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PATRICK COOLEN
About ME
I am a true believer in making HR more evidence-based to improve decision-making. In the last 15 years, I established people analytics as a common practice within a large corporate organization. I have a proven track record in building various analytical services, ensuring their adoption within the organization, and enabling scarce analytical talents to grow in their roles. Next to my people analytics specialism, I was also part of the HR management team and consider myself a seasoned and all-round HR executive. Furthermore, I am an internationally recognized thought leader and a frequent speaker at HR and people analytics-related conferences. Currently, I am also pursuing a Ph.D. focusing on the adoption and institutionalization of people analytics.
Based in: Amsterdam
Languages: English, Dutch
Focus Areas
Industry Expertise:
UPLIFTING THE WORLD OF WORK
Uplifting the world of work starts with truly listening to the needs, concerns, and sentiments of you and everybody else in the organisation and providing solutions that support you in your career and help you overcome obstacles. Analytics plays a pivotal role in truly understanding employee well-being and organisational performance. Every data point represents the voice or work of a human being, and therefore, data must be treated and used with care to eventually uplift your world of work.
– Patrick Coolen
How I can help YOU
As a long-time practitioner and thought leader in people analytics, I can help you establish people analytics as a mature, embraced, and accepted practice in your organisation by helping you understand your current capabilities and future ambitions, co-creating a practical, realistic step-by-step road map to maturity, upskilling your community in evidence-based HR, and finding the necessary crucial but scarce talent to help you realise your ambitions.
YOU.ME.WE.
What WE can achieve together
I consider myself a balanced and empathic person who can engage with and motivate others. I enjoy creating impact for organisations, teams, start-ups, and individual professionals. I combine conceptual skills with a hands-on approach, helping my clients build practices in a fundamental but also practical way. My extensive practitioner experience and being a PhD candidate enable me to bring in different perspectives
