I am a dedicated person and advocate for community development, focusing on education and youth empowerment. My work emphasises access to protect vulnerable populations. I have experience in the technical and social sectors.
Professionnel expérimenté dans le domaine du conseil en gestion et en stratégie pour les entreprises, associations, coopératives et politiques publiques, mon parcours est marqué par une diversité d'expériences, notamment dans le champ de l'intérêt général. Cela m'a permis de développer une expertise solide dans des domaines tels que la gestion de projets, l'analyse stratégique et le développement des ressources humaines. Au cours de ma carrière, j'ai travaillé dans des environnements multiculturels et dynamiques, ce qui m'a permis d'acquérir une vision globale et intégrée des défis auxquels les acteurs socio-économiques sont confrontés.
En tant que fondateur, gérant et consultant senior chez Axone Consultant, je joue un rôle clé dans l'accompagnement de nos clients dans leurs projets de transformation et d'optimisation, afin d'allier performance et intérêt général. Mon rôle inclut la conception et la mise en œuvre de solutions stratégiques, la gestion de projets complexes, et le développement de programmes de formation et de coaching pour les équipes dirigeantes, ainsi que les enjeux d’évaluation et de mesure d'impact social.
Axone Consultant est un cabinet de conseil spécialisé dans plusieurs domaines clés, notamment la stratégie et la transformation, la gestion des ressources humaines, l'innovation et la technologie, la création et l’outillage de coopérations, ainsi que l’évaluation et la mesure d'impact social. Nous accompagnons nos clients dans la définition et la mise en œuvre de leurs stratégies de transformation, l'optimisation des processus, la gestion du changement, la gestion des talents, le développement des compétences, la gestion de la performance, l'intégration des nouvelles technologies, la digitalisation, l'automatisation des processus, et les démarches d’utilité sociale et sociétale.
Mon parcours et mon rôle chez Axone Consultant me permettent de contribuer de manière significative à la réussite de nos clients, en leur offrant des solutions innovantes et adaptées à leurs besoins spécifiques, aux côtés d’une équipe experte de 7 personnes, alliant doctorants, professionnels de l’accompagnement de la vie associative, développement stratégique et digitalisation de processus.
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An experienced professional in management and strategy consulting for businesses, associations, cooperatives, and public policies, my career path is marked by a diversity of experiences, particularly in the field of public interest. This has allowed me to develop solid expertise in areas such as project management, strategic analysis, and human resources development. Throughout my career, I have worked in multicultural and dynamic environments, which has given me a global and integrated view of the challenges faced by socio-economic actors.
As the founder, manager, and senior consultant at Axone Consultant, I play a key role in supporting our clients in their transformation and optimization projects, aiming to combine performance and public interest. My role includes designing and implementing strategic solutions, managing complex projects, and developing training and coaching programs for management teams, as well as addressing issues related to evaluation and measurement of social impact.
Axone Consultant is a consulting firm specializing in several key areas, including strategy and transformation, human resources management, innovation and technology, the creation and tooling of cooperations, as well as the evaluation and measurement of social impact. We support our clients in defining and implementing their transformation strategies, process optimization, change management, talent management, skills development, performance management, the integration of new technologies, digitization, process automation, and initiatives of social and societal utility.
My career path and my role at Axone Consultant allow me to make a significant contribution to the success of our clients by providing innovative and tailored solutions to meet their specific needs, alongside a team of 7 experts, including PhD students, professionals in supporting associative life, strategic development, and process digitization.
I am passionate about education, educational guidance and experiential learning. As founder of the Mon Choix Ma Carrière initiative, I help young people, particularly girls, to discover their talents, develop their skills and choose promising careers, particularly in the STEM fields.
With my initiative, I have already reached over 800 young people through workshops, conferences and practical programmes. My commitment is based on the values of integrity, tolerance and collaboration. I have also coordinated pan-African projects such as Together for a New Africa, promoting co-leadership and sustainable development.
I am particularly interested in issues relating to innovative education, gender equality, youth, digital technology and professional integration. My aim is to transform Mon Choix Ma Carrière into an EdTech start-up to put technology at the service of guidance and education in Africa.
A governance and M&E expert with a background in financial and sociological economics, I have more than 30 years of experience in programme management, policy development and M&E in a variety of fields including research, review and assessment in the areas of public administration reform, justice & home affairs, finance, regional development, as well as sectoral restructuring.
My professional experience covering 30 years has been gained in developing economies and economies in transition in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, for a large number of international bi- and multilateral organizations, including DfID, Dutch Development Cooperation, EU, FAO, IFC, GIZ, Norwegian Aid and UNDP.
I have more than 15 years of M&E experience encompasses both leading M&E assignments in the field and the development of M&E systems. A specialty concerns the identification and formulation of key performance indicators, including researching baseline data and the framing of benchmarks. I am fully conversant with project cycle management methodology, as well the latest development in M&E, including results-chain and theory-of-change.
I have highly developed interview skills gained in a variety of cultural settings, which combined with outstanding documentation review and statistical skills, are honed to arrive at sophisticated analytical results. I know how to deliver high-quality, user-friendly M&E reports, which effectively collocate and present the contributions and findings of professionals with widely varying backgrounds and fields of expertise.
Johan van Geijn has a unique track record as a specialist in international corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the world of sports, particularly in football and international development cooperation. With more than 25 years of experience – heading the international programs at the Royal Netherlands Football Association (KNVB) since 1998 to build local capacity through football in developing countries and low-income countries. More than 20,000 young volunteer coaches have been able to improve themselves in their local environment through programs developed by Johan.
As founder of the WorldCoaches program, Johan has proven many times how sport can serve as a means for social development. Using football as a catalyst for social cohesion, for the position of girls and women in society, for awareness of communicable diseases, drugs and addictions or clean water.
With the international challenges surrounding migration and refugees, using football as an initiator for programs to tackle youth unemployment in these countries. A range of thematic social challenges where Johan has been able to let football contribute to the approach and often to the solution.
Joaquin, director of To the core of things, is a monitoring, evaluation, researcher and programme manager of multimillion regional programmes and projects specialised in human rights, media, gender, community tourism and children/youth.
As the director and principal consultant of To the core of things consultancy firm, I bring over two decades of experience in results-based management, monitoring, and evaluation of international development programs, with a deep familiarity with EU and UNEG norms and standards. Throughout my career, I have developed and refined evaluation systems, policies, and related guidance for various DGs, national authorities, international NGOs and UN agencies. My work spans multiple regions, including Africa, Latin America, and Asia, focusing on human rights, media, gender, and education and youth programs. Notably, I have led strategic consultancies for different EU instruments including EIDHR, the EU social fund and also outside the EU for UNESCO and OHCHR. These consultancies focused on monitoring, evaluation, and reporting functions of international organizations including the assessment of these functions of UN agencies, OECD, the Council of Europe and the European Union.
My methodological expertise includes mixed-methods approaches and quasi-experimental designs that emphasise client and partner ownership, coherence with learning curves, and pragmatic solutions. These tools, developed under the Creative Commons IP from To the Core of Things, include research guidelines, organisational capacity assessment, modular reconstruction and adaptation of theories of change, stakeholder network maps methodologies, case study guidelines and approaches, outcome harvesting through Most Significant Change stories and implementation of machine learning approaches to development cooperation programmes.
The principles I apply in all my works are ownership of the works and the processes by the client and partners (through a strong participatory approach); alignment with latest trends in the field (including ICT4D, statistical techniques and humanistic considerations); coherence with the learning curve of the clients, and; pragmatism, proposing solutions in line with the interests, philosophy and capacities of the clients and its partners.
Key relevant work that reflects this range of skills and passions include ROM reviews for multi-country EU programmes, consultancies for UNESCO (evaluaitons, periodic reporting consultancies or MEAL system TA). Also for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) I have developed as well another strategic consultancy assessing their in-house monitoring and reporting function plus other programme and country evaluations. Other donors, include USAID, with consultancies carried for US Internews setting up the methodologies, managing seven multicultural teams and producing seven research products for their Rooted in Trust programme and leading several programme evaluations. Some other relevant examples of my works are the evaluation of an agriculture cooperative based project in Ethiopia funded by NORAD, the evaluation of a community radios programme in Zambia funded by the Netherlands; the research manager position for ECORYS and also academic publications in the Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation.
For more information visit https://tothecoreofthings.consulting; check our track of projects.
Development and Partnerships Manager for the Mediterranean Region and Asia at CFI, the French media development public agency since 2023. He designs and secures financing for projects that support journalists, media outlets, and civil society organizations across MENA. His work is focused on empowering local media ecosystems and ensuring populations have access to reliable and diverse information. Louis has over ten years of experience in international cooperation and project management within the media and film industries in Europe, West Africa, and China. Prior to CFI, he led research and development funds for TV series at the French National Centre for Cinema and served as the film and media attaché at the Consulate of France in Hong Kong and Macau. He holds a Master's degree in lobbying (France) and another in cultural management (UK).
Team Leader cooperation with the OCT - Overseas Countries and Territories