The Happy Expat - A conference on leaving & returning home, and the fantastic adventure in between

Are you interested in having a foreign adventure and learning from the experiences of our expat alumni who have spent many years in the four corners of the globe? Or perhaps you have recently returned from a foreign posting and would like a few pointers? Then come along to the:

Conference on foreign postings: "The Happy Expat: Leaving and returning home, and the fantastic journey in between!"

Thursday 6 November 2014  at 6.30 pm

SKEMA SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS Campus
60 rue Dostoïevski
06902 SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS

Cocktails will be served after the meeting

Please register on line before 31 October 2014

With 3 guest speakers:

  Anne Lesaffre (1990): Organisation Consultant at LCL in Paris

International HR experience (relocation management, career management, recruitment and outplacement, coaching for expatriate spouses): London (6 years) and Brussels (4 years)

Anne currently lives in Belgium and France

   Hakim ID'MHAND (2012), Freight Tracking & Quality Manager (Projects) at BaByliss

Experience: USA, England, China

Master MSc Project & Program Management/Business Development
>Subject: The Impact of Cross-cultural Project Management Issues at C.E.R.N in Geneva – Switzerland (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

  Jean-Christophe Renard (1995), Commercial Director at O&N  

14 years' international experience at various levels: CSN (now VIE) in Romania, local contract in Italy, foreign posting for Carrefour in Poland (opening and managing a local sourcing office), and secondment for Tesco UK to the Czech Republic.  

He has visited 43 countries on business or on vacation

He currently manages the French branch of the O&N ROSI group, an Italian SME which manufactures and distributes doormats, bath mats and bath and beach towels

Topics covered:

1. Moving abroad: how to prepare for your departure (tools, advice, assistance, services offered by SKEMA ALUMNI: international clubs, ambassadors, etc.)
2. A new culture (and how to adapt to it): a synopsis of Hakim's report on cross-cultural project management issues
3. The risks of expatriation
4. Returning to France (how to settle back in)

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