Bie De Graeve

Senior Consultant Technology Education

bie.degraeve@a-cross.com

+32 477 311 028

Biography

Bie De Graeve (°1956) built up a professional career in Organization and Management Development. She has accumulated considerable experience in a broad and colourful range of environments including the public sector (city council museum), academic graduate teaching and academic research (University of Ghent), consulting, training and Executive Management Education.

Her Executive Education career started in 1986 at The Vlerick School of Management (Be) as Director General Management Programs and Director In-company Programs.

As of 1999, Bie worked for IFL, Swedish Institute of Management as a part-time Project Manager for International Marketing in Brussels.

At the Tias Business School (Tilburg University and Technology University Eindhoven), Bie started in 1999 as a Senior Client Manager for all In-company Programs with global clients, and devoted much time to the development of a master’s degree program in Retail Management. During this period she served clients including Campina, C&A Europe, SD WORX, and CSM.
 
In 2000, De Graeve became the Director of the MBA Division at the Tilburg Campus. In July 2006, after the major acquisition of NIMBAS Graduate School of Management (Utrecht/Bonn/Taipei), she was responsible for the integration process of the two merging schools and cultures.  As both General Manager of a multiple-location organization and as a member of the Executive Board and Supervisory Board of TiasNimbas Business School, Bie always favored her role as management development advisor and executive education promoter - seeing it as a significant tool for sustainable growth in companies and organizations.

In January 2008, Bie joined the Across Group and provides Across Technology clients and the business community at large, education and management development programs on demand, rousing key-note speeches, motivating lectures, interactive workshops, board meetings, and corporate events.

With her own management consultancy firm, APINI bvba, Bie creates and runs management development programs and functions as a relationship manager for larger in-company programs within or without a business-school context.