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Gael Debaene

Transition Manager

€850/day
Lille, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Gael

My leitmotif is innovation to gain performance, by acting as a digital transformation director and advisor to senior management.
My target audience: SMEs and mid-cap companies
How: by supporting the leader in evolving their strategy, organization, and tools to innovate.

Transformation is a mandatory step to understand and anticipate one's market. Aligning strategy, HR organization, and processes by challenging them, centralizing data, and using it innovatively through a modern information system, allows for performance gains.

Certified as a digital transformation consultant in the industry of the future by the HDFID region, I also have the pleasure of lecturing at the Université du Littoral.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Lille (up to 50km), Dunkerque (up to 50km)

Experience

  • GDE CONSULTING
    Transition Manager
    DIGITAL AND IT
    May 2019 - Today (7 years and 1 month)
    • COO IT Services Company (+20% growth in 2 years, IT Services Company Transformation)
    • PMO, Project Director (industry expert, project-based management, construction)
    • Support for +15 companies (Strategy, ERP selection assistance, Operational management: Modern Workplace, Cyber, Predictive and Generative AI, Lean methodology, ERP)
    • ODOO and Pennylane Specialist (RFE certification)
    Project Management General Management Management Consulting Business Strategy ERP
  • Université Littoral
    Digital Transformation / AI Lecturer
    April 2019 - Today (7 years and 2 months)
    • Lecturer on Digital Transformation for HR functions and Finance executives. Speaker on AI (+10 conferences)
    SMEs to succeed in their digital transformation - Le Monde
  • Ad Ultima
    COO
    March 2015 - April 2019 (4 years and 1 month)
    Management of 40 employees and service providers (Microsoft Dynamics ERP).
    Structuring of support through the ITIL approach.
    Project management and implementation of the Microsoft Dynamics ERP, for the industrial and project-based management sectors.
    Creation of a nearshore center in Casablanca.
    Project Management General Management

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Education

  • MBA GESTION ENTREPRISE
    IAE LILLE
    1997
    MBA
  • Master II in Economics
    UNIVERSITY OF LILLE
    1996

Certifications

  • Electronic Invoicing
    Pennylane
    2025

Skill set

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