Clara Celestino
Senior HR Manager – Microsoft
Clara Celestino holds a degree in Human Resource Management and Work Psychology from ISLA and has a post-graduate degree in Human Resource Management from INDEG-ISCTE. She is also certified in Coaching and NLP.
She began her professional career at General Electric, as Management Controller, then assuming the role of Human Resources Generalist. After GE, she embraced a new challenge at L'Oréal Portugal for 11 years where he had the opportunity to touch several strategic areas within Human Resources: from Diversity, Training and Development, Talent Management, Performance, Ethics, implementation of projects organizational change to the management of Compensation and Benefits.
Since March 2012 she is at Microsoft Portugal. She began as HR Manager and has had several responsibilities for Recruitment, Diversity and Inclusion, Young Talent and Compliance, as well as the management of People's Agenda for various business segments of the Portuguese subsidiary. In February of this year she embraced a new professional challenge and is part of an international team, focused on the Employee Experience of all employees based in Western Europe.
Rosana Silveira Reis
Associate Professor at ISG – International Business School in Paris, France
A brief about me: born in Brazil, I have been living in Europe since July 2004. I have spent six years in Italy, where I defended my PhD at University of Bologna, and the last eight years in France where I’m currently an Associate Professor at ISG - Paris. I have 31 years of experience in Human Resources, and I held several managerial positions for 15 years in Brazil. Due to my strategic position in the market I was invited to give seminars in MBA courses, and over five years I accumulated - in parallel - experience as university lecturer, when I opted for an academic career in 1999. In 2000 I received my Scientific Master’s in Business Administration from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) and in 2010, my PhD in Management from the University of Bologna (Italy).
Since 2000 I have been teaching Human Resource Management, International HRM and Organization Behaviour in Graduation, Masters and MBA programs. Following the International Partnership Program at ISG, I am also a visiting professor at Fundação Dom Cabral – FDC in Brazil (one of the most renowned business schools in Executive Education in the world) and Invited professor in MBA programs at IMPS Business School in Brno (Czech Republic), at University of Bologna (Italy) and at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome (IT).
In my research, I am working in the cross-border of Organization Behaviour, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. My focus is on Ecosystems of Innovation, Culture, Creativity in Global Teams and Leadership. My research has appeared in books and international journals published in English, Portuguese, and Chinese languages. Nowadays I’m developing a research on rebuilding the identity of entrepreneurs and leaders in healthcare start-ups, as well their management implications.
Steven Poelmans
Antwerp Management School, Partner and Director of Kusala Leadership Intelligence Organization, and Founder and Director e of NeuroTrainingLab.
Dr. Steven Poelmans is professor of Neuroscience and Strategic Leadership at Antwerp Management School (BE) and adjunct professor at EADA Business School, partner-director of KLIO (Kusala Leadership Intelligence Organization), and founder-director of the NeuroTrainingLab.
He holds a M. in Organizational Psychology, M. in Marketing Management, Ph.D. in Management, and Postgraduate in Neuroscience of Leadership.
Before he was full professor at EADA Business School (2011-2017) where he directed and taught leadership in the Master Internacional en Liderazgo y Coaching Organizativo (MILCO) and Master en Alto Rendimiento (MARD); and IESE Business School (2011-2010) where he taught (self-) leadership and coaching in executive master programs.
He is the founder of the NeuroTrainingLab™, a leadership development methodology using competencies assessment and neurophysiologic indicators.
His research and consulting mainly focuses on the link between employee wellbeing and productivity, flexible work arrangements, cultural intelligence, coaching, and brain resilience, mostly from a neuroscience or cross-cultural perspective.
He has trained or coached executives in companies like Pfizer, Codorniu, Mango, Deutsche Bank, Grohe, Roche Diagnostics, Banco Santander, IMF, Telefonica, Danone, Nestlé, Randstad, Nike, Novartis, Group ENEL, Japan Tobacco International, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Pan-American Health Organization, and Aga Khan Development Network.
He has coached over 250 MBA-students and executives of more than 30 nationalities.
He has co-authored / edited five academic books with top publishers like Cambridge University Press, Palgrave, Edward Elgar, McGraw-Hill, and Routledge, and authored 28 book chapters.
