About FdB Associates
France du Buisson
Career Consultant and Director of FdB Associates
“I draw from my marketing experience to support my clients develop their unique personal brand and stand out amongst others, communicate their skills, experience and individuality effectively to a clearly defined target market of suitable employers”
As an accredited consultant and a member of the Association for Coaching, France provides career transition services to clients coming from a wide range of industries - Financial Services, Tourism, Media, Energy and charitable sectors to name but a few.
She has helped hundreds of professionals, at different levels of seniority and at various times of their career to find a new job more suited to their aspirations.
As a senior marketing professional in companies such as American Express, RSA, Eurostar and with British Airways, France has led cross-cultural global teams and has continuously enabled her team members to identify and develop untapped skills to make successful lateral moves, helping them to achieve better job satisfaction and a better work/life balance.
France is also a sought-after workshop host and a former radio presenter; she applies this expertise to deliver webinars, enabling people who do not get a corporate outplacement programme to access professional career advice.
France is also an Associate Consultant at LHH, global leader in career transition.
She holds a DBS Certificate, enabling her to also work in schools.
FDB Associates holds a Data Protection Licence in line with GDPR regulations and has Public Liability and Professional Indemnity.
France calls on a pool of equally qualified and experienced careers advisers when required.
FdB Associates mission and values
Our mission is to support individuals to realise their professional potential,
achieve a better work/life balance
and ultimately make a greater contribution to society.
Our values are:
Sharing - Share our experience and knowledge for the benefit of our customers
Quality - Provide our customers with quality service at the best price
Enthusiasm - Convey our enthusiasm to our customers, partners and colleagues
Responsibility - We have a small impact on our environment as we are essentially a web-based consultancy; we also support the excellent work that the charity “Smart Works” does by donating some of our time to offer free interview training to Smart Works visitors and by organising drive-suits with other similarly minded companies; do check Smart Works, they really help women go back into employment.