Graduated with a Master’s degree in Private Law from the University of Nanterre Paris X, as well as a postgraduate degree in Marketing from ESC Rouen, Élodie has over 20 years of experience in HR consulting, with a strong expertise in behavioral skills assessment and talent development. She began her career in recruitment, specializing in direct sourcing of engineers for industrial companies, initially as a Researcher and later as a Recruitment Consultant. She then transitioned into HR consulting, where she carried out assignments in assessment, outplacement, and executive coaching, particularly with multicultural profiles in international contexts for two firms operating locally and nationally, in sectors such as industry, retail, and banking.

In 2020, she co-founded an agency specializing in HR innovation, offering a QVCT/CSR subscription-based solution for SMEs and mid-sized companies.

She joined Grant Alexander in Nantes in 2024 as a Senior Consultant and Executive Coach within the Leadership Development practice.

• Executive coaching
• Talent development
• Leadership development
• Career transition

After a Master’s degree in marketing, communication and business strategies (INSEEC 2019), Léa began her career as a BtoB sales development manager for a French company specialising in online brand protection, domain names & cybersecurity solutions.
She then joined talent.io, Europe’s leading tech recruitment company (SaaS model), as a Sales Executive before becoming a Pre-Sales Engineer at a French cybersecurity pure player.

Aloïs Leleu began his career as a Digital Transformation Consultant for a Paris-based consultancy firm, before moving on to join an American headhunting firm as an Analyst in the Global Technology practice.

Between his two professional experiences, he graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a degree in media and telecommunications governance.

He joined Grant Alexander in 2023 as a Consultant in the Digital and Technology team. Specialising in AI and HPC, with achievements for major clients, he brings to the group his solid experience in advising CAC 40 / SBF 120 companies on their digital, IT and transformation strategy.

He also holds a double degree in European Politics from Sciences Po Paris and King’s College London.

After graduating with a Master’s in Advanced Study on Management Sciences, specializing in Human Resources, Sophie Germain served in a company as a HR Development Manager for 13 years. She has worked in several sectors of activity (connectics, automobile and healthcare industries) and thus acquired experience of a wide range of environments and HR issues. While working at Areva, Covidien and Nissan, Sophie developed her skills in recruitment, training and talent management in numerous innovative and ever-changing environments.

In 2010, she decided to concentrate on consultancy and has thrived in this area ever since. With her expertise in the approach and analysis of candidates in sales and marketing positions and support roles, she has always worked on middle and top management positions.

Sophie Germain joined Grant Alexander in 2017. She first developed Executive Search for the health sector within the company, then chose to join Grant Alexander Executive Interim as a Talent Assessment Manager. She brings to Transition Management her plural vision of the HR profession, on both the employer and recruitment agency sides, as well as her skills in Assessment. In particular, she is Hogan certified, and uses the Athlete Thinking methodology.

In 2023, she become Associate Director.

BUSINESS EXPERTISE

• Executive interim
• Change Management
• Transition Management

Graduated of Université Paris X – Nanterre in occupational psychology, Sandrine Jourdan began her career in HR development with companies in the IT environment.

Then she moved on to recruitment consultancy with various firms as a Consultant with a recruitment consultancy specialist, before becoming a Partner with an Executive Search firm and joining another firm as a Senior Consultant in 2020.

She joined Grant Alexander in 2023 as a Senior Consultant in the headhunting department. Based in Aix-en-Provence, she will help consolidate the Group’s presence in the South-East region.

A graduate of the European Business School Paris and of the ESCP Executive Specialized Master in International Marketing and Communication, Adélaïde Panhard has nearly 15 years of experience in marketing in the world of luxury within international groups.

She started her professional career as a Junior Product Manager in a French cosmetics group before joining an American cosmetics group in 2010 as International Merchandising and Trade Marketing Manager. In 2018, she developed the Digital Marketing department of a perfume company.

In 2019, she accompanies the Customer Experience and International Training department for a Spanish cosmetics, perfumes and fashion group.

She joined us in 2023 to contribute to the development of the Transition Management activity of the group as Associate Director.

A graduate of the Ecole Supérieure de Gestion, Véronique has worked for 25 years in companies of all sizes, in a variety of sectors: food industry, communication agency, mobile telephony, publishing. She has mainly held marketing management positions, which allows her to intervene at all levels of the value creation chain and to have a panoramic view of the issues.
Convinced that women and men are the primary asset of an organization, she decided 7 years ago to “change sides”. Today, she accompanies company managers and their teams in revealing and sublimating their individual and collective human potential (better being to do better).
What drives her: (re)energizing complex systems, making relationships more fluid. To be committed to her clients. Her approach is personalized, optimistic, both structured and creative, intuitive and pragmatic, result-oriented.

In February 2023, Véronique will join the Leadership Development team at Grant Alexander.

EXPERTISE

• Executive coaching
• Leadership Development
• Business coaching
• Training

Anne-Claire graduated from CELSA in HR Management and Social Diagnosis of Organizations. For more than 20 years, she has been supporting talent development, career evolution and change dynamics for individuals and companies.

She joined a Parisian firm as a consultant in evaluation and recruitment of executives and managers, supporting internal mobility processes and managing talent skills in the financial, industrial and service sectors. She then joined a French multinational food company in charge of the HR development of support functions for the Group and its subsidiaries.

Her HR consulting practice and her operational experience in HR development in high-stakes corporate and business environments give her a strong expertise in coaching executives and managers and a thorough understanding of her clients’ issues in complex and changing contexts.

Anne-Claire is certified in systemic coaching at Mediat-Coaching and in relational psychotherapy in Transactional Analysis,

In 2023, she joined Grant Alexander’s Leadership Development practice as a Senior Consultant and works on coaching, mobilizing collective intelligence and leadership development.

EXPERTISE

• Executive coaching
• Team coaching
• Career Coaching
• Talent Development
• Leadership Developent

Bruno holds a Master’s degree in Management Sciences from Dauphine University and a post-graduate degree in Finance from CETFI (University of Aix-Marseille). He began his career as a Management Controller and Financial Manager in a large construction group and then in the telecom industry. In 1999, he joined the finance division of a large American firm, world leader in specialized recruitment, as a consultant.

He worked there for more than 20 years, notably managing all permanent recruitment activities in France. In 2018, he was appointed Director of the Executive Search activity of the firm to lead numerous executive search missions for all types of functions and sectors.

He joins Grant Alexander in 2023 within the Executive Search practice as Director of Operations.

EXPERTISE

• Executive search
• Recruitment of support function departments
• Recruitment Operational and general management