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Kahina Ait-AhmedKA

Kahina Ait-Ahmed

Change Management | Design Thinking | Innovation

€750/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Kahina

I design and manage transformation paths that combine strategic clarity, offer innovation, and field adoption.

For 10 years, I have been supporting organizations that want to rethink their offers, their processes, or their ways of collaborating to create sustainable value.

Areas of intervention:
  • Innovation Strategy & Offer Design
  • Design Thinking
  • Organizational & Cultural Transformation
  • Change Management
My approach:combine strategy, design, and collective intelligence to transform ideas into field-proven solutions – testable, actionable, and measurable.

# From vision to experimentation: I help teams decide faster, with meaning and concrete data.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 10km), Strasbourg (up to 30km), Lyon (up to 10km), Marseille (up to 10km), Lille (up to 10km)

Experience

  • AccorHotels
    Strategic Design and Offer Innovation
    HOSPITALITY
    April 2025 - Today (1 year and 4 months)
    Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
    Context:As part of the launch of an internal consulting firm to support the group's transformation, I assisted in structuring the model and designing an initial study mission on long stays.

    • Co-construction of the internal firm's positioning and approach: articulating strategy / design / user-centric.
    • Conducting a market opportunity study for the "long stay" offer:
    • Market analysis & benchmarking
    • Formalization of a clear and differentiating value proposition
    • User journey mapping and business scenario construction
    • Preparation of the strategic framework and roadmap for field prototyping

    Results:
    • Structured internal consulting model, based on a design + strategic vision
    • User testing & prototyping approach integrated into the innovation decision-making process
    Design Thinking Business Strategy Product Innovation Customer Experience
  • BNP
    Deploying Agility and Accelerating Customer Innovation
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    November 2022 - July 2024 (1 year and 8 months)
    Levallois-Perret, France
    Context:Mission within the European sales department to structure a customer-centric agile model and accelerate the creation of innovative services with business impact.

    Organization Design and Field Agility Support
    • Implementation of a new agile model (backlog, sprint, retrospective) within 5 multidisciplinary teams
    • Coaching for the adoption of collaborative rituals and mindset
    • Implementation of adoption KPIs: user feedback, NPS, usage indicators
    Customer-Centric Innovative Offer Design
    • Facilitation of +50 design thinking workshops: value proposition, POC creation, digital strategy, customer journey, sales pitches
    Examples of prototypes co-created with the teams
    • Creation of a new car insurance offer: definition of the value proposition, journey design, prototyping, and field testing (75% adoption).
    • Design of a new credit offer in Italy: formalization of the value proposition, customer journey storyboard, and deployment roadmap.
    • Design of a new B2C value proposition: ideation workshops, POC formalization (customer journey + sales pitch)
    • Actionable CSR sales pitch: co-design of a unified argument between sales and CSR teams, tested in the field (12 salespeople trained, 3 contracts signed)
    • Pan-European digital strategy diagnosis and design: analysis of the existing strategy and co-construction of a unified target (journey, tools, messages) with local teams, prioritized roadmap
    • Europe brokers workshops: cross-functional alignment and prioritization of issues with local teams
    Results:
    • 2 MVPs tested in less than 8 weeks, incorporating customer feedback
    • Direct contribution to internal skill development in innovation and user empathy.
    Design Thinking Agile at Scale Agile Transformation Product Innovation Organizational Design
  • Naos
    Deploying SAP S/4 and Supporting Field Teams
    HEALTH AND WELLNESS
    January 2025 - May 2025 (4 months)
    Aix-en-Provence, France
    • Definition of change management strategy implementation
    • Preparation and facilitation of impact analysis workshops
    • Implementation of communication and training actions
    Change Management Training Communication SAP S/4 HANA Digital Transformation

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Education

  • Master in Management
    Kedge Business School
    2016
  • Double Degree
    Hong Kong University
    2016

Certifications

  • OKR
    Measure what matters
    2024
    OKR
  • Transactional Analysis
    University of Strasbourg
    2019
    Transactional Analysis

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