected areas f Organisatinal Develpment and Change, and Knwledge Management Cnsulting assignments include: United Natins Staff Cllege: Lead the develpment and pilting f Evaluatin Prcesses and Tls t supprt the Organisatinal Learning Framewrk develped by the UN Learning Managers Netwrk BBC: Supprted the develpment f a Knwledge Management Strategy t maximise the effectiveness f Organisatinal Develpment Prgrammes acrss the rganisatin Bts Internatinal Healthcare: Supprted the develpment f a Strategy t encurage and facilitate the sharing f best practice wrldwide Nvartis: Supprted the develpment f tp managers acrss Eurpe, Asia, and the Americas in the area f Organisatinal Change, Caching, and Leadership Hewlett Packard: Supprted the Marketing and R&D Functin f ne f the business divisins t develp and implement a Knwledge Management Strategy. Previusly wrked n a number f change prjects in different parts f the rganisatin Agilent Technlgies: Supprted the Eurpean Management Team n the Transfrmatin f HR Services in Eurpe Acergy: Supprted the pst merger integratin f the cmpany. Sun Micrsystems: Supprted the Eurpean Management Team n the develpment and delivery f a new Strategy fr Prfessinal Services Unilever HPC: Supprted the UK R&D functin in the develpment f mre effective appraches t new prduct develpment activities Successful Wrk Prjects: Design and delivery f leadership prgrammes Peple Leadership & Management Develpment Prgramme (ICRC 2007 2012) Management Develpment Prgramme (UNAIDs 2009 2010) Glbal Leadership Prgramme (WHO 2004 2007) Team Building Supprted the team develpment f Nrms Department (ILO 2006 2010) Supprted the develpment f varius Cuntry Teams (UNESCO 2008 2009) Supprting the develpment f the Management Team at Bsch Siemens France (2009 current) Supprting the develpment f the Management Team f the Cmmunicatin Department f an internatinal Organisatin (current) Supprting the develpment f the Management Team f a wrk unit at WHO (Current) Updated Nvember 2013
Facilitatin Facilitatin f small and medium events (n ging) Facilitatin f large grup events (120 participants) as part f the Glbal Leadership Prgramme (WHO 2004 2007) Facilitatin f large grup events (50 150 participants) as part f the develpment f the Glbal Marketing Strategy (Sanfi Aventis 2008 2009) 360 feedback and 1:1 Caching Designed and implemented tailred 360 feedback fr develpment instruments fr WHO (2004) and fr The Glbal Fund (2008) Persnal feedback and caching t numerus managers frm middle management t Executive Level in rganizatins including WHO, UNAIDS, UNITAID, The Glbal Fund, ILO Organisatinal Develpment Designed and administered a Partnership Effectiveness Survey Analysis fr UNITAID (2010) Supprted the implementatin f the new Organisatinal Structure f The Glbal Fund (2008) Finalised and pilted the Organisatinal Learning Framewrk fr the United Natins System Staff Cllege (UNSSC 2003) Key Areas f Fcus fr Cnsulting & Caching Facilitatin - Facilitatin f small and large grups arund Strategy develpment / Strategic engagement Wrk planning Organisatinal change and develpment Size f grups facilitated: Cmpetent and experienced wrking with individuals, teams, and grups up t 300+ peple Leadership & Management develpment - Tailring and facilitatin f learning mdules including Perfrmance Management Delegating and Mtivating Empwering and Caching Leadership & Influencing Managing Cnflicts Managing Teams Managing change Team develpment - Tailring and facilitatin f team develpment including Team Effectiveness Questinnaire Team feedback prcess Other questinnaires and psychmetrics (e.g. Belbin, MBTI, TKI, EI360, etc.) Updated Nvember 2013
Team caching Actin learning Individual develpment - Individual caching - 360 feedback prcesses (questinnaire based and/r qualitative Actin learning based prgrammes Qualificatins BBA Lausanne Htel Management Schl, Switzerland MBA Ashridge Business Schl, UK PhD Knwledge Management Candidate at Cranfield Management Schl, UK Languages French native language, English, Spanish Geneva based Available fr glbal travel and residential wrkshps Updated Nvember 2013