My learnings from 2025
“ Be open to the joy you deserve.”
Christopher Kane
Each year, I take a moment to look differently.
Not at what filled the calendar, but at what truly shifted what matters most.
2025 was a year of decisive adjustments.
Less spectacular than they might seem.
But deeply transformative.
2025 was a year of consolidation and acceleration, with a fairly clear common thread: better steering my own energy, and better equipping that of others.
1) Vitality: moving from intuition to intentional management
This year, I crossed a threshold by switching to a connected ring. I was looking for a simple, high-quality tool to observe what I already experience, but in areas where I wanted to improve: my recovery level, energy, sleep, and physiological stress.
First learning: finding a device that gives the right measure is not that simple. I found the Oura ring, which has one of the strongest validity levels.
Second learning: I was able to recalibrate my perceptions based on the data. Put simply, how we feel in the morning is largely based on REM sleep, which occurs from around 3 or 4 a.m. onward. Yet for me, the essential factor is deep sleep, which is concentrated between bedtime and 2 or 3 a.m.
Third learning: deep sleep is a major workstream. I began improving it gradually: I was regularly below one hour on my Oura ring, and I am now consistently above one hour. My goal is to reach around 1 hour and 15 minutes. Since then, I’ve been able to measure the impact of a truly good night’s sleep on very concrete aspects such as emotional stability, mental clarity, patience, and above all the ability to hold steady in complexity.
Fourth learning: I didn’t believe in dietary supplements—and I was wrong. I now do blood tests twice a year and take nearly twenty supplements a day, with striking results in terms of energy.
2) The body: rediscovering intensity, with consistency
This year, I also strengthened my sports routine with almost two CrossFit sessions per week, and I continue playing table tennis once a week.
What I love about this combination is how perfectly it balances me:
CrossFit brings me back to power, commitment, and pushing beyond myself.
Table tennis brings me back to precision, release, and fine reading of the moment.
Two very different but highly complementary disciplines.
Two ways of staying alive, alert, and available—especially for my daughters, with whom I share a CrossFit session on weekends so we can experience it as a family.
3) AI: it has become my third daily coach/supervisor
In 2025, artificial intelligence stopped being a topic—it became a practice. In addition to my supervisor and my strategic coach, it became my everyday companion.
I use it both in individual coaching and organizational coaching, with full transparency toward my clients. To do so, I subscribed to a ChatGPT Enterprise account in order to protect my data and ensure it is not used by OpenAI.
Some use cases:
summarizing certain recorded sessions to free myself from note-taking,
drafting roadmaps,
exploring new topics,
writing tripartite agreements,
exploring processes.
The objective is to encourage my coachees and supervisees to discover many use cases, to use it daily, and to be “bullshitted” less by their teams on a day-to-day basis.
AI is present in many sessions, as a very concrete tool for clarification and acceleration.
AI becomes an extension of leadership work:
It does not replace thinking; it augments it.
It does not replace decision-making; it prepares it.
A concrete example: writing a vision in a distributed world
I think back to a very striking moment in 2025.
A coachee came with an apparently simple question: “I need to write my vision, but I don’t have time.” The goal was not to find an inspiring sentence, but a vision that was actionable, shareable, and robust.
His context resembled that of many leaders today: teams spread across the globe, strong local realities, different cultures, and communication constraints.
Together, we explored several possible processes:
top-down (the vision is defined and clarified at the top),
bottom-up (the vision emerges from the field),
mixed (a central intention with structured co-construction).
In this exploration, AI played a key role by helping us phrase things more accurately, synthesize, test coherence, anticipate objections, or produce versions adapted to different audiences.
This type of use reinforces one conviction for me: AI is becoming a major leadership tool—provided it is used with method and discernment.
4) Business: finding or strengthening a client portfolio with growth and meaning
From a business standpoint, 2025 was an important year in which I developed new clients, including CMA CGM, fintechs, high-growth companies, and impact- and purpose-driven organizations.
Above all, I sought to build a more robust mix by continuing to support crisis-management situations—where lucidity and human solidity make all the difference—while maintaining development-oriented coaching focused on business, growth, and leadership.
This balance has become essential to me, because it protects both impact and meaning.
Globalization: supporting leaders everywhere, truly everywhere
Another clear acceleration: the globalization of my clients, with some of my engagements taking place in Tokyo, San Francisco or New York, Dublin, Milan, Riyadh…
And inevitably, this changes the game:
in rhythms,
in leadership cultures,
in implicit expectations,
in how trust is built,
and in the need to be extremely clear, simple, and solid.
It’s demanding—but fascinating. And AI is a valuable aid, complemented by Erin Meyer’s excellent book The Culture Map.
5) Be & Lead: complete overhaul of the brand identity and website
Finally, 2025 was a year of very visible transformation for Be & Lead, with a complete overhaul of the brand identity: a new logo and a new website. I invite you to discover it at Beandlead.com.
Beyond aesthetics, it was above all a real alignment effort:
making what I do more readable,
clarifying the promise,
streamlining the experience,
and expressing more accurately what Be & Lead is today.
A big thank you to Frédérique Houzelot, Isabella Weinstabel, Alexandre Begard, Caroline Chevalier, and Yvan Lepretre for their outstanding work. This depth of substance and form, this quality of execution, and this shared standard of excellence truly make a difference.
Gratitude
I’ll close with a very sincere thank you:
to the entire team: thank you to Frédérique, Marie-Pascale, Caroline, Justine, Aviva, Emmanuel…
to my coaches and supervisors: Jean-Frédéric and Paul-Arthur,
and to all my clients who trust me and who, increasingly, dare to share publicly—under their own names—the added value of my work, in coaching as well as supervision (you can find them on the Be & Lead website, in the “Transformation Stories” section).
Nothing is done alone, and I truly measure the impact of being well surrounded.
In 2026: continue to make things simple, solid, useful—and fun.
If I had to sum up 2025 in one sentence, it might be this: “Transformation is first and foremost a series of concrete changes that transform a trajectory.”
For 2026, my intention is clear: continue to build what is simple, solid, and sustainable—and add more fun and lightness, for myself… and for the leaders I support.
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