The Team

Meet the passionate team behind Black Gazelle’s success

Our team is made up of dedicated professionals who bring diverse expertise, innovative thinking, and a shared commitment to excellence. Together, we work to create meaningful solutions and deliver exceptional results for our clients. Learn more about the people who drive our vision forward.

Dr. Ghislaine Caulat, MA, MSc, DPROF

  • Ghislaine has over 18 years of consulting experience across industries and continents. Having also worked for many years as a manager at Daimler and Beiersdorf she has a good understanding of what it takes to lead and manage in complex multinational organizations.

    Ghislaine often works at the intersection of leadership, strategy and change and helps leaders to make strategies happen. Over the last 15 years she has led and/or contributed to major change and development projects for global organizations in the automotive, engineering, telecommunication and pharmaceutical industries as well as for global organizations in the public sector.

    She has been researching in the field of Virtual Leadership since 2003 and specializes in helping teams to become high performing virtual teams and leaders to lead effectively remotely. She is convinced that organizations with Virtual Leadership capabilities will achieve a considerable competitive advantage, not only because of substantial savings in terms of costs, time and carbon footprint. They will also become faster at developing and implementing strategies and at cultivating learning and change globally. Ghislaine has developed specific and innovative approaches to leading and learning virtually, which have been implemented by many of her clients with very convincing results (personal references can be provided upon request). In the meantime she has worked with over 29 global organisations and has trained and coached over 2,900 leaders from all continents, in the field of Virtual Collaboration and Virtual Leadership. She has also trained over 100 consultants to become facilitators of Virtual Action Learning.

    Ghislaine can help in several ways including:

    • coaching and/or training leaders facing the challenge to lead remotely

    • training teams to become high performing virtual teams

    • coaching existing teams on specific virtual projects

    • planning, designing and facilitating virtual strategy and/or change and/or innovation processes

    • designing and delivering virtual large group events

    • facilitating Virtual Action Learning

    • developing virtual facilitators

    • developing and implementing virtualization strategies to help organizations to become less dependent on the face-to-face while increasing their innovative potential

    Ghislaine has lived and worked in eight different countries and speaks seven languages. She works in English, German, Spanish and French.

    She currently lives in Germany and has created her own company BLACK GAZELLE CONSULTING dedicated to developing and promoting Virtual Leadership in organizations.

Lysette Kabeya, BA, MSc

  • Lysette joined Black Gazelle Consulting in 2023 as a programme manager and technical facilitator after six years at the King’s Fund (UK). At the King’s Fund, she worked in the Leadership and Organizational Department, supporting the delivery of leadership programmes both face-to-face and virtually.

    Prior to that, Lysette worked at the MS Society (National Multiple Sclerosis Society, UK), operating across multiple departments supporting and managing the operations team.

    Lysette recently completed an MSc in Business Psychology with a particular focus on remote working teams and their response to change and has since developed an interest in wellbeing at work. Lysette also has a BA in International Relations from the University of Sussex (UK) and has an interest in social issues as well as organisational culture change work particularly around EDI.

Erik van Kempen, MSC

  • Although he graduated as a Master of Science in Health Sciences at the University of Maastricht, in the Netherlands, Erik found his way in big companies in other branches, such as DHL, DSM and Randstad in an early stage of his career. He has a very broad background in ICT, Finance and Learning & Development.

    For the past 13 years, he has worked as an analyst in all three disciplines. His main role has been about building bridges between developers, users and managers and optimizing processes of all kinds.

    In the past 5 years, Erik has been active in Learning & Development, mainly focusing on the creation and coordination of e-learning activities as well as on the facilitation of virtual training.

    His passion is about getting things done and the transfer of knowledge. He is always looking for innovative and sustainable solutions. Combining the fun with the complexity of any of his assignments makes a perfect working day in his eyes.

Jean Klotz

  • She gained 6 years of experience at Ashridge Executive Education as a Conference & Event Coordinator and Project Specialist for Leadership Development Programmes across different industry sectors. Jean then moved into the FMCG industry, where a big part of her role was to train departments virtually on various online platforms internationally for 4 years.

    For the last 2 years, she has become a virtual facilitator for personal development, guiding individuals to progress in their career and personal life. In addition, she is working as an Event & Community Manager in Germany based on virtual self-organisation.

    Her passion is working flexibly and self-governed across different areas based on her strength of supporting individuals and organisations in their development and vision. Jean has lived and worked in 4 countries. She works in English and German.

Janet Johnson

  • As founder of the AI Governance Group and an adjunct professor at Portland State University, Janet combines practical leadership experience with academic insight to shape the future of responsible technology adoption. Drawing from her experience as a former CMO and CGO of Fortune 1000 companies, she has a proven track record of helping organizations navigate disruptive technologies. Notably, she guided numerous businesses through the uncertainty of early social media adoption, establishing frameworks for responsible engagement that transformed skepticism into strategic advantage.