Catherine Guyard
I put my energy, perseverance, and creativity at the service of your transformation projects. My philosophical model is Stoicism. People say that I am dynamic, positive, professional, and caring.
My 27 years of experience in the automotive industry have allowed me to experience several major transformations and to work on skills and engagement with different perspective: as a technical expert, manager, and then HR.
HR Master , specialty “Evaluation and Development of Potentials” Marie et Louis Pasteur University (2023).
Global coordination of recruiting and on-boarding of talents of the Hydrogen Division of Faurecia Clean Mobility (@ 300 employees).
Identification and development of potentials.
Supporting managers with the engagement and development of their team with individual and collective actions as well as piloting performance.
HR projects pilot : organization / re-organization of R&D and Engineering, technical competences management, requalification and re-skilling programs supporting internal cross functional mobilities.
Professional Coach (Coaching Ways, 2021).
Teams coaching (Cegos, 2023), First Aid in Mental Health (2023), 101 Module of Transactional Analysis (2024) trainings.
Coaching of individuals in the context of cross functional mobilities or 1rst managerial position (over 180h of practice).
Team coaching: feedbacks and improvement workshops, co-developments (over 150h of practice).
Set-up and animation of soft-skills trainings: feedback, assertiveness, stress, time, emotions and conflicts management.
Trainings: « Management » (2015) and « Interpersonal Management » (2016) at KPM institute and « Advanced Leadership Program » from Forvia University (2017).
More than 10 years experience in management: direct management within the Material Laboratory (operators, technicians and supervisors), then leading a team of 10 Specialists and Experts split between France and Germany. Functional management with the animation of the canning network and the animation of the community of network leaders of Faurecia Clean Mobility in an international context (USA, Mexico, Brazil, India, China, Korea and Japan).
Change agent during the reorganization of Engineering teams in 2018 and during the roll-out of the new process of innovation projects management in 2019.
Engineer in Chemistry from Paris National Chemical Engineering School (1993) and PhD in Organic Chemistry from Pierre & Marie Curie University Paris 6 (1997).
Technical competences in ceramic materials and the durability of automotive emission control systems, recognized by an Expert nomination in 2007 and Senior Expert in 2014 and 7 patents.
Responsible for the technical validation of exhaust subcomponent. Contribution to purchasing strategy with technical inputs.
Know-how capitalization & transmission with training and technical mentoring activities.