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"The Paris Playground team is composed of a group of multi-cultural and multi-lingual individuals being drawn together to reach a common dream: bringing Co-Activity to France.

What brought these unique human beings together is simply a matter of heart and soul; they each have something that they would like to contribute to the world and they also believe that by working “co-actively” that they can make a bigger difference: since it is undeniable that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”.

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Lourdes Gutierrez   Patrice Birot  
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 Co-Activity to France and the rest of Europe.

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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