Helene Schetting

Damn Human Factor Ed. Gereso (October 2025) - Expert in HR Strategy and Management

I look where few dare to look. So, if you want a feel-good conference on "the human in business," move along. I address organizations that want to transform without sacrificing profit, humanity, or the planet. When a company gets stuck, the market, strategy, or processes are often blamed. I look where few dare to look: in the unspoken, the tensions that become entrenched, the decisions that are no longer made, the managers who wear out, and the teams that run in circles. My observation is simple and disturbing: what looks like a people problem is often a system problem. Author of Damn Human Factor (Gereso Editions, published on October 9, 2025), leaders and HR directors call on me when human transformations become critical and the usual recipes are no longer sufficient. I enter the organization as one enters a living organism: I identify the recurring loops, power dynamics, cultural blind spots, and managerial facades that sabotage cooperation, clarity, and sustainable performance. My job is to make visible, without complacency, what the organization no longer sees in itself, and then create the conditions for real change at the level of leaders, managers, teams, and culture. *27 years of field experience, including 15 in organizational coaching, *over 6,000 hours of high-stakes real situations, *HEC Paris Executive Education training in coaching, *marketing management experience in competitive and multicultural environments, *15 years of teaching in private higher education and university. My conferences challenge companies on topics they often prefer to sidestep: team engagement, mental health, recruitment, conflicts, meaning at work, leadership, sustainable performance. My trademark: clear thinking, measured provocation, humor, a voice that disturbs just enough to bring reality back to the center.