Art and leadership have this in common: both seek to reconcile the visible and the invisible.
Yann
I work where traditional leadership approaches stop working: when hidden dynamics quietly take over.
Originally trained as an engineer, I approach leadership as a system to be understood and designed, not just behaviors to be improved. Over 20 years as a consultant and HR leader at Accenture, I have worked at the heart of complex transformations, where I saw a recurring pattern: leadership behaviors are largely shaped by the conditions in which they operate.
Today, I combine several lenses in my work: systemic executive coaching (EMCC), applied neurosciences (ANC), and over a decade of teaching leadership at IESEG School of Management. This foundation allows me to design and regulate leadership systems, making certain behaviors possible, and others unnecessary.
Alongside this, my 20-year artistic practice as a painter and visual artist, as well as my work as an art coach trained at INECAT, shapes how I intervene: working with emergence, tension, and form, revealing what is present but not yet visible, and removing what is in the way until something essential can appear.
I focus on what actually drives leadership under pressure: over-functioning, avoidance of what really matters, and the hidden assumptions that shape decisions, interactions, and results; what is felt in the room but rarely named.
Clients often come looking for performance. They leave with something more fundamental: a shift in how their system operates and in how they see, think, and lead.