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Lou LacroixLL

Lou Lacroix

Impact operating partner

€800/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Lou

My role is that of a Chief of Staff / Operating Partner, dedicated to transition: I build connections between management, teams, and partners, bring strategic clarity, and help advance complex projects with methodology and systemic vision.

"The one to count on when everything is moving."

I support committed companies, associations, and collectives in structuring their strategy, coordinating multi-stakeholder projects, and aligning their economic model with planetary limits and social floor.

My expertise is based on over 10 years of experience in strategy, innovation, training, and sustainable governance, in environments combining companies, associations, and public actors.

What I offer you very quickly:

- Coordinate a collective or a sector around a common goal
- Clarify your roadmap and strategic priorities, implement the right indicators
- Provide coherence and visibility to your projects (communication, manifesto) and engage your teams (change management, training)
- Manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders
- Formalize your Mission and set up your mission committee
- Package your new offers
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km), Lyon (up to 10km), Rennes (up to 10km), Toulouse (up to 10km), Marseille (up to 10km)

Experience

  • Altertex
    Project Manager
    January 2025 - Today (1 year and 7 months)
    Altertex federates the committed players of the French textile industry to build a circular economy that is better for people and nature.
    Its mission: to facilitate and accelerate the implementation of sustainable practices at all stages of the value chain.

    As a project manager, I am involved in several key areas:
    • Coordination of traceability/labeling projects, involving the entire textile value chain (sorting center, brands, recyclers...)
    • Stakeholder monitoring and engagement (industrials, social economy, institutions)
    • Fundraising and writing grant applications to support project development
    • Writing manifestos and position papers to advance the sector
    • Management and redesign of the association's website
    • Launch and management of the LinkedIn page (editorial strategy, community, organic growth)
    A mission that connects field work, strategy, and influence, to demonstrate that a sustainable and sovereign French textile industry is not only possible but is already taking root.
    Project Management Advocacy Traceability
  • Earth on Board
    Development Director
    November 2024 - Today (1 year and 9 months)
    Earth on Board works for a profound transformation of corporate governance: supporting the highest governance bodies (boards of directors, supervisory boards,...) in understanding and integrating environmental and societal issues at the heart of their strategic decisions.

    Within the team, I am involved in business development and offer structuring, with an international approach:
    • Management of complex sales cycles with board member clients (Europe & Asia)
    • Development of commercial proposals and coordination of client follow-up
    • Development of strategic and institutional partnerships
    • Packaging of ESG training programs and support for boards
    • Redesign and structuring of the website to enhance the clarity of the offer

    • Management and coordination of LinkedIn communication (+30% subscribers in 9 months), ghostwriting for the founder of Earth on board
    A mission at the intersection of strategy, development, and governance, serving a single objective:
    to give boards of directors the means to guide the transition and go beyond "business as usual".
    Sales Excellence LinkedIn Ghostwriting Offer Creation International Business Development Training
  • Schoolab
    Impact Director - Management Committee Member
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    September 2021 - June 2023 (1 year and 9 months)
    Paris, France
    *Ensure the launch of Schoolab as a mission-driven company
    • **Cross-functional management of one hundred employees**: 80 people in France, 15 people abroad (USA and Vietnam)
    - Integrate the Mission into strategy: work on an operational translation of statutory objectives with quantified targets, actions/renunciations
    - Training: creation of an online awareness training program for the entire company (90% of employees completed the training in 2022), specific training programs by profile
    - Communicate and celebrate progress: network of referents, impact minutes, board monitored by SDGs

    RESULTS: First audit validating compliance with each of our environmental and social objectives

    *An CSR component complementing the PACTE law

    Launch of our first Ecovadis certification (silver level)

    *Participate in a broader community

    - Significant involvement in various organizations: Community of Mission-Driven Companies, Mouvement Impact France
    - Give back to the community what we receive: contribution to the white paper of mission managers, conferences at trade shows
    CSR Strategy Corporate Strategy CSR Strategy

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Education

  • Master of Business
    University of the Free State/Universiteit van die Vrystaat
    2014
    Master of Business Administration (MBA)
  • Master's degree
    Ecole supérieure de Commerce de Rennes
    2014
    Master's degree

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