Roos
Roos is an enthusiastic communication consultant with an international mindset. She is an analytical thinker with a systematic approach. Roos holds a Phd degree in intercultural communication in various organizations. Her intercultural skills manifest themselves in her linguistic instinct and empathy with different cultures.
Personal details
- Name: Roos Beerkens
- Hours available for clients: 40 hours a week
Education
- Phd Westfälische Wilhelms University Münster, Germany
- Master in Communication Science, Utrecht University
- including scholarship Århus School of Business, Danmark (02/2006 – 06/2006) and internship in Danmark
- Bachelor in Communications and Information Science, Utrecht University
Work experience
November 2009 to date: Communications consultant at Involve
- AkzoNobel Car Refinishes
- Supporting strategy communications, including developing a strategy implementation plan, strategy story, presentation and toolkit
- AkzoNobel Technology & Engineering
- Temporary replacement of communications coordinator: maintaining the intranet, setting up employee on-boarding program, producing monthly digital news letter, setting up and organizing Community Service program, revising intranet and internet
- Ernst & Young:
- Research, advice and realisation of the role of 'Main Content Contact' in the entire EY Belgium and the Netherlands organisation.
- Advice and realisation of the communication with the aim to make the mission to become market leader operational and guiding for all activiteit within EY Belgium and the Netherlands.
- Getronics, Datacenters
- Developing project communication plan for various improvement projects aiming at behavioral change in employees
- Greenpeace International
- Head office Amsterdam: advice and implementation of roll-out of a new worlwide intranet, which supports new worlwide strategic changes.
- KPN
- KPN ITNL department: Advising and executing of communications for the restructuring of ITNL, advising MT members in their communication, project leader of transition from newsletter to social media platform.
- Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment
- HRM department: strategic communications plan, incl. communications calendar
- Sociale Verzekeringsbank (National Insurance Institute)
- Office for German Affairs: advising on setting-up 'Boarder crosser 2.0’ day
- Key note speaker on that day.
- Involve
- Developing and strengthening intercultural communication knowledge
2010: Nomination for Communication Talent of the year
- Annual award of the Dutch Association for Communication (Logeion), Communication Magazine and Yacht, nominated thanks to results PhD research, one of nine final contestants
2007-2010: PhD student at Westphalian Wilhelms University Münster, Germany
- Publication: Beerkens (2010), Receptive multilingualism as a language mode in the Dutch-German border area. Münster: Waxmann (summa cum laude).
- Organization of conferences, presenting lectures on methodology, participating in major study program with various workshops
- Interdisciplinary and international cooperation within and outside of graduate school (scholarship of German research society)
2006: Account Manager at Imagic BV, Sittard
- Management support, contact with national and international clients and suppliers, support in new business, drawing up orders
2006: Internship at PR & Marketing department, CCI Europe, Højbjerg, Denmark
- PR activities, such as writing and publishing press releases, writing news articles and news letters
Roos' business card
To Roos communication equals building bridges between people, also if they speak a different language or have a different background. “This bridge connects Denmark to Sweden and is 8 km long. Thanks to the bridge, contacts between the two cultures have increased, offering many opportunities to the societies. In my view, a bridge symbolizes what can be achieved by effective communications: gathering different people, backgrounds and visions together. Being a communications specialist with a scientific and linguistic background, I want to build bridges and, subsequently, use the connection created to look beyond what used to be possible.”
