Marjorie Toucas
Senior Director, EMEA Small Business Sales
Born:
Lyon, France
Prior Experience:
MySQL AB - Director of EMEA Corporate Sales & WW Lead Development
Oracle - EMEA Education and Research Direct Sales Manager
Education:
University of Nantes, France / Manchester Metropolitan University, UK - Master Degree in European Corporate Management and Business
University of Lyon, France / Karl Franzens University Graz, Austria - Degree in International Trade
What I like to do outside of work:
Snowboarding in the French Alps (Savoie): snow and blue sky. This is my true idea of paradise! Spending time with family enjoying French food, swimming, learning about ancient civilizations particularly ancient Greece and Rome.
Q: Where in your background did you learn the most?
A: I feel very privileged to have worked with great mentors who trusted me and showed me how hard work, focus and drive can lead to great accomplishments. Most of all I have learned that a shared belief in a company’s mission and values across all levels of the organization can truly have a considerable impact on the company’s performance, its people, its customers. There is nothing like working for a company that you do believe in: learning everyday how to outperform yourself to create a better impact.
Q: If you could meet one person in history, who would you meet and why?
A: The Greek Aristotle: the solution to all complex problems is in the study of ourselves and the world which surrounds us. I would love to go back in time to attend his lecture, debates. So many of his theses are still relevant today.
Q: What's been your biggest surprise during your time at SuccessFactors?
A: The biggest surprise for me so far has been how everyone in the company is true to the company’s mission and values. Everyone does share a true dedication to the company’s future, its product and its customers. The energy and the passion for changing the world is to be found at all levels, in all departments.
Q: If you had 20 seconds to tell a new client about why they should use SuccessFactors, what would you say?
A: I would tell them that SuccessFactors is an execution platform which can help them transform their organization, decrease costs and increase their bottom line results by:
- Aligning their strategic goals to all employees in the company.
- Measuring performance towards those goals and required competencies
- Enabling a Pay for Performance culture where everyone is driven by outperforming themselves.
Then I will demonstrate our product and show how we helped similar companies of their sizes, in their market!
Q: Why are you proud to work at SuccessFactors?
A: I am extremely proud of being part of the organization which can truly help companies to increase their results by focusing on their primary resource: their people. We continuously improve our software to respond to our customers’ needs. We do support large organizations as well as small organizations in their quest for better results. This is the most exhilarating feeling!
I am looking forward to helping more and more European Small and Medium Businesses going live on SuccessFactors!
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