Florence Plessier

Experience

Before joining the Center, in her latest corporate position, Florence was Head of the Corporate University of STMicroelectronics in Asia Pacific where she and her team provided consulting, training and coaching solutions in organizational development, culture transformation and leadership and as well as team performance across 10 countries in Asia.

Convinced by the power of coaching as a transformational tool for individuals, groups and organization, she decided to explore it further and developed a successful Consulting practice reaching across 4 continents where she specialized in Senior Leadership Team Development and Executive Coaching. Her extensive coaching experience – more than 2500 hours of coaching – had led companies and coaching organizations to ask her services to mentor coaches, develop internal coaching programs, facilitate coaching skills workshops for business and HR leaders and consult on transformation for coaching culture.

The first 10 years of her career were spent in the electronics corporate world where she developed her business acumen as part of the management team of – successively – StorageTek, Motorola and STMicroelectronics with responsibilities in Industrial Investment, Human Resources and Leadership Development.

Current Role

From September 2012 to April 2015, Florence was the Coaching Practice Leader EMEA at the Center for Creative Leadership in Brussels, Belgium. As the content expert in the field of coaching both within and outside CCL, she led and oversaw the development of the coaching portfolio and had overall responsibility for high quality and consistency standards of capability across countries and clients supervising a group of 150 coaches.

In May 2015, Florence was promoted to Practice Leader for Senior Teams and Organizations Transformation where she will apply her corporate and development experience to the design and delivery of leadership and culture transformation programs that focus on team and organizational learning and performance.

Educational Background

Florence holds a MBA from the Toulouse Business School, France and graduated from the Corporate coaching Program, Corporate Coaching University.

Publication and Professional Affiliations

Florence is accredited Professional Certified Coach (PCC) from the International Coach Federation.

In 2014, she co-authored the CCL Guidebook “Becoming a Leader-Coach”, published an article in the Training Journal and co-authored a chapter of the CCL Handbook of Coaching for Organisations on the topic of “the HR Business Partner as an internal coach”. Earlier, she contributed to the book “Organisation and Management” by Joe Marcus and Nick Van Dam. In her capacity of Leader of the Team Effectiveness program in STMicroelectronics, she led the studies developed in ST for the bestseller from Katzenbach and Smith: “The Discipline of teams”.