Jean-François Cousin

Jean-François Cousin became a global executive coach in 2006, in the wake of a management career around the world with a Fortune-500 company.
He believes that each person and each team has the potential for greatness and makes it his mission to support leaders and teams in catalyzing their growth.

Jean-François is particularly successful with CEOs and senior leaders due to his prior career as a senior executive and his ability to quickly understand their environment and pressure-points. Since 2006, he has coached more than 700 clients from more than 50 countries in the energy, manufacturing, fast-moving consumer goods, luxury, human resources, banking, supply chain, services, retail, transport, pharmaceuticals, insurance, IT, engineering, and nonprofit sectors. Specific areas of expertise include leadership coaching and onboarding for CEOs and senior leaders, executive transition, strategic planning, cross-cultural management.

Jean-François also coaches executive teams on trust and productive conflict, effective collaboration, and change management. He authored the book Game Changers at the Circus—How Leaders Can Unleash Greatness in Their Organizations, coauthored several other books, and regularly writes columns for the media.

His previous professional roles include executive positions with P&L responsibility. In his last corporate assignment, Jean-François was strategy vice president for one of the four divisions of Lafarge, a leading multinational company in the building materials industry. He helped anchor solid internal and external growth while the business strengthened its presence worldwide, and he coached 32 managing directors over five continents.

Jean-François holds an MSc. in engineering from Ecole Centrale Paris and is accredited by International Coach Federation as a Master Certified Coach. He is certified in several assessments, including MBTI®, DISC, Hogan and Booth 360.

For more information, please visit www.greatness.coach