Matthias’s Career Development Qualifications

Experience level: Associate

10+ people coached for Career Development

Open to working with clients outside the U.S.

Matthias has helped clients get into these companies:

Experienced coach in career development, having helped countless of people shape their career. Grew up in the country side in Belgium with a humble socio economic situation, got into the London School of Economics, worked as a consultant at McKinsey, now working at Microsoft in Dublin, living a life I never thought I'd one day achieve.

Matthias can help with:

Interview Prep

Skill Building

Career Planning

Professional Networking

Resume Review

Personal Branding

Networking Strategy

Freelancing

Salary Negotiation

Job Search Strategies

Matthias also coaches for Management Consulting, Master’s Programs, and Life. View all.

Why do I coach?

When I grew up, I had no one in my direct environment I could learn from. Nobody in my direct environment was living the life I aspired to have. Throughout the years I met more and more people who mentored me, who showed me the way. Coaching to me, is giving the opportunity to acquire the mentorship I'd never had.

Work Experience

Account Manager

Microsoft

August 2024 - Present

Microsoft is the leading technology and AI provider, empowering every organization to achieve more through innovative tech solutions • Customer Engagement: Maintain close customer relationships and advocate for customers success and continuity of accounts • Account Management: Think strategically about sales, leverage technical resources, upsell and cross-sell solutions to accounts • Artificial Intelligence: Optimise current business processes of customers by presenting them with implementable AI use cases

Consultant

McKinsey & Company

September 2022 - February 2024

McKinsey & Company is the trusted advisor to the world's leading businesses, governments, and institutions. Focused and specialised on McKinsey's Public and Social sector (SHaPE). • Quantitative and qualitative analysis: Provide strategic advice for key decisions based on hard numbers and interview insights • Client and stakeholder management: Solicit, align, and bring together organisations and stakeholders of varying opinions • Engagements: Sourcing strategy for a city, healthcare analytics study, pre-merger operating model, Belgium Net Zero report, Global Public Health study on eradicating Malaria by optimising ITN's (malaria nets) value chain

Non-Profit Volunteer (Education NGO)

Moja Tu

June 2023 - July 2023

Moja Tu is an NGO focussed on providing scholarships to underprivileged children living in Kenya's poorest slumps and most remote areas. • Educational advice: Provide advice to school directors and head teachers on how to optimise for learning and improve national exam scores • Organisational advice: Assess current organisational capabilities and provide clear insights on how to scale impact • Family support: Visits and support to families of children who have been granted financial support

Financial Services, Intern

Sia Partners

May 2021 - July 2021

Sia Partners is a next-generation global management consulting firm focused on Consulting 4.0 (using technologies such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, etc. to advise clients) and Consulting for Good (offering green and climate-friendly solutions). • Digital Banking Strategy: Constructing a digital customer experience roadmap for an international Belgian based bank • Open and Beyond Banking: Project about third party cooperation and its influence on the competition in the banking industry • PSD2: Research about the influence of the change of regulation (Payment Services Directive 2) on the banking sector

Non-Profit Volunteer (Social Entrepreneurship)

Academics for Development

September 2018 - May 2020

Academics for Development is an international non-profit that organizes social impact projects in developing countries (E.g.: Africa: Uganda, Ghana, ...; Asia: India, Indonesia, ...; South America: Peru). • Social Entrepreneurship: Supported the co-founding of the Impact Case Day, a day where multinationals present real-life business cases around the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to motivated university students • Public Speaking: Delivering introductory speeches about the organization in front of a large student audience (+/- 500 students) • Partner Relations: Focusing on the financial support of the Leuven branch of the non-profit through sponsoring by multinationals

Executive Search, Intern

Korn Ferry

August 2019 - September 2019

Admissions Committee Experience

Korn Ferry is a world-leading management consulting firm, specialized in organizational strategy, business transformation and talent development. • Executive Research: Assisting in candidate development across multiple projects (CEO, COO, CHRO, Global C&B, ...) • International Exposure: Involved in cross border search activity (EMEA & USA) • Assignments: Fortune 500 client: +/- 30bn turnover, Belgian multinational: +/- 10bn turnover, Global Private Bank, …

Tutor

Sagio.be VZW

November 2017 - December 2018

Tutor at Sagio, teaching Mathematics and Operational Research to university students.

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Education

London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London

MSc Political Economy of Europe

2021 - 2022

Activities and societies: LSESU United Nations Society • Focus: European Union policy-making and analysis in the domains of economics, financial markets and global trade relations • Dissertation: How can we explain the differences in the degree of financialization of State-Owned Enterprises among different European countries? • Courses: EU446 The Political Economy of European Monetary Integration EU453 The Political Economy of European Welfare States EU455 Concepts in Political Economy EU469 The Political Economy of Finance in Europe EU482 Europe in World Trade EU491 Political Economy in Theory and History

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

MSc in Economics, Law & Business

2019 - 2021

Grade: Magna Cum Laude (77,43%) • Focus: Solving complex international business challenges through quantitative economic research and qualitative legal analysis • Economic Dissertation: M&A and Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Measuring Innovation for Merger Analysis • Legal Dissertation: EU Competition Law: A Policy Recommendation on the European Commission’s Merger Control Regulations

Universidade Catolica Portuguesa

Erasmus program at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics

2020 - 2020

Grade: Summa Cum Laude (93,75%)

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

BSc in Business Economics (Major & Minor: Law)

2016 - 2019