Michel Duquette
Président, ICIZEN Développement personnel
After many years in senior position for companies like Bombardier, Alstom, AREVA and Dresser in several countries (Canada, USA, Mexico, France) I decided recently to create an enterprise with a French partner, in the area of personal development: ICIZEN. This company provided specific services in France in Canada (Québec) but will expand during the year 2009.
Talking about me I consider myself as a good communicator, creative and particularly persistent in the achievement of my objectives. I had somehow the seed of entrepreneurship in me that request only an appropriate ground to grow!
I was able to transfer in ICIZEN, my experience and skills developed in the area of performance optimization, coaching, training and in strategic and action plans elaboration in order to help people that were in the environment as me before, mainly managers and professionals, taking a new steps in their professionals or personal life.
As I enjoyed working in organization where team work is part of the main values, I did the same when I founded this company as I succeed to be surrounded by different specialists from many areas (from engineering to psychology) I believe that it is one way to improve creativity and originality when it is time to provide out of the box solutions to our customers and their families facing more and more demanding challenges in their lifes.
To know more about: www.icizen.com (in French for the moment)
L’idée d’ICIZEN: www.icizen.com
Vendre des services reliés au développement et au mieux-être de la personne, oeuvrant en particulier dans le domaine des affaires, à l'aide d'un environnement approprié (proximité de la nature, hébergement, restauration fine et ateliers de formation) et d’experts maîtrisant différentes techniques de développement personnel.
Derrière l’idée…
Au 10e Colloque sur la santé psychologique au travail tenue à Montréal, une étude révèle que la dépression et le burn-out ont remplacé les maux de dos comme maladie du travail prédominante. En effet plus de 50% des causes d’absence au travail des travailleurs, sont reliées soit a une dépression ou a un burn-out dans l’exercice de leur fonction; et encore on ne déclare pas spontanément ce genre de maladie.
Au Canada, on estime à 14 milliards par année les coûts reliés au stress en milieu de travail, a mentionné M. Brun durant sa conférence. En Europe, il se situe au deuxième rang parmi les problèmes de santé les plus fréquents et constitue 50 % des demandes d'assurance pour invalidité à long terme.
Il est clair que ceci démontre le niveau de mal-être vécu en particulier dans le milieu du travail. Dans ce sens, la prévention dans ce domaine est le moyen le plus sur et économique d’augmenter le bien-être et par conséquent la performance des personnes.
L’engouement pour le bien-être mental et physique est de plus en plus important principalement au Québec et plus récemment en France. L’utilisation de sites appropriés (ex Spas, Relais Château…) et la recherche d’un tel environnement devient de plus en plus populaire pour notre clientèle dans le domaine des affaires soumis à un stress de plus en plus présent dû au phénomène de mondialisation et de compétition. De plus ce phénomène ne s’étend pas seulement à des personnes seules mais de plus en plus aux couples en particulier formés de professionnelles ayant les moyens de se payer cette expérience.
On remarque aussi une nouvelle tendance vers les médecines douces, le bien-être spirituel et corporel, le plein-air, la philosophie zen (vivre le moment présent, ici et maintenant).
Vous aimeriez en savoir d'avantage?
Vous aimeriez recourir au services offerts par ICIZEN?
Vous vous reconnaissez dans le profil du professionnel décrit plus haut et aimeriez en savoir plus sur le concept ICIZEN?
Faites-le nous savoir via Viadeo. Notre champs d'activité s'étend et s'étendra principalement au Québec et en France où selon les statistiques actuellement produites par les organisations gouvernementales, plus de 15% des professionels hommes ou femmes, subissent un stress élevé dans divers aspects de leur existence en relation avec la pression du temps.
Pour en savoir d'avantage n'hésitez pas à visiter notre site : www.icizen.com
Au plaisir d'en discuter avec vous!
2005 - 2007Dresser is a global company, with a sales presence in over 100 countries and manufacturing or customer support facilities in 22 countries, in the area of energy-related businesses, like natural gas or power generation, petroleum production, processing, transportation, storage, refining, petrochemical processing, and retail fuel marketing. Dresser operates in three principal businesses: Flow Solutions, Measurement Systems, and Power Systems.
Flow Control Business, Control Valves Masoneilan division, head office (Avon. MA., USA)
Functions & responsability:
• Manage the Supply Chain teams based in USA (Avon, Houston), Mexico, Brazil, France, Italy, India and China (85 people)
• Assess the Supply Chain population and establish an organization that can fulfil the objectives of Dresser Masoneilan related to material availability, inventory level and cost reduction as well as clear performance indicators to monitor it.
• Implement common strategies, tools, processes and key performance indicators for all the locations of the division.
2003 - 2005AREVA with sales of over 11 billion Euro, is a worldwide leader in energy (production, transmissions and distribution) and connectors
Sector T&D (sold since January 1st 2004 to AREVA), System Business, head office (Paris, France)
Position: Sourcing Vice-President
Functions:
• Manage 20 Sourcing managers in 16 different countries for a total Sourcing population of 100 persons
• Total budget of purchase: 700 M €
• Establish and implement the Sourcing strategy related to material and services cost reduction, logistic needs, and suppliers’ development to support the activities of the units based worldwide.
2001 - 2003ALSTOM with sales of over 18 billion Euros is a leading specialist of global infrastructure for energy and transportation.
Main tasks & responsabilities
• Implement a common and global strategy of cost reductions on components and/or suppliers for all Sectors of ALSTOM worldwide.
• Create and implement permanent international and multidisciplinary working groups representing all Sectors of ALSTOM to support and deploy this strategy.
• Apply this strategy first in the areas of electrical cables (82 M€ with 7% savings achieved) and industrial gases (5 M € with 10% savings achieved).
• Manage the Sourcing faculty of the ALSTOM Learning Institute (ALI) responsible of the Supply Chain training program for ALSTOM worldwide.
1999 - 2001ALSTOM with sales of over 18 billion Euros is a leading specialist of global infrastructure for energy and transportation.
• Re-organisation of sourcing, procurement and store teams in order to support the sales growth of the Montreal unit and achieve the corporate material cost reduction target. One year after the re-organisation, these three teams composed of 40 peoples (20 unionised, 20 non-unionised):
• Achieve 25% material savings.
• Increase the material availability on the production line from 70% to 95%
• Implement cost reduction programs with major suppliers and multi-disciplinary teams
• Establishment of a North-America organisation in sourcing, that 6 months later created an important database for the material requirement forecast of all the Service Business units in Americas (Canada, USA, Mexico, and Brazil). This team also finalised long term agreements on a worldwide basis, with six major suppliers (global purchasing budget of $150 CDN millions).
1999 - 1991Bombardier is a company specialised in the transportation area. It is divided in four major groups: Aeronautic, mass transit, consumer products and financial services. In 1998, Bombardier employed over 40,000 employees all over the world and the total sales were around $8 CDN billions.
Main functions and responsabilities:
• Responsible for the evaluation and the organisation of the production line of the Mexican suppliers used by the Sea-Doo/Ski-Doo divisions.
• Create a purchasing department that have to set up all the systems and processes requested to control the vehicle cost and to assure the purchasing and the procurement of the components for the assembly line (purchasing budget of $50 CDN millions) of a NEV vehicle (Neighbourhood Electric Vehicle). Find, select and co-ordinate suppliers able to develop and produce the NEV components according to a concurrent engineering process.
• Set-up a special purchase department, composed of 15 buyers, mainly engineers, that will find, select and co-ordinate the necessary suppliers for the new components created for every model year. The total purchases were around $800 Millions CDN.