We are a team of Executive Talent Advisors:

Our mission

Sponsor and enhance the impact of forward-looking, genuine and humane leaders

Our 3 values

Audacity

We are agile in supporting our clients, ambitious to challenge classical thought patterns, always adopting a long-term perspective.

Engagement

We are committed to having a positive impact. Through our tactical and strategic advice, we aim to contribute to a more sustainable society.

Generosity

We are attentive in our approach, supporting both candidate and client, ensuring we go beyond their expectations. Taking a unique listening stance, we nurture a sparring partner posture in all our interactions.

Our clients

We address a broad scope of clients, from large global corporations to midsize and family-owned businesses.

“Kühnheit trägt Genius, Macht und Zauber in sich
Audacity contains in itself genius, power and magic”

— Goethe

Our capabilities

C-Suite Executives and Board Members

We are a team of Executive Talent Advisors providing our capabilities with audacity, generosity, engagement...

Board Advisory

Board Search (Director and Chairs)
CEO Succession plan
Board Assessment & Governance Consulting
Family Business Advisory (NextGen assessment)

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Executive Search
Board Director & Committee Chair Search
Talent Mapping

Assessment & Talent Development

Executive assessments (fit, potential, readiness, onboarding preparation)
360° Feedback
Talent Management Advisory (leadership & competencies models, talent pool segmentation, succession planning process…)

Coaching & Leadership development

Executive coaching
Sparring-partnering
Executive onboarding
Beyond Associés ® Executive Acceleration Program

Team Dynamics

A combined tailor-made approach and robust methodology to enhance team alignment and effectiveness

“Εκεί που τα χαρίσματά σου συναντούν τις ανάγκες του κόσμου, εκεί βρίσκεται η αποστολή σου στη ζωή
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation”

— Aristotle

Our differentiation

We are equally strongly committed to the 3 following organizational health and sustainable growth criteria:

Business strategy and economic performance

Enhancement of individual uniqueness and team chemistry

At Beyond Associés, we strongly believe in the virtue of hybrid work as a business enabler. While in-person interaction remains fundamental to the day-to-day life at Beyond Associés, both in terms of team rituals and people development, we understand how hybrid work can increase our productivity as well as our work-life balance.

The Beyond Associés workplace agreement allows our team members to have up to 3 home office days per week, as well as to schedule up to 4 weeks per year of prolonged home office, potentially abroad. The only requirements are to be able to connect meaningfully during the CET time zone office hours and to have proper insurance.

We are convinced that this workplace policy, in combination with our company culture creates the ideal framework for you to pursue your professional development as well as to serve our clients with both engagement and generosity.

Our structure defines who we are:

We are a small group of highly experienced partners significantly more agile than others
We focus on matters that require experience and sophistication: we limit the number and types of projects we undertake

We focus on anticipating Executive Talent pipeline needs on a just-in-time basis thanks to trusted relationships with clients on succession planning.

All our services include executive team dynamic and cohesion analysis (the Chemistry Effect), a unique blend of:

Individual & collective impact
Business driven focus
Company DNA compatibility

“It’s not the destination, it’s the journey”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our Team

*Above:* *Alix Bard*, *Warwára Her*, *Sophie Cahay*, *Christophe Tellier*, *Clotilde Doré*, *Michel Tobelem*, *Gabriella Lauretti-Lecommandeur*, *Aurélie Mellet* *and* *Victor de Couëssin*

*Above:* *Edward Russell*, *Johanna Payet-Descombes, Carolina Calvo Quinzi,* *Anne-Marie Cambourieu*, *Rodolphe Monnet*, *Pauline German*, *Antoine Tallon*, *Jean-Baptiste Fleur*, *Laurence Tual* *and* *Margot Gomez*

*Above: Ekaterina Pankrateva,* *Sandra Briard*, *Christina Lespinasse*, *Xavier Hurbin*, *Eloïse Nowacki*, *Lucile Carrier*, *Maxime Amiot*, *Rawan El Mousharafieh* *and* *Fouzia Naïm*.

We are a multidisciplinary team coming from Psychology / Engineering / Law or Business studies… and Strategy consulting / Human Resources / Business Intelligence backgrounds.

Curious, passionate, genuinely generous with a high level of positive energy
Multicultural and global in our mindset and actions
Caring but not complacent
Agile and able to be constructively provoking beyond mainstream thinking
Business, results and performance driven
Eager to leverage cutting edge digital approach

Team by capabilities

Board Advisory

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Assisted by:

Assessment & Talent Development

Assisted by:

Johanna Payet-Descombes

Coaching & Leadership development

Assisted by:

Fouzia Naïm

Team Dynamics

Assisted by:

Fouzia Naïm
Johanna Payet-Descombes

Administration & Finance

“The bad news is time flies, the good news is you’re the pilot”

— Michael Altshuler

Points of View

Point of views

All-digital : Return to the fundamentals of Human Resources...

A journey behind the tech smokescreen

Beyond a farewell... dare a « See you soon » !

Agility, proximity and performance

LEADERSHIP BY FACES

Influence of a leader’s body and facial expressions in driving the managerial culture of a company is baffling. With the support of the cartoonist Bruno Tesse, we have captured those patterns in a series called “Leadership by faces”. Any resemblance with you boss, anybody you have worked with or your company culture will obviously be totally fortuitous.

To the cartoons

“Life isn’t about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself”

— George Bernard Shaw

Friends

Privileged Business Partners

Paradoxa

Illusions & cognitive science: Experiential pedagogy for businesses

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People & Organizations we believe in

Coeur de Forêt

Since 2020, Beyond Associés has been proudly supporting Coeur de Forêt in their efforts to preserve forests both in France and abroad, particularly in Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia, by addressing the root causes of deforestation and forest degradation.

In 2021, we have proudly contributed to 2350 trees planted in France.

Réseau Entreprendre

Founded in 1986, Réseau Entreprendre is a community of business leaders who gives you the chance to fulfill leadership potential, help create jobs and play active role in local areas.
Beyond Associés is committed to accompanying and supporting entrepreneurs and young companies in their projects in order to promote job creation, innovation and development of the French economic landscape.

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Programme EVE

Dare to be empowered

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“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present”

— Albert Camus

4 rue Daru
75008 Paris

+33 (0) 1 84 79 00 40

contact@beyond-associes.com