14 powerful topics backed by research, real-world experience, and proven frameworks
Stop wasting resources. Master pre-project analysis and innovation portfolio management.
Most organizations waste millions on projects that should never have been approved. Raphaël reveals why traditional project selection fails and introduces the IpOp Model—the rigorous pre-project analysis framework now part of ISO 56007. Learn how to optimize your portfolio by choosing the right projects before you invest, not after you have burned through resources. Includes real stories of projects saved (and killed) through better pre-project analysis.
Innovation managers, R&D leaders, project portfolio managers, executives overseeing innovation initiatives, PMI professionals
45-90 minutes (customizable)
📹 Video: Pre-Project Analysis Overview (Add your video embed here)
This keynote debunks common myths about innovation management and presents proven best practices that some leading organizations use to select, prioritize, fund and execute initiatives that deliver measurable results. Perfect for leaders tired of innovation programs that generate buzz but no measurable business outcome.
Innovation directors, portfolio managers, executives, R&D leaders, transformation teams
60-90 minutes
📹 Video: Innovation Portfolio Management (Add your video embed here)
Why do most corporate innovation programs fail? Raphaël shares contrarian insights and frameworks showing how companies like Nestlé, Microsoft, and Airbus have cultivated genuine intrapreneurial cultures—not just innovation labs that produce limited measurable outcome. Based on real experience of enabling change agents that build ventures inside and outside corporations.
Corporate innovation teams, executives, HR leaders, change management professionals
45-75 minutes
📹 Video: Intrapreneurship Culture (Add your video embed here)
Most organizations miss one essential aspect of managing uncertainties. In this keynote, Raphaël presents a novel field-tested approach that prevents the waste of considerable resources resulting from current practice while giving management more transparency on project management.
Project managers, risk management professionals, executives, PMO directors
45-75 minutes
📹 Video: Risk Management Innovation (Add your video embed here)
Bridge the startup-corporate divide. Drawing from his experience as both entrepreneur and advisor to major corporations, Raphaël challenges conventional corporate wisdom and shows how leaders can adopt entrepreneurial mindsets without the usual platitudes. Practical, proven, and often surprising.
Corporate executives, business unit leaders, transformation teams, innovation managers
45-75 minutes
📹 Video: Entrepreneurial Thinking (Add your video embed here)
Theory without tools is just philosophy. Raphaël developed IpOpTools, the software platform that operationalizes the IpOp Model, showing how organizations can use digitization to accelerate and improve their pre-project analysis and portfolio management processes. Perfect for organizations ready to move from spreadsheets to systematic decision-making.
Innovation directors, portfolio managers, CIOs, digital transformation leaders
60-90 minutes (includes demo)
📹 Video: IpOpTools Platform Demo (Add your video embed here)
Measure what matters. Transform team performance through manager-generated engagement.
Everyone talks about employee engagement, but few can measure what matters: engagement generated by managers. Raphaël pioneers a novel measurement approach and reveals the Fair and Caring Leadership framework—the levers managers can pull to transform team performance. Unlike typical engagement talks, this includes a complete governance system for implementation, not just inspiration.
HR leaders, executives, team managers, organizational development professionals
45-90 minutes (customizable)
📹 Video: Fair and Caring Leadership Framework (Add your video embed here)
Psychological safety is the buzzword du jour, but how do you actually implement it? Raphaël challenges preaching approaches and provides a structured governance framework to truly embed psychological safety organization-wide. Based on real implementations, not academic theory.
HR leaders, executives, organizational development teams, culture transformation leaders
60-90 minutes
📹 Video: Psychological Safety Implementation (Add your video embed here)
What if we measured managers not just on deliverables, but on their ability to generate engagement? This thought-provoking keynote introduces a very simple pioneering measurement methodology that reveals which managers leverage team potential and which hamper it. Includes frameworks for developing engagement-generating capability.
HR leaders, executives, talent development teams, performance management professionals
45-75 minutes
📹 Video: Manager-Generated Engagement Measurement (Add your video embed here)
This keynote provides concrete tools for selecting and motivating millennial talents who are compatible with older generations and your company culture. Challenges conventional recruitment management practices with forward-thinking alternatives.
HR leaders, talent acquisition teams, executives, team managers
45-75 minutes
📹 Video: Millennial Talent Strategies (Add your video embed here)
Accelerate culture change and unlock team potential with proven governance approaches.
Changing company culture is usually a long and painful process. This forward-thinking keynote provides a concrete governance-based approach for accelerating the evolution of the organization culture. It targets leaders looking for sustainable change beyond their current leadership team.
Executives, transformation leaders, HR leaders, change management professionals
60-90 minutes
📹 Video: Culture Change Acceleration (Add your video embed here)
Based on his new book, Raphaël reveals the science and practice of employee engagement, combining his Fair and Caring Leadership framework with real stories of transformation. Learn how to turn disengaged teams into high-performing innovation engines.
Team managers, HR leaders, executives, organizational development professionals
45-90 minutes
📹 Video: The Engagement Equation (Add your video embed here)
Unlock your potential with proven tools, approaches, and mindsets.
In this keynote, Raphaël explains the tools, approaches and mindsets that can boost your career—the same ones that allowed him to go from average student to first of his class, to become a successful serial entrepreneur, an engaging professor at prestigious business schools, and the trusted advisor of C-level executives at Fortune 500 companies. Personal, practical, and proven.
Professionals at all levels, MBA students, aspiring entrepreneurs, career development programs
45-75 minutes
📹 Video: Unlocking Your Potential (Add your video embed here)
Raphaël specializes in creating customized presentations that address your organization's specific challenges, combining elements from his frameworks with tailored insights and governance systems for your context.
Organizations with specific challenges, industry conferences, executive retreats, transformation initiatives
Flexible (30 minutes to multi-day programs)
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