The Helium stick

I am a dedicated Design and Facilitation Trainer with 5+ years of experience in crafting engaging and impactful learning experiences for diverse audiences in international settings. My passion lies in helping organizations achieve their goals through well-planned, interactive workshops that foster knowledge transfer and team collaboration.

What I Bring to the Table:

🌟 Workshop Design: I specialize in creating customized workshop agendas that align with your objectives, culture and overall strategy. From needs assessment to content development, I ensure that every aspect of your workshop is purposeful and engaging.

🌟 Facilitation Excellence:  My facilitation style promotes inclusivity, participation, and a safe learning environment. Having worked in various countries, I adapt my style to the culture and working habits of the participants.

🌟 Content Expertise: Whether you want to learn about leadership development, communication skills, innovation, I have a deep understanding of various subject areas through my change management consulting experience and can adapt content to meet your specific requirements.

🌟 Participant Engagement: Keeping participants engaged and motivated is at the core of my approach. I incorporate a variety of techniques, such as storytelling, gamification, and group dynamics, to ensure active involvement and knowledge retention.

🌟 Evaluation and Improvement: I believe in the continuous improvement of workshops. I conduct post-workshop assessments and gather feedback to refine future sessions and maximize their impact.

🌟 Technology Integration: In today's digital age, I am adept at incorporating online tools and platforms to create hybrid or fully virtual workshops, making learning accessible anytime, anywhere. I am trained at using tools such as Mural, Miro, Klaxoon or Kahoot.

I look forward to meeting you!

After an engineering training enriched by 6 years abroad (Canada, Argentina, Tunisia), I worked in a large telecom group as a strategic analyst. From 2017 I apply design thinking in my intra and entrepreneurial projects.

Today, as an expert in gamification, I use these tools and this state of mind on a daily basis, at the service of users and customers. Since the beginning of 2020 I have been training in design thinking and supporting sprints, facilitating the collective intelligence of teams.

Engineer by training enriched by a master's degree in Innovation Management, I was able to evolve for 3 years in different companies as a Product Manager to be closer to the customer. Since 2018 I have been applying design thinking in my intra and entrepreneurial projects.

Today as a facilitator for startups in incubators, I use these tools and this state of mind on a daily basis, to allow entrepreneurs to offer a service/product most suited to their target customers.

Since the beginning of 2021, I have been training in design thinking and supporting sprints, facilitating the collective intelligence of teams.

Colombian/British, with more than 20 years of international professional experience, in the public and private sectors. Specialised in international stakeholder engagement and human rights, I focus on projects related to sustainable development. My passion is social impact innovation, and my work includes helping BCorp's as a BLeader. I find facilitation a key skill in helping the teams I work with find creative solutions to some of our most complex problems.

Dynamic | creative | multicultural | inclusive | human centred | supportive | creating links | empathetic | business sense | authentic

I help organizations avoid putting the cart before the horse by assisting them in understanding in depth the human-related dimensions of their challenges. I support decision makers and teams in gathering, analyzing and leveraging users' needs in order to ensure the best choices are made, implemented and adopted by all stakeholders, be they external or internal.

A former Bain & Company consultant, I hold a Stanford MBA and have been successfully offering consulting services since 2015. A Design Thinking lecturer at the Haute Ecole de Gestion in Geneva, I have also been an online teaching team member for the Stanford LEAD Executive Certificate (focusing on corporate innovation) for the past seven years. I hold a Prosci certification in Change Management.

Facilitator and specialist in business development, empathizing is second nature.

I place the human and the team at the heart of the dynamic. Understanding the expressed and unexpressed needs of the client/user and then working with the co-creation teams to bring out a value proposition: this is what drives me every day!

16 years of experience in business development within companies of various sizes (SME, large group, ETI, start-up) with as a starting point: a blank page, allowed me to experiment with several business models and to practice on a daily basis an iterative approach, the only guarantee of success.

Bringing out ideas, transmitting and practicing new methods to as many people as possible, that's my credo. If you're looking to learn new skills in a high-energy environment, this is it!‍

Coming from an Agile culture, I know how much a "User Centric" or more simply "Human centric" state of mind can bring a lot of value to teams, customers and organizations.

Listening to others in their research, I accompany the teams by helping them to grow in order to better blossom professionally and personally. I also help them by training them on new practices. I pay particular attention in coaching and training to give meaning to what is shared and facilitate learning with games and visuals as often as possible.

"All knowledge begins with feelings".

Bold and passionate, I discovered Design Thinking in 2019, trained and became a facilitator in 6 months!

Aside from these crazies, since 2017 I have been a Theater Improv trainer (which I have been practicing since 2012) and public speaking. I am also a gamifier (that is to say, creator of fun mechanisms for learning or work situations)

My primary goal: to use my multiple hats to involve people by creating smiles and connections and by motivating potential .‍

Philosopher and multicultural, I evolved for 15 years as Senior Talent Manager in a large industrial and international company and acquired strategic and operational expertise in all aspects of talent management.

My conviction is that organizations are alive and developing sustainably when they draw on the talents of everyone and when they bring together in a harmonious, agile and meaningful environment.

I intervene as a consultant and / or as a facilitator with methods centered on transformation by and for humans. Design Thinking is a force for meeting emerging expectations and getting teams on board for the business of tomorrow.

My mission is to support you and together bring out the best of your talent!

A creative strategist with an overdeveloped empathy entirely dedicated to producing results, Jean-Maxime has earned a reputation as a reliable, experienced and ultra-efficient designer. He has been dedicated to pushing the boundaries of branding and design for over 25 years. Available and attentive, he supports his clients on a daily basis to succeed and distinguish themselves in their respective markets.

Designer, I am an expert in user-centered innovation.

I assist companies in the development of innovative projects and strategies, thanks to a better understanding of their users and their needs, and by co-constructing relevant solutions.

After several years in companies and an entrepreneurial experience in the circular economy, I wanted to share what I learned during the very different projects that I led: properly identify its customers, work in co-design, test and agree to be in a process of continuous improvement, all this taking into account the social and environmental impact of projects.

Today, I train and support companies, particularly through Design Thinking and Design Circular methodologies.

Helping people to master their body and their voice by precise but playful techniques, as well as to solve challenges with theatre help is a real passion.
I design & facilitate public speaking & storytelling workshops.
I coach individuals & teams to prepare their pitch, their conference speech, their shareholder meeting.

I like to build team projects, motivate, embark and draw the outlines of innovative and creative solutions face to face as well as remotely.

Through Design Thinking I support teams to focus on their customers or users to better design innovative responses. In my role as a facilitator, I am committed to enabling everyone to give the best of themselves.

Coming from the business world, I develop a pragmatic approach aimed at anchoring measurable changes in the profession and activity of the participants.

I am interested in the links between art and management and I like to explore and activate the creativity of the teams I support.‍

Passionate about people and teamwork, my missions revolve around supporting teams and organizations in achieving their goals.

My favorite tools are serious games and facilitation:

- Serious games have the particularity of allowing you to learn and work in a fun atmosphere

- Facilitation tools allow a group to co-construct strategies, make decisions together and thus allow to include the whole group in the work to be done, which induces a strong commitment of the group in the result that is produced.

My listening skills and my empathy are qualities that allow me to carry out the projects. of transformation entrusted to me.

Oana's over 15 years of experience in Software Development and System Management led her choice to Agile, as the most effective approach for 21st century leading organizations focused on quality products creation that matter . She recently embraced the entrepreneurship path by founding cOemerge a company that helps its clients embrace Agility and build product that matters through Lean Startup.
Oana acts as Agile Transformation facilitator , using Creative Solution Definition, and train and coach Agile teams (from core Business to Software development and support services) to adopt the most adapted set of practices, from Scrum to Kanban and Lean improvement techniques. A key focus is supporting organizations to acquire Product Ownership driven by User Value and align teams(exploring User Experience) mission to enterprise mission. In her former position as Program Director , Oana helped teams build an Agile Program portfolio become Agile.

Over the last few years, I've developed expertise as Design Thinker and workshop facilitator in order to get the most out of group intelligence and be able to design breakthrough innovations that generate value to users of tourism ecosystem.

Amongst my clients, you will find Travel and Tourism business incubators and accelerators in the South of France, Startups and SMEs.

Enthusiastic about Design Thinking and collaborative methods, I always enjoy transmitting this state of mind and these processes to groups of diverse origins.

My motivation is to lead you to useful discoveries and achievements of which you will be proud. And this with fluidity, pro-activity and a positive spirit!

My past experience in eCommerce, technological innovation and operational management will also help me establish connections with your own challenges.

Design Thinker, coach professionnel, consultante, facilitatrice et formatrice, j’accompagne depuis près de 15 ans les évolutions stratégiques et innovantes des acteurs privés/publics français, de toutes tailles et tous secteurs.

Ingénieure en Biologie et Innovation Technologique, complété par des études en Intelligence Economique, j’ai évolué au sein de quatre sociétés de conseil de tailles variées (Start-up, PME, leader européen) avec des responsabilités de management et de développement commercial. Mon credo en tant que Trainer : transmettre/apprendre par le faire, révéler l’individu et le collectif, dans un cadre de confiance dynamique et fun pour co-construire avec plaisir et enthousiasme!

Transformation catalyst enjoying facilitating and coaching teams with human-centered mindset and approaches to co-design value-driven strategies, organizations, products & services in complex cross-functional, multicultural, entrepreneurial, technological & fun environments. Support in cultural & digital transformation (V model versus agile).

Supporting the managerial transformation at the individual, team and organization levels with tailored creative leadership programs.

High energy | enthusiast | open minded | entrepreneurial | human centered | supportive | out of the box | conceptual thinking | divergent-convergent | see-connections | problem solver | result-driven | perspectives seeker | persistent | business sense | engaging | authentic | fun

In the service of skills development for 20 years, I am passionate about designing effective learning experiences. Who says learning says human first. It is therefore naturally that I turned to positive psychology, neurosciences, emotional intelligence and collective intelligence to strengthen the power of the solutions that I design. Concerned about the performance of my projects, I integrate innovation processes such as design thinking to move forward with agility in order to deliver the solution at the right time.