MMC4

An English speaking Executive Coach in the French business environment.

Performance and transition coaching, personnal support for specific situations.

I am a former senior executive from a CAC40 firm, doing professional coaching for managers both in English and French.

Certified by HEC (Paris), and MBTI qualified (OPP London)

I'm an expert in management with national and international experience at both field and corporate level with EDF (Electricité de France), the French Utility Company, worldwide leader in the Nuclear Industry.

I became Education Director of the new EDF Corporate University with the task of creating this University from scratch. I have built up knowledge and experience and created my executive expertise using my executive education knowledge, but without losing my client focus - client in terms of company “talent”, the manager and the senior executive.

I created a leadership development programme and obtained CLIP international accreditation for my university.
I am also a visiting lecturer in a French University as well as being a frequent member of accreditation teams for international business schools.

My expertise is a combination of two aspects: one being my “educational” approach, based on academic knowledge, the other being my experience as a manager and senior executive.

I can act as a consultant or as a transition manager.

My preferred topics are strategic positioning of company learning organisations, related business plan, strategic alignment with HR talent development policies, global governance, managerial organisation an outsourcing strategies including partnership election.

I can also provide support for putting together an executive coaching policy, in programme design, internal case studies, and for your internal and external marketing and communication organisation.

Furthermore, I can assist you in quality assurance, programme evaluation and satisfaction measurement, and accreditation processes.

I do one- to-one coaching focussing on professional (1) issues and aiming to unlock my client’s hidden potential and improve their performance.
To do so, I draw from my own business experience (2) and from my executive coaching one full year course in HEC.
My international experience in operational people management and my current responsibility as a cross-cultural affiliate professor, have lead me to make this professional service available to clients of all nationalities, working both in English and in French.

(1) e.g. taking over a new job, improving relationships with direct reports and bosses, taking on board a new kind of activity. It can also be within the actual field of activity, namely being alongside a manager in difficult situations such as industrial conflicts, challenging business negotiations or mergers and take over acquisitions.
(2 An operational and corporate experience covering the fields of marketing & sales, customer services, information technology, strategy, senior executive and talents, executive education.

My intervention consists of six to ten sessions on a one-to-one basis, spread over 6 to 12 months.

They are based on active listening, detailed questioning and a global approach providing the client with an opportunity to find the relevant answers to his professional issues within himself, and subsequently to put them into action.

The intervention starts by a specific session to clarify the framework including setting objectives and settling practical aspects such as meeting location, scheduling…A formal contract is signed by the three parties, the client, the payer (the company or the organisation) and myself.
The coaching ends when the agreed number of sessions is over. Conclusions and results of the coaching are discussed with the client. A meeting can be arranged with the three parties at the client’s request.

I also do “flash coaching” in situ, with managers or senior executive, for example during difficult negotiations, partnership building, industrial conflicts etc. Terms and conditions in this case are completely individually adapted…

My fees are those of national (Paris area) or international executive coaching which can be found on any related website.

I tend mainly to align my fees on my client’s personal salary and cost. In cases where clients are involved in Charity work on a voluntary basis, I may consider waiving my fee. I may do it for free too.

All other costs, such as travel and accommodation expenses, are covered by the client’s organisation.
50% of the fees invoice on signing the agreement ; the remaining 50% is due on completion of the coaching.

I comply with the ethical code of practice (code de déontologie professionnelle) issued by the French Society of Coaching. (Download here)

In addition,

During a coaching session, if I detect the need for therapy, I discuss the matter with my client and can suggest a professional therapist contact.

My psychological approach is exclusive; I do not use methods or theory whose inspiration is either religious or esoteric.

In this respect I defend of Modernity which represents a break with the theories of Antiquity and the Middle Ages by focussing on the person and their ability to think and to feel individually, as opposed to being only a subject of a human community, based on the feeling of “membership”.

Here are some of the books that are of professional inspiration for me:

"Le métier de coach" de François Délivré, fondateur de l'Académie du Coaching.
"Coaché" de Michel Giffard, directeur de la formation HEC.

"Coaching for Performance: Growing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership" by Sir John Whitmore, the key to the anglo-saxon approach.

"Games people play The Psychology of Human Relationships " by Eric Berne, the basis of Transactional Analysis.
"From Coach to Awakener" by Robert B. Dilts, a holistic approach of all professional projects.
"Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns,

Pathologies, and Paradoxes " by Paul Wastlawick, leader of the constructivism school (Palo Alto)
"Psychological Types at Work: An MBTI Perspective" by Rowan Bayne

Michel Marchand, 58, graduated from ESCP, the Paris business school. He is a former senior executive of Electricé de France (EDF), an international integrated electricity and gas supplier with a turnover of 65 billion €
He held various positions including Communication, IT, Marketing and Sales and Field Management. He participated in various international take-overs for EDF, including Brazil and Argentina and has played a key part in the development of the EDF in the UK, where he spent 5 years.
Michel Marchand was appointed Education Director for the newly founded EDF Corporate University for which he created a very ambitious leadership development programme for talents and senior executives – a programme which is now implemented within the EDF Group
He successfully led the process of CLIP accreditation for his university.
Michel Marchand is an Affiliate Professor at the Université Panthéon Assas Paris II, teaching “Talent Development” and “Coaching in people management” as part of the the International Human Resources Master Degree programme.
An EQUIS and EPAS reviewer, he has reviewed schools in Hong Kong, Seoul and Warsaw and is a member of the international Advisory Board of EADA in Barcelona and former member of the Business Advisory Council of IMD in Lausanne.
Michel is also a former fellow of the RSA in London.
He is also an Executive Coach certified by HEC, the leading French business school, and MBTI qualified. He is a native speaker of French and works both in French and in English.

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