Keynote Speaker · Executive Educator · Complexity-Decoder

Give Your Audience More Than an Inspiring Speech —
Novel Food for Thought and Tools They'll Be Eager to Use

Raphaël H Cohen doesn't just challenge thinking. He hands audiences proven governance tools and frameworks practical enough to pay for themselves — delivered with the storytelling, personal war stories and humor that make them stick.

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Prof. Dr. Raphaël H Cohen

"Raphaël's vision, creativity, and critical eye can only bring a breath of fresh air to any organization that seeks his services. Whether for a strategy of development or transformation, his benevolent, pragmatic, and efficient approach is a huge asset for facing current and future challenges."

Marcelo Olarreaga, Former Dean, University of Geneva
300+
Projects Coached to Implementation
ISO 56007
Co-Author
40,000+
Book Readers
4
Original Frameworks
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Continents of Experience
What You Get

What Audiences Will Walk Away With

Their Assumptions, Challenged — With Humor

Raphaël systematically dismantles preconceived ideas about innovation, fostered engagement, psychological safety and leadership — with evidence, personal war stories, and a delivery that makes the message stick.

Tools and Frameworks They Can Use on Monday Morning

Not inspiration that fades. Practical governance systems field-tested across more than 300 projects at public and private sector organizations including Nestlé, Airbus, Microsoft, banks and university hospitals.

A New Lens for Solving Real Organizational Problems

Cost overruns, stalled innovation, disengaged teams, pockets of insufficient trust — these performance drags are often governance gaps. Audiences discover concrete, deployable solutions.

A Thought-Challenger Who Hands Audiences the Governance Systems to Act on New Ideas

Raphaël brings new perspectives as an invitation to look at things differently — then gives audiences tools and governance systems to reap the benefits of novel approaches. Combining forty years of entrepreneurial experience across three continents with frameworks embedded in international standards, he delivers substance that entertains, and tools that last beyond the applause. Audiences laugh, are challenged, and leave equipped.

Differentiating Frameworks

Three Frameworks and a Paradigm Shift
— All Measurable, All Deployable.

Pre-Project Governance

IpOp Model for Pre-Project Calibration

69% of projects derail from insufficient pre-project analysis.

Pre-project governance to reduce the waste of resources — screening, selecting, monitoring and reassessing projects before budgets are committed. A Project Management Office (PMO) paradigm shift. Co-author of ISO 56007.

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Fostered Engagement Index (FEI)

Fostered Engagement

Fewer than 30% of employees are genuinely engaged at work.

Fostered engagement can be turned into a competitive advantage — the structured levers of the Fostered Engagement framework that managers can use to increase it, coupled with the Fostered Engagement Index (FEI), a measurable KPI that creates real accountability.

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Culture & Governance

Psychological Safety in Practice

Lack of trust is endemic — and rarely named out loud.

A governance-based, actionable approach — not advocacy. Turning culture and psychological safety into genuine competitive advantages, attracting and retaining talent, and moving organizations from awareness to a structured system embedded at every level.

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Turning People into Proactive Change Agents

Profitable Executive Education

Most executive education shows weak, unmeasurable ROI.

A paradigm shift that redefines executive education so that it generates more measurable income than it costs. Participants implement real money-making projects inside their organization. They acquire career-boosting skills while bolstering their employer's business.

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Trusted by Leaders Across Sectors

The Experience That Stays With Attendees

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Our intrapreneurs who have been trained with the IpOp Model confirmed that it has improved their ability to analyze innovation projects in a more holistic manner and that it has changed the way they look at their projects.

Alice de Casanove Innovation Culture Lead, Airbus Defence and Space | ISO TC 279 Innovation Management Chairwoman
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Besides the fact that, thanks to these projects, the program pays for itself, it represents an additional channel of bottom-up innovation for Nestlé R&D. With 10 cohorts representing about 230 people, we now have a community of agile and audacious change agents looking for opportunities, even after graduating from the program.

Valerio Nannini Senior Vice President, Head of Strategies and Performance, Nestlé R&D
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Nestlé Microsoft Airbus Sanofi Bühler La Poste SICPA BCV BCGE HUG CHUV University of Geneva ESCP Business School
Speaking Topics

Examples of Keynote Topics

Each track offers multiple keynote and workshop formats, tailored to your audience — from C-suite to front-line teams.

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Innovation & Pre-Project

Stop wasting resources on the wrong projects. Govern your innovation portfolio before committing budgets.
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Leadership & Fostered Engagement

Build management-fostered engagement with measurable KPIs — beyond surveys and good intentions.
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Culture & Psychological Safety

Move from awareness to governance. Embed psychological safety at every level of the organization.
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Personal Development & Career

Equip individuals with the mindset and tools to take ownership and drive change from where they stand.
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Profitable Executive Education

Turning people into proactive change agents — and a channel of bottom-up innovation for the organization.
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Custom Keynotes

Bespoke programs combining frameworks and storytelling, designed around your event's specific objectives.
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Prof. Dr. Raphaël H Cohen delivering a keynote on stage

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Available for keynotes, workshops, masterclasses and panels
— in English and French.

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