For 10 years, Louis-Félix Binette held high-level strategic positions in the public sector, notably for a Minister in the Québec government (aboriginal and intergovernmental affairs; democratic reform) and as a diplomat in the Canadian foreign service (postings at the Permanent Mission of Canada to the UN and at the Consulate General of Canada in New York). After studying strategic management at HEC Montréal, where he used LEGO SeriousPlay as an investigative method for his research on strategic processes in complex organizations, he co-founded f. & co to dedicate his energy and creativity to the transformation of businesses. His objective: leveraging collective intelligence to spur creativity and equip organizations to better face complexity and to capitalize on the knowledge economy. Trained as a translator and linguist, with a dash of physics and literature, Louis-Félix speaks five languages; he listens to a lot of music, is a member of the Board of the Institut du Nouveau Monde and host of CreativeMornings/Montréal.
Renaud Margairaz, head of consulting
Pierre Balloffet, university associate
Benefiting from a top of class faculty training, Pierre Balloffet has been a close collaborator to HEC Montréal’s Mosaic Creativity & Innovation hub, as well as in the Pôle Médias, on issues related to new business models and communication. He is Chair of the Ethics Committee of HEC Montréal’s faculty association and member of the UNESCO Netexplo Advisory Board. His main research interests lie primarily in the field of brand management, innovative practices for sustainable development as well as new approaches to training. Since 2001, he is the pedagogical deirector of Graduate Diploma in marketing communication, in partnership with Québec’s ad agencies association (Association des agences de publicité du Québec, AAPQ). At f. & co, Pierre notably oversees the development of advanced and original methodologies that sustain the consulting group’s robust and decisive interventions.
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