“Every Reason to be Happy?” Origin of a unique film about addiction
Have you ever known anyone who had everything going for them? Smart, funny, good-looking, from a well-to-do family… My brother Cédric had everything going for him. But by the time he got out of [...]
Jury Panel and Conference at the Urban Student Business Challenge (CUBE) in Reims
In partnership with MEDEF Marne, CNAM Grand Est, the city of Reims and the University Sports Federation, the CUBE brings together three groups—businesses, students and the community—around sports: the number one social event [...]
The Weight of Another’s Gaze
Whether you're eight years old, eighteen or eighty, this story is still relevant. Discussion with my daughter this morning on the way to school: My daughter: I like going to the pool because [...]
Intervention during the L’OCCITANE Foundation Team Building
The L’OCCITANE company and its cosmetic products, everyone knows… its foundation, much less. And yet here is a foundation that has concrete impact without making noise. It is all the more with great pleasure [...]
Conference in front of the whole company Chryso France
So far given to directors and managers, my conference on performance and teamwork has addressed a new audience: all the employees of the same company. During the big event of Chryso France called [...]
Leadership Meeting and Conference in Brussels to Cap off 2018
After a leadership meeting with Eqiom management (formerly Holcim France become in 2015 Eqiom after its buyout by CRH group), I presented at the end of 2018 in Belgium a conference to the 1819 [...]
An Interview in Images: What Artist Marielle Durand’s Illustrations Bring to my Conferences
During the presentation of my conference “Individual and Collective Performance: Alone We Go Faster, Together We Go Higher!” at l’ESSEC Business School, artist Marielle Durand provided illustrations. It was our first collaboration. Here is [...]
My Presentation on Performance to the Managers of AbbVie
The Brightness agency, a TEDxParis partner, asked me to participate in a conference on performance with two other speakers who have already appeared on the TEDxParis stage: Yves-Marie le Bourdonnec (French pioneer of [...]
My Conference on Performance and Teamwork at l’ESSEC Business School’s Executive MBA Program with Participation from Laurence Fischer and Raymond Domenech
On November 13, with the support of l’ESSEC’s Management and Society Center of Excellence, I organized the following event: “Individual and Collective Performance: Alone We Go Faster, Together We Go Higher!” Goal: To [...]
Video Interview: “Jérôme Adam on Effective Management: Speaking Your Mind Is a Skill”
“How do you get everyone on the same page when motivations vary?” “Listening to your feelings and communicating them—Is awkwardness rather than silence realistic in a business environment?” “How can you ensure setbacks [...]
Stand Behind the Man and His Ideas: there’s No Better Feeling!
“Throughout my career as entrepreneur I have been struck by the inferiority complexes of public university and vocational school grads (and those who are self-taught) vis-à-vis Grandes Écoles products. I am surprised to what [...]
A Visit to the Hummingbird School with Raymond Domenech
The Hummingbird School, which my wife and I actively support, opened its doors in a high-priority neighborhood of Reims this fall. The school held an open house on September 20 and to our [...]
Video interview by tandem cycling in Los Angeles: key decisions, tips and clicks…
After more than eleven hours of flight, a short night and nine hours of time lag, I answered, while pedaling, the questions of the three ESSEC students from “La quatrième Roue du Carrosse”. [...]