Dominique Nils Conseil
Why I can help grow your business, sharpen your brand, drive an ESG agenda
Serving in CEO capacites for 27 years, I bring a multicultural leadership experience acquired in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Asia/Pacific. My industrial expertise in consumer products and retail covers multiple categories and almost all distribution channels across the globe, brick and digital. Aligning innovative growth strategies with the brand’s truth and with competitive socio-environmental initiatives I learnt how to sharpen an organization’s ESG profile while maximizing profitability, bridging the interests of shareholders with the ones of other key stakeholders.
Strategic advisor to Laboratoire Cosbionat (France), I bring my experience scaling companies of diverse sizes to transform herbal medicine company Dr Valnet into a consumer brand of essential oil preparations. Creating a sustainable differentiation requires sharpening the consumer-facing brand and its communication across the digital ecosystem. Preparing a change of scale requires organizational, process, and cultural development, as well as total quality systems, supply chain and distribution redeployment.
As a strategy consultant, I assisted private equity group KKR with due-diligence, and University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment with strategic plan and theory of change to facilitate resource allocation, project selection, and organizational alignment.
First director with a corporate background appointed to the Ceres Inc. board, I served on the corporate, DEI, and audit commiMees until 2022.
As Global President of Aveda Corporation (Estée Lauder Companies Inc.), I increased sales revenues by 700% and operating profit by 1300% by pivoting the company toward international growth, retail and online deployment through radical transformations in product technologies, distribution channels, supply chain, and digital communication and marketing. I created a global service and product innovation capability out of Japan, developing innovations which disrupted the market and redefined the brand’s product portfolio. I integrated socio-environmental responsibility with business strategy, organizational processes, and culture, making Aveda a leader in naturally derived technologies, responsible packaging, and carbon neutral in scopes 1 and 2.
Prior to Aveda, I worked internationally with both L’Oréal and Procter&Gamble where I successfully integrated the western business needs with the local cultures. I turned around Cosmelor K.K. in Japan to profitability and grew sales revenues by 250%. In Thailand, I led start-up Siampar Ltd. to profitability in its first year of operation.
Concurrent to my professional responsibilities, I also created and led industry-wide sustainability initiatives. Honorary President of 2006 Centifolia International Congress I co-founded the Natural Resources Stewardship Council in 2008. I also launched global sourcing initiatives aimed at providing social benefit sharing to indigenous and traditional communities in Australasia, India, and Europe.
I had the honor to frequently present publicly on ESG and business leadership topics in the U.S., Japan, and Europe, and was published by the United Nations Environment Programme’s magazine, Our Planet.
I am a Harvard Business School alumnus (AMP 200, 2021).