Leslie Coutterand
🇫🇷🇺🇸 Speaker, moderator, and director, Leslie questions the narratives that govern us, on stage, in the studio, and behind the camera.
Leslie Coutterand is a Franco-American speaker, moderator, and director・Host of the podcast Deconditioned. She began her career as an actress between France and the United States. She notably appeared in the series Julie Lescaut on TF1 (three seasons) and in Déjà Vu on France 2 (52 episodes, nominated at the Festival de la Fiction Française de La Rochelle). She also starred in several films directed by Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho) and acted in the American film Larry Gaye, alongside Stanley Tucci, Marcia Gay Harden, and Henry Winkler. For several years, she was the global face of Nivea and appeared in campaigns for Louis Vuitton, Head & Shoulders, and Barnes & Noble... After more than a decade in front of the cameras, she made a major shift in 2016 to focus on impactful projects centered on social and environmental issues. In 2017, she directed a satirical mini-series on gender stereotypes for BBC3. Between 2018 and 2019, she produced and directed campaigns for the American production company RocNoir for Nuro and Indeed, as well as engaged short docs on social justice commissioned by Google. Committed to climate issues, she co-created and directed several campaigns with iBoycott and Friends of the Earth, surpassing 1.2 million views, calling for divestment from fossil fuels and the protection of Sioux lands in the United States. On stage, she has given three TEDx talks in France and the United States since 2018, and has spoken at international summits, Web2day, Digital Summit, Lift Conference by Saatchi & Saatchi, Indonesian Sustainable Energy Week, and at the Harvard Project for Asia and International Relations in New Delhi. In 2023, after fourteen years in Los Angeles, she returned to France. In 2024, she founded Flashworld, a production company dedicated to engaged content aimed at deconstructing dominant narratives, broadening perspectives, and raising awareness of major contemporary transitions. In parallel, Leslie works as a moderator and MC: she prepares, hosts, and structures plenaries, ceremonies, and events for leading institutions and companies. During the Global Sport Week of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, she led a plenary with Miguel Ángel Moratinos, UN High Representative for UNAOC. She also ensures editorial preparation, moderation, and ceremony management for events for BNP Paribas, Sodexo, Eurazeo, ECOV, UTMB, AXA, HSBC, BPI France, the Cannes Film Festival, and presents the ceremony of the European Awards Art Explora at the Institut de France. Since 2023, she has collaborated as a freelance journalist with the media Usbek & Rica for the Courts for Future Generations, notably at Sciences Po, at the French Embassy in Morocco and Denmark, as well as at the University of Orléans. In 2026, she will launch Deconditioned, a podcast dedicated to the mechanisms of social conditioning and their impacts on our desires, beliefs, and perception of the world.
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- Conference : 3000 €
- Animation : 4000 €
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REDEFINING SUCCESS IN A WORLD THAT NEEDS US
What if our vision of happiness distances us from what is essential? Let’s deconstruct together the beliefs that shape our lives. In this touching and intimate conference, Leslie offers a deep reflection on the mechanisms that influence our behaviors, desires, and our relationship with happiness. This conference invites everyone to question the social norms and success models that shape our daily lives, often without our awareness. We will explore the effects of social conditioning, both individual and collective, as well as the influence of media and social networks on our relationships, aspirations, and how we define ourselves. In a world marked by multiple crises, one question becomes essential: do our current conceptions of success and happiness truly allow us to thrive, or do they contribute to our collective malaise? By understanding the deep needs that lie behind our choices and habits, this conference opens avenues for rethinking happiness and success together. Both introspective, inspiring, and engaged, this talk offers concrete keys to initiate personal, social, and environmental changes, while helping us better understand ourselves and reconnect with what truly matters. A moment of softness and reflection in a world that rushes at full speed, no longer knowing where it is going.
Humans, AI, and Thought
For over ten years, digital technology has profoundly reconfigured our behaviors, rhythms, and how we perceive ourselves. With the rise of artificial intelligence, this transformation takes a new step: an increasing part of our choices, formulations, and imagination can be delegated to systems that think with us, and sometimes for us. When words are suggested, optimized, or generated for us, a central question arises: what happens to thought when it is no longer fully produced in connection, exchanges, the confrontation of ideas, and friction with reality? In environments where responses are immediate, personalized, and effortless, and where intellectual confrontation diminishes, a shift is already taking place. More and more people are turning to artificial intelligences to think, confide, or clarify their emotions, sometimes more than with other humans. This profoundly alters our relationship with connection, conflict, nuance, and complexity, that is to say, our relationship with human experience. This conference offers a critical reading of the impacts of digital technology and AI, both individual and collective: fragmentation of attention, cognitive dependence, weakening of critical thinking, recomposition of desires and identities, and silent transformation of social ties. It finally opens an essential reflection: how to preserve autonomous thought, capable of resistance, depth, and metacognition, in a world where everything pushes towards assistance, immediacy, homogenization, and the progressive delegation of our mental capacities?