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The book Self Leadership: “The 8 Pillars for Finding Meaning”

Am I in the right place in my job? We all ask ourselves this question! But, in reality, it hides many other dimensions:I am running in circles in my club and I want to know how to become the main actor in my professional life again; I am successful, but I wonder if what I am doing makes sense; Am I in my place in my responsibilities in front of others, when I feel alone in carrying certain values?...

January 03, 2025
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Sandra Dunkel, our 3,000th graduate: “clarifying the way forward”

Three thousand. In roughly fifteen years, three thousand people have completed the Self-Leadership programme. Behind that figure there is no statistic: there are three thousand journeys, three thousand turning points, three thousand ways of asking the same question — where do I really want to go? As it happened, the 3,000th was Sandra Dunkel. And because her story says something true about what this path can produce, we wanted to tell it.

October 12, 2026
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Sandra Dunkel, our 3,000th graduate: “clarifying the way forward”

Three thousand. In roughly fifteen years, three thousand people have completed the Self-Leadership programme. Behind that figure there is no statistic: there are three thousand journeys, three thousand turning points, three thousand ways of asking the same question — where do I really want to go? As it happened, the 3,000th was Sandra Dunkel. And because her story says something true about what this path can produce, we wanted to tell it.

October 12, 2026
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Does Self-Leadership Work in China Too?

What several executives at a major Chinese bank taught us about leading yourself

October 12, 2026
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Stand firm or bend?

The storms we are facing today bring us back to La Fontaine. Should we be the oak or the reed? Rigidity or adaptation? Both the fable and current events invite us to read the question differently.

October 12, 2026
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The solitude of leadership — a necessary fate?

When you become a leader, you're not just signing up to make decisions. You inherit a role. A symbol. A face. You become the embodied 'legal person.' And with that comes a form of solitude that no strategic meeting or corporate event can truly fill.But is this solitude inevitable? Or can we learn to move through it — even transform it?

July 9, 2025
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The Responsibilities of Managers in the Digital Age

The digital world is changing not only the way we work, but also the responsibilities of managers. Today, leaders must deal with technologies like big data, automation, and an increasingly demanding customer experience. Faced with these transformations, what are the key responsibilities to succeed and guide your teams?

May 26, 2025
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Choosing to thrive

Personal development is now a question of choice and responsibility. Which one do we choose to find meaning among the range of possibilities in our environment? And how can you assume it in order to be useful? In a few months, we went from a personal need to fulfill ourselves to that of a concrete commitment. Recent crises have not extinguished our need to change. By focusing him on the next step, they made him more stimulating.

May 26, 2025
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Self-Leadership is also for leaders

Self-Leadership is also for managers, as this testimony from a Toulouse boss shows. The right vision for an SME is the one that its manager carries within him and discovers the ability to lead.

May 26, 2025
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International recognition for the Self-Leadership program

Our Self-Leadership program was already largely legitimized by practice, whether by its wide distribution or its attested impact on the professional lives of its beneficiaries. It still lacked official and independent international recognition. It is now done.

May 26, 2025
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Emotional intelligence is at the heart of leadership

Emotional intelligence plays a critical role in our ability to demonstrate leadership. It is our ability to become aware of the meaning of events as we experience them, in order to act effectively and positively.

May 26, 2025
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Do you have to be ambitious to be a good leader?

“The teeth that scratch the parquet.” This famous expression, an image of human ambition, sounds like a judgment. Indeed, the ambitious who seeks success, status and money at all costs. The one who always wants more for purely personal purposes. But is ambition confined only to this pejorative straitjacket? However, if it is perceived so negatively, cannot ambition be at the service of the best? Do you have to have ambition to be a real leader?

May 26, 2025
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The manager in the face of paradoxes

The middle manager is constantly confronted with paradoxes. Those of his function, between a management that requires agility and collaborators who require stability. But also those of the choices to be made on a daily basis, in the face of antagonistic constraints. It is one of the factors behind the loneliness of the manager, who is constantly asked to be an example. How to deal with it?

May 26, 2025
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The psychological contract in the face of the need for meaning

In a constantly changing world, business management must adapt to numerous challenges. Among these, the question of the meaning of work arises acutely. On the one hand, companies are constantly being challenged on their societal, climate and governance commitments. Without always knowing what to put in place beyond specific actions aimed at inclusion or their environmental responsibility. On the other hand, employees are disengaging. Absences at work are at their highest, on average 2 weeks per person in 2023 in Switzerland. 42% of French people under 35 are considering leaving their job, which no longer makes sense for them.

May 26, 2025
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Self-knowledge: how to understand yourself in a complex and uncertain world

Self-knowledge is at the heart of self-leadership; it allows us to consciously work on our strengths and weaknesses, but also to progress towards roles that fully satisfy us. But how do you understand each other? How do we know who we are? That is the difficulty, as we live in a complex and uncertain world.

May 26, 2025
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Happiness at work: is it up to the company to make us happy?

In the age of Chief Happiness Officers, or happiness managers, companies seem to have to take responsibility for the happiness of their employees. But is that really their role? Are they responsible for this happiness that is apparently so sought after and desired by employees?

May 26, 2025
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Take all its place

Taking our place means deciding to take responsibility. It means having the courage to take on a role in confronting our aspirations with our changing professional realities. Self-leadership goes further. It's taking your place, but also taking your place.

May 26, 2025
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“You are your most important professional project”

Ash Ganzoury, Self-Leadership Coach and researcher at the University of Boulder in Colorado, offers us his vision here: “Whether you're presenting to clients, drawing up budget plans, managing a workflow, or joining a team... wherever you are, that's where you are, and you're there! The only thing that can make every aspect of your daily work easier and more successful is learning more about yourself and your environment.”

May 26, 2025
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Individual sense and collective sense, a co-responsibility

Fixed visions, where the individual entrusts the company with giving it meaning, where the company instructs its employees to adhere to the collective sense, are no longer enough. There is full co-responsibility for the relationship between the 2 parties. The individual is fully responsible for their well-being at work, without this taking away from the company's responsibility in this area. The company is totally responsible for the resistance it encounters, without this in any way taking away from the responsibility for the development of its employees. These sentences shake up many ideas that are rooted in our societies. They are simply tackling the good old fashioned search for the culprit.

May 26, 2025
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Is it time to change professionally?

When considering a career change, can we make sure we're on the right track? And more importantly, can we make sure it's the right time?

May 26, 2025
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The impact of personal leadership among middle managers: a lever for professional transformation

Self-leadership has become an essential asset in the professional world, especially for middle managers who navigate between the strategic requirements of management and the daily management of their teams. According to our recent survey of participants in the Self-Leadership Lab program, the results show a considerable impact on the ability of managers to make informed decisions and to assert themselves in their roles. ‍

May 26, 2025
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Is the company responsible for meaning?

Advocating individual self-leadership could lead one to believe that individuals bear full responsibility for the meaning of their action. Position rightly criticized by some current authors, such as Christophe Genoud. But then, would it be our organizations that are responsible for it?

May 26, 2025
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Finding meaning in your work is first and foremost finding yourself

What is meaningful work? Usefulness of its function, balance between professional and personal life or professional development? Regardless of the status, each job can actually make sense.

May 26, 2025
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Impostor syndrome at work: understanding and overcoming it

Faced with novelty, many of us experience “impostor syndrome”. This leads us to doubt our professional qualities and skills. Where does it come from exactly? How do you overcome it and get rid of it?

May 26, 2025
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Can we be ourselves and play a role?

Be yourself and play a role. In the collective consciousness, these two notions are contradictory. You can't be yourself if you're playing a role. But what do we mean by “role”? That is all the confusion.

May 26, 2025
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The change has changed. Let's change perspective with him

Change is no longer about defining a goal and adapting your means to achieve it. It means joining forces to evolve according to opportunities, with other skills and other visions around us.

May 26, 2025
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Does burn-out result from a lack of self-knowledge?

“I am on the verge of burn-out!” Who has not heard or said this sentence, whose resonance is even stronger in times of pandemic. It has become an overused expression and is often used during a period of intense work-related stress. However, it is full of meaning. Burn-out, the real one, is a professional exhaustion syndrome, which according to the WHO, sets in gradually. But why, faced with the same professional situation, do some people sink and others don't? In addition to external conditions, what role does the lack of self-knowledge play?

May 26, 2025
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Leadership: what does it mean to be a real leader?

“A real leader.” What is hidden behind this word that contains so many fantasies? Are there the leaders and the others? Or on the contrary, can we all become one? So what would be the qualities of a good leader?

May 26, 2025
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