Francois Besson

Background

About Francois Besson

30-year senior management experience across Europe and USA, as general manager, director of sales & marketing, strategy consultant and entrepreneur. EDHEC business school + MBA from UCLA Anderson. Creative strategist, hands-on leader. Passionate about developing people's potential and increasing leadership impact through mindfulness. See my series of articles here : I am currently the managing partner of SKG and work hand in hand with our clients to deliver value through superior sales and marketing strategy and operational sales execution. We regularly use Blue Ocean and other innovation methods to help question and muscle up our clients' strategies. I am recently the co-founder of Atelier Corps Esprit, an innovative Leadership Coaching initiative where we combine care for the Body and care for the Mind to help leaders perform optimally and sustainably through superior self-care and work/life balance. I am also a senior Mindful Leadership trainer and conference speaker with Potential Project International, the leader in mind training for the executive world. I currently train senior executives in many Fortune500 global companies, in various formats: executive committee coaching, keynote conferences, leadership workshops, 10-week transformational journeys. I am a regular speaker at conferences on corporate mindfulness, building the case for mindfulness, wisdom and compassion in the service of leadership. Specialties: • Business, sales and marketing strategy • Business turnaround and acceleration • Team building & talent development • Mindfulness, alignment and performance • Sustainable leadership