UNLOCKING the leadership energy that ENGAGES teams and TRANSFORMS organisations
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Rhumb Lines Partners is a coaching and advisory firm, partnering with business leaders, top teams and boards, in France and across Europe. We help you mobilise the leadership potential that makes your transformations succeed.
WHAT SETS US APART
A leader working with leaders
Experience cannot be replaced, but it can be passed on. I spent fifteen years on executive committees, and five so far in the boardroom. So I know the trade-offs you face, because I have made them; the transformations you lead, because I have led them; the difficulties that come with them, because I have been through them.
I have coached and advised leaders and their teams since 2014, and it is now my main focus, through Rhumb Lines Partners.
I founded this firm on one clear choice: to work on strategic clarity, relational quality and physical energy as one. All three decide whether your projects succeed, and each one drives the others, in a vicious circle or a virtuous one. For you, for your team, for your organisation.
Together we chart your course, your rhumb line. I gather around you the expertise that helps you hold it, and I remain your single point of contact. That is what partners means.
Cécile CLOAREC, Founder
Executive coach · Senior advisor
Non-executive director · Former CHRO of international groups
OUR OFFERINGS
Three ways to work together
Leadership
Development
Building your vision, presence and energy to lead with impact.
Team
Performance
Turning a group of executives into a team that decides and delivers.
Organisational
Transformation
Engaging the people who make the organisation work, to transform it for good.
15 years on executive committees,
from 2,500 to 400,000 employees
5 years as an independent director
of a listed company
12 years coaching individuals
and teams
20 countries
4 sectors
2 working languages
IN THEIR WORDS
They have worked with Cécile Cloarec in recent years, inside their company, on a board, or through a coaching engagement.
Cécile has a gift for reading people and situations. She will also say what you would rather not hear, and she sees what is coming: eight times out of ten, she hits the mark. A true sparring partner.
Jean-Christophe MACHET
CEO, FM Logistic Group
Cécile knows what a board expects and what an executive team goes through, and the dialogue between the two gained enormously from it. Long before she became a coach, she already had the posture: a very acute quality of listening, the art of asking the right questions, and that rare ability to make people progress without ever stepping into their place. Her experience as a CHRO, strategic and operational at once, now gives her the depth to support leaders on their most complex issues.
Julie WALBAUM
Co-founder and CEO of WILGO.AI, former CEO of Maisons du Monde
In a handful of conversations, Cécile changed the way I saw a relationship I felt trapped in, and helped me get clear on where my career should go next.
David MURCIANO
Group CFO, Restaurant Brands Europe
Cécile reminds me of one of Erik Satie’s Gymnopédies: working with her is a standing invitation to look inward. She is one of the most inspiring leaders I have met, and the one who has helped me grow the most.
Charlotte MIGNE
SVP Sustainable Development, SUEZ
She is quick to see what is at play between people, and she uses it to move the group forward, including when things get tense.
Michel-Alain PROCH
Board director and CFO of the London Stock Exchange Group
YOUR QUESTIONS
Do you work outside France, and in which languages?
I travel frequently across Europe, wherever you work.
I coach in French and English, and I work in Spanish on a case-by-case basis. When a specific language is required, another professional from the Rhumb Lines Partners network takes over, and I continue to coordinate the engagement.
What brings clients to you?
Most often a turning point.
A new role. A change of shareholder. A post-acquisition integration, or a succession to prepare. A departure.
Or simply the feeling of treading water in their role.
Does Rhumb Lines Partners only work with leaders of large groups?
No. From my years as a consultant and then as an executive, I have direct experience of companies of very different sizes and forms of governance.
- large international groups, mid-sized companies going international,
- listed companies, family-owned businesses, and private-equity-backed companies.
How and where do your one-to-one engagements take place?
An executive coaching engagement runs from six to twelve months, usually ten to twelve sessions of about two hours.
Sessions are held in confidential spaces in Paris, or on your own sites, in France and across Europe. Part of the journey can take place by video, alternating with in-person meetings, which remain essential at certain points.
Start with a conversation
Are you preparing to step into a new role, leading a complex transformation,
or simply in need of a step back, in a neutral and confidential space?
Let’s talk, in complete confidence.
