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Jean-Paul RosetteJR

Jean-Paul Rosette

DG expér. SME-SMI — Turnaround, Growth & AI

€850/day
Nice, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Jean-Paul

Consult my background: jeanpaulrosette.com

You run a small or medium-sized business and feel something needs to change.

Whether the situation is critical (need for turnaround) or simply unclear (clarifying offers, reorganization, hesitant growth), I have been intervening for 35 years at the precise moment when a leader needs an external perspective — experienced, dispassionate, action-oriented.

WHAT I HAVE DONE:

I have created, acquired, turned around, and sold several companies in France, Belgium, and internationally (Carat Duchatelet, Clarilog sold x40 in 2018, Bodart & Gonay).

Several acquisitions from the Commercial Court.

I also served as Special Advisor to the President of an African country (2019-2023, confidential missions).

MY METHOD

Intelligence resides within the company and its teams. I don't offer ready-made solutions — I listen, I qualify, I structure.

Confidential individual interviews at all levels from the first week.

Horizontal hierarchies rather than status-based ones.

Small, agile team for concrete decisions.

SOME PRINCIPLES

• KISS — Keep It Simple and Stupid
• Turn-over is Vanity, Profit is Sanity, Cash is Reality
• Get to the point with intelligence, strength, and speed

FOR WHOM?

SMEs, Mid-caps, leaders in transition.

Whether you are in "it's burning" mode

(turnaround, crisis management) or in "I need a sparring partner" mode (reorganization, clarifying offers, price adjustments),

I adapt to YOUR reality — not the other way around.

Added to this is a rare dimension: active expertise in AI and digital transformation — useful for SMEs that want to integrate AI without being sold hot air.

I am therefore a true user of Artificial Intelligence to move fast and of Anthropic Claude Code to achieve in one day what a team cannot achieve in a week.

Also Change Manager, Interim CEO/DG.

France, Monaco, BeNeLux, Switzerland.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • German

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Nice (up to 50km), Paris (up to 50km), Lyon (up to 50km), Marseille (up to 50km), Bordeaux (up to 50km)

Experience

  • freelance
    Change Manager
    February 2023 - Today (3 years and 4 months)
    Independent sparring partner for SME/SMI leaders (3-50 people). Short or long-term ad-hoc missions (turnaround, restructuring, growth, relaunch 3-6 months). 35 years of entrepreneurial skin in the game.
  • Etat Africain
    Special Advisor to the President
    PUBLIC SECTOR
    January 2019 - January 2023 (4 years)
    Africa, Mexico
    Advisor to the President of an African country, in charge of confidential economic and political missions. Travelled throughout the African continent, the Middle East, and worldwide. Restructured the President's office and various ministerial departments. Head of Recruitment.
    Negotiation
  • Inspiring Factory Ltd
    Chief Executive Officer / Owner
    January 2011 - December 2023 (12 years and 11 months)
    France

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Education

  • Personnel
    SNCB
    du Personnel
  • Graduated from 4th Engineering
    Human Resources
    1984
    gradé au 4ème Génie

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