Speaking & Thought Leadership
Bring Laurent's transformative insights to your conference, team event, or organization. From inspirational keynotes to interactive workshops, Laurent delivers experiences that challenge conventional thinking and inspire new possibilities. We provide more specifically:
Keynote Speaking on Participatory Governance & Distributed Leadership
Inspire audiences with compelling evidence that hierarchical control is neither necessary for accountability nor optimal for performance. Laurent shares real transformation stories—complete with metrics, mistakes, and breakthrough moments—that prove empowerment and excellence go hand in hand.
Inspirational Talks on Conscious Leadership & Purpose-Driven Organizations
Challenge the false choice between profitability and purpose, efficiency and humanity, ambition and sustainability. Laurent shares ethically informed insights on building organizations where values drive value creation, not despite business imperatives but because of them.
Conference Presentations on Organizational Transformation & Change Leadership
Deliver substantive, research-informed presentations for academic conferences, professional associations, and industry gatherings. Laurent combines scholarly rigor with practitioner insights, offering frameworks and tools that advance the field while remaining actionable.
Interactive Conferences on Strategic Leadership Challenges
Move beyond passive listening to active engagement. Laurent facilitates workshops where participants grapple with real leadership dilemmas, practice new frameworks, and develop personalized action plans. Audiences leave with tools, not just inspiration.
Panel Discussions & Fireside Chats on Leadership Evolution
Engage in dynamic conversations exploring how leadership must evolve for 21st-century challenges. Laurent brings nuanced perspectives from his experiences on four continents, and three decades across sectors—enriching panels with depth that transcends conventional business platitudes.
Internal or Public Debates facilitation
Through 25 years of experience organizing philosophy seminars for managers, Laurent has honed great skills as a debate facilitators, putting the members of his panels at ease while engaging them in profound questions and debates.
Our Speaking Style & Approach
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Laurent speaks from lived experience—sharing successes and failures with equal candor. Audiences appreciate honesty over perfection.
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Rather than abstract frameworks followed by examples, Laurent embeds frameworks within compelling narratives that audiences remember and can retell.
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Even in keynote formats, Laurent creates moments for audience reflection, peer discussion, or Q&A—recognizing that passive listening has limited impact.
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Fluent delivery in French, English, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian enables authentic connection with diverse audiences.
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Laurent challenges audiences intellectually while ensuring they leave with actionable insights—no ivory tower abstractions disconnected from implementation reality.
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Leadership is serious work, but Laurent believes humor and lightness make ideas more accessible and memorable. Expect substance delivered with warmth.
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What culture for the workplace of the future?
Une société sans autorité : illusion ou nécessité ?
JUST PUBLISHED
Spirituality for Leaders
Thrilled to share that the collective book Spirituality for Leaders: Theoretical Insights and Practical Tools will be released by Routledge in January 2026.
The chapter written by Laurent, “A manager’s path to spiritual transformation” explores how spirituality can inform a manager’s day-to-day decisions and the management of his organization or team. It also explores how management itself can be a stepping stone in a spiritual path.
The book, edited by Catherine Voynnet-Fourboul, Marie Holm & Mohammed Raei, brings together 34 voices from around the world to rethink leadership through depth, meaning, and presence.
Why Equis?
Whether you need a keynote that challenges conventional wisdom, a workshop that builds practical skills, or a facilitator who can guide complex strategic conversations—Laurent brings three decades of leadership experience, scholarly depth, and genuine passion for helping organizations and leaders realize their full potential.