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THE “FIRST LINE” PROGRAM

Engagement cannot be mandated. It is earned one level down.

For CHROs of growing mid-market companies. Turn your management line into performance coaching — re-engage, retain, and prove it to the Executive Committee. First conversation within 72 hours.

THE STAKES

Your best people are leaving. And it plays out one level below you.

Engagement scores stall, key talent walks — and the cause is almost never the top. It sits in the quality of middle management. A manager who knows how to coach engages people, grows them, and keeps them. One who only knows how to report wears their teams down, quarter after quarter.

70%
of the variance in a team's engagement
comes down to its manager (Gallup — State of the American Manager)
20%
of employees say they are actually
engaged at work (Gallup · State of the Global Workplace 2026)

That is exactly where your mandate is decided. And exactly where most HR plans stop — for lack of a lever that acts on posture, not process.

ESTIMATE YOUR ROI

Before you make the case, put a number on it.

What is a re-engaged management line worth to your organization? Estimate the value created — profile by profile, with sourced figures and a transparent method you can defend internally.

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For the substance — AI, your managers' workload and the complete program: the CHRO & Executive Committee Playbook.

THE PROGRAM

From manager to manager-coach.

The number-one move of CHROs who deliver in 2026: shifting their managers from control to coaching. We install that posture across an entire cohort of managers — not through top-down training, but through performance coaching, individual and collective, anchored in their day-to-day work.

STEP 01

Assessment

Mapping of management stances (the Stance Compass) and an engagement baseline, team by team. We start from reality, not from a competency framework.

STEP 02

The program

A cohort of managers: individual sessions plus group workshops built on the Fit to protocol. 90 days, with moves they can put into practice the following week.

STEP 03

The proof

Before-and-after measurement and a readout to the Executive Committee. Impact is shown — not narrated.

YOUR PROOF TO THE C-SUITE

Re-engaging is good. Proving it is what unlocks your budget.

Your challenge is not only to act: it is to demonstrate impact to an executive committee that thinks in numbers. We build measurement in from the assessment stage, so that your next C-suite presentation rests on measured deltas, not intentions.

THEMES

What we install in your managers

Feedback that grows people

Move beyond the annual review into continuous conversation.

Delegating without losing direction

Give autonomy without losing control of the outcome.

Re-engaging without overpromising

Restore meaning and mastery, without perk inflation.

Carrying the load, preventing burnout

Spot the exhaustion of being held back before it reaches the breaking point.

The difficult conversation

Say what needs to be said — course correction, disagreement, departure.

The manager-coach, day to day

Simple rituals that fit inside a packed week.

AND YOU, CHRO

You hold an exposed seat too.

Transforming the management line is a change program that you carry — often alone, facing a C-suite that expects results. We also work on your own posture as CHRO: holding your ground in the trade-offs, embodying the change rather than enduring it, staying the course.

THEY MADE THE MOVE

CHROs who took the step.

“Remarkable speed in responding to our needs, and great creativity in adapting strategically to what we asked for.”

Laurence Commandeur — CHRO and Executive Committee member, HPE

“Ludovic combined an approach built on deep knowledge (of how the brain works) with a genuinely human one.”

Sandra Couturier — HR Director
THE FRAMEWORK

A framework you can defend internally.

You are committing your teams' trust and your organization's responsibility. The program is built to clear review by your legal department and your DPO without friction.

FIRST STEP

We start with thirty minutes.

Not a pitch. An honest read of your management line and your engagement numbers — and a straight recommendation on what would move fastest. You leave with a point of view, whether we work together or not.