Marc Verillotte

The desire to share my skills (I was a judo teacher at a very young age). The desire to entertain (I have been a cohesion leader in all my jobs). The desire to perform (I have always been a competitor). The desire to be happy (I understood early on that success is not the key to happiness and that happiness and well-being are the keys to success).

I was shot twice by a terrorist during an intervention.

Human contact and the show.

To entertain and educate. The joy of living is my driving force.

Everything is possible; you just have to want it and roll up your sleeves.

It is very easy to overcome pessimism and boost optimism. It is concretely and quickly achievable. I talk about various techniques, including the "black wolf and white wolf".

I provide keys for my audience to give the best of themselves regardless of the circumstances: managing their stress, optimizing their mental skills.

I am a hands-on person who needed to experience what I talk about. I was a member of the French judo team for 5 years, a coach, and a member of the RAID assault team for 20 years. I provide concrete advice that can be immediately applied in your professional and personal life.

Stress management, optimization of mental skills, inspiration, and motivation.

I was part of the French judo team from 1990 to 1995. I hold a 6th Dan black belt. I was the National Coach for police judo. I was an assault operator for 20 years at RAID, from 1998 to 2018. I was shot during an intervention by the terrorist Merah on March 21, 2012. I am a Knight of the Legion of Honor as a non-commissioned officer.

My presentation is dynamic, enthusiastic, instructive, entertaining, and spectacular.

I have presented to all types of audiences: corporate seminars, doctors, middle school students, university students, elected officials...

Companies that want to combine performance and well-being.

A better confidence in their abilities, the ability to influence their thoughts and emotions, an aptitude to optimize their various mental skills (what to focus on at the beginning of an action, how to compartmentalize their different lives as well as their various meetings and decision-making processes, how to concentrate on the present without being polluted by reminiscences of the past or risky projections of the future, how to benefit from the strengths of the collective, how to choose their thoughts and act on the intensity of their emotions...)

I wrote a book: "At the Heart of RAID" published by LES ARENES in 2024, released in paperback by J'AI LU in 2024.

I have been a speaker since 2018. French judo team from 1990 to 1995. Member of the RAID assault team from 1998 to 2018.

I have had the opportunity to give talks for companies such as Société Générale, Andros, Orano, SOCFIM, CEA, Autoroutes-trafic, ACLH lawyers, EDF, PSG, Paris Airport, Synerciel, Danone, Safran, BNP Paribas, BNI national and Anjou Poitou, CNOSF, Simon-Kucher, Union des Mousquetaires, a+énergie, Databricks, Salesforce, Banque de France, APREH, Gestinnov, Leroy Merlin, CEJICAM, Harmonie Mutuelle, ELIOR, LSEG, Vinci Francilienne, EXOTEC, Rouvray psychiatric center, Schwarzkopf, Louis Vuitton, INNOVX Morocco, LM Saint-Cyr, Domitys, C2EG, Vinci Construction...

My audience is delighted with the instructive aspect, wrapped in humor and relaxation. I am inspiring and motivating, but also very entertaining; I don't take myself too seriously, but I do quality work. My audience finds help in developing their performance capabilities, but also in optimizing their well-being.

I have already adapted my presentation to 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 1 hour, 1.5 hours, 2 hours, 3 hours, and a full day. I am most often requested for 1.5-hour presentations and 30 minutes of Q&A.

I wrote a book "At the Heart of RAID" I filmed two TEDx talks (15-minute presentations) available on YouTube: "Managing Stress: The RAID Experience" and "RAID: Facing the Unpredictable".

My goal is to be as dynamic as possible to anchor strong emotions in my audience.

The pace is high; I am aware that to animate seminars that are very studious, I must not adopt a professorial posture, but rather a dynamic and spectacular attitude.

It is an inspiring, joyful, dynamic, spectacular, and instructive conference on the theme of engagement and optimizing our mental skills to remain competent under pressure. I am very visual. In terms of form, I balance three objectives: - To be surprising, inspiring, and motivating… this is the "wow aspect" of my experience in the RAID assault team. I rely on some compelling anecdotes from interventions to address mental preparation topics. - To be instructive… I am aware of your need for a "return on investment." I guarantee your collaborators concrete tools that I have successfully used myself. - To be enthusiastic, joyful, entertaining, spectacular… because I most often intervene to animate seminars and working sessions that require being punctuated by a less formal breathing period. I promise you not only smiles but also laughter.

My conference is more of a monologue, but I provide concrete keys that can be immediately used, and I generally respond to a Q&A session at the end of the presentation.

I address several points. But after a preliminary discussion with my employer, I reduce or increase the content of the points that interest them the most.

I set a high pace, provide a lot of information, and perform sketches full of humor and emotions.

I incorporate theatrical sketches into my conference that leave a mark on my audience.

I want to be exciting and engaging.

- By taking the interventions of November 13, 2015, as an example, I address the importance of focusing on the present action, without being polluted by reminiscences of the past or projections into the future.

- By taking my career as a judoka in the French team as an example, I talk about the importance of positioning ourselves in our optimum activation zone. That is to say, knowing how to energize ourselves when necessary and knowing how to recover when possible. The goal is to be effective and remain so throughout the day.

- What to focus our attention on at the beginning of an action… to start the professional task without latency time. Knowing how to convert "dead time" into useful time to avoid wasting time.

- By taking the example of January 9, 2015, and the Hyper Cacher intervention, I will explain how to remain relaxed at the heart of the action to stay effective and operational, even under pressure.

- Learning to know oneself to increase the number of solutions available to us in case of crisis. Self-awareness is the first step to self-mastery.

- Staying balanced in imbalance. That is to say, adding our paradoxes to increase our adaptability rather than accepting the labels that are placed on our foreheads, labels that reduce our qualities: we can take care of details without being petrified by perfectionism, we can be wise without depriving ourselves of being a joker, we can be courageous while remaining cautious… etc.

- How to compartmentalize our professional life, our private life, our sports life… so as not to pollute one of these lives with elements from our other lives. This at the level of our reflections, our thoughts, our emotions…

- How to choose our thoughts as we choose our clothes in the morning. How to automate our thoughts.

- How to build shield thoughts to remain impermeable to negative thoughts.

- How to remain rustic to keep our two engines, which are the engine of reflection and the engine of intuition (reflex, innate…).

- How to ensure that our capacity for reflection does not glitch under very high pressure. How to create a crisis-specific capacity for reflection.

- How to automate as many things as possible (actions, emotions, thoughts) to remain effective and fit throughout the day.

- By taking the Merah affair as an example, I will show how to reactivate our confidence when necessary.

- How not to worry about our physiological reactions in case of stress so as not to add fear to fear.

- How to commit 100%.

- How to benefit from the strengths of the collective.

- The three main advantages of a positive attitude: Professional success due to enthusiasm and deliberate practice, integration into groups to benefit from information exchanges, and the interest concerning management.

I provide practical tips that can be immediately used: to manage thoughts, to cultivate optimism, to prepare for action before a meeting, a decision-making process, to compartmentalize private and professional life, to compartmentalize competitions, interventions, meetings, to benefit from the strengths of the collective...

I offer the tools that accompanied me during my 20 years in the RAID assault team.

I participated in the RAID assault team in the last emblematic interventions of the Unit: Colonna, Merah, Charlie Hebdo, Hyper Cacher, November 13, 2015, Saint-Denis... I was also in the French judo team... And now I have 8 years of experience in corporate conferences.

We can develop our mental skills just as we develop our physical and technical skills.

I pay particular attention to my introduction to set the tone and engage my audience. I take care of my conclusion so that I am never forgotten.

It is my role to energize. A coach must be engaging. I am not afraid to perform my presentation just after lunch... I have even performed during a company's snack break, with the sounds of crumpling aluminum and professional phone calls. It's a challenge to overcome and a great opportunity to master one's thought biases: a person tapping on their phone is not automatically disinterested; they are often someone taking notes!

I am able to deliver my presentation without educational support.

I know how to stay within my speaking time; I use a timer that is imperceptible to the audience. For difficult questions, I believe it is the hallmark of a speaker to be challenged by tough questions and not to be destabilized... this is also my area: my conference aims to teach how to manage stress!

Falling ill before the presentation. I make sure to stay fit and healthy all year round.

An HDMI connection to project some images, a few key words, and a short 2-minute video.

I have a reminder document to hand over at the end of the presentation.

I accept international travel, but I am only French-speaking. I have already performed with simultaneous interpreters.

I provide my slides, but I refuse to be filmed and for the recording to be reused.

I am of course available before and after the presentation.

I have no whims, I am reliable, and I know how to adapt: judo is the art of mental flexibility!