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About Nicolas

Is your transformation stalled?
Teams not buying in despite a clear strategy?
A board/executive committee aligned... but the ground level isn't following?
A misaligned board/executive committee?

🔹 What I do
I intervene in struggling transformations to:
Reconnect strategy to execution
Remove organizational and human blockers
Accelerate team buy-in
Structure governance and decision-making processes

🔹 In concrete terms
I support:
General Management / Executive Committees / Boards
Transformation Programs
Hypegrowth or reorganization contexts

🔹 My interventions
Organizational & Governance Diagnosis
Change Management
Strategic Alignment
Process & Committee Structuring
Executive & Manager Coaching

🔹 Results achieved
Restarted stalled transformations
Improved strategic alignment
Accelerated decision-making
Enhanced team engagement

🔹 What sets me apart
A dual approach:
Transformation Consulting (15+ years)
Organizational Coaching (HEC certified)

With a systemic and sociological understanding of human dynamics to address root causes, not just symptoms.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Russian

    Basic

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km), Chartres (up to 50km), Rouen (up to 50km), Orléans (up to 50km)

Experience

  • ixlead
    Transformation Consultant - Executive Organizational Coach
    January 2023 - Today (3 years and 5 months)
    France
    Business Model Transition Project (General Management and teams - EdTech startup for education and guidance):
    • Led the Business Plan transition and structured the economic model in direct collaboration with General Management.
    • Structured governance and clarified roles, leading to improved decision-making.
    • Reduced resistance to change, ensuring secure transformation adoption through individual and collective workshops.

    Organizational Transformation & Scale-up Project (General Management, Executive Committee, Managers & Teams - subsidiary of a major French energy group):
    • Conducted a comprehensive organizational diagnosis (vision, governance, collective dynamics, quality), identifying the causes of lost agility in a hyper-growth context.
    • Co-created the strategic vision, standardized key processes, and implemented clarified committee structures to accelerate decisions.
    • Supported teams in prioritization, collaboration improvement, addressing blockers, and strengthening culture and engagement.
    Change and Transformation Management Organizational Transformation Business Model Scale-up Diagnosis
  • 60 000 rebonds Île de France-Normandie
    Mentor
    March 2024 - Today (2 years and 3 months)
    Volunteer mentor. My role is to help entrepreneurs in their comeback phase to establish an action plan to achieve their professional goals, whether in employment or entrepreneurship.
  • ixlead
    BFI Transformation Consultant
    October 2008 - January 2022 (13 years and 3 months)
    Paris, France
    Numerous strategic programs & change management initiatives (all levels: business lines, management, leadership, and external partners.)
    • Led transformation programs (operational risk reduction, process optimization, market activity repatriation, market activity outsourcing, BCE audits).
    • Structured roadmaps, governance, KPIs, budgets, and executive dashboards to ensure objective achievement.
    • Managed change: coaching managers and project leaders, skill development towards more agile ways of working.
    • Analyzed and redesigned key processes; identified risks, dependencies, and arbitration criteria to guide strategic decisions.
    • Coordinated stakeholders (business lines, PMO, management, leadership) and contributed to critical phases: due diligence, TOM, SLA/KPI, activity mapping.
    Change and Transformation Management Executive Coaching Project Management Earned Value Management Consulting

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Education

  • Executive Certificate, Organizational Coaching
    HEC Paris
    2024
    Executive certificate, Coaching d'organisation
  • Executive Certificate, Collective Intelligence & Creativity Management
    CentraleSupelec
    2020
    Executive Certificate, Collective Intelligence & Creativity Management

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