Hold your course!
Today, uncertainty is no longer just technological, economic, or geopolitical. It challenges business models, professions, and organizations. The acceleration of change is forcing us to reshape our identities, to rebuild meaning for our organizations, and to reinvent the ways we lead.
“I spend so much time arbitrating short-term trade-offs that I can no longer look ahead, with my team, to where we are going.”
“I’m stepping into a role on short notice, expected to succeed where my two predecessors failed.”
“We have to roll out AI at full speed, but my teams don’t really understand why. They fear for their jobs.”
How I CAN help you?
My name is Richard Bordenave, Executive Coach (EPP Paris) & Innovation Consultant with 30 + years’ experience, I support leaders and entrepreneurs through their reinventions:
“Stepping into a new role”
“Career shifts”
“Strategic pivots”
“AI-driven transformation”
MY APPROACH TOWARDS reinvention
Shared objectives
My experience convinced me that coaching and innovation share the same goal of helping people craft innovative solutions in the face of tension or uncertainty.
Intersection of three levers
My approach to reinvention explores the three levers that coaching and innovation have in common.
What you can expect
Coaching is tailored, one-on-one or collective support in a safe space, designed to help you carry out your projects and meet your challenges:
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Clarify and prioritize your professional goals
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Make decisions with confidence and autonomy
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Benefit from an outside perspective that is supportive and demanding
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Identify your resources, strengths, and levers for change
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Build your roadmap, remove barriers, and take action
What clients say
Where does reinvention start?
Most conversations begin with one of the following topics and rarely stop there. For each I have designed a specific journey.
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AI transformations
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Team engagement
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Tough decisions
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My next chapter
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My first 90 days
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A challenge of my own
How do we work together?
From the first conversation to observable results, all my programs share these 3 steps and can be delivered in French and English.
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Exploratory meeting
A first one-hour conversation to understand your situation in detail, assess our personal fit, and clarify the framework and terms of our work (including coaching location, duration, frequency, confidentiality, ethics).
"What experience do you have with coaching?"
"What is your situation?"
"What have you already tried? What would you like to achieve?"
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Agreement
Together we define the objectives and the success criteria, and align with stakeholders on detailed agreement terms.
"What do you want to walk away with in a few months?"
"Which SMART goals do you want to prioritize?"
"How will you know, concretely, that you have reached them?"
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COACHING JOURNEYS
My coaching engagements can be individual or collective, private or three-party with HR / Managers.
8 one-hour sessions
In person, by video, or outdoor walking
Over 4 to 6 months, at the pace that suits you
With proven protocols and tools adapted to your challenge
Custom-designed formats
Workshops, seminars, co-development, keynotes
Duration and pace defined together, based on your goals
A distinctive experience at your service
20 years in innovation & transformation
Supporting dozens of companies in their innovation and transformation efforts: growth projects, technology foresight, mergers & acquisitions (United-Biscuits, Kraft foods, Danone, UBS, HSBC, BNP…).
10 years in Leadership & consulting
Served on management and executive committees in France and Belgium, then moved to international consulting in Asia — including five years in Shanghai and Singapore covering China, Southeast Asia and India.
Training & certifications
- ✓Trained in Creative Problem Solving (Crea-France)
- ✓Decision & behavioral Sciences (BVA Nudge Consulting)
- ✓Collective Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence deployment (Ipsos Strategy3)
- ✓Systemic coaching (LACT – Palo Alto School)
- ✓Certified as a Professional Coach at the École des Psychologues Praticiens in Paris
- ✓Aligned with the ICF Code of Ethics
Let's have a chat
Executive coach and Innovation consultant, I support leaders and entrepreneurs through their reinventions. We explore three dimensions common to coaching and innovation: the potential of the situation, the uniqueness of each person, and relational dynamics. It is at their intersection that new answers emerge, answers that are truly yours.