★ Premium European Firm · Board Advisory Fast Transition To Success©
Decide, transform, succeed
— faster and smarter
Beyond our core business, interim management, we developed this practice to support our key accounts first and foremost, often international groups: their executive committees, leadership teams and executives, at every decisive turning point
Definition
What is board advisory?
Why this practice
Interim management is MANAGERIM's core business. Over the years, several key accounts, often international groups such as Orange, EDF, Framatome and Engie, have entrusted us with broader leadership and HR challenges: aligning an executive committee, supporting an executive, transferring critical knowledge, preparing a career transition. We structured this practice to serve them end to end, with a dedicated point of contact and our full range of services:
Board advisory: definition
Board advisory supports executive committees (ExCom), management committees and senior executives in their structural decisions, their transformations and the defining moments of their careers. At MANAGERIM, this premium practice, primarily dedicated to our key accounts, is built around 4 complementary pillars: leadership seminars (Scan > Focus > Act method), executive coaching and organisational sociology training, age management and key knowledge transfer (CAP³ method), and premium outplacement.
Every engagement is tailor-made and led by Partners with backgrounds in executive advisory and former senior executives. After an initial confidential conversation of 20 to 45 minutes, you receive a proposal within 2 to 4 days.
Our services
Four complementary areas of expertise
Pillar 01
Leadership Seminars & Executive Advisory
- Run leadership seminars that drive your transformation projects
- Support transformation projects through executive coaching and advisory
Pillar 02
Executive Coaching & Organisational Sociology Training
- Coach executives, key managers and their teams
- Train in organisational sociology
Pillar 03
Age Management & Key Knowledge Transfer
- Map and transfer the critical knowledge of your experts
- Activate an alumni expert pool and set up a post-retirement cooperation scheme
Pillar 04
Premium Outplacement & New Career Projects
- Shape new career projects during career transitions
- Support executives and managers preparing for the transition from work to retirement
What you gain
Four key benefits to help you reach the next stage
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An aligned, ambitious leadership team
Shared vision, cohesion, cross-functional working, competitive drive, accelerated transformation
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Leaders who unlock their full potential
Leadership, individual and collective performance, ripple effect
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A skills base preserved and passed on
Key knowledge secured, optimised age management, intergenerational cooperation, a structured alumni expert network ready to activate
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Career paths under control
Supported career paths, professional milestones successfully reached, work-to-retirement transitions anticipated, an innovative and distinctive senior talent policy
Our conviction
Uncertainty calls for a new course
Who we work with
First and foremost our key accounts, often international,
across every sector
Our services in detail
A complete breakdown of our four areas of expertise
An in-depth look at each pillar: approaches, signature formats, proprietary methodologies, areas of intervention and the concrete benefits you can expect
Leadership Seminars & Executive Advisory
A high-performing leadership team is no longer built solely around figures and processes: it is built around a common vision, mutual trust within the team, collective energy and a shared sense of purpose across the organisation. MANAGERIM designs and delivers programmes focused on decision, alignment and execution, turning a scattered strategic debate into a clear trajectory, explicit trade-offs and actionable plans
Leadership Seminars
Short, high-impact and structuring formats (from a few hours to 2 days) to align your executive or management committee around a specific objective and trigger execution
Executive Advisory & Synthesis Advisory
Support in a coaching and advisory mode throughout a transformation project: structuring hypotheses, facilitating trade-offs, securing execution
Three signature formats, used on their own or combined:
Clarify a strategic trajectoryStrategic Reset
For teams facing a loss of visibility, a market disruption or disagreements over priorities. Structuring hypotheses, comparing scenarios, realigning the leadership team
Accelerate a critical transformationTransformation Accelerator
For organisations that need to accelerate a transformation of their organisation, operations or business model. Identifying the real obstacles, prioritising the levers, securing governance
Settle a sensitive strategic decisionCritical Decision Lab
For situations where a major strategic decision remains blocked or insufficiently examined. Objectifying scenarios, making disagreements explicit, securing a robust decision
Executive Coaching & Organisational Sociology Training
Supporting a senior executive means supporting a manager whose decisions commit the entire organisation. Many engagements start with a difficulty in decoding a professional ecosystem that has become complex: power plays, organisational dynamics, multiple trade-offs. Our approach is based on a strategic, organisational and business reading of leadership situations, enabling executives to act with greater clarity, effectiveness and impact
Executive & Team Coaching
Long-term individual or team support from experienced certified coaches who are former executives themselves — to decode, decide and transform
Organisational Sociology Training (Organisational Decoding)
Rigorous, hands-on training in small groups (6 to 8 people maximum), led by practitioner sociologists — to acquire a powerful framework for reading organisations
Three signature coaching formats, used on their own or combined:
Decode your organisation and identify your levers for actionDecoding & Action
For executives facing persistent resistance, decisions whose effects fall short, or complex power plays to decode. Decoding the dynamics, mapping allies and opponents, building an influence strategy
Succeed in a complex transformation or repositioningTransformation Sponsor
For sponsors of multi-stakeholder transformations, sensitive reorganisations or strategic repositioning. Building coalitions for action, sequencing trade-offs, securing execution
Support a new appointment or a sensitive situationExecutive Onboarding
For newly appointed executives or those facing a delicate or demanding business situation. Building legitimacy, reading the balance of power, steering collective dynamics
Four areas of intervention, worked on simultaneously:
Relationships & power plays
State of relations with key stakeholders and partners, decoding relational issues, power games and rivalries
Decision & execution
Building transformation momentum, setting up governance, dealing with double-bind situations
Vulnerabilities in exercising the mandate
Ability to decide, interact with multiple stakeholders, show initiative and leadership, and work with complexity rather than against it
Managerial dynamics
Delegation, cooperation, team cohesion, managing transition periods, collective mobilisation
Age Management & Key Knowledge Transfer
Longer careers, demographic shifts in the workforce and the growing scarcity of certain expertise are profoundly changing companies' HR challenges. Age management is no longer just a social or administrative issue: it is becoming a strategic issue of operational continuity, know-how transfer and sustainable performance. Particularly relevant for companies with deep expertise, our programmes focus on experts, senior managers and executives who hold strategic knowledge and know-how
Senior HR Policy & Skills Transfer
A comprehensive HR policy and a structured transfer programme to preserve, secure and sustain the skills base held by your experts, senior managers and executives
Innovative Post-Retirement Cooperation Scheme
A alumni expert pool, structured and ready to activate, so you can keep drawing on their know-how on an ad hoc basis as your business needs it, across Europe and internationally
Three strands, independent or combined, designed to ensure the continuity of your skills base
Age Management
Senior HR policy: age pyramid diagnosis, end-of-career paths, anticipating sensitive departures
Key Knowledge Transfer
Map and transfer the expertise held by experts, senior managers and executives (CAP³ method)
Post-Retirement Cooperation
Build an alumni expert pool available for high-value ad hoc assignments, and handle assignment management, administration and quality follow-up
Premium Outplacement & New Career Projects
A 100% individual, tailor-made career transition programme, dedicated to executives, senior managers and experienced managers. Our purpose: to enable each participant to define their future project clearly, taking an active, ownership stance, and then to return to a professional activity that matches their goals, expectations and skills. The programme runs over 6 to 12 months, with a dedicated lead coach-consultant and ad hoc input from experts depending on the topics covered
Two dimensions of support, combined in a single programme:
Clarify your career project and redesign your trajectory
Reviewing your career path, identifying your talents and experiential knowledge, exploring deep motivations, life project, balance, vision for the future, positioning and value proposition
Move forward, take action and be supported over time
Search strategy, communication (CV, pitch, materials), structuring the project, activating the extended MANAGERIM network, operational follow-up and coaching until the project is achieved
Support tailored to each participant's profile and aspirations:
Profile 1
Managers and executives in career transition
A structured and active search, generally aimed at a full-time role in a new professional challenge
Typical outcomes
- Return to an executive role
- Interim manager
Profile 2
Managers and executives transitioning from work to retirement
A flexible search, whose intensity and variety depend on the desired life project and the work-life balance sought. Often a portfolio of complementary activities
Possible outcomes, chosen and combined freely
- Independent consultant
- Interim manager
- Fractional manager
- Non-executive director · board member
- Business angel
- Start-up mentoring
- Coach / mentor to young leaders
- Role in the non-profit sector · association management
- Teaching & knowledge sharing
Four areas of intervention worked on throughout the programme:
Review & assessment
Dynamic review of the career path, identifying talents and experiential knowledge, understanding leadership style, analysing deep motivations and aspirations
Project & positioning
Vision for the future, distinctive value proposition, selection criteria (full-time vs chosen working time, mobility, duration), validating the positioning
Strategy & action plan
Search strategy, communication (CV, pitch, materials), possible legal set-up (sole trader, company…), training in the consulting profession where relevant
Activation & network
MANAGERIM works in coaching and advisory mode on activating the extended network, targeted introductions, the business development approach, debriefing first actions and long-term follow-up
Leadership seminar & advisory methodology
A structured three-step approach: Scan > Focus > Act
A simple, proven logic: enabling leaders to tackle complex strategic issues faster and more effectively, turning a scattered debate into explicit trade-offs and actionable plans
Share the facts, open up the options
- Create a common language
- Align perceptions
- Identify the critical issues
- Map the possible scenarios
- In-depth strategic preparation and targeted interviews
Structure the trade-offs
- Work through points of disagreement
- Challenge the key hypotheses
- Assess the scenarios against shared criteria
- Identify the priority decisions
- Facilitate a constructive exchange of views
Turn decisions into execution
- Explicit and owned trade-offs
- Actionable priorities
- Clear sequencing and defined responsibilities
- Concrete, easy-to-steer roadmap
- Securing execution after the seminar
Recent assignments
Six assignments, six tailor-made programmes
Varied contexts, tailored approaches, concrete results
Pillar 01 · Leadership Seminar
Strategic realignment of a management committee after an acquisition
Pillar 02 · Executive Coaching
Onboarding coaching for a newly appointed CEO
Pillar 03 · Transfer & Post-Retirement Cooperation
Knowledge transfer and post-retirement cooperation at a utilities company
Pillar 04 · Premium Outplacement
Premium outplacement for a Group CFO
Pillars 01 + 02 · Seminar & Management Coaching
Accelerating the digital transformation of an insurance executive committee
Pillar 03 · Age Management & Work-to-Retirement Transition
Age management strategy for a major construction group
The practice leadership team
An experienced, multidisciplinary team, assembled to match the scale of your challenges
For each project, MANAGERIM brings together a team of hand-picked experts and coaches, selected for the sector, functional and interpersonal skills best suited to your challenges.
All our engagements are led by a leadership team with solid managerial experience and in-depth command of the key board advisory topics
Nicolas Mariotte
20 years of executive advisory to CEOs. A sociologist by training, he combines business vision and a decoding of the underlying dynamics of transformations
Dominique Kaczmarek
Former Director of CRIGEN (ENGIE's research centre). Recognised experience in managing expert networks and transferring critical knowledge in the utilities, construction and high-tech sectors
Yves Cornu
Over 20 years of strategy and transformation consulting. Certified professional coach (individual, team, organisation), with a systemic reading of organisations
Why MANAGERIM
Five strengths that make the difference
A dedicated practice led by seasoned experts
A team specifically organised for board advisory, led by people with long experience of advising CEOs and executive management, coaching and transformation. For each assignment, a team of experts and coaches hand-picked for your sector, functional and human challenges
A rare stance: sociological, systemic & business
A firm driven by sociologists and systemic consultants who decode human dynamics, power plays and underlying organisational logics — backed by a solid strategic and business vision built over many years in the field with executive committees. A rare combination, particularly valued for navigating decisive turning points
Proven proprietary methodologies
Methods that are innovative and proven by years in the field: Scan > Focus > Act for leadership seminars, CAP³ for knowledge transfer, certified coaching approaches, a sociological reading of organisations, structured interviews, retirement anticipation programmes and the innovative set-up of post-retirement cooperation schemes for executives and experts
Innovation, pragmatism & rigour
An approach that combines creative programme design, the pragmatism of hands-on consultants and the methodological rigour expected by executive committees. No jargon, no endless slides — value, delivered fast and right
The MANAGERIM ecosystem
A natural fit with our other activities: Interim Management (a pool of 20,000+ managers), Accelerated Executive Search and our Post-Retirement Cooperation schemes — a unique ecosystem supporting the continuity of your decisions
Frequently asked questions
Your questions, our answers
What is board advisory?
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What is a leadership seminar for, and how long does it last?
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What is outplacement and when should you use it?
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Who is your Premium Outplacement for, and what makes it different?
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Let's discuss your leadership challenges
- Planning an executive committee seminar? A transformation to reinvigorate or accelerate?
- Need to start executive coaching, support a work-to-retirement transition or an outplacement within your teams?
- A critical knowledge transfer programme to launch?
- A strategic challenge to discuss, or a question about our services?
Our team is available for an initial confidential, no-commitment conversation
Nicolas Mariotte
Nicolas Mariotte has solid experience in executive advisory to large corporations and mid-caps in France and internationally. Previously Senior Director at Capgemini Invent in the Innovative Strategy & Transformation practice, he has supported dozens of executive committees in defining and steering their strategic, cultural, organisational, digital and HR transformation projects
A sociologist by training, he brings a high-level perspective to organisations, decoding the underlying dynamics, the unspoken issues and the blind spots that hold transformations back
A graduate of Sciences Po Paris, ENS Paris-Saclay and UCD Smurfit Business School (Dublin), Nicolas also teaches on the ESSEC MBA and at Glion. He regularly runs seminars in short, high-impact formats and supports many executives through coaching and advisory
Dominique Kaczmarek
Dominique Kaczmarek began his career in project management and then managing operational units in the electricity and gas distribution sector, where he notably led the transformations ahead of the opening of the energy markets
A senior executive for nearly 20 years, he headed CRIGEN, ENGIE's research centre, which became one of the Group's largest innovation and research hubs, specialising in technological products and solutions for the energy transition. He therefore has in-depth knowledge of R&D issues and of managing expert networks
For several years, Dominique has supported knowledge transfer programmes for groups in various sectors (utilities, construction, high tech). He is also heavily involved in business angel networks and start-up support (funding strategy, development, performance), and has taken part in business and infrastructure projects in West Africa
Now a Partner at MANAGERIM, Dominique supports many clients (start-ups, SMEs, mid-caps, investment funds and major corporate clients) and leads in particular the topics related to expertise and Key Knowledge Transfer
Dominique is a graduate of Supelec and holds a specialisation in Finance and Management (HEC Executive Education)
Yves Cornu
Yves Cornu has solid experience in strategy, management and organisation consulting, including 14 years as Vice President at Capgemini Invent and 2 years as Senior Advisor at Deloitte Consulting. He has designed and led numerous transformation programmes for large corporations: operating models, customer experience, digital transformation, platform models, omnichannel distribution, carve-outs of business activities
A certified professional coach (individual, team, organisation), Yves supports executives and leadership teams through their decisive strategic and human milestones. His systemic reading of organisations makes him a trusted partner of executive committees
With a PhD in political science, a former researcher in France and Canada, Yves brings his clients a combination of analytical rigour, strategic depth and finesse in reading people