Insightful and open-minded, Stéphanie accompanies organizations in their cultural transformation to support innovation and business agility.
1. Do not write for an audience I know this goes against all good marketing advice, which say “you should know your audience”, “you should speak their language”, etc. Etc. You know that already. But somehow too much empathy leads to self-censorship. And writing is about self-expression, so you see
For this fifth interview of a transformation leader, I met with Karin Parmentier. Do not be fooled by her French-sounding surname she is a straight talking, to the point, Dutch woman who developed her HR transformation expertise with Deloitte, and now with her own company and partners, she is transforming
During the past few years, whether discussing mentoring programmes or cultural transformation with large corporations, I am faced with a disproportionate belief in “tools”. I think I need to clarify that it is not because as consultants we use tools that we sell tools. A keynote from Frédérique PAIN [https:
When I wrote the “Mentoring by FabMob” white paper [https://innovation-copilots.ghost.io/mentoring-by-fabmob-download-the-white-paper], I was already hinting at an example of use of mentoring to facilitate the cultural integration in the case of acquisition of a new entity. I do not wish to go into the well documented difficulties
In this fourth interview of transformation leader, I was delighted to meet Sophie Delmas, head of partnerships at l’Atelier BNP Paribas. L’Atelier is dedicated to prospective and market intelligence, working mainly as internal consultant for the bank. They sell their advice internally, and Sophie’s role is to
So here is the third interview in the Transformation Leaders series. After a digital intrapreneur at AIRBUS and a business transformation executive at ATOS, I have interviewed François Fournier, Digital Business Leader at Thales. François is an avid learner who wanted to become an aircraft pilot. As he couldn’t,
Worldline [https://worldline.com] has been one of the key customers I’ve been implementing a company-wide strategic mentoring program (you will spot me here and there presenting, gesticulating and laughing in the short video). During the last four years, I’ve been starting up, designing, implementing, training, tweaking, measuring
Philippe had been hinting at one of the combined tools we’d like to share: the culture and innovation frameworks. The culture framework that we’ve been using for years informally when helping organisations in their strategic transformations is the “other side” of the innovation framework Philippe has been sharing
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Last week, I shared the first part of Lucas den Boer’s rich interview. Here is part two where you will continue to read how he is using complexity intelligence skills such as strategic empathy, reconfigurable mindset and purposeful self-confidence to lead large scale business transformations at Atos, but also
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For this second transformation leader interview, I met with Lucas den Boer, currently Business Transformation Executive (C-level consultant) at Atos Benelux HQ in Amstelveen just South of Amsterdam. After a short tour through their atrium cafeteria and innovation rooms where they receive their clients for demo, we sat for an
For this first in the series of interviews of Transformation Leaders, I interviewed, at Airbus’ Leadership University, Laurent Fradin, Digital Transformation Leader, from the newly created Digital Transformation Office at Airbus. [We got the] digital wave in our face… [let’s] surf the wave… He calls himself a “communication guy”
As announced last month, the white paper Mentoring by FabMob (La Fabrique des Mobilités), an organization aiming to facilitate learning and innovation for actors of the mobility sector, is finally available for all to download [https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/FabMob/fab-mob-livreblancmentorat5] (those who read French anyway for now). Here