Build more purposeful and compassionate leaders faster

How we serve our clients

We believe that being of service to our clients is what matters. Yes, our aim is build purposeful and compassionate leaders and teams. Why do we want to do that? First there is a strong need for people in general in the workplace to be able to bring their whole life into the workplace and feel welcome, second placing humanity back into the professional life can lead to enhanced creativity, trust, well-being and eventually team and organisational performance.

We create impact through: executive coaching for teams and leaders, speaking engagements on specific engaging topics, group facilitation, leadership retreats and programs.

executive coaching

group coaching & facilitation

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our Philosophy

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Client Testimonials

Financial sector / Banking

“I experienced a pretty fundamental shift in terms of having clarity of what I need to achieve and how I go about it & what behaviours I need to change”

Rohan Westcott -Senior Managing Director, Macquarie Bank

“His experience reflects on a unique concoction of corporate principles, along with human psychology and philosophy of mind and matter.”

Anand Satyamurthy -Global Head of change & Transformation, Finance operations, HSBC, Singapore

Professional services

“I feel more confident in myself, which helps me to do my jobs more effectively and, importantly, I feel less stressed and happier.”

Quynh Van Nguyen
-CEO, PwC Vietnam

“He was always focused on the value he added through his coaching and was always looking for new ways to support me. Christophe was always focused on the value he added through his coaching and was always looking fornew ways to support me in my efforts to be an effective leader”

Stephen Gaskill -Partner Advisory Services, PwC, Vietnam

“Christophe has been able to consistently help me improve my leadership and relationship skills. I appreciate the very concrete advice and the effort to build a 24-month long coaching program”

Nguyen Luong Hien -PwC | Partner / Deputy General Director - Head of Deals / Strategy

Life sciences

“In a period of 6-9 months Christophe has achieved better than expected results to transform a very dysfunctional team into a functioning team through monthly individual coaching and group sessions.”

Simon de Hoop -Director and Vice President Hortigenetics Research (S.E.Asia) Ltd. East-West Seed, Thailand

“Christophe helped me reduce the pressure and stress and develop my self-confidence level, especially in standing in front of large audience, talking about topics which are not within my comfort zone”

Marc Guinnement -General Manager, Asia pacific, Biomin

“Christophe has been a solid and reliable partner to our R&D team for almost 2 years. His hyper vigilance, attention to detail, care and utmost professionalism earned him the trust from this very passionate and highly demanding team.”

Anne-Isabelle Sam -Chief People Officer, East-West Seed, Thailand

“Chris, the journey with you has been enlightening as I discovered more about myself. With you I have experienced non-judgmental & compassionate discussions, thank you for being there & for your professionalism !!”

Amit Trikha -Global Crop Strategy Lead, Bayer Crop Science

“Christophe helped me to understand how emotions can become valuable instruments, building a higher confidence level in my leadership ability. The outcome leads to Increasing trust levels and stronger functional performance of my leadership team”

Joost van Elzackker -Chief Sales Officer, East West Seed

“I improved my self-awareness tremendously. I am today much mindful person, able to manage/control my emotion. Christophe is a passionate Coach with tons of experience in the corporate world”

Glenn Pardede -Managing Director, PT East West Seeds Indonesia

Technology

“Christophe is patient, listens far more than he tells, and holds me accountable to what I said I'd do in a way that feels collaborative and encouraging. I can see the impact of the new behaviors by hearing from others, and seeing what new things our team has been able to do.”

Andrew McGlinchey -Senior Director, Indeed, Singapore

“My colleagues noticed that I am more visible in key meetings with the company leadership, I am better able to connect with them and understand their situation, and I am more resilient in stressful situations.”

Derek Mathieson -Senior Program manager, Asean, Global selling, Amazon

Consumer good / Luxury products

“I made an intentional choice to work with Christophe because I saw great diversity in our backgrounds, beliefs and culture. His strong persistence and professionalism helped me discover the importance of life beyond the professional arena and see situations beyond my own judgement.”

Rachel Tan -Regional HRD, DFS (LVMH Group)

“Christophe’s capacity to explore our thoughts and beliefs helped us develop an open mind and broader ways of thinking. Thanks to his carefully chosen words, his listening and his commitment to support us, we found ways to express within the group some of our strong emotions”

Benjamin Rang -HR VP Europe & Middle East / LVMH Group at DFS

“Christophe was clear on what we could achieve and this allowed me to focus on the process and not second guess the plan… I developed a healthy regard for Christophe’s innate ability to empathize and also show his own vulnerability”

Nikhil Sharma -Managing Director, Perfetti Van Melle, Vietnam

“Christophe has great listening skills and showed lot of generosity. Exchanging with him allowed me multiple times to find solutions to a challenge I was facing.”

Cosmo Zachero -CFO, L’Oreal Thailand (during coaching, was previously Apac CFO Consumer Products division)

Transport and Logistics

“I appreciate the way Christophe guided me smoothly whilst being frank and direct at the same time.”

Magali Doucet-Charles -Purchasing Director, Air France

Entrepreneurs / Start-ups

“Christophe enabled me to think more deeply about my role and how to further built up my human capital”

Julien Beaujolin -CEO & Founder EMCP

“Christophe made my job much easier, I save so much energy, stress and time. I really enjoyed the time I spend with him, he got so much resources”

Denis Requis -General manager, Madei

“The experience working with Christophe helped me connect important dots.”

Alistair Schneider -CEO Innouvo

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About

My Story.
My Mission.

Christophe Grimont

Christophe is an organisational consultant, executive coach and group facilitator. Throughout his 20-year career as a management consultant in Europe and Asia, Christophe has acquired tremendous experience through his work in large organizations in various sectors and areas of expertise.

More specifically, he specializes in strategic, process improvement and organizational change initiatives. His primary sectors of intervention are professional services, manufacturing, financial/banking, private and public sectors in Asia. Christophe lives both in Ho Chi Minh City and Singapore.

Christophe is Fellow Associate with several global learning organizations, in particular: IMD Lausanne & Singapore, CCL (Centre for Creative Leadership) in Singapore, Oxford Leadership globally. Those leadership powerhouses bring rich and varied sources of influence and inspiration. Some of his clients in the last 3 years: HSBC, UBS, Singtel, AtKearney, PWC, DTAC, Mandiri Bank, L’Oreal, Perfetti, Telkom Malaysia, Linxens.

My purpose is to communicate in an energizing and non-judgmental way to build purposeful and compassionate leaders as I help them reconcile with their truest self

He is passionate about combining coaching approaches: one looks at the human being as a whole with all its dimensions, leveraging our total intelligence: cognitive, emotional and physical; the other focused 100% on observable and measurable results and focuses stakeholders around the leader, as support mechanism. This combination dramatically increases chances for real and deep shift as it addresses both part of the iceberg: what is visible and what is underneath.

Christophe coaches individuals and also management teams, delivering leadership programs to large and medium sized firms in the US, Europe and Asia. He aims to enhance the individual and the teams’ positive overall impact on the organizations performance.

Christophe holds an Electrical Engineering Master Degree from INSA, France and an MBA in Finance from, EMLYON, France. He is also an Executive Master in Coaching and Consulting for Change, INSEAD, Singapore and is a Certified Integral Coach, New Ventures West, US. He is certified in the Stakeholder-Centred Coaching Approach with Marshall Goldsmith, Hogan and several 360 tools.

Has a one year Gestalt group dynamics advanced certificate and beefed up his capacity on team coaching in 2020 with the Global Team Coaching Institute led by David Clutterbuck and Peter Hawkins. He recently engaged in a 2y mindfulness meditation teacher program with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield.