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Our core team, led by Maggie, consists of experienced professionals who have collaborated closely with each other for many years, and who dedicate a significant portion of their time to Sokrates Partners projects.

  • North America
    • Akira Otani
    • Amy McDonald
    • Elspeth Chasser
    • Johan Naudé
    • Laura Daley
    • Martha Debs
    • Margreet (“Maggie”) Van De Griend
    • Michelle Malloy
    • Mike Moore
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    • Ushma Pandya
  • Latin America
    • Martin Sommer
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    • Alper Tengüz
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    • Arjen Iwema
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    • Deborah Thomas
    • Jason Rabinowitz
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    • Paul ter Linden
    • Philippe Leonard
    • Sara Ais
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    • Akira Otani
    • Bel Popovic
    • Huihan Lie
    • Martha Debs
    • Sankar Krishnan
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  • North America
    • Akira Otani
    • Amy McDonald
    • Elspeth Chasser
    • Johan Naudé
    • Laura Daley
    • Martha Debs
    • Margreet (“Maggie”) Van De Griend
    • Michelle Malloy
    • Mike Moore
    • Rob Elsey
    • Ushma Pandya
  • Latin America
    • Martin Sommer
  • Europe
    • Alper Tengüz
    • Andrea Ingrisch
    • Arjen Iwema
    • Brian McIlroy
    • Deborah Thomas
    • Jason Rabinowitz
    • Margreet (“Maggie”) Van De Griend
    • Martha Debs
    • Michael Newman
    • Nick McRoberts
    • Paul ter Linden
    • Philippe Leonard
    • Sara Ais
  • Asia
    • Akira Otani
    • Bel Popovic
    • Huihan Lie
    • Martha Debs
    • Sankar Krishnan

Bel Popovic

The Curious Cultural Pragmatist

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Bel has always been curious about the decisions people make in life and business. This curiosity combined with a unique approach in facilitating challenging conversations with top teams allows her clients to tap into what is truly valued and how those values impact their results.

Her passion is helping clients understand how their current culture impacts the execution of their future strategy, and what are the necessary culture changes needed for a different result. Her work ranges from facilitating top team interventions and organizational design, to strategy facilitation and executive coaching. By helping clients bridge the gap between their strategy and culture, Bel helps them drive a better business result, that is sustained over time.

In her consulting work over the past two decades, Bel has served top teams in finance, retail, FMCG, telecommunications, IT, and specialist medical industries. She appreciates that her role as consultant is to ask robust questions that go beyond what clients have already asked themselves.

Executives enjoy her direct, thoughtful and pragmatic approach when working with complex problems. Her combined external consulting and internal advisor experience provides her with foundational links in strategy, leadership and culture. She grounds her work with what is ‘fit for purpose’ and delivers this in non-theoretical ways.

Bel is incredibly fascinated by the nuances of different cultures. Her multi-cultural family comprises of a Croatian husband, an Australian born son who began his early years living in Vietnam, and an Ethiopian born daughter. Moving from Melbourne, Australia to live in Asia (Vietnam and now Singapore) with her family, she enjoys interesting cultural adventures. By the way, the family dog is German!

Credentials

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • Spanish

EXPERTISE

  • Culture change
  • Top Team development
  • Leadership and strategy alignment
  • Organizational design
  • Coaching

EXPERIENCE

  • Director, HRI International 2005 – onward
  • Country Road (South African Woolworths owned company) HR Director 2002- 2005
  • National Australia Bank, Performance Improvement Consultant 2000 – 2002
  • Goodman Fielder, HR & Organizational Development Manager 1998-2000
  • McKinsey & Company, Consultant 1994-1998

EDUCATION

  • Bachelor of Social Science (Psychology),UNSW
  • Masters of Organizational Psychology, UNSW Australia

CURRENT PROJECTS

Cultural change projects for global FMCG, and Telecommunications industry

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