« One of the most important things in communication is listening beyond words. »
– Jacinda Ardern

Background & Experience

Stéphanie has 15 years of experience in international corporations (P&G, LyondellBasell), including nearly 10 years in commercial leadership and business management roles across Europe, with responsibilities exceeding €300M in turnover.
She has led multicultural teams through major transformation contexts, including multiple mergers, shareholder changes, and management under LBOs.
Recognized for her ability to detect weak signals and decode human dynamics with precision, she has consistently integrated this insight into the execution of commercial and organizational strategies.
This has enabled her to anticipate resistance, engage key stakeholders, secure project outcomes, and achieve success with her teams.
Working closely with executive leaders, she has contributed to major strategic initiatives such as organizational redesigns, ERP implementations, digital transformations, and distribution model transitions.

Sparring Partner Practice

As a Sparring Partner, Stéphanie creates a space for perspective, clarity, and strategic insight. She challenges leaders with both rigor and empathy, helping them address their short- and long-term challenges.
She supports them in understanding what drives them, uncovering their uniqueness, and clarifying their ambitions.
She identifies blind spots, surfaces hidden tensions and misunderstandings, and transforms them into actionable levers.
Her sharp listening skills and impactful interventions help leaders move forward with greater clarity and alignment.
With her, clients revisit their collaboration approaches to successfully engage their teams around meaningful and unifying goals.

When working with teams, she creates the conditions for open, honest, and structured conversations that restore trust, remove ambiguity, and drive commitment to performance.
She intervenes at pivotal moments such as role transitions, leadership posture shifts, project launches, organizational transformations, strategic deployment, and team mobilization.

She works in both French and English.

Education

  • ESC Clermont – DESCF Graduate
  • University of Regensburg (Germany) – Master of Business Sciences
  • ICF PCC Certified Professional Coach & Coach Supervisor
  • International Mozaik – Individual & Team Coaching, Supervision for Coaches
  • Predom Certification
  • Somatic Coaching (Move On), Transactional Analysis (Astorg)

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