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Angelika Bergmann is Executive Director at MCE, responsible for Programme Development. She has over 15 years of international experience in senior executive positions of the Broadcast and IT industries. Having lived and worked in New York, Berlin, London, Madrid and now Brussels, her particular expertise is in Leadership and Strategy Implementation for profitable growth in B2C and B2B, Customer Centricity, Change Management, Communication as well as in successfully leading cross-functional, cross-cultural teams.

Education and qualifications
Angelika graduated with honours from the legal faculty of the University of Bonn, Germany, and worked in a prestigious US law firm in New York. After turning to the world of business, she additionally earned an Executive MBA from Kellogg/ Northwestern University (Chicago, USA), graduating in the top 5% of her class.

Professional background
Before joining MCE as a Senior Associate and later as Executive Director, Angelika was President EMEA of Encoda Systems/ Harris Corp, a supplier of highly specialized end-to-end IT systems for the media industry with base in London. Hired for her proven leadership capabilities and industry knowledge, she achieved a full turn-around of the struggling company. She continued in that role after Harris Corporation acquired Encoda in 2004.

Prior to joining Encoda/ Harris, Bergmann was VP and Distribution Director EMEA for CNBC, the pan-European financial news broadcaster in London, managing the profitable channel growth for all of Europe, Middle East and Africa and setting up various local language franchises in key markets. In addition, she has held other senior positions including Executive VP EMEA for Ondas Media, a pan-European Satellite Radio company based in Madrid, and President of Turner Broadcasting for all German-speaking territories, based in Berlin, where she built and grew the business and the brands for CNN and other Turner TV channels in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Furthermore, Angelika served as a Director on the Board of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany, strengthening and promoting transatlantic business relations at the highest political and industrial levels.

Personal
Angelika is a German national with vast international experience, based in Brussels, Belgium. She speaks English, German and Spanish fluently.

«Leadership and Successful Strategy Implementation –
How to Align People to your Strategy»
Does anybody know a company that still applies the exact same strategy as five years ago, let alone ten years ago? Can any company afford not to adjust its strategy in these increasingly volatile times – and implement any changes to it successfully?

It is a different world now. In the context of macro-economic changes, Angelika Bergmann will explain MCE’s approach to Leadership for the successful implementation of Strategy and Change. In her speech, "Leadership and Successful Strategy Implementation - How to Align People to your Strategy", she will talk about MCE’s experiences working with organizations and individual managers who are challenged with implementing a new strategy or change… and getting their people aligned to it. She will walk the audience through some of the basic concepts and practical tools MCE uses to successfully implement company strategies and company change.

Angelika will share three important conclusions with conference attendees:
1. The personal behaviour of leaders is important in influencing how people think and act, but it is not the only influence – there are at least five other dimensions of influence that leaders and change agents must manage.

2. The leadership and people practices in the organization must support the strategic direction of the organization, not be a copy-pasted “best practice” from a different organization with a different strategy.

3. The various people policies, practices and systems must be congruent with each other in order to provide a consistent message to the people in the organization.