Sylvie Brémond Mookherjee
Executive Coach - Author - Speaker
These are my convictions about the changing world, which I convey in my conferences (AI, work, professions, Gen Z engagement...) taking a positive look at innovation and the opportunities of a transitioning world and the necessary recourse to emotional intelligence to navigate it and live positively through transformation. A pioneer in the introduction of Emotional Intelligence in companies in France, I also share my experience and provide keys to navigate it, drawn from my background as an HR Director at Orange and L'Oréal where I led more than 10 major transformations. Through my firm Innovation Blossom, I am sought after by companies for my expertise, for which I am certified by the European Center for Emotional Intelligence. Passionate about innovation and personal development, I created a support program "le savoir-innover" to which I dedicated a book "Le savoir-Innover, the innovation attitude to adapt to the changing world" published by l'Harmattan www.savoir-innover.com). Inspired by the best practices of innovators, I raise awareness of the necessity to develop emotional intelligence and the 12 soft skills (empathy, creativity, perseverance...) that enable one to become anti-fragile in the turbulence of change and skillfully ride the wave of innovation opportunities. From my 2000 hours of coaching within my firm Innovation Blossom, and at the request of HR directors prescribing coaching, I have just published "Work-Pleasure, it's possible in the changing world", to share my experience and reinvigorate individual and team motivation, the true spark that is a lever for everyone's engagement and talent retention. Teaching innovation management at Sorbonne-Panthéon Paris1, I challenge my conferences with the sharp perspective of Generation Z while maintaining the distance and humor of my offbeat innovator's view.
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- Conference : 3500 €
- Animation : 3500 €
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Work-Pleasure: engage your teams in the changing world, it's possible
In an environment marked by the acceleration of AI, the transformation of jobs, and a silent erosion of engagement, traditional levers are showing their limits today. I propose a high-value strategic conference: "Work-Pleasure: engage your teams in the changing world...it's possible" The conviction that drives it is simple yet differentiating: sustainable engagement is not decreed; it emerges when work makes sense and provides pleasure. This is the subject of my new book just released by l'Harmattan, "Work-Pleasure, it's possible in the changing world". Based on my dual background in innovation and HR (at Orange and L'Oréal) and my 13 years of coaching executives, I propose a structured and immediately mobilizable approach: -a clear framework to reactivate engagement and individual responsibility -a renewed understanding of the role of management in uncertainty and adapted to different generations -concrete levers to align performance, meaning, and collective intelligence This intervention is particularly relevant in contexts of transformation, managerial mobilization, or strategic reflection on engagement.
Knowing-Innovate, the innovation attitude to adapt to the changing world
What if 2026 were one of the best years of your life? Of course, the world is changing, uncertainty and complexity are everywhere... but new possibilities and opportunities are also available for those who know how to seize them! It is this contrast between the optimism of innovators and the widespread defeatism in the face of a changing world that fuels my conferences as well as my book where I have combined my two areas of expertise, innovation (at Orange and L'Oréal) and personal development (over 1000 hours of coaching for Innovation Blossom, the firm I founded 10 years ago). To tackle the four major civilizational challenges, I propose to mobilize and develop an intelligence and soft skills that are adapted. To the challenge of knowledge with AI, data... responds self-knowledge and emotional intelligence; being able to distance oneself from emotions, particularly fear, to clarify one's objectives. To the challenge of disruption with digital platformization, ecological transition, space conquest... responds creative intelligence; provoking one's flow to unleash creativity and be able to project oneself into the future, for example in jobs that do not yet exist. To the challenge of uncertainty, in the VUCA world (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous)... responds the intelligence of paradoxes; being able to reconcile opposites, to do more with less, to adapt permanently. To the challenge of meaning, whose Covid crisis has accelerated the necessity, in one's work, life... responds responsible intelligence and collective intelligence; being able to act with full awareness for oneself and with others. The associated soft skills of analysis, creativity, perseverance, courage, agility, collaboration... are illustrated with vivid and concrete examples and testimonies. A wind of optimism and positive projection blows with "knowing-innovate" with this conference!
"Knowing-Innovate" the Leader's Skill for the New World (animation)
This animation can complement the conference of the same title dedicated to leaders, members of the executive committee, and direct teams. In this world where the new normal is to be able to develop one's adaptability skills and create in the unknown, leaders must be exemplary to lead teams through transformation. Innovation has become a full-fledged skill, the new way of being to develop: "knowing how to innovate." I propose three possible animations: -half-day format: test on the typical Foursights innovator profile, with a conference opening (talk of the same title), discovery of each person's profile, and an exercise to experience the profile. -MBTI day format to trigger awareness of diversity and the importance of developing self-awareness and the awareness of others, as well as paradoxical communication. The opening conference (talk of the same title) will be followed by discoveries of innovator types and exercises in homogeneous and heterogeneous groups that allow participants to "experience" diversity. -2-day seminar format to create awareness of the rights and duties of Codir members in the New World based on an analysis of the threats and opportunities of the VUCA World. The second step is to co-create solutions to adapt the company and engage all employees. The conference and animation are entirely led by Sylvie Brémond Mookherjee, an expert in facilitating Codirs and innovation teams.
Innovation Needs All Talents!
A workshop-conference to know your innovator profile and identify your creative preferences to work better in teams or projects. Sylvie Brémond Mookherjee offers a workshop-conference based on her beliefs and her 25 years of experience as a leader at Orange and L'Oréal where she led transformations through innovation as HR Director. She offers a workshop (administering a questionnaire during the session) and a conference that helps understand that innovation is not the exclusive domain of a few innovation professionals but that everyone can contribute to innovation. Each profile corresponds to a stage of innovation ...and innovation needs all these stages, thus everyone in the company. An insight that empowers managers regarding their role as facilitators in the company and project leaders to form diverse and complementary project teams. Note: the questionnaire is based on the Foursights© method; it identifies 4 main profiles. Anyone who takes this simple test in a few minutes can find out if they are more of a “clarifier” and tend to analyze a problem, or an “ideator” who will favor idea production, a “developer” who seeks “solutions”, and a “realizer” who focuses on “action”. It is also possible to combine these different preferences, and the ideal is to cover all 4 to be a complete innovator! A workshop conference that truly develops collective intelligence and the role of managers.
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Who am I?
What I did before becoming a speaker
J'ai eu la chance de vivre 25 années dans l'innovation chez Orange et L'Oréal. J'ai piloté des projets de valorisation des innovations et de transformation du CNET (Centre National d'Etudes desTelecoms), puis de France Telecom R&D et enfin les Orange Labs .J'ai participé à la transformation de France Telecom en Orange, accompagné les revolutions technologiques des mobiles à l'internet. Apres avoir créé les Orange Gardens et le Technocebtre Orange, j'ai eu le plaisir de staffer et animer ma filiére des8000 innovateurs du groupe Orange en tant que DRH du marketing Stratégique.Chez L'Oreal j'ai participé au lancement de la Revolution du Digital et à l'acquisition du "next billion customers" en innovation .Ces expériences m'ont donné la confiance en la possibilité de surfer sur les transformations et savoir trouver les opportunités dans ce qui peut être ressenti comme du chaos aux moments de transition.
What made me become a speaker
Porte parole de l'innovation chez Orange et L'Oréal, lorsque j'ai créé mon cabinet de conseil Innovation Blossom, j'ai été naturellement sollicitée sur le partage de mon expérience par des conférences et des missions de conseil. La Sorbonne m'a solicitée pour des Masters Classes.Les clients et les etudiants en ont redemandé et je suis conférencière aujourd'hui pour des entreprises de toute taille et 4 Masters Innovation de la sorbonne Pantheon Paris 1.
A failure or turning point that shaped me
Lorsque j'ai quitté Orange c'était juste avant la crise appelée ensuite "la crise des suicides". A ce moment, DRH du Marketing Stratégique pour les 8000 innovateurs du groupe , je poursuivais la dynamisation de l'innovation et la transversalisation des fonctions innovation pour une meilleure collaboration entre chercheurs, marketing et informatique. Face à la demande de transformation brutale (faire partir un milliers de personnes de l'entreprise sans PSE), j'ai exprimé les risques que présentaient ce que j'appelais la "transformation de trop ".
Mon échec a été mon leadership insuffisant pour me faire entendre d'un COMEX venant de l'extérieur et attaché aux chiffres plus qu'à l'humain, et de n'avoir pu empêcher les suicides de personnes pourtant engagées dans la vie de l'entreprise de longue date . Ma réussite, c'est d'être restée alignée sur mes valeurs ce qui a renforcé mon sens de l'humain . Et c'est aussi mon leadership pour que L'Oréal me demande de venir accomplir ce à quoi j'avais contribué chez Orange: transformer la Recherche en innovation. J'ai donc mené cette transformation de "Recherche L'Oréal" en "Recherche et Innovation L'Oréal" qui intégrait la Recherche mais en l'ouvrant sur la dimension prospective marché,open innovation, collaboration et partenariat.
What excites me about working as a speaker
Partager mes convictions, transmettre mon expérience, créer une prise de conscience qui va permettre aux participants de progresser.
The mission I'm carrying today
Ma mission aujourd'hui c'est de partager ma conviction et transmettre mon expérience que le monde change en permance et que ce monde qui est plein d'opportunités, que dans le brouillard de l'incertitude, il y aussi des petites qui brillent. Mon mantra : "Attends toi à l'incertitude" d'Edgar Morin. Cela est une question d'attitude que j'ai appelée le "savoir-innover" qui repose sur certaines intelligences dont l'intelligence émotionnelle. J'ai la conviction que l'intelligence émotionnelle devrait être enseignée à l'école pour développer les soft skills , alors que l'ensignement actuel porte uniquement sur les hard skills.
The childhood dream that still follows me
Je voulais être prof de philosophie ou avocate...j'ai fait des études de communication politique à la Sorbonne... aujourd'hui j'associe mes 2 rêves en étant conférencière, en faisant progresser la connaissance notamment sur les soft skills et en défendant la cause de l'humain dans les transformations