Marie-Noëlle du Bois

Born in Belgium, my transatlantic trajectory started at 11 years of age, when my family moved to the
US (NJ). Returning to Brussels after high school graduation, I studied at Ecole Supérieure de Communication et de Gestion (aka Cours Mélius) after which time I undertook various administrative positions including at AARP's PR department in Washington DC. In 1980, I moved to London where I was hired as P.A. to a major ad agency's Executive Creative Director. From thereon, advertising was the industry I was to fully embrace, in different functions in different cities/countries, until 2004.  
Motherhood then taking the upper hand, I sought a less demanding work schedule to allow me to spend time with my family. I resigned just as soon as I was hired as a registrar for a British school in Madrid. Thereafter, various jobs as teacher in conversational and business English and art consultant ensued. Now an empty nester, I seek to return to a full-time professional activity, whether in Brussels or in Madrid, where my trilingual skills (English, French and Spanish) and multicultural experience will be tapped into. 

While the core of my career has been in the advertising industry for worldwide agencies BBDO (New York and Madrid) and Wunderman Thompson (London and Madrid), the range of skills most called upon irrespective of my role or title whether in advertising or other fields (Belgian-American Chamber of Commerce, NYC, art curator, Hastings school, Madrid) were effective time management, multi-tasking, flawless coordination and communication (writing and interpersonal), prioritizing, adaptability in a multicultural and fast-paced setting, initiative, follow-up, and finding creative solutions. More specifically as tv producer, the management of client (advertiser's) budget was of utmost importance.

Following graduating from high school in NJ (USA), my studies at the Ecole Supérieure de Communication et de Gestion in Brussels, (general administration, writing skills, languages), I have taken various online courses on digital marketing, entrepreneurship. More recently, I attended a 3-months in-person course on Interior Design, a personal interest. I regularly brush up and keep abreast with my Microsoft Office skills including Excel, Powerpoint.