Ms. Akwule MBA BSBA – Senior Consultant
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Ms. Akwule is an approved Senior Consultant at Appleton Greene and she has experience in information technology, management and human resources. She has achieved a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. She has industry experience within the following sectors: Technology; Consultancy; Digital and Internet. She has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America; Nigeria and United Kingdom, or more specifically within the following cities: Washington DC; Atlanta GA; San Francisco CA; Lagos and London. Her personal achievements include: created patent pending web application; created web application development roadmap; developing an artificial intelligence-based platform and created workshop for addressing microaggressions. Her service skills incorporate: product development; customer research; customer segmentation; development process and product roadmap.

Mr Gutierrez BBA – Executive Consultant
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Mr Gutierrez is an approved Executive Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in human resources, management and e-business. He has achieved a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Education; Telecommunications; Manufacturing; Construction and Banking & Financial Services. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America, or more specifically within the following cities: Dallas TX; Las Vegas NV; Seattle WA; Los Angeles CA and Washington DC. His personal achievements include: launched graduate leadership program; launched integrated learning center; facilitated HR business partnering model; automated human resources processes and facilitated performance management process. His service skills incorporate: professional development; automation implementation; performance management; policy development and employee relations.

Mr Briers BComm – Executive Consultant
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Mr Briers is an approved Executive Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in management, human resources and information technology. He has achieved a Bachelor Degree in Business and a Certificate in Labour Relations. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Automotive; Internet; Consultancy; Logistics and Restaurants. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: South Africa; Australia; China; India and New Zealand, or more specifically within the following cities: Johannesburg; Pretoria; Cape Town; Melbourne and Shanghai. His personal achievements include: implemented a global financial system; developed talent management strategies; designed a business intelligence system; implemented performance management systems and recruitment strategy development. His service skills incorporate: performance management; talent management; change management; business intelligence and skills development.

Mr Conde MA BBSc Dip – Executive Consultant
Javier-Conde

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Mr Conde is an approved Executive Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in management and information technology. He has achieved a Master’s Degree in Social Development, a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Science and a Diploma in Social and Cultural Latin-American Anthropology. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Non-Profit & Charities, Government; Consultancy, Food & Beverage and Defense. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: Spain; Costa Rica; Panama; Mexico and Colombia, or more specifically within the following cities: Madrid; San Jose; Panama City; Mexico DF and Bogota. His service skills incorporate: project management; program management; office management; SME consulting and standards alignment assessment.

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Sustainable Leadership

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Sustainable leadership’ recognizes the complex interdependency between individuals, business, markets and society and the ecosystem, with the aspiration that the organization creates prosperity and social value as well as long term commercial success, while protecting the environment in which we are all participants. Sustainable leadership requires leaders to focus on four critical relationships. Intro-personal: attending to own psychological and physical health, in particular the ability to learn from experience, a sense of personal purpose, and care for own physical well being and vitality. Organization: attending to the conversations going on in the organization and how these influence cultural norms, the achievement of business goals and the customer experience. Society: taking account of the fact that we are not somehow separate from the society in which we live and do business, we are all participants in creating this society; aiming to create social value and prosperity not only for ethical reasons, but because business needs a healthy society in which to operate. Environment: protecting the environment and minimizing the environmental impact of the organization.

Mr Aleixo PhD MBA MS – Senior Consultant
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Mr Aleixo is an approved Senior Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in marketing, management and e-business. He has achieved a PhD in Design, a Master of Business Administration in Marketing Management, a Master in Marketing, a Post-Graduation in Design Management and a Post-Graduation in Industrial Design. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Internet; Entertainment; Logistics; Media & Marketing and Advertising. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: Portugal; Angola; Brazil; Cape Verde and China, or more specifically within the following cities: Lisbon; Luanda; Rio de Janeiro; Praia and Macao. His personal achievements include: permanent consultant and formator at CPD, the Portuguese Design Center; created and managed the New Business Management Board of the Optimedia International Network; being the Portuguese representative of the Interpartners Worldwide Group, who have ad agencies in 40 cities of 25 countries for 9 years; worked with several big international clients of Duil International, from 10 different countries and training period in Industrial Marketing and Design for the Scandinavian countries in 1987. His service skills incorporate: general management; country management; marketing management; sales management and payments systems.

Mr Metz BA – Executive Consultant
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Mr Metz is an approved Executive Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in management, human resources and information technology. He has achieved a Bachelor of Arts. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Manufacturing; Retail; Consultancy; Advertising and Technology. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America and Mexico, or more specifically within the following cities: New York NY; Los Angeles CA; Chicago IL; Atlanta GA and Honolulu HI. His personal achievements include: successfully created first licensed jewelry program for Shop At Home, Scripps Media; implemented complete guild inventory program for Signet; retooled and refined inventory assortment for Lenox; negotiated successful licensing program for Helzberg and created merchandising and marketing departments for retailer in Cancun, Mexico. His service skills incorporate: project management; personnel training; business analysis and agreements negotiations.

Mr Harper MBA BA – Senior Consultant
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Mr Harper is an approved Senior Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in management; human resources and finance. He has achieved a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Manufacturing; Healthcare; Utilities; Aerospace and Defense. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America and Canada, or more specifically within the following cities: San Francisco CA; Los Angeles CA; Oakland CA; Des Moines IA and Toronto. His personal achievements include led shared services organization and provided leadership to over 1,500 employees and was responsible for an annual operating budget in excess of $500 million; directed over $3.5 billion of annual spend, which included corporate and utility operations. Drove overall savings of 15%; developed and led implementation of company’s Diversity and Inclusion program; centralized the procurement group into customer-focused teams to align with engineering research group. This allowed to team to have much quicker response time, which shortened the engineering turnaround time and launched a Workforce Planning and Aspirational Hiring goal-setting benchmarked to the Labor Market and successfully achieved goals for past two years. His service skills incorporate: talent acquisition; supply chain management; operations management; human resource management and strategic planning.

Human Resource Planning

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Human resources planning is a process that identifies current and future human resources needs for an organization to achieve its goals. Human resources planning should serve as a link between human resources management and the overall strategic plan of an organization. Aging worker populations in most western countries and growing demands for qualified workers in developing economies have underscored the importance of effective Human Resources Planning. It is the process for ensuring that the human resource requirements of an organization are identified and plans are made for satisfying those requirements. Workforce planning is a process in which an organization attempts to estimate the demand for labor and evaluate the size, nature and sources of supply which will be required to meet the demand. Human resource planning includes creating an employer brand, retention strategy, absence management strategy, flexibility strategy, talent management strategy, recruitment and selection strategy.

Mr Rocha BBA – Associate Consultant
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Mr Rocha is an approved Associate Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in marketing, management and globalization. He has achieved a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Manufacturing; Electronics; Consultancy; Internet and Retail. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: Canada; United States of America; Mexico; Argentina and Chile, or more specifically within the following cities: Toronto; Chicago; Mexico City; Buenos Aires and Santiago. His service skills incorporate: communication; organization; product knowledge; time management and goal oriented focus.