Reinventing Strategic Planning: Engaging, Mobilizing, and Creating Meaning
What if planning was finally a way to mobilize?
Strategic planning is too often seen as a sterile exercise: static documents, no real follow-up, and widespread skepticism. In many organizations, it’s reduced to an accounting exercise — or abandoned altogether.
But another path is possible. This keynote reimagines planning as a collaborative and mobilizing process. You’ll discover how to transform strategy into a lever for meaning, cohesion, and engagement, where every stakeholder has a voice.
Planning shouldn’t be a closed-door exercise reserved for a select few. It’s about setting a clear direction, fostering belonging, and building a shared future. That’s the bold choice of organizations that embrace strategic planning as a living, participatory, and inspiring discipline.
This keynote will give you a new way to approach strategic planning. You will gain insight into how to make it a dynamic, meaningful, and engaging process that promotes a truly shared vision.
Tailored keynotes for your business
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Duration
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45-60 mins
Inspiring and impactful keynote
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90 mins
Keynote + interactive exchanges, light exercises or practical integration
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Format
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In Person
From Montreal to Paris, from Dubai to Shanghai, our speakers join you wherever you are in the world. Whether in your offices or factories, at your events or on stage, they create a lively and memorable experience.
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Virtual
Live on Teams or Zoom: your conference, accessible to everyone, everywhere.
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Recorded in our Montreal studio and streamed live wherever you are.
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Add-ons
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Recap video
We film your keynote and deliver a dynamic highlight reel, ready to share internally or externally.
Speaker
Location : Montreal
Language spoken : French
Étienne Beaulieu believes that no transformation is possible without a shared story that unites people behind a clear direction. With more than 20 years of experience, including at Desjardins and Hydro-Québec, he now supports organizations navigating complex and demanding change.
A partner at Humance since 2016, he guides leaders and teams to transform resistance into engagement and make every transition a true opportunity for growth. Known for his talent in designing and leading collective processes, he helps organizations move from strategy on paper to strategy in action.
A seasoned facilitator, Étienne creates spaces where collaboration becomes a driver of performance and where teams find the clarity, confidence, and energy to move forward. As a keynote speaker, he provides leaders with the keys to turn complexity into shared and lasting success.
FAQ
Yes, absolutely. Our speakers can prepare a custom conference tailored to your specific needs. And if you’d like to go beyond a keynote, we can also design a training session or workshop adapted to your teams. Contact us to discuss the possibilities.
Yes. The majority of our conferences are available in English and French, depending on your needs. Some speakers can even deliver in Spanish, allowing you to reach your teams even more broadly.
No. The fee is fixed, regardless of the number of attendees. You can bring together your entire team — or even multiple departments — at no extra cost. In fact, the more people present, the greater the collective impact.
Yes, certain terms apply:
- Travel time: for any trip of 60 minutes or more (one way), a fee equal to 50% of the speaker’s hourly rate is charged.
- Mileage: for any car travel over 25 km (one way), a fee of $0.60/km is added.
- Additional expenses: parking, taxi, airfare, meals, accommodation, etc., are billed at actual cost, if incurred.
Absolutely. We offer three delivery options depending on your needs:
- In person, directly at your workplace or during your event.
- Virtual, via platforms like Teams or Zoom, to easily reach remote teams.
- Webcast format, with a live broadcast from the Oranje studio, offering a professional and dynamic “studio experience.”
Yes. Each conference can be adapted to reflect your context, challenges, and audience. Before the conference, we schedule a preparatory call with the speaker to fully understand your needs and adjust the tone, stories, and examples accordingly.