Michel Cournoyer

Background

About Michel Cournoyer

I have started writing a book on leadership but not in the technical sense of leadership that many have already written. I am interested in the human aspect of leaders and this for any type of leader whether it be in family, business, politics, religion, or personal. I am still writing this book. So I decided to focus on start-ups. I started my career learning the electrician trade with the US Navy for almost 6 years, traveling the world. When I returned to Canada, I worked first for CN as an electrician and then as a manager. During this time, I completed my Masters in Business Management. I also increasingly integrated technology into the development of learning, mainly in the workplace. I then exported this new approach to technology-based training to the North American rail industry, both for operators and service providers, as Vice President of Technology and Training at CANAC. I left CANAC to join Technomedia as Director of Business Development for Canada, the United States and Europe. I had the opportunity to work with world-class companies such as Bombardier, Alcan, Natixis and Chanel, to name a few. I went full circle by "retiring" as a co-founder of ChallengeU with talented young entrepreneurs. I discovered the world of learning at another level. Education at the primary and secondary level, but also at all other levels. I realized very quickly that retirement might not be for me. Especially when I started working on my book on leadership. I realized that one of the great weaknesses of leaders was not in the bulk of their work, but in the art of communicating their directives to be well understood by those who follow them. In order to improve this situation, I decided to develop and make available to them another communication tool integrating technologies, together with young entrepreneurs. We founded a new company: Memo. We are currently at the market validation and commercialization stage. In parallel, I had the opportunity to join the LeoMed team to put my learnings into practice and my experience to good use.