Lourdès
coaches individuals, executives and corporate teams, while also travelling
around the world as a teaching Faculty member of the Coaches Training
Institute (CTI) where she experiences great satisfaction in helping
people to transform their lives and live their dreams. Lourdès
is an exceptional listener and has a natural ability to connect with
the human soul. This,
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combined with her absolute belief
in the potential of each human being, makes her a motivational catalyst
for everyone she meets.
As one of the Managing Directors of Paris
Playground, Lourdès combines her experience in languages
and cross-cultural communication to provide leadership, coaching,
and team-building at the heart of the culturally diverse organisational
teams she works with. Her candour, her aptitude in dealing with
adversity, combined with an unadulterated view of the corporate
world are exactly the qualities which make her so accessible to
those who live in that world day in and day out.
Lourdès comes from an academic background
of languages and literature which embraces her passion for communication
and love of cultural diversity. Having lived, studied and worked
in several different countries, Lourdès brings with her a
sense of adventure, excitement, change, and living on the edge.
After having spent fifteen years teaching French
and Spanish in California, she came to Paris France, her dream city,
in 2000 for a sabbatical and decided to stay. Since then, she founded
Paris Playground to use it as a platform to bring
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A Senior Executive with
over thirty years experience in the corporate world, Patrice is
an innovative and result-oriented professional with a solid record
of achievements. A firm believer in Leadership training for managers,
Patrice felt a strong call to switch from top-management positions
in the High-tech domain to coaching where his extended experience
is undoubtedly making the world a better place.
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A citizen of the world who has lived, worked and traveled in numerous
countries such as USA, UK, China, Korea, and Russia, Patrice’s
has introduced Co-Active coaching and Leadership training courses
in France, while also developing a successful private coaching practice
in service of individuals, teams and numerous major corporations
throughout Europe.
As one of the Managing Directors of Paris Playground,
Patrice is driven by excellence and integrity to bring Co-Active
and Systemic coaching values and concepts into the corporate world
at large, to help bring humanity back into the workplace. He strongly
believes that instilling ethical and spiritual values into business
will help our society to expand towards a world where fairness,
kindness, and mutual respect become the modus operandi of our leaders,
politicians and businessmen alike.
Trained as an Electronic Engineer with a strong experience in
Sales and Marketing, Patrice has held varied positions ranging from
International Program Management, VP Sales and Director of Operations
for multinational organisations such as Alcatel Space, Thomson,
NDS and Canal Plus. In the early nineties, while working for the
European Space Agency (ESA), Patrice was Mission Director for the
EUROMIR programme, a manned space mission on-board the Russian MIR
space station. In that role he coordinated the mission activities
of the ground operations teams located in Russia, Germany, France
and The Netherlands in support of the two European Astronauts flying
on-board MIR.
After living abroad for over seventeen years, Patrice decided to
settle with his family in Paris in 2004. It is in the City of Lights
where he rediscovered France and the French, and finally dared to
step out of the world of high technology and embrace his dreams
of living a life fully focused on other people’s fulfilment.
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