About me

From Monty Python to management: a journey that ultimately isn’t absurd at all. After a master’s degree on Monty Python, a postgraduate diploma on nonsense and the absurd, and the beginnings of a doctorate on cinematic comedy, my shift to management and change leadership emerged as an ironic inevitability – or as the logical continuation of a reflection on dysfunctional systems.

For twenty-five years, I have been supporting organizations through their transformations (holacracy, sociocracy, agile, lean, kanban). I work particularly on leadership, managerial coaching, product management, and team development. But above all, I am an entrepreneur. In 2010, after several years of IT consulting, I co-founded Smartview with two partners. In 2015, I joined Benext as a partner and CEO. Following the acquisition by Accenture/Octo in 2021, I contributed to the integration before regaining my freedom for new projects.

I am also an author: I published Kanban, l’approche en flux pour l’entreprise agile (Dunod, 2nd edition 2025) and Petit manuel de pensée organisationnelle (Publibook, 2025), the result of fifteen years of reflection. I regularly write digital essays on organizations, management, and leadership.

Brief professional history

  • in 2026 I launch the PONOS experiment
  • in 2024 I launch the WINSTON Project
  • in 2021 ACCENTURE/OCTO acquires benext and I join them as Managing Director.
  • In 2015 I join BENEXT, as CEO in Paris.
  • In 2010 I create SMARTVIEW (I bring agility) with Christophe Monnier and Gilles Pommier in Montpellier.
  • In 2006 I join SQLI in Aix En Provence.
  • In 1999 I join ALBERT in Montpellier.
  • In 1998 I join NEXUS technologies in Aspères.
  • In 1995 I do my national service in cooperation on the CAPE VERDE islands.
  • In 1995 I start a thesis on CINEMATIC COMEDY in times of crisis (never finished).
  • In 1994 I finish my postgraduate diploma on NONSENSE & THE ABSURD (see below).
  • In 1992 I finish my master’s degree in Art History, specializing in the MONTY PYTHON.
  • In 1989 I finish my ARTS & PHILOSOPHY baccalaureate.

Want to know me even better?

To know me better, roll a die and pick the quote:

  1. No plan survives first contact with the enemy – Von Moltke
  2. I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member! – Groucho Marx
  3. They did not know it was impossible, so they did it – Mark Twain
  4. Too many midwives, and the baby is dead – Romanian proverb
  5. Don’t tell the facts! Tell the truth! – Maya Angelou
  6. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch – Aesop

Reach me?

Content license

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AI?

Yes, I use AI… but never for my articles, nor for my books. This may change in the future, but I will let you know, and it has never happened until now, and I have no desire for it.

A debate on AI? It is a deadly abyss and a hypnotic power. Given my background, the evolution of my thinking, my situation, being at the heart of software development, being what I consider myself to be: very well-equipped for organizational and product thinking, I choose to use AI to go even further. And this while not being ignorant of the strong cognitive dissonances with some of my other ideals. I live with these demons. I leave you with yours; that’s not the subject here.

So once again: to go further in my profession, for example the documents around Peetic, but not for my articles or my books.

Acknowledgments

  • Thanks to the University of Caen for its online synonym dictionary.
  • Thanks to HUGO and its incredible generation speed for generating this blog.

The crypt

Welcome to my little crypt. I store here old things that have no connection to the blog except that I created them. They are also not related to agility, although…

Zepablo’s Led Zeppelin

Website maintained from 1997 to 2003 about Led Zeppelin. The first French website on Led Zeppelin.

1994: Postgraduate diploma “The forms and mutations of the absurd and nonsense in cinematic burlesque”

A DEA (Diplôme d’Études Approfondies) in Film History (communication & audiovisual) dated 1994. Hey, go easy on me, I was only 23… The illustrations are also missing (the pages I found no longer had them); I’ll try to find them (someday…).

1993: Master’s thesis: “Comedy in Monty Python”

In 2025, I find a copy of my master’s thesis in an old folder (most of the illustrations are missing, but in 10 years I should be able to add them, as I have the sources). I was 22 years old, a master’s degree that shaped who I have become.

Appendices:

1989 baccalaureate 1989 Arts & Philosophy, cinema & audiovisual option: “Works on Star Wars”

It’s very naive, but I deny nothing.