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Podcasts Featuring Francis Cholle
Hear how Wall Street Journal best-selling author Francis Cholle uses deep human learning and cognitive science to help organizations solve complex problems and thrive in disruption.
In this session, Francis Cholle, best-selling author of SQUIRCLE, talks about his methods for maximizing productivity by empowering employees to achieve their unique potential.
I’m an international consultant, best-selling author, and entrepreneur
I use deep human learning and cognitive science to help leaders and organizations solve complex problems and thrive in disruption.
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Focus
I help C-level executives develop the new leadership mindset necessary to successfully navigate the current paradigm shift that reshapes what we do, think, and aspire to achieve. It is called Intuitive Intelligence.
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Intuitive Intelligence emerges out of the powerful synergy between reason and instinct, enabled by intuition which bridges the two seamlessly. It delivers exceptional results, with ease. See selected case studies.
Selected Clients
Framework
I developed a science-based framework—The Intuitive Compass®—for leaders to harness their intuitive intelligence and succeed with complex decision making, the new frontier of leadership in the age of disruption.
Public Speaking
I am an international speaker and seminar leader based in the US.
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Learn more about the Intuitive Compass® and how it can help your company.
Other Selected Venues:
Davos World Economic Forum
CalTech Annual Conference
JP Morgan Chase Women on the Move
Fashion Institute of Technology Capstone
Junior Chamber International Annual Conference
International Coaching Federation Annual Conference
Soho House
Assessment
In the same vein as the seminal work of MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Edgar Schein on Culture and Leadership, The Intuitive Compass® assesses the way executives make decisions.
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Using 17 distinctive parameters, The Intuitive Compass® identifies the structural elements of your shared business culture and shows how it positions your organization to deliver on its strategy and goals.
Scalability
To make this thorough and efficient way of thinking universal and accessible, I wrote the book SQUIRCLE: A New Way to Think for a New World and launched the SQUIRCLE Academy.
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All employees in your organization can now share in the same business transformation principles and tools that helped their senior leaders. This methodology is delivered digitally as self-paced e-courses and workshops facilitated by a global cohort of certified SQUIRCLE coaches, in four areas key to business success: Adaptation, Communication, Collaboration, and Innovation.
Writings
I’ve written three books, contributed to five collective published works including for the Wall Street Journal and Presses Universitaires de France, and written columns in the Wall Street Journal and Les Echos, among other notable publications.
SQUIRCLE
The Intuitive Compass
L’intelligence intuitive
Book Awards
Relay bookstores Best Seller
for L’Intelligence Intuitive
USA Best Book Awards Winner
for The Intuitive Compass
Wall Street Journal & USA Today Best Seller
for SQUIRCLE
Science
I keep evolving my approach, model, and tools with the latest scientific research in three areas: cognitive bias and decision making, emotion and perception, and heuristic and adaptation.
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The fundamentals of our framework are inspired by the work of three researchers:
The work of Nobel Prize and psychology researcher Daniel Kahneman to address cognitive biases in human decisions
The contribution of neuroscientist USC Professor Antonio Damasio, head of USC Brain and Creativity Institute, to better understand the role of emotions in sharpening creative cognitive processes
The decisive body of work of former Director of Plank Institute for psychological research, Professor Gerd Gigerenzer, to cast a new light on how people live in uncertainty and make decisions with limited time and knowledge, using a heuristic method as an adaptive tool (and not a tradeoff of time for accuracy as conventional wisdom would have it)
As a result, my framework equips leaders and their teams to deal more efficiently and more quickly with new situations, in which not all alternatives and probabilities are ever known, and the unexpected is bound to occur. This enhances executives’ mindsets to experiment, evaluate and iterate in a more efficient, committed, creative and adaptive way; an essential competitive advantage in today’s marketplace
About
'‘Francis Cholle is the ‘Al Gore of Creativity’, evangelizing an ‘inconvenient truth’ of an altogether different kind – that creativity is actually declining at an alarming rate. The Intuitive Compass is a sure path business leaders can use to guide them toward innovation, disruptive thinking and the creative atmosphere necessary to succeed in today’s disorienting business climate.'‘
- Mike Lundgren, Partner and Director of Innovation Strategy, VML (Young & Rubicam)
I was born to a family of scientists and raised in Paris, where I received a master’s in science of management at Europe’s leading business school. After two years spent in Frankfurt, Germany in commercial banking, as part of my civil service I was fortunate to start my professional career at the helm of a publishing house. This demanding and thrilling experience took me around the world and through all aspects of producing art books and leading a private company, including becoming one of the main shareholders and millionaire at age 25.
Then even more unconventional paths have stretched me and satiated my curiosity for life, the arts and humanities: professional training in theater and opera in New York, professional yoga training in India, and a degree in clinical psychology. All have shaped my personal take on life and provided me with insights into human nature, as well as awakened a concern for the sustainability of the modern world.
I couldn’t help but ask myself, “How is it that we were able to get to the moon, and yet are unable to sustain a balanced relationship with nature?” What is the root cause to that split in the human mind? I imagined an answer to this question and a solution to our daunting sustainability challenge. If only we could include instinct (nature in us) in our thought processes and decisions, chances are we would design solutions unavoidably more respectful of nature.
To prove that this approach of holistic decision making could help businesses better adapt, innovate, and succeed, I decided to start a consulting practice, The Human Company. We got hired and rehired by some of the most successful global companies because our unique methodology brought them unprecedented success.
The time has come for me to help corporations more easily reach their business goals inclusive of all stakeholders, and contribute to systemic change by enriching leadership culture.