“A consultant is a person paid to look at your watch to tell you what time it is”
~French proverb
Consultants aren’t a fancy title in the “team” section of your company to show how professional your company is: our work is usually not to provide skills and knowledge you lack, but the means to see why you would need such skills and knowledge in the first place.
Our work is to reveal a company’s blindspots and improve upon an existing business model (or in some cases, to find one).
Coaches are not glorified therapists helping you overcome the entrepreneur’s emotional rollercoaster: our work is to help a project-bearer make their ideas more concrete and gain the precious self-knowledge that will not only be required to succeed, but to avoid failure.
Don’t get me wrong: hiring somebody to tell you what to do and guide you towards success is important, but most of the time, you will have an idea of how to succeed: people will talk about their success-stories online and any entrepreneur browsing online will try to emulate that. But only few people will teach you self-knowledge (the precious meta-cognition dear to psychologists).
Self-knowledge is precisely what you need to be aware of situations where misplace ego could tear your company appart or force you to abort your project.
This is where a person like me, a hybrid between a coach and consultant, can be a great asset, providing expertise and leadership that will help you avoid the pitfalls leading most entrepreneurs to failure (no matter how hard-working, smart, educated…)
“A consultant is a person paid to look at your watch to tell you what time it is”
~French proverb
Consultants aren’t a fancy title in the “team” section of your company to show how professional your company is: our work is usually not to provide skills and knowledge you lack, but the means to see why you would need such skills and knowledge in the first place.
Our work is to reveal a company’s blindspots and improve upon an existing business model (or in some cases, to find one).
Coaches are not glorified therapists helping you overcome the entrepreneur’s emotional rollercoaster: our work is to help a project-bearer make their ideas more concrete and gain the precious self-knowledge that will not only be required to succeed, but to avoid failure.
Don’t get me wrong: hiring somebody to tell you what to do and guide you towards success is important, but most of the time, you will have an idea of how to succeed: people will talk about their success-stories online and any entrepreneur browsing online will try to emulate that. But only few people will teach you self-knowledge (the precious meta-cognition dear to psychologists).
Self-knowledge is precisely what you need to be aware of situations where misplace ego could tear your company appart or force you to abort your project.
This is where a person like me, a hybrid between a coach and consultant, can be a great asset, providing expertise and leadership that will help you avoid the pitfalls leading most entrepreneurs to failure (no matter how hard-working, smart, educated…)
Consulting
In the life of a company, a new set of eyes can be useful, notably in the following fields:
I can totally imagine you are already trained in some way in the fine art of entrepreneurship: you have read marketing books and perhaps you’ve read biographies about successful business owners who transformed their business into a 7-figure cash-machine…
You know what a roadmap is, or perhaps you’ve even been working in a high-responsibility position for years, and you perfectly know what is required to launch a product.
You know your branding, you have a good idea of your business model, but do you know what could kill your product?
Well… A few examples are poor user experience, a disproportionate focus on non-punishing threats, and sub-optimal choices that do not cost a visible price when your company is healthy but starve it to death in a situation of crisis…
You can be lucky and never suffer from your blindspots, but should an unforeseen event happen (and statistically, they will: life by definition doesn’t do what we want it to do), you will need a proper mindset to avoid avoid company-threatening decisions.
I, like many entrepreneurs, have learned this the hard way in the startups and companies I founded, be it in the field of fast-food, health and well-being, crypto-currencies, film production and a few others…
My consulting service is subject to an absolute secrecy, and signing an NDA is of course a standard procedure.
Consulting
In the life of a company, a new set of eyes can be useful, notably in the following fields:
I can totally imagine you are already trained in some way in the fine art of entrepreneurship: you have read marketing books and perhaps you’ve read biographies about successful business owners who transformed their business into a 7-figure cash-machine…
You know what a roadmap is, or perhaps you’ve even been working in a high-responsibility position for years, and you perfectly know what is required to launch a product.
You know your branding, you have a good idea of your business model, but do you know what could kill your product?
Well… A few examples are poor user experience, a disproportionate focus on non-punishing threats, and sub-optimal choices that do not cost a visible price when your company is healthy but starve it to death in a situation of crisis…
You can be lucky and never suffer from your blindspots, but should an unforeseen event happen (and statistically, they will: life by definition doesn’t do what we want it to do), you will need a proper mindset to avoid avoid company-threatening decisions.
I, like many entrepreneurs, have learned this the hard way in the startups and companies I founded, be it in the field of fast-food, health and well-being, crypto-currencies, film production and a few others…
My consulting service is subject to an absolute secrecy, and signing an NDA is of course a standard procedure.
Coaching
Learning the soft-skills required for a healthy communication can be life changing in your friendly relationships (and in your couple, surely).
In a company, poor communication can be excruciatingly counter-productive: in the end, that’s one of the main factors that leads great projects to failure.
The same way, lack of self-knowledge (and lack of knowledge of your business partners’ mindset) is also one of the most common factors to not see a dangerous situation coming: most business projects could have survived if the project-beared had possessed just some knowledge self-compromission mechanisms.
I’ve learned it the hard way (again…), and that’s what I’m happily sharing when you book a one-to-one session with me.
My moral code is the same as a regular therapist or coach: absolute secrecy, regarding the issues you’re trying to solve and our collaboration. I will never talk about our time together unless you unambiguously allow me to do so.
Coaching
Learning the soft-skills required for a healthy communication can be life changing in your friendly relationships (and in your couple, surely).
In a company, poor communication can be excruciatingly counter-productive: in the end, that’s one of the main factors that leads great projects to failure.
The same way, lack of self-knowledge (and lack of knowledge of your business partners’ mindset) is also one of the most common factors to not see a dangerous situation coming: most business projects could have survived if the project-beared had possessed just some knowledge self-compromission mechanisms.
I’ve learned it the hard way (again…), and that’s what I’m happily sharing when you book a one-to-one session with me.
My moral code is the same as a regular therapist or coach: absolute secrecy, regarding the issues you’re trying to solve and our collaboration. I will never talk about our time together unless you unambiguously allow me to do so.