What do Noella Coursaris Masters, Sergio Chaia and Jérôme de Meyer have in common? Not very much at first sight… – Mrs Coursaris-Masters, was born in Congo and lost her father at the age of five. Her mother being unable to support her, she was sent to Europe in the hope she could prepare herself for a better life. Today,…
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Purpose, Passion and Pleasure are the secret to sustainable engagement
Friday December 14th, 2012 0 commentsFor my recent TED-X Beau-Soleil speech, I chose to talk about sustained motivation. As I was addressing students, whose whole life of studies will be evaluated over a period of two weeks, I chose to interview some samba Masters and understand how they managed to remain engaged a whole year long in order to bring their school to the top,…
If you don’t know what it means… You can’t play it!
Saturday December 8th, 2012 4 commentsAlthough it will never be a prerequisite to have an atypical background to be a partner of the Enablers Network (actually we would very much welcome some “Normal people” now;), we have to admit that we seem to attract people whose initial careers did not seem like preparing them for coaching executives, in a supportive and challenging manner, designing ambitious…
The pessimism of knowledge doesn’t prevent the optimism of the will
Saturday December 1st, 2012 0 commentsIt is with that sentence that Taïg Khris closed his moving TED-x Beau-Soleil speech this Thursday (http://www.tedxcollegebeausoleil.com/). I guess that what matters most to most of us, parents, is the education of those we love the most in this world, our children. And when it was time to choose a school that would provide our daughter with far more than…