« As commercial champion Jean-Daniel Girod brings a rare combination of visionary mindset, strategic focus, agility and excellence in fostering strong business partnerships through high impact projects. He is a real sales expert with extensive commercial experience and an amazing curious mind. In his role as National Lead of a large sales organization, he was pivotal in creating a unique aspiring high spirit. His inspirational approach became known far beyond Switzerland and Jean-Daniel was invited by numerous countries to come and share his key learnings and insights. It has been a true privilege for me to work with Jean-Daniel so closely on so many endeavors over more than a decade. I highly recommend Jean-Daniel Girod for any inspirational collaboration and business venture.”

« Working with Jean-Daniel as a national sales manager was an eye-opening experience for me. Not only did he teach me patience and reflection, Jean-Daniel ‘s impactful management and communication style taught me how to think strategically, how to align resourcefully and thus how to reach new goals beyond everyone’s belief.
In situations of doubt, I now often ask myself: “what would Jean-Daniel do?”

I started working closely with Jean-Daniel from 2010 onwards until 2016 as Marketing Lead in the inflammation area, more specifically in rheumatology. This collaboration turned out to be extremely successful and led to substantial achievements like the real turnaround of a legacy biologic and a superb launch of an innovative new drug in the same field. These achievements would not have been possible at this magnitude without his full endorsement and co-shaping of the strategic orientation and of the organisational structure, his mindset of constantly striving after flawless execution and perfection as well as his restless efforts to achieve and surpass the agreed goals and objectives. Above all, his professionalism and his leadership within the sales team that helped them being energized and highly motivated was a very important contributor to the overall accomplishments. Jean-Daniel is capable of expressing and defending his opinions and views but always stays respectful to opinions of others and uses different views as a platform to challenge his own thoughts on a particular matter. Although we diasagreed now and then, the disputes and conversations we had were extemely valuable and helped us finding better solutions. In this respect, I feel sorry that our professional paths have diverged and am missing the lively discussions and debates from the past. I can only highly recommend Jean-Daniel as a full blown pharma professional that can make significant contributions in strategic and sales related matters in virtually any pharmaceutical related field.

«Jean-Daniel and I worked together in a team of a big pharmaceutical company. He was the Sales Manager and I was a Sen. Marketing Manager when we launched a product of specialty care in the Swiss market. With his experience of many years in the Swiss pharmaceutical industry, Jean-Daniel motivated his sales team as an integer team leader. He understood the needs of his individual team members and supported them with empathy in their daily work, their strategic thinking and in their personal development. Jean-Daniel always understood and managed the dynamics of his market as well as the principles of classical sales situations thoroughly and  with accountability. He was a very helpful link between the customers and the marketers and was constantly connecting  the sales representatives with other departments within the company.”

« J’ai travaillé dès 2009 avec Monsieur Jean-Daniel Girod. Il a été mon responsable hiérarchique pendant 10 ans. Homme de terrain, toujours à l’écoute de son équipe, sa vision globale du business, sa disponibilité et sa persévérance m’ont beaucoup aidé tout au long de notre collaboration.