Some of my earliest memories in my native town of Quebec city in Canada would be of friends and family members affectionately calling me “stubborn“; 30+ years in five countries and in four languages later, people around me tend to use terms like “grit” or “drive” to define me.  But drive is nothing without purpose, and my relentless quest for a personal sense of meaning only found its home once I became involved in the fascinating world of business transformation.

In what I consider the first act of my professional life, I spent roughly a decade at the headquarters of global technology firms developing meaningful employee engagement strategies around the transformation efforts that were impacting them, from restructurings and mergers to strategic shifts and crises. Feeling compelled to help catalyze transformation on a greater scale within business and society, I left the corporate world in 2020 to become a transformation partner at the future-of-work consultancy The Ready and support a greater range of organizations across various sectors (non-profit, regenerative agriculture, renewable energy, pharma, banking, media) as they adopt more human, adaptive ways of working to be fit for purpose in today’s context.

As our global challenges intersect and compound in both their complexity and urgency, I’ve become increasingly aware of the need for leaders and teams to go beyond adopting new ways of working to also integrate new ways of being, leading, relating and collaborating along with new ways of thinking that apply a systemic lens to the challenging contexts we face (very much echoing the Inner Development Goals).  That’s what has led me, and most likely you, here.

A life long learner, I regularly take part in executive education programs to complement my formal background in Journalism and Intercultural Communications, currently in systems thinking at ETH Zurich and in sustainability transformation at the University of St. Gallen.

Since I made Switzerland my home over 10 years ago, I’ve been an active contributor to local communities and sustainability-related projects, be it as guest lecturer at the University of St. Gallen’s Competence Center for Social Innovation, as an advisor to non-profit organizations such as MYBLUEPLANET, or as a co-facilitator of the first Swiss Citizens' Assembly on Food Policy.