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John Gaynard, an Irish national,  has been based in France for more than thirty years.   In addition to his consulting activities with major French and International companies, he tutors on such subjects as Understanding European Diversity for the EDHEC Business School in Lille and he tutors the "Managing Knowledge" and "Creativity, Innovation and Change" modules on the (Equis and AMBA accredited) U.K.'s OU Business School MBA Programme in Europe.  He has wide experience in working with the members of European and African Senior Management teams and his areas of expertise are in understanding national cultures, knowledge management and innovation programmes, facilitation of strategic workshops and leadership and management education.  Email : J.Gaynard@syre.com

Jo Maene has a masters degree in the Social Sciences.  For sixteen years she lived in Asia (Malaysia and Thailand) where she worked in governmental health and agricultural projects.  In France, before creating SyRe, she worked for a major international organization where she was responsible for temporary personnel and where she undertook coaching activities.  In 1996 she did the U.K. Open Business School's "Managing Development and Change" course.  Since 1998 she has been certified to use the methods and resources developed by William Bridges in the field of Leading Organizational Transition.  She is trilingual : Dutch, English and French.  Email : J.Maene@syre.com

Recent SyRe projects have included 

• Helping British Managers to function effectively as managers of French teams
• Advising a company specialising in Hazard Waste Management on how to capture Deep Smarts in its best experts
• advising a recently privatised French company on knowledge and competence transfer
• the design and delivery of executive educational programmes
• the setting up of a management academy for the Benelux division of an international FMCG company
• the individual coaching of 200 employees of an American company based in France, Belgium and Holland
• creativity workshops in the context of a large Franco-British merger
• transition management workshops for the managers of a large, French international company about to reorganise its European operations
• transition workshops for elected union personnel involved in a major change
• guidance on large-scale transition in an international FMCG company
• the implementation of ADR (alternative dispute resolution) in a major not-for-profit which had been suffering from three years of internal crisis
• assistance in implementing a 400-person internal consultancy for a large retail firm
• assistance in the writing of a change management programme for a major French supermarket network
• mediation services for a United Nations agency
• transition management seminars for employees going through major outsourcing
• coaching of senior executives of a Fortune 500 company subsidiary based in France
• coaching French startups in the spirit of Amar V. Bhidé's book "The Origin and Evolution of New Business".

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