

If I had had five more minutes—to answer the question, "In practical terms, what benefits can be expected from partnership or alliance mentoring?"—I would have echoed the words of my clients; here are about ten of their statements:

France Mentor accueille Valerie Vaquerizo !
Manager, VP, directrice d’équipes de ventes indirectes et alliances stratégiques globales — Valérie Vaquerizo a évolué au cœur des écosystèmes tech, des startups aux grands groupes français et américains.


🎉 2 ans d’activité. 2 ans de croissance. 2 ans d’impact!
Et tout a commencé en décembre 2023 avec un premier client, fraîchement nommé Partner Manager, qui voulait réussir sa prise de poste.
Verdict : période d’essai confirmée, progression continue… même après le rachat de son entreprise. 💥

👋 Partnership Leaders, Alliances & Channel Managers…
Vous pensez que l’influence, c’est inné ?
Comme le charisme… ou le café gratuit à la machine. ☕

Which tips can I take away?
Yesterday, I found myself in a room filled with some of the brightest alliance leaders at the European Alliance Summit in Amsterdam.
As I stepped on stage, I wasn’t just there as Valérie Vaquerizo, mentor and coach in partnerships — I was there as part of a global community

😎 Confession (presque) anonyme d’un partnerships leader?
❗ Le DRH pense que je suis commercial-e
❗ Le marketing pense que je fais du réseau et les afterworks
❗ Le CFO pense que je coûte (trop) cher
❗ Le DirCo trouve ça trop compliqué de gérer les partenaires
❗ Et ma mère croit que je suis influenceuse LinkedIn.

I was fortunate to have Valérie's guidance at a pivotal moment in my career repositioning. When you already have a senior career, the challenge isn't simply presenting your experience, but rather knowing how to clearly reposition it, redefine your value proposition, and adapt to an evolving market. This is where Valérie's support proved particularly beneficial.
Her practical expertise in Alliances and Partnerships, combined with her ability to challenge assumptions, helped me gain perspective, clarify my positioning, and amplify the impact of my approach.
For experienced professionals, being supported by someone who truly understands the challenges of the profession makes a real difference. I highly recommend Valérie to any senior professional in Alliances, Channels, or strategic partnerships who is undergoing development or transition.

I was supported by Valérie Vaquerizo through her "Impact & Career 120" program.
The objective we set was achieved more quickly than initially anticipated, in a very challenging economic climate.
Her coaching and impact were decisive, especially at a pivotal moment in my career, between jobs.
As a professional and specialist in Channel or Alliances, complex and demanding fields, you need to develop best practices to be better recognized and compensated according to your value.
We analyzed my values, skills, and best practices to better highlight them in interviews. Having her support in my job search allowed me to overcome some difficult stages.

I've been working with Valeoriza Consulting for a few months now, since enrolling in their program.
Valérie has demonstrated great professionalism, a caring and attentive approach, while also being pragmatic and demanding. We reviewed my goals, profile, resume, tagline, and SSI LinkedIn profile. I also sought specific advice at certain points in my current job.
The quality of the advice and resources is excellent, with the exception of the bonus subscription to Max Picinnini's "Destination Success," which proved disappointing.
I highly recommend Valérie as a coach, regardless of your career stage.

Valérie has been assisting me for the past three months in creating a Partnerships and Alliances Department within a consulting firm. Her experience and expertise in this area are helping me to structure our strategy, and a phased support plan allows me to save time and make the best decisions among the available options.

Valérie was a great help as a Mentor when I took up my position. Her support has allowed me to better structure my daily work and better address the challenges of a strategic position. A truly essential support!

I had the chance to work with Valérie Vaquerizo for several months during my start and it really made the difference. Always listening, caring and professional, she was able to adapt to me and my situation. Thanks to her concrete advice and our unfiltered exchanges, I clarified my goals and regained confidence. A human and effective support that I recommend without hesitation.

Valérie brought me her perspective as a seasoned professional to optimize the best practices of the profession and promote my work to my management, to bring me confidence, more impact and a spotlight on the value brought by the Alliances.
Her support on the evolution of my career has allowed me to access a new professional challenge that I am approaching serenely: what corresponded to my expectations and my objectives.
Valérie has an excellent mastery of the management of partnerships, large companies, and a sense of management, and brings a sense of perspective, self-confidence, all with an essential benevolence.

I worked with Valérie on my assessment of specific partnership skills, through a complete diagnosis and a concrete support plan adapted to my experience. I wanted to evolve and change roles. Valérie helped me in the optimization of my CV and in the preparation for interviews and hiring panels. We also worked on the state of mind and my winning factors.
His mastery of partnership, business and human subjects gave me important keys while feeling supported in all kindness and confidentiality. I have found a new professional challenge that allows me to make a significant leap in salary and thus make a return on an investment from the first month.

I called on Valérie's services at Serensia, as "Partner Director as a service" because I wanted to move quickly into this strategic position, to further formalize the partnership processes by minimizing the risks of recruitment for a short period in a transition phase for the company which was entering a new phase of its growth.
Valérie excels in the analysis and application of best practices on contracts, reporting, coordination and governance of partners. She also helped us in the recruitment of our partner manager, for a key role in our business development.
I really enjoyed working with Valérie: she is a great professional who, by taking a step back, addresses strategic issues and contributes to the creation of value for our company.

Valérie is serious... but in a good mood.
As a coach, she helped me structure my thinking for my next professional step, and to put on the clothes that go with it.
We are fortunate to have worked together in the past, and to have developed real skills in defining partner programs, national or international, and in their execution. Valérie excels in this exercise, and has a proven and effective methodology that saves a considerable amount of time, not only in practice, but also in time to market.
I recommend Valeoriza Consulting's expertise on all these aspects.

Valérie's coaching was important to me, as part of a recruitment process for a new job. It allows you to take a step back from your own experience, to bring out the strengths to highlight and to prepare interviews and arguments effectively thanks to an informed outside eye. Valérie also gives keys for a more strategic approach to positioning in relation to the position offered and good keys to put forward to enhance the application.

I called on the services of Valérie Vaquerizo, as an alliance manager in my software company. I knew Valérie when we were in the same team at Capgemini, when she was managing the alliance with IBM and I was managing the alliance with EMC. I was looking for some advice to share and challenge my practices in terms of strategic alliances and communication.
Valérie knows perfectly the business of alliances, its codes, its processes and so we quickly arrived at the key points. We worked in particular on the "executive sponsorship" part and on my 2024 strategy. Valérie gave me a more global vision of my business, and by mirror effect, I raised my perspective to a more strategic level, while remaining very pragmatic in my daily life.
Through his questionnaire, his analysis, his context, his method and expertise, and his style - all frank and benevolent - I obtained a very concrete action plan and was able to detect the sensitive points to be reworked. Her advice allowed me to further mark my professional mastery, to reposition my value in my organization and incidentally to avoid some communication errors.
I very much appreciated her personalized listening, her transparency and his immediately applicable business advice. In a few weeks, I boosted my leadership within my organization.
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