About me

From Monty Python to management: a journey that ultimately isn’t all that absurd. After a master’s degree focused on Monty Python, an DEA on nonsense and absurdity, and the beginning of a PhD on cinematic comedians, my career change toward management and organizational change emerged as an ironic inevitability—or as the logical continuation of reflecting on system dysfunctions.

For twenty-five years, I’ve accompanied organizations through transformations (holacracy, sociocracy, agile, lean, kanban). I specifically work on leadership, managerial coaching, product management, and team development. But above all, I’m an entrepreneur. In 2010, after several years of IT consulting, I co-founded Smartview with two partners. In 2015, I joined Benext as a partner and CEO. Following the acquisition by Accenture/Octo in 2021, I contributed to the integration before taking back my freedom for new projects.

I’m also an author: I published Kanban, l’approche en flux pour l’entreprise agile (Dunod, 2nd edition 2025) and Petit manuel de pensée organisationnelle (Publibook, 2025), the result of fifteen years of reflection. I regularly write digital essays on organizations, management, and leadership.

Brief professional history

  • In 2024 I launched Projet WINSTON
  • In 2021 ACCENTURE/OCTO acquired Benext and I joined them as Managing Director.
  • In 2015 I joined BENEXT, as general director in Paris.
  • In 2010 I created SMARTVIEW (bringing agility) with Christophe Monnier and Gilles Pommier in Montpellier.
  • In 2006 I joined SQLI in Aix En Provence.
  • In 1999 I joined ALBERT in Montpellier.
  • In 1998 I joined NEXUS technologies in Aspères.
  • In 1995 I did my national service in cooperation in the CAPE VERDE islands.
  • In 1995 I started a thesis on CINEMATIC COMEDIANS in crises (never finished).
  • In 1994 I completed my research degree on NONSENSE & ABSURD (see below).
  • In 1992 I completed my master’s degree in Art History specializing in MONTY PYTHON.
  • In 1989 I completed my ARTS & PHILOSOPHY baccalaureate.

Want to know me better?

To know me better, roll a die and pick the quote:

  1. No plan survives first contact with the enemy – Von Moltke
  2. I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member! – Groucho Marx
  3. They didn’t know it was impossible, so they did it – Mark Twain
  4. Too many midwives, the baby is dead – Romanian proverb
  5. Don’t tell the facts! Tell the truth! – Maya Angelou
  6. Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched – Aesop

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Content license

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AI ?

Yes, I use AI… but never for my articles or books. Maybe that will change in the future, but I’ll let you know and it hasn’t happened yet, and I don’t have the desire for it.

A debate about AI? It’s a deadly abyss and hypnotic power. Given my background, evolution of my thinking, my situation, being at the heart of software development, considering what I estimate myself to be: very equipped for organizational reflections and production, I choose, seeing my path, to use AI to go even further. And yet I’m not ignorant of strong cognitive dissonance with other ideals. I live with these demons. I’ll leave your demons to you, this isn’t the subject here.

So once again: to go further in my profession, for example documents around Peetic, but not for my articles or books.

Acknowledgments

  • Thanks to the University of Caen for their online synonym dictionary.
  • Thanks to HUGO and its incredible generation speed for powering this blog.

The crypt

Welcome to my little crypt. I store old things here that have no connection to the blog except that I created them. They’re also not related to agility, although…

Zepablo’s Led Zeppelin

Website maintained from 1997 to 2003 about Led Zeppelin. The first French website about Led Zeppelin.

1994: Research degree “Forms and mutations of the absurd and nonsense in cinematic burlesques”

A research degree (Diplôme d’Études Approfondies) in Film History (communication & audiovisual) from 1994. Hey, show some restraint, I was only 23… The illustrations are also missing (the pages I found no longer had them), I’ll track them down (someday…).

1993: Master’s thesis: “Comedy in Monty Python”

In 2025 I found in an old folder a copy of my master’s thesis (most illustrations are missing, but in the next 10 years I should be able to add them as I have the sources). I was 22, a thesis that shaped who I became.

Appendices:

1989 baccalaureate 1989 Arts & Philosophy with cinema & audiovisual option: “Work on Star Wars”

It’s very naive, but I don’t disown anything.