Recommendations

Sofia Tzamarelou

Ph.D. Author
“if you are afraid to dive, just dive afraid”
Elise was Sofia’s client

I had the pleasure of working closely with Elise as an insights partner – she is, without a doubt, one of the most insightful and forward-thinking clients I’ve worked with and I cannot recommend her highly enough.

She is an exceptional professional with a keen eye for detail, a deep understanding of the FMCG sector, and a collaborative spirit that makes every project run seamlessly. Her thoughtful approach to leveraging insights made every collaboration not only productive but also inspiring.

What truly sets Elise apart is her approach to partnerships. She fosters a genuine sense of collaboration, ensuring that every stakeholder feels heard and valued. Teaming up with Elise to produce high quality work in the insights sphere resulted in four AMEC awards in 2024.

Elise is a true leader in the communications field, and any organisation would be lucky to have her.

Jack Miles

Research World Editor
Elise was Jack’s client

While working with Elise, I saw how she turned an Insight Department drowning in large decks of disparate insight, into one which was methodologically progressive. But one which also placed huge value on insight communication (via videos and microsites) and educating the wider business on how to brief, use, and apply insights (through an Insight School and Insight Style Guides)……..in under two years!

Lucio C. Sansano

M.A. Candidate in General Management – University of St. Gallen (HSG)
Lucio C. reported directly to Elise

Working for Elise was a privilege. She combines empathy with clear communication, creating a supportive environment where people can do their best work. Elise always had a clear vision and made sure everyone understood the direction we were heading in, while still being open to new ideas and different perspectives.

Throughout my time on her team, I was consistently impressed by her ability to seamlessly balance the big picture with the finer details, all while empowering and trusting those she works with. Elise brings people together, making sure everyone’s voice is heard and valued, and always finds ways to inspire those around her.

Not only did she provide me with the tools and support to grow, but she also made each day enjoyable with her infectious motivation and positive energy. I know that wherever Elise is involved, success and innovation are sure to follow.

Richard Bagnall

Elise and I met a number of years ago at an AMEC summit where over a conversation in a break it became obvious how much she is driven by data and keen to always be learning to improve. It’s been a pleasure for me and my teams to join her on her journey to bring best practice measurement approaches to the organisations she represents. Her planning, and organisational skills managing complex global requirements were evident, bringing her multiple and diverse internal stakeholders and partners on the journey with her. This journey was rewarded with CARMA, Elise and her teams winning two coveted AMEC gold awards.

Yulia O’Mahony

Global Head of Health & Wellbeing | Executive Coach | ex-Bain and ex-AlixPartners consultant
Yulia worked with Elise but on different teams

Elise has a strong passion for improving the wellbeing of people at work and creating an inclusive culture. She is curious, likes to learn from others and also use her knowledge and talents in communication and wider business to help others. This desire to help and contribute makes her very active in driving change and making sure that she personally plays a part – she volunteered to become one of the first wellbeing champions, and she regularly reaches out to different teams within HR and I&D to learn and share ideas. She will make a difference in any setting, using her knowledge and drive.

Maxime Magnier

Employee Engagement and Cultural Change leader. Human connector and Inclusion & Diversity pioneer with sustainable successes, impacting Innovation & Business results within top-international organizations.
Maxime was Elise’s mentor

I had the pleasure on several professional occasions to exchange and work with Elise. She is a positive and a passionate person willing to bring all her up to date knowledge into concrete actions. Her communication skills ease the way of collaboration at all levels. She has a clear purpose to move organizations into a more human and agile way of working.

Magali Demierre

MBA I ICF ACC COACH
Employee Experience Expert l Culture & Engagement Guru l Talent Management, Team & Leadership Development l Agile Practitioner for 10+ yrs (GE & PMI) I C-suite Transition Coach & Facilitator
Magali worked with Elise but on different team

Elise is passionate about employee experience. She is an agile catalyst with a demonstrated growth mindset, and continuously learning! Elise was also selected and trained by the company as a well-being champion. I would highly recommend her for a people & culture engagement role.

Biland Sadek

I had the pleasure of working with Elise in her capacity in the global communications team. Few years back the team was non existent and since its formation, the team helped in clarifying PMI’s smoke free vision to the external community and key stakeholders. Elise established an Award-winning Global Media Measurement program from scratch, creating new and improved ways of working, connecting HQ to local teams, challenging status quo to improve how we measure and report.
With her can-do mindset, strong work ethics, and accomplished communication skills, Elise delivers with operational excellence. She has high intellectual capacity allowing her to quickly learn. Most importantly to me, she deeply cares about people and helping them succeed.

Silke Muenster

Chief Diversity Officer at Philip Morris International
Silke was Elise’s mentor

Elise is compassionate and a positive energizer who regularly participates in internal Yammer communication initiatives to help contribute towards a supportive, caring, and engaged workplace. Elise understands the critical role of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to support underrepresented employees in the workplace. She recently received an Above & Beyond the Call of Duty (ABCD) Award for her enthusiasm, dedication, and contributions to the Parenting Employee Resource Group (ERG). Finally, given Elise’s motivation and drive, she has also been identified to be trained, based on the latest research and application, as a Mental Fitness Champion/Coach so she can help provide practical support at the individual, manager, and organizational levels.

Diana Cotruta

Digital Engagement | Behavioral Insights
Diana worked with Elise but on different teams

I’ve worked with Elise for several years on the website analytics and insights for our Global Communications. I remember that Elise got immediately up to speed with our global and cross-functional ways of working, always curious and asking excellent questions to become operational ASAP. I appreciate her sound reasoning, listening, ability to make connections and understand where the gaps are to provide impactful insights. She is highly reliable, easily makes close connections with other people and takes initiative, using her previous experience and own critical judgement to propose new ways of working and solutions. Elise also gives valuable feedback, follows up on all her initiatives, whether she is asking or providing support, keeping an eye on the various business needs inside the company and helping those working with her to stick to the timeline and delivery. Personally, I appreciate her effectiveness, positive attitude and open mindset, she is a pleasure to work with, in addition to being a smart, reliable and kind professional.

Mário Moniz Barreto

Strategic Communications, public affairs, media relations, CSR. Over 25 years experience of “hyper”-regulated sectors. Risk Reduction advocate.
Mário worked with Elise on the same team

Elise is a very bright and sociable professional, able to methodically tackle complex projects, while keeping communication across different functions to enable consumer, client focus, and improving deliverables. She remains curious and informed about the world and what moves it.

Maria Paula Cardona

Director of Communications at Philip Morris U.S.
Maria Paula worked with Elise on the same team

Elise is a passionate and caring person with a relentless commitment to leadership, especially about thriving and fearless female leadership and cause/mission-driven projects. A kind-hearted, compassionate colleague with a sharp eye and mind into media measurement, database management, insights and analysis.

Stavros Drakoularakos

Director Communications Europe | Brussels office | PMI
Stavros worked with Elise but on different teams

ElElise is an intelligent and creative colleague. She was instrumental in providing our Greek Comms team with valuable insights and timely action items based on them. A true collaborator, always there for us to enable, support and connect the dots between HQ and Market strategy. Her sense of humor combined with her active listening skills make Elise a true pleasure to work with.

Kathryn Parsons

VP, Content Strategy at Havas Health Network | CHIEF Member | Enterprise SEO and Product Management | Neurodiversity Advocate
Kathryn was Elise’s mentor

Elise Misse has always been willing to dive into our deep data lake to find those actionable insights that matter. She actively sought opportunities to partner with me and other senior leaders to help find the WHY behind our global communications performance. Throughout her efforts to establish the first holistic and centralised Global Media Measurement Program at Philip Morris International, she never forgot the audience that these numbers represented.

When she won Double-Gold AMEC Awards for Global Communications Measurement and Evaluation, I was so proud of her. A moment in time representing a lifetime of intellectual curiosity and dedication to transparent data storytelling. I look forward to seeing her continued growth as she finishes her part-time doctorate studies. Her inquiry into building more human-centric workplaces by leveraging DEI insights is needed in many enterprise organizations.

Arthur Ceria

VP & Executive Creative Director, BTFArthur Ceria
Arthur managed Elise directly

Elise is a very talented professional. She always goes the extra mile to further offer her support whenever you need something. Her calm, thoughtful and professional approach to problems is refreshing. She nurtures collaboration and is always eager to learn. Elise’s contribution has been fundamental in setting robust key performance indicator measurement systems.

Martin Schatzky

Head, Stakeholder Engagement, Illicit Trade Prevention at Philip Morris International

I’ve found in Elise a colleague that is supportive and always ready to help. Elise’s guidance and resourcefulness to help us understand how to leverage data and insights in our day-to-day work is truly valuable. A pleasure to work with.

Duarte Garrido

Founder at DOJO AI – The Only Tool You Need To Grow Your Brand

Elise’s leadership skills are undeniable. Throughout our time working together at PMI, I watched as Elise challenged the status quo, looking to simplify processes, connecting teams and data to bring actionable insights. In a personal capacity, she was the nicest person to work with. Always helpful, positive, and encouraging.

Viviane Shklarek

Life lover. Avid people leader. Building teams and managing business units to drive sustainable growth.

Elise and I got to work together while I was building the Communications team in the affiliate. She was absolutely crucial in getting us up to speed on measurement and KPIs, and supported us in building the respective framework with media agencies. This was essential in establishing the department within the business context of our affiliate. Elise showed leadership during the process, was always available, listened to our needs and ensured that the outcome was not only meeting the global requirements, but also was realistic within the market context. As her internal customer, I felt both supported and challenged, which is something you would want from a global team. It was a pleasure working with her!

Laima Staknytė-Patinskienė

PR and communication professional, pationate about brands, value and mission Student @ISM Executive School
Laima worked with Elise but on different teams

I have worked closely with Elise for the last 1,5 years on media content analysis and traditional media measurement tools. In this period of almost two years, I’ve noticed her having a sharp and accurate mind and being an amicable and supportive colleague. She took over other tasks that extended well beyond the scope of her role, initiated extra discussions, etc. She is very conscientious and dedicated to work.
Elise is very active in providing timely advice and support, actively proposing ideas, solutions and suggestions on how to solve one or another issue.
It is a pleasure working and collaborating with Elise.

Giacomo Volta

Supervisor Digital and Internal Communications at Philip Morris International

Elise is a talented professional and a very kind person. She regularly provides me with the information I need and she is always ready to do the extra mile to further offer her support timely and genuinely.
I particularly appreciate her calm yet pragmatic approach, being able to convey complex pieces of information in very accessible ways. She nurtures open, transparent and empathetic working relationships. Elise’s contribution has been fundamental in setting robust key performance indicator measurement systems, bridging HQ priorities to local market needs.

Patrick Laureys

The Comms & Influence Gym | Philip Morris International

Elise is one of my most valued colleagues and it’s rather difficult to make a selection of her many good professional and human qualities. Let me start by saying that Elise is a true expert in global media measurement and insights. One highlight is the Global Media Measurement Program she established from scratch to generate valuable insights on communication perspectives.

What really separates Elise from the pack is her ability to always go the extra mile to find out exactly what you need, even when initially this might not be completely clear to the person who is making the request. Her approach is one of empathy and curiosity; she truly listens to colleagues and engages with them. This makes her the perfect team player, always positive, helpful, curious, and willing to support.

Call me biased, but I also appreciate Elise’s values as a person. It’s hard not to notice her everyday efforts to be a champion in finding ways to make the workplace even more inclusive, equitable, and diverse. In summary, I have the highest opinion of Elise and I feel privileged to have her on the same team.

Trinh Nguyen

Head of Market Activation and Support

Elise is a consummate professional, team player, and expert in strategic communications measurement and insights. She is smart, intuitive, and seems to know what you need even if you, yourself, are not yet able to verbalize it.

I highly value her professional abilities; her willingness to go the extra mile is unparalleled. Elise and I have worked on numerous projects together and she has always been an absolute pleasure to work with. For one thing, she is very loyal, hard-working, and trustworthy. She provides great insight and has a way of storytelling through big data and dashboards that can look daunting and intimidating to others. She is also very open to feedback and input, and always eager to dig deeper and to learn more. These qualities make Elise an excellent candidate for any job. I am thankful to call Elise a colleague and a friend.

Tinat Chowdhry

Global communication, public affairs, regulatory and product communications
Tinat worked with Elise on the same team

Elise is a real pleasure to work with. The deep knowledge she brings on insights and measurement coupled with her easy-going nature, makes it very fun to work with her. I have had the opportunity to work with her on multiple projects and she always ensures that every aspect is executed seamlessly while providing support to find timely solutions. Elise is customer-oriented and compassionate – both key attributes that make her an excellent professional.

Vasie Papadopoulos

MSC, MBA WXN Canada’s Most Powerful Women Top 100 Award Winner | Communications and Public Affairs Executive Leader I Board Advisor I Speaker I Trainer I AI and Humanism I Shoe Designer

Elise is a powerhouse leader who always brings a thoughtful, articulate and data-driven approach to her work. She is a people leader who leads with empathy, inclusion, and a focus on learning and improvement for herself and the people she leads. She has an excellent work ethic, leveraging her impressive athletic background into an overall laser focus on whatever she works on. Her work on measurement and progress is one of constant innovation and refinement, which yields excellent corporate outcomes. She is passionate about seeing others succeed and is always finding ways to challenge the status quo.

Mick Broekhof

Co-founder of LEAD Network
Mick was Elise’s mentor

During her maternity leave in 2018, Elise volunteered for the LEAD Network and led a team of a writer, a designer and two key stakeholders to the publication of ‘Life Lessons’. There were 35 contributors, all women at executive positions in retail and CPG in Europe, who were approached and coaxed into statements and approvals. Elise did this with flair and panache. She did a job next to a job, both new and in a sense both babies, and brought the project to a successful conclusion, on time, on budget, and on specification. Life Lessons is a legacy that helps make the world a bit better. Thanks to her impact, Elise was also the recipient of the LEAD Network Volunteer of the Year Award. Elise now blogs for the LEAD Network on leadership at work. LEAD Network and its 13,000 members are grateful to Elise for her leadership.

Eva Vara

Director, EU & Policy Communications
Eva worked with Elise but on different teams

I had the pleasure of working with Elise for two years in the context of high-profile communications campaigns with an international scope, for which Elise was leading the media monitoring and measurement stream. With her expertise, and her outstanding client-oriented, kind and cooperative way of working, Elise has always been a critical team member to have on board to understand the impact of our activities and create insights and learnings to improve the future approach to campaigning. I would highly recommend Elise for international comms and marketing teams looking for a brilliant, committed, and hyper-collaborative leader in her field that breaks silos, constantly shares her expertise and helps navigate the complexity of media results to improve and grow campaigning capabilities.

Clair Marr

Head of SEO Outreach @ Philip Morris International | AI, Trust and Reputation
Clair worked with Elise but on different teams

Elise Misse is an accomplished and astute leader with strong capabilities around data management. Elise turns data into actionable insights designed to help boost communications strategies. She is a true communications professional with an eye for storytelling that will both resonate and be measurable.

I have collaborated on several projects with Elise and found her to be professional, quick witted and agile. She is also a real joy to work with and leads with integrity, trust and respect. I would have no hesitation in recommending her.

Elise is also a pioneer at PMI. She champions an inclusive culture where all can flourish and works on improving organisational culture in line with this. She is empathetic, understanding yet fierce. A real communications star in the making.

Tom Zamzow

Bringing systems thinking, strategic design and communications together to make a little brand magic in a complex world.
Tom worked with Elise on the same team

Who is Elise? Let me tell you. For starters, a brilliant person to share an office with: Unfailingly courteous, deliciously funny, tirelessly supportive, an advocate for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Elise joined a company I had worked for for near 4 years at the time, and I cannot overstate the value her external perspective brought to the team, and to me personally. Looking for skill in integrated insights measurement and management across customer and media dimensions? Look no further.

Anyone who has been near a company in the throws of systemic transformation will know this to be true: staying on top of the ever evolving landscape of teams, outputs and work-streams across functions is no easy feat. Not only did Elise accomplish just that in record time, she created a centralised and regular insights reporting system that could be understood and actioned even by those not initiated in the ways of big data.

Need to hear more? I could go on endlessly, but let me close with this: Aside from her undeniable skill and professionalism, Elise has been a vocal supporter of every pilot project I ever worked on, helping me reach higher in my career and setting my mind on continuous improvement. So for your trust, constructive feedback and drive Elise, I want to say thank you.

Bessie Kokalis Pescio

Global Communications Leader │ Consultant │ Moderator │ Speaker │ Editor
Bessie managed Elise directly

It was a privilege to work with Elise. She’s a talented researcher who brings intellectual curiosity, rigor, and enthusiasm to her work. She has a natural thirst for knowledge and knack for uncovering internal customer needs combined with the ability to create something new. She’s also a thoughtful counselor, seeking to understand the bigger business picture and needs to translate them into relevant solutions and services.

Felicity Stevens

International Insights Lead | Consumer and Marketplace Insights
Felicity reported directly to Elise

It has been a real delight reporting into Elise at Nestlé. Highly efficient and motivating, her pragmatic nature has allowed for fast, effective and transparent decision-making, permitting me to fulfil my responsibilites to a high standard and react quickly in the face of a changing business enviroment.
As her line report, I valued Elise’s ever-positive attitude and readiness to actively listen to what I had to say, quickly developing a relationship of encouragement and respect. As well as taking the time to listen, Elise communicates her own ideas clearly and feeds back regularly, inspiring me to achieve further success.
During the time we spent working together, she went above-and-beyond to act as not only a line manager, but also a mentor – something I had had little experience of in my former employment, but having now experienced am deeply thankful for.

Bernard Meunier

EVP, Special ProjectsEVP, Special Projects
Bernard was senior to Elise but didn’t manage Elise directly

Elise is a leader in consumer insights and has an ability to look ahead to anticipate where the industry and markets are going. On top of her day job, Elise proactively created an online community to share trends and innovations within our Nestle Purina Pet Care global group. She makes it a business priority to regularly share research reports, publications, trending content and follows influencers. She summarises the key content and poses questions what we can do about it. She anticipates what’s coming next so we can evolve our business to keep competitive, understand our consumers better, stay nimble and react quickly.

Laura Rampone

Strategic Communication & Transformation Lead | 20+ years shaping narratives, aligning teams & driving brand impact for global organisations
Laura worked with Elise but on different teams

I have been working with Elise for several years as part of the Consumer Insights team and I can confidently say she has been one of the most experienced, professional and insightful member of her team.
She is open and collaborative to look at our objectives and challenges and propose new ways of thinking about them and tackling them, always bringing innovative thinking and efficient solutions to help us achieve what was needed, even in extremely tight timings. She will always go the extra mile for her teams, brands and projects. Elise is results driven, passionate and an expert in her trade and always does so with great energy and a great smile.

Amy Adams

President, EU & APAC AFG
Amy worked with Elise but they were at different companies

It is a pleasure to recommend Elise Misse. Having worked with her for several years across various brands at Nestle Purina PetCare Europe, I have found her to always be professional, articulate and insightful – in addition to being lovely to be around. She is positive and collaborative. She has been able to navigate the challenging space between brand and consumer needs to develop strategically astute recommendations for highly effective communications. She is communicative, collaborative and a pleasure to work with.

Patrick Manera

Leading Marketing at Nestlé Purina PetCare SWITZERLAND | FMCG | Strategy | Brand | Leadership
Patrick worked with Elise on the same team

Over the course of 2018 I had the chance to work together with Elise and also to get to know her personally. We have mainly collaborated on mid to long-term innovation research on our Nestle Purina brand, Felix. Elise hit the ground running with very little hand-over, picked things up extremely quickly and enabled flawless and timely delivery of the research. Elise works at high speed and was a key enabler to our project success. Overall, Elise always displays very high skills and professionalism coupled with great service orientation. She is proactive and willing to go the extra mile to achieve the objectives and, even in stressful times, works with a great sense of humor which brings a smile on peoples’ faces. Elise is a great insight professional and a very reliable colleague with a positive “can do” mindset. I look forward to any future opportunity we could work on together again.

Fraser Grant

Helping organisations deliver powerful ideas that drive business success.
Fraser worked with Elise but on different teams

Elise is very driven. She handles new projects and topics with the skill of someone who you would expect has spent a great deal longer on them.
One of her greatest assets is that she doesn’t seem to be flustered by anything, actively listening to conversations before commenting with insightful and actionable next steps.
I worked together with Elise on the Felix brand, an extremely important brand to Purina. My job was made so much easier by having Elise on the team, and the brand’s success can in part be easily attributed to the involvement of Elise.

Anna Englert

Project Manager in R&D Coffee
Elise was Anna’s client

I have been working closely with Elise since 2016 at Nestle Purina as part of the Consumer Insight team during my role as the Nielsen Onsite Consultant. There are a few things that definitely set Elise apart from other colleagues:
• Creative and innovative mindset – while always keeping the business goals in mind (not innovation for the sake of innovation)
• Agility and openness to new ideas and ways of working (many times she is creating them!)
• Last, but not the least, positive attitude and always striving for efficient and continuous improvement (important in big companies with many communication / decision making layers)
All the above mentioned resulted in projects bringing new insights and strategic recommendations to the business and development, inspiration and motivation for the whole team working on them.

Edwige Shah-Lesoin

Market and consumer insights advisor, committed to people and business positive impact
Elise was Edwige’s client

I have been working closely with Elise for the past years. During this time, Elise has developed an expertise in digital media, understanding not only digital media landscape but also the fundamentals and nuances of digital creative performance which enabled her to lead digital strategy at a global, regional and local level. Leading efficient creative development from a central base whilst delivering on the local markets specificities requires credibility, leadership and collaboration, skills that we have seen in action for many initiatives.
Elise has also been a true agent of change within the Purina organisation, as we piloted together digital pre- testing for one of her brands, and this method is now leveraged in a well established program which is still running to date. We most recently started working on innovation and shopper research together, leveraging digital methodologies. Elise shows strong stamina and vision to implement it while it is a big change for the teams in the headquarters and in the local countries. She becomes critical to the team to widen its capabilities with most efficient and quick research solution.
Finally, Elise is a great guide for agencies she works with. Through her involvement in understanding method, data and market reality, she gives us the inputs needed so the research we provide is business focused and action oriented. Trust and enjoyment have built over time and we are looking forward to keep on working together!

Jeff Cooper

Global Marketing Research Executive
Jeff managed Elise directly

I had the pleasure of Elise working on my team for several years in a variety of roles with increasing responsibility. Elise has excellent technical knowledge of consumer insights and pairs that well with solid business acumen and strategic thinking. Elise has great dedication and can be counted on to lead projects/teams in providing quality results both on time and on budget. Elise would be a great addition to any team.

Lisa Ohlin

Innovation & Sustainability Consultant
Elise was Lisa’s client

Working with Elise is a great pleasure. Whilst collaborating on the development of a new global campaign, Elise was always willing to put forward her point of view and she was not afraid to challenge the status quo. Elise is an excellent researcher and project manager, always being on top of her work, and going beyond the call of duty to drive actionable insights.

John Williams

CEO & Board Member
John was senior to Elise but didn’t manage Elise directly

When I was a Senior Marketing Manager at Nestle, I had the good fortune of having the opportunity to work with Elise who is part of the Consumer Insights team. She is an incredibly collaborative consumer insights partner. She brings a great strategic lens to all of her work, and is always looking ahead to help ensure projects stay on track. I hope to have the opportunity to work with her again.

Giles Catcheside

Consumer & Product Understanding
Giles managed Elise directly

Elise reported to me as part of the Consumer Insights team at Nestle. She is an outstanding consumer insights expert, having a great sensitivity towards consumers and a fine sense of intuition about consumer behaviour. In addition she combines a close attention to detail with keeping an eye on the bigger picture.

Elise is highly professional, keeping her teams informed of progress and anticipating potential issues before they arise, and her teams are always complimentary about her work and the bigger role she always plays on the team – she is always more than just an insights manager, but rather takes a consulting mentality and leads the team’s thinking. I look forward to the chance to work with Elise again in the future.

Mark Lifton

Client Services Director at PPL Insights
Mark worked with Elise on the same team

I have worked with Elise in her role at Nestlé as one of her suppliers of ad hoc market research for several years. I can honestly say that she is a pleasure to work with – always very thorough and her projects very well planned. She is understanding of and sympathetic towards the issues facing research agencies (from her experience on the agency side), and willing to look at and discuss research issues from both the client side and agency perspective. This is of great help to her project planning on the client side as she knows where the pressure points and issues will arise.
I have always found elise very knowledgeable in terms of research methodologies and methodological issues and very astute in her use of research results, their analysis and their application to the project.

Jenni Romaniuk

Research Professor at Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, Author of Better Brand Health, Building Distinctive Brand Assets, How Brands Grow Part 2
Jenni was Elise’s mentor

I had the pleasure of supervising Elise during her Masters by Research. Her work into Distinctive Assets was one of the first in an area that has now grown to be an important part of the Institute. She was a pleasure to work with, and had a fabulous eye for detail. I have also coauthored with Elise in the area of the uniqueness of brand associations, work which continues to be used by researchers and practitioners today. Her quality work has stood the test of time!

Nicolás A. González Martínez

Client Organization Senior Officer en Ipsos, ranked #1 Most Innovative Market Research Company
Nicolás A. was Elise’s client

To review Elise’s work on the Equity research conducted with us (September 2009 – February 2010), I would say she did overall an excellent job.
I would like to highlight her high implication and proactivity with the study, respecting timings perfectly, proposing new approaches and giving us advice in the study’s definition part as well as in the output analysis. She also gave us additional work we hadn’t asked for and it was indeed very useful for us.

Eleftheria Themeli

Customer & Channel Marketing Senior Manager at Procter & Gamble
Eleftheria was Elise’s client

In my ‘Consumer & Market Knowledge’ role at P&G in Athens, I worked with Elise from TNS in Geneva on a multi-brand Equity Scan study for Greece. Elise was responsible for presenting the results to our multi-functional team and closely working with us following the presentation to answer any further detailed questions & follow-ups. Personally, I was very happy with the work and consultancy she did for us and her expertise to tackle tricky and technical questions. Her delivery of the study fell into the area of “exceeded expectations”. Elise was also able to spontaneously discuss and link the results across countries for us, which gave us meaningful & actionable insights. The Marketing team also gave her a very good feedback evaluations.

John Dawes

Professor of Marketing, Ehrenberg-Bass Institute UniSA
John managed Elise directly

Elise was the Principal Tutor for me in the undergraduate course, ‘Product & Pricing’, which forms part of the Bachelor of Management (Marketing) degree at the University of South Australia. Tutoring involves taking weekly classes of 25 or so undergraduate students to go over key lecture points and work through set questions and tasks. It also involves evaluating student assignments and written exams. Elise was a diligent and energetic Tutor. She took considerable initiative in constructing learning materials for the students, in addition to those I normally used. These extra materials were of great help to the students. Elise was a knowledgeable and approachable Tutor and the students gave her very good feedback evaluations. She also gave a good guest lecture on branding issues, to over 100 students. Overall, she did a terrific job for me and I believe she would be a great asset to a potential employer.

Brian J. Robbins

PhD CMRS
Head of Integrated Insights (International Oncology). Maximising growth via Evidence-based marketing
Brian J. was Elise’s client

Elise has a great balance of technical/analytical mastery and knowing the needs of the business and so is well able to bring powerful, relevant insights and actionable recommendations to help our business.
Overall, Elise is a smart and articulate Research Consultant and confident presenter. I have been very impressed by her professionalism, dedication and ability to work with our multi-functional business partners.

Anne Souvertjis

Dean School of Marketing, Adelaide University
Anne managed Elise directly

I worked with Elise from 2004 to 2007. Elise has many positive qualities that make her an excellent employee in the research industry. She is a skilled and confident presenter and her graphical design interests mean her presentations stand out and are engaging. Elise also has well-developed research and leadership skills. Elise is very enthusiastic, outgoing and extremely hard-working. Elise is also the sort of person who will make the best of opportunities that are given to her. Overall, I recommend Elise highly.

Andreas Schurek

Brand and Marketing Research Expert
Andreas managed Elise directly

Elise was a great Consultant in our team in Geneva. The clients loved the thoroughness of her work and the creativity of her ideas, and she helped to grow our business with her clients. It was great to have Elise in our team and to work with a person of such a caliber. I wish Elise all the best for her further career!

Leslie de Chernatony

Philosopher
Leslie was Elise’s mentor

I was the External Examiner for Elise’s thesis. This is a well-structured and well-written thesis. There is a good level of appreciation about designing a research study, collecting data and understanding analysis. Elise has achieved technical competence through this complex domain and has novel ideas and stimulating imagination.

Neil Retallick

Experienced Chief Executive and Non-Executive Director
Neil was Elise’s client

Elise was a researcher who was rigourous in her application of theory, pragmatic in her evaluation of possible (client) outcomes, thorough in her preparation and execution and articulate in detailing results. She was also very easy to work with, maintaining her professionalism at all times.