Bernard is a senior global HR leader with over 25 years of professional practice as Vice President of Human Resources in multinational organizations (Danone, Pernod Ricard) in France, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

He has developed an operational and strategic expertise in employee engagement, talent management, leadership development and growing HR communities in diverse business, cultural and geographical contexts recently as Vice President Human Resources in the Asia Pacific region for the French leading Wines & Spirits Group.

Bernard is now supporting organizations worldwide as a senior consultant, trainer and speaker, delivering his expertise and driving organizational and HR transformation. He recently published "New Deal of Employee Engagement: A Sustainable Body-and-Mind Engagement Model" (McGraw-Hill Education 2015) recently adapted in France under the title “Engagement 4.0” (EMS 2018).

Strongly engaged within the business and HR community, Bernard is also keen to share his passion for HR with the next generation, lecturing in business schools and universities and speaking in various executive education programs.