Rebecca Penna

Background

Having spent the first twenty years of her life in the UK, Rebecca has gone on to spend the majority of her career in France where she settled in the early 1990's after graduating from Sussex University.

With an Anglo-European upbringing she has accumulated many years of personal and professional intercultural experience, particularly in service related industries and always in multicultural environments. She has also use this experience elsewhere in the retail and tourist industries both in the UK and in France. 

Rebecca spent over ten years working for the British Embassy and UK Trade & Investment (the UK's international trade department), combining diplomacy and international business, two very distinct environments relevant to her work today. She occupied a number of Consular and Commercial positions to later become Vice-Consul (Commercial). 

In 2007 she decided to create her own company and naturally moved into the field of cultural diversity where today she enjoys designing and delivering tailor-made training programmes and events (in French and English) in cross-cultural communication, managing diverse teams and working effectively across cultures.

Areas of expertise

Thanks to her combined experience in both the events and training worlds, she has an appealing pedagogic manner combining both dynamism and consideration.  She helps participants look beyond obvious solutions, enabling them to implement concrete and successful actions.

• Over twenty years of combined experience in training and events.

• Extensive and varied experience in international business, the events and service industries, in particular the tourism and retail sectors.

• A dynamic and focussed delivery style.

• She excels in bringing to the forefront the essential points for progress through experiential and results based activities.

• She excels at helping individuals look beyond obvious solutions enabling them to implement concrete and effective actions. 

Client references

She has worked on projects for a broad range of clients in Europe including :

Air France/KLM

Gemalto

AREVA

Arval (BNP Group)  

BNP Paribas

SCA

Volvo

ESCP-Europe

Redcats (PPR Group)

CFAO (ex-PPR group)

Ricerca Biosciences