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Our team consists of 15 educational consultants and can always rely on a network of 10 freelance consultants.

Didier Longueville

Didier Longuevile is a business partner. He has a master of literature of the University of Liège and has been working as a consultant since 1996. Public speaking, energizing, taking the lead in a train of thoughts and concretizing actions form the core of his being. Via his passions, education and advising, coaching a basketball team, raising his 3 children, he build up his career based on extensive experience. Enthusiastically and demanding he leads the commercial expanse of Progress and the development of the staff members. Team management and commercial practice, project management and public speaking, he intervenes on many levels, each level enhances the other levels. Managing the opportunities, efficiency and working as a team are some more of his many talents.

Favourite citation :

« Everyone is important but nothing is irreplaceable”, “Every problem is a opportunity. »

Régis Collette

Régis Collette is the other business partner. As a graduate in political science and of the HEC-School for Business Administration of Liège he started his career in a company of a British group that specialized in programs of education, sales and negotiation for Belgium, France and the Czech Republic. Then he worked as an administrator in an IT firm, his next step was to return to his first love, training, working freelance for several prestige firms. In 2001 he started Progress. Besides interventions for clients, he is responsible for marketing, administration and knowledge development. His specialities are: Change management, personnel development and negotiation. He is father of 3 children and loves sailing, wine and travelling.

The citation he loves is :

« Listen to the forest that grows instead of to the tree that falls » G. HEGEL

Florence Coutellier

Florence Coutellier is a consultant trainer specializing in the field of the Public sector. As a master in History and Communication she started her career as an assistant at the University of Liège in the department for Economic and Social History. Responsible for the preparation of lessons and several research projects she is especially interested in human resources and the management of businesses from Lièges during the last two centuries.

Leaving the academic world she decided to concentrate on the other part of her education: communication. She becomes a journalist and also takes care of the communication for a society with social and medical interests. After working two years in this field she starts in 2001 in the firm of Régis Collette and Didier Longueville as trainer. Today she occupies herself with commercials activities, management of several projects in the Public Sector and giving training.

Her preferred disciplines are assertive communication, personnel development and dialogue techniques. As a mother of a daughter she spends most of her free time parenting, meanwhile she tries to find time for her hobbies: singing, cooking and reading.

Her favourite citation is :

« Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing » (H. Keller)

Xavier Willemart

Xavier Willemart is one of the trainers. He connects the different sectors in our organisation. Before working as a lawyer he concentrated his energy in the IT sector. After selling his stocks he turns to other sectors: lawyer in a bank (and trainer…), freelance trainer and consultant in the management of industrial production, director of a bank subsidiary, then commercial and responsible for a site in the centre of an equatorial forest in Africa, administrator… He was able to connect to a variety of business cultures. He started at Progress in 2006. He occupies himself mainly with the commercial development en sees to training and personnel counselling of our clients. He has a good view on what makes a business, a good knowledge of diversity and loves the warm contact he has we the participants. Commercial methods, efficient communication, personnel development and team management are the domains he prefers.

One of his favourite citations is :

« Who talks sows, who listens harvests » Pythagore

Annick Sulon

Annick Sulon is a trainer consultant for Progress Consulting. From the start of her career she focused on commercial development and product carriers for services. After a few years she was director of an agency for a world famous human resource company, specializing in the interim sector. After 4 years and managing 4 agencies, the directors asked her to continue the good work and to develop new projects. Soon she added a centre for recruitment and selection in Brussels (Nieuwstraat), working with a team of 20 people, specializing in call centres and internal recruitment became part of her success story. During her career she encountered many changes, which to her were an enjoyable challenges.

In 2004 she was looking to balance work with family life, which made her go in search of change. She was lucky to be able to apply herself to a new job, which she loved: behavioural trainer. Progress Consulting opened the door to her in September, she did not doubt and took up the challenge. Her story started. She loves communicating by phone and receiving clients, she finds the working environment stimulating. Her new development project is intergenerational management and generation Y (job starters). She can talk hours and days about this subject.

She has 2 daughters of the Z-generation, a husband (time consuming!) and a cat that thinks it is a dig. She loves reading, gardening and… eating! And lots more. She loves Mauranne, she hates delays, she loves children, she does not love lies, and she hates oysters but she is starting to appreciate Burgundy…

Denis Thibaut

Denis Thibault’s experiences in management and coaching instilled him with the qualities necessary for subject matter in the sphere of management and he obtained the optimal competence for salesmanship, and the development as manager. Thus he combines the commercial and the managing dimensions of marketing.

The analysis of the development possibilities, the validation of the reactivity of the market and the development of a tactical prospecting plan gives him the opportunity for a commercial approach and makes the developing a suitable training path possible.

With his natural creativity he is sees development possibility others do not think of. He tries to be an example for his colleagues and likes to help others. He shares his ability with his colleagues naturally and with humour.

His is the happy father of a 6-year-old daughter; his hobby’s are sports, diner with friends…

Citation :

« No knowledge, however extensive, leads to total wisdom without self-knowledge. » Bernard de Clairvaux

Didier Dengis

My motivation: "To make the things advance ".
I draw my energy from the visible results of the change: process of company, team or individual.

I am Engineer Civilian Physicist. Five years in nuclear safety and five years in the management of the Belgian subsidiary of an American oil company enabled me to apprehend the mechanisms and … the wheels of the companies and to acquire a pragmatic experience in management and in people management.

A complementary experience in an international advice office allowed me to practice many methodologies, to adapt them to the needs of the customers, to simplify them.

During this period, I developed and managed many projects. Since, I enriched my experience of consulting by integrating it in the human behavioral dimensions.

My favorite sentence :

« The light is born from chaos »

Thierry Poncin

Thierry Poncin….who am I ?

I generally start my training sessions with the following sentence: “If you believe everything I say, your mad!”

Who am I to possess the truth?

My job: to start the conversation with the participants, to introduce the tools of the trade, the participants try to use these tools! If it works, my words get meaning.

I am practical I am not a technician.

As a physiotherapist I often hear that my current job is very different… but I am not so sure!

I used to improve my patience wellbeing with my hands, with appliances and by listening attentively.

I love people, my job and life.

Be careful… I am contagious.

Anne Malpas

Anne Malpas is a trainer consultant. As qualified psychologist and educationalist of the University of Liège (Belgium) she started her career in an interim company as advisor of recruitment in the medical and paramedical domain. After a few months she was a commercial advisor in the firm. Then she occupied the same post in another interim company. Foremost she wanted to return to the job she trained for, so she left the company and started her own practice for psychotherapy and coaching in Liège. Round about that time she got acquainted with Didier en Régis. Since 2005 she works with Progress. Her interests are: personnel development, enneagram and motivation. She has a son, loves music, engages in socio-cultural activities and nights out with friends.

A citation she loves :

There is only one way to win: by leading your life as you want. "
Ch. MORLEY

Dominique Fievet

After working as a secretary, Dominique turned her attention towards psychology by training in NLP (Neuro-Linguïstic Programming) and ericksons hypnosis. During her private consultations in relational aid she was able to develop and share her passion for personnel development and guidance in change. She is also focused on group animation during the lessons and seminars with as central axe the individual, his wellbeing and integration in his personnel world. Three years ago she started at Progress as a trainer.

As a divorcée with 3 children, she loves music, cinema and those moments with friends.

A citation she loves :

" To hope does not mean that you think that everything will end well. It simply means that you think that everything has meaning. " Václav Havel

Catherine Cornet

Catherine Cornet is a trainer at Progress Consulting. She has a degree in Psychology and is specialized in group and organisation psychology; she is a hypnotherapist from the Milton Erickson Institute of Liège (Belgium), assistant at the School of Higher Education of the Province of Liège as a lecturer in Psychology, professional teacher and CAPAES, actress and acting teacher. She has lots of experiences in training (mediating, negotiating, group dynamics, dialogue techniques, verbal and non-verbal communication…) and in consultancy at several companies as Arselor, Glaxo Smith Kline, Galler... She started her career as a lecturer in Psychology at several Schools for Higher Education in Belgium. In 2008 she became a staff member at Progress Consulting. She mainly works for ENF and EFA. Her obsessions are: self-knowledge, personnel development, stress management, assertiveness, conveying difficult messages, … She does not have any children, she loves reading, music, laughing and travelling

Ingrid Quoibion

Ingrid has been a trainer-consultant with Progress since 2004. Licensed in philosophy (Ulg), specialised in the philosophy of psychology (Hull, UK), passionate about communication, I oriented myself from the beginning of my career in a very natural way towards trainings in companies. I had the good fortune of being able to develop, in a very rapid manner, my experience with international clients, such as Winthertur, UBS, Oracle,…

After a professional break which resulted in two children and a specialisation in communication related to the environment, I discovered the behavioural approach thanks to Progress Consulting and… I’m never leaving it!

Since 2006, my strong environmental values and taste for the systemic approach, pushed me to invest my competence in the trainings organised by the Permanent Conference of Territorial Development, through the University of Liege: the planning of the territory is the place for all the complexities and challenges, and contributing to “making things advance” satisfies my need of engagement and coherence… Since then I split my energy and enthusiasm between these very complementary areas.

Giving direction, turning the certitudes upside down to provoke behavioural changes and a long-term approach, those are the things that animate my work. In my personal life, besides my family that remains a priority, I do yoga and jogging, and cherish the dream of one day doing music again, but … everything at it’s own time.

The citation she loves is :

" Live as if you would die tomorrow. Learn as if you would live forever. " Mahatma Gandhi

Aurélie Van Holsbeeck

Aurélie Van Holsbeeck is a young and dynamic woman with a degree in Commercial science.

Thanks to her French-speaking mother and Dutch-speaking father, she was raised within both cultures and is perfectly bilingual French-Dutch.

Aurélie loves to travel and to mix herself in different cultures. This motivated her to work in London, Paris, Buenos Aires and Beijing in different sectors, with one aspect in common “human contact”.

Her diverse foreign experiences made Aurélie into a very social person who adapts quickly to the environment and people.

Her domains of preference are the commercial approach B2B/B2C, verbal/non verbal communication, human resources and techniques of recruitment.

The citation she loves is :

" Nothing is more powerful than an idea for which the time has come " V. Hugo

Ayla Martel

Ayla Martel is an inspiring and enthusiast trainer, who can look back on many years of experience in management and sales. During the largest part of her career she worked as management consultant and account manager in one of the Top 4 consultancy companies.

A few years ago her passion for accompanying people, teams and organisations took the upper hand, so she committed herself to working full-time as a trainer-consultant. She’s specialised in the accompaniment of change and leadership trajectories.

Her passion: bringing people in movement in an integer and respectful manner. As gestalt therapist she deepened her knowledge of NLP. She is certified as coach and counsellor, as is she a certified trainer in Value Management. Mother of a strong willed daughter, Ayla lives in the region of Brussels, where she created an oasis of peace for herself in the midst of the rush.

The citation she loves is :

" "When the wind of change blows, some build shields. Others build windmills." "

Didier Delmal

Licencié en Information et Communication à l’Université de Liège, Didier est journaliste professionnel depuis dix ans. Collaborateur pour la presse quotidienne, les magazines ou la presse d’entreprise, il est rompu aux différentes techniques de communication et d’analyse de l’information. Parallèlement, depuis 2008, il est également responsable d’une Agence de Développement local. Un métier qui lui permet de gérer des projets, des équipes et d’être en contact avec plusieurs univers différents.

Didier est formateur chez Progress Consulting depuis trois ans. A 30 ans, il adore les (trop rares) moments passés en famille et avec ses proches suite à une autre passion dévorante : le basket-ball. Diplômé ADEPS, Didier s’occupe de la formation des jeunes dans plusieurs clubs de la province de Liège avec, comme objectif, tant la progression sportive que l’épanouissement personnel des enfants.

Une citation qu’il aime :

"Trop tard pour hier, trop tôt pour demain."

Valérie Henrotte

"Aucun problème ne peut être résolu sans changer le niveau de conscience qui l’a engendré."

Les expériences professionnelles qui ont suivi mes études de commerce m’ont amenée à observer la complexité des réponses comportementales des individus en situations difficiles. J’ai été frappée par la difficulté que nous avons à trouver des solutions efficaces lorsque nous ne nous permettons pas de prendre du recul. J’avais trouvé ma voie : ma carrière s’est orientée vers la formation, j’ai rejoins en 2004 l’équipe de Progress Consulting en tant que formatrice-consultante et parallèlement à mes activités professionnelles, ai complété ma formation par une licence en psychologie et sciences de l’éducation (ULG puis UCL).

J’aime que la formation soit pratique et agréable, que les échanges et exercices soient le starter de mon moment préféré, celui où dans le regard, s’allume l’étincelle de la remise en question, de la réponse, du chemin vers la solution, du changement déjà en mouvement.

L’assertivité et l’amélioration des compétences émotionnelles sont quelques uns des sujets qui pimentent le quotidien de ma vie professionnelle. Pour mon plus grand plaisir, je collabore actuellement aux travaux de chercheurs du département ECSA (émotions, cognitions et santé) de l’UCL via le travail entrepris pour le mémoire qui clôture cette licence.

Maman de deux jeunes enfants, j’ai de plus l’extraordinaire chance de ne connaître aucune journée qui ne m’offre de nombreuses opportunités de gérer stress, émotions et conflits !

Une citation qu’elle aime :

"N’importe qui peut se mettre en colère, c’est facile. Ce qui est difficile, c’est de se mettre en colère face à la bonne personne, au bon moment, pour un bon motif et de la bonne façon"

Hilde Nicasi

After graduating from Antwerp University with a masters’ degree in International Political Sciences in 1989, I started immediately my own company in the hospitality business. It grew to organizing international events and later also incentives. Especially through the organization of incentive packages for employees (sales, scouting locations in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America and finally guiding these groups), I discovered the use of several techniques and methods regarding team dynamics and team building, as well as ‘change’ management and leadership.

In 2006, I chose a new career path in my life and became a trainer – consultant. Through my experiences in the past I feel more attracted to a practical way of teaching and I am always eager to know the opinion of others. Every training is like a new experience for me, a different challenge, a possibility to encourage people to think about their own work situation and personal life in a different way.

I have lived in the center of Antwerp (Belgium) for more than 20 years and feel comfortable in this cultural melting pot. In the meantime my personal life has grown to become a newly formed family with 5 children between the age of 8 and 13. I still manage to find time to pursue my own interests, to travel to different cultures, sailing and reading books in the original language of the author.

The citations she loves are :

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere"
Albert Einstein

"Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living."
Miriam Beard

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