President, Linkage Cyprus
Expertise
Dimitris has been accredited by Linkage Inc. as a Professional Coach and he has consulted as a Personal Coach with more than 25 senior leaders in the Greek market from a variety of business sectors on topics as career planning, leadership development, attitude change. He is certified in numerous Leadership and Team Assessment Tools, including Leadership Assessment Instrument, Thomas & FACET Personality Tests, 360 Executive View.
Professional Background
Dimitris has graduated from the University of Piraeus, Greece and from London School of Economics, UK. He worked for 10 years in the US multinational company Johnson & Johnson, starting as an Assistant Brand Manager in the Johnson’s Baby Shampoo. He was responsible for several J&J Business Units and brands and he successfully launched the CORDIS business as well as the ACUVUE Disposable Contact Lenses business in the Greek market. Finally, he became Division Director of the Medical and Ethicon Business Units in Greece and he was a member of the Board of Directors at Johnson & Johnson Professional. In July 1996, he joined Response as a partner, being responsible initially for Management Consulting Division, Training and finally the Executive Search business of the company.
Since 1998, he is the Managing Director of Response and Linkage Greece. He has participated as a lecturer and coordinator in more than 30 Conferences and has experience of more than 1.500 days of training. He is a member of the Association of Chief Executive Officers (Ε.Α.Σ.Ε.) for the last 10 years. He is also the Secretary General of the Board of Directors of the Greek Institute of Sales (Ι.Π.Ε.), and finally an Honorable Member of the Board of the Greek Institute of Customer Service (Ε.Ι.Ε.Π.) for which he was the General Secretary for two years a member of the Consulting Committee of the Hellenic Association of Management Consulting Firms (Σ.Ε.Σ.Μ.Α.). From 2008 and onwards he is a member of the Faculty, as a Team Leader, of the Global Institute of Leadership Development (G.I.L.D.) that is taking place yearly in California and ranked as the #1 Leadership experience in the world for six consecutive years.