Chris Schoch Senior Consultant

Chris has more than twenty years of international experience in management, executive development, and consulting. For nine years he was Director of CEL, a language and international business-training center run by the Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He later served as internal Human Resource Development consultant for a multinational mining consortium. Recently, Chris was head of executive training and development for the Accor hospitality group, which is world leader in hotel management.

Today, Chris provides highly leveraged consulting services to client firms in different industries who are facing the challenges of globalization, and accelerated change. These services include designing and facilitating large-scale strategic change projects, developing intercultural management competency, team chartering and teambuilding, as well as developing executive capacity for leading and guiding change.
Currently based in Paris and San Francisco, Chris has worked extensively in Western Europe, Africa, India, the Middle East, and in South and North America.

His present and past clients have included Accor Group, Alcatel Business Systems, Arjo-Wiggins-Appleton , Bull , Cofinoga , Crédit Agricole , Electricity de France , Formula 1/ Etap Hotels , L’Oréal , Limagrain Group, Neste Chemicals, Oberoi Hotels , Ondeo Industrial Solutions, Quille Construction , Robert Bosch Gmbh, Servair S.A./ Air France, Reckitt and Colman, Remy Martin, and Schering Plough.

Parallel to his consulting work, he has taught in executive development programs in Europe and the United States including the MIB program of "Ecole Nationale de Ponts et Chausées," the " Centre de Perfectionnement des Affaires," and the Antioch University Graduate Management Program in Seattle. In 1995 he chaired the Centre for Organizational Studies (COS) annual Round Table on the theme of emerging organizational dynamics.

Chris regularly contributes articles to professional journals such as "At Work," published by Barret & Kohler in the US, and " Forum," published by the European Foundation for Management Development. Recently he co-authored a prize-winning case on Ikea’s global organization.

Following his undergraduate work, for which he received a B.A. from the University of San Francisco, he obtained a French license in literature, and subsequently completed the advanced program for Intercultural Communication at Stanford University. He is certified as Organizational Development Practitioner by Transformance Institute in Paris, and Team Management Systems in London.

Cynthia Scott