Marianne grew up in Rotterdam,
the Netherlands. She holds a Masters Degree in Organizational
Psychology from the State University of Leiden and followed
a postgraduate in Business Administration at the Erasmus
University, Rotterdam.
After her studies, she worked as a management consultant
within the University Hospital of Rotterdam. She was responsible
for the implementation of Total Quality Management
and the design of supporting training. This concerned the
improvement of internal business processes and client orientated
services.
From 1994 to 1996 she was teaching at the Rotterdam Business
School on the topics of Quality Management and Client
Orientation.
In 1995 she was asked for the position of senior consultant
in KVM Consultants, Rotterdam. She took care of consultancy
and management training concerning organizational
change and development, human resource management, implementation
of quality management and prevention of absenteeism. In
this period she worked for organizations such as Akzo Chemicals,
Ministry of Justice, City Councils of Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
Since 1998 she works as an independent management consultant
based in Barcelona, Spain. She works for organizations
such as the City Council of Barcelona, Catalan Police
Force, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Metropolitan Transport of
Barcelona, University Pompeu Fabra, EADA Business School,
La Caixa, Volvo, Dragados Construction Company.
Marianne specializes in analysis, design and support of
change processes within organizations, quality management
- improvement of internal processes and client orientated
services -, communication skills, leadership and problem
solving.
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