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Serge Darrieumerlou

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Areas of expertise

Strategie & Vision

Helping organizations clarify their DNA, articulate a compelling vision, and build desirable futures that provide clear direction and collective momentum.

 

Foresight & Future Scenarios

Supporting decision-making through the development of forward-looking scenarios, alternative trajectories, and 5-10 year visions in an uncertain world.

 

Permanent Transformation

Embedding organizations in a continuous movement of progress-going beyond traditional change management to create a living, shared, and sustainable dynamic.

 

Transformation in the Age of AI

Guiding leaders and teams through the cultural and organizational shifts driven by AI, connecting technology, humanity, and purpose.

 

Strategic Innovation & Business Models

Designing coherent innovation strategies, aligning products, services, and business models, and turning weak signals into concrete opportunities.

 

Social Innovation, CSR & Regrowth

Reinventing value creation through Recroissance®, (regrowth) shaping a more inclusive and sustainable economy, transforming CSR into a true impact strategy, and imagining new useful and human-centered models.

 

Design for the Many & Frugal Innovation

Developing solutions for the many: simple, robust, accessible, and adapted to real-life uses, especially in emerging markets, through the Design for the Many approach.

Individual Leadership & Human Management

Developing authentic leadership grounded in trust, recognition, responsibility, posture, listening, and relational maturity.

 

Collective Leadership & Collective Intelligence

Transforming groups into engaged collectives, fostering cooperation, and unlocking a collective intelligence that goes beyond the sum of individuals.

 

Facilitation, Co-creation & Collective Intelligence

Designing and leading co-creation workshops, strategic seminars, and vision sessions to mobilize collective intelligence around meaningful and inspiring projects.

Key Milestones

Since 2015 ACTIVATE INNOVATION 

Co-founder, speaker, author & expert in transformation strategy and Recroissance®

2019 - 2023 INOVORA France & INOVORA India Design Network

DESIGN FOR THE MANY Innovation Network

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2015 - 2019 SOMFY GROUP - Innovation Director

2008 - 2015 SOMFY FRANCE - Chief Executive Officer

 

2008 - 2015 Kbane - ADEO Group - Board Member

 

DECATHLON

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2005 - 2008 Deputy Director & CFO Diversification

Launch of 13 retail concepts, including decathlon.com

 

2004 - 2005 NOVADRY - Brand Manager - Component Division

Reorganization of DECATHLON Production into component brands

1999 - 2003 DECATHLON INNOVATION

Creation of DECATHLON’s Innovation Platform

Head of Innovation for Quechua & Tribord

1996 - 1999 DECATHLON FINANCE

Head of International Financial Organization

CFO PROMILES

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1992 - 1996 GRANDS MOULINS DE PARIS, Germany

International Financial & Logistics Director (VSNE)

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1989 - 1992 EDHEC Business School / Finance

Thesis: “Risk Analysis in Venture Capital Creation”

 

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