GENÈVE
« L'art de révéler »
The founding artisans,
in the service of talent.
Carole Kassenbeck

Carole

For more than 25 years, I moved through demanding international environments, at the heart of the challenges of leadership, performance and transformation. I know their tensions and their trials: deciding amid uncertainty, carrying others forward and sustaining performance over time.

Today, I help leaders and teams to better understand how they work, to draw on their strengths and to identify what limits their impact. We work at once on behaviours, emotions and the body's signals, so as to develop greater lucidity, regulation and freedom of choice in high-stakes situations.

I like to go beyond the symptom to surface the patterns that shape a decision, a relationship or a team's dynamic. Then to turn that understanding into observable change: a truer bearing, franker conversations, clearer decisions, a greater capacity to handle pressure and stronger working relationships.

My ambition: that every engagement makes a tangible difference in the way one leads, works together and achieves results.
Qualifications ICF-certified coach · TBS Business School Toulouse · IMD coaching pool coach · LEGO® Serious Play® · Insights · IMD methods
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Philippe Kassenbeck

Philippe

Most leadership problems come down to something other than competence. What is missing is harder to name, and invisible to those in the room. I read what is at play under pressure, and the gap between how we see ourselves and how the room receives us.

This work runs through the body too, and through our capacity to know ourselves. When words reach their limit in expressing what is happening, it is precisely there that I feel useful, for I sense it and can put it into words that resonate.

If your team is caught on something that has yet to be said aloud, that is usually where I am useful.
Qualifications Coaching Certificate, IMD · ESSEC Business School · Technische Universität Berlin · Somatic breathing (David Elliott) · Public speaking (Cours Florent)
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The circle

Around the founders, a close circle.

Coordination & administration
Mina
She ensures each engagement runs smoothly and tends to the relationship with every maison.
Partner coach
Michela
Leadership coach with 25 years of international experience; founder of her own practice and a coaching contributor at IMD.
Partner coach
Martine
HEC Paris–certified coach, expert in mental-health prevention; she helps managers and teams reach their full potential while preserving their balance.
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L'art
de révéler
CAROLE & PHILIPPE
KASSENBECK

The book and the Sparring agent

Eleven chapters, from strengths to appreciative inquiry: from self-knowledge through to practices you can apply the very next day.

All the secrets and tools of management are distilled within, so that no method remains a mystery to you.

Here you will find what the manuals usually leave unsaid: the real scenes, the deft touches, the trainer's experiences both good and bad. Theory serves practice, always.

This book answers your questions.
A code, on the last page. It opens the Sparring agent, drawn from these same chapters, which knows your strengths and remembers your situation. A book that never closes: it continues as a Sparring agent.
IT IS RECEIVED, IT IS EARNED.
GIVEN TO PARTICIPANTS OF THE PROGRAMMES · TO THE GUESTS OF LA MAISON
140
LEADERS TRAINED EACH YEAR
4
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES GUIDED IN 2026
3
MAISONS SERVED BY OUR PROGRAMMES

And now?

Tell us where you stand — a manager, a team, a committee. We'll tell you where to begin.

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