A look back at the executive roundtable held on Friday March 14, 2025 at Seabird.
“Values are the energy that guides action,” explained Carine Dartiguepeyrou, President of Uniqueness & the Values Observatory. “Managers don’t always know what’s important to them at any given moment. Knowing their values helps them to be more coherent, to facilitate conflicts and to deal with issues of succession.
“Among the values of managers who have taken the Du Coeur aux Actes course since 2021, we frequently find the quest for meaning, ethics or even planetary ecology.”
“Knowing our values helps us choose the leadership we wish to embody”, noted Mira Draganova, Global Managing Director in charge of Transformation, Strategic planning, HR and CSR at NAOS (Bioderma – Institut Esthederm – Etat Pur). “By understanding other people’s values perspective, I understand how they make decisions and can better deal with that. I’ve created a methodology applied to decision-making, to shed light on the ethical dilemmas that regularly arise in business (wanting to impact the environment as little as possible, but choosing to launch an inexpensive -and ecologically benign- product to boost sales, for example).”
“It’s fundamental to ask oneself what one’s values are before acting as a leader,” reminded Cyrille VU, Chairman of SeaBird and founder of SeaBird Impact. “At Seabird, we have become a company with a mission.
We need to reconcile philanthropy and economics, which are wrongly dissociated! It’s this logic that’s driving us up the wall.
As Claudel said, pure virtue is the principle of evil. So it’s all very well to have ideals and utopias, but you have to constantly rub them up against reality to make progress in real life”.
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