- À propos
Benjamin Chaminade
Franco-Australian entrepreneur and speaker in Leadership, HR and innovation
On the human side, I help companies in their pursuit of excellence in employer attractiveness and engagement by rethinking their company culture and their leadership.
On the business side, I guide leaders through the overhaul of their innovation strategies, helping them spot new opportunities to spark or strengthen their growth.
My ambition is to support leaders, teams and organisations through the transformations they are facing today by offering them practical, tailored solutions.
I help companies, leaders and managers adapt to a world in constant motion through management, Human Resources and a culture of innovation
Hello, I’m Benjamin Chaminade. Founder, director, author and investor, based mostly in Paris and London, with regular tours in Australia.
Welcome to the site that brings together my writing on the subjects I care about: innovation, trends, management, leadership and business models.
My work sits where leadership meets innovation, helping companies and their leaders make sense of constant change and build something useful from it. Everything you will find here comes straight from that practice: the frameworks, the questions and the provocations I use with teams to rethink how they work, decide and grow.
From France to Australia
After a rich cross-cultural experience as attraction manager at Disneyland Paris, and after founding several companies specialising in HR consulting, quality of working life and employee retention, I left Paris to settle in Sydney.
The startup years in the Pacific
I bounced back by launching an integrated recruitment offering that covered attraction, employer branding, hiring and the onboarding of new starters. To this I added a “Talent Management” offering, under the name InsideHR, the first of its kind in the world.
As the business diversified and grew, I discovered how much I enjoyed helping young founders and speaking at conferences around the world (Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, the UK, the USA and more), sharing my experience as an international leader on management, innovation and transformation.
I then decided to leave and set off on my own “Walkabout”, an Aboriginal rite of discovery, reflection and personal growth, to work out what my next career move would be.
From Human Resources to innovation and leadership
A new adventure began when I joined the Technoraid racing team, specialists in rally-raid preparation and maintenance.
After reorganising along startup lines, the team set about designing and building a competition vehicle: the Renovatio.
In just six months, we went from the first sketch to the vehicle’s first race, a vehicle we saw as revolutionary in both its build and its commercial model (apps instead of options, updates instead of servicing, and so on).
This bold prototype quickly caught the eye of several car manufacturers, which opened the door to a number of partnerships and led me to work with their marketing and strategy teams on trends and innovation (Toyota, PSA, Renault and others).
Expertise across innovation and leadership
Since then, my boundless energy and passion for innovation have led me to broaden my activities considerably.
I regularly publish articles, podcasts and videos on work culture, leadership, design and managerial innovation, both here and on my main site, Glukoze.com. This keeps me in fruitful conversation with leaders, managers and innovators from companies of every size, in France and internationally.
Side quests
I also took on the role of curator of Creative-Day, an annual event dedicated to creativity and innovation in company culture.
Alongside this, I have invested in SEM Séenergie, which handles the development, construction and operation of the Mont Saint-Michel eco-park. I am also president of the Tacot des lacs, an association dedicated to preserving industrial heritage.
- Testimonials
We have worked together
The best proof of the value of my work lies in the words of the people I have worked with. I invite you to read what they say.
- Mon approche
Working together
Here are the steps that help me understand and anticipate your company’s transformations before I propose a tailored, practical approach that matches your ambitions.
CONTACT REQUEST
Whatever your project (consulting, a talk or a workshop), the first step is to reach out to my team through the contact form.
VIDEO OR PHONE CALL with my team
Depending on your project, you will be contacted for a first conversation. This lets us understand your expectations, your challenges and your goals
PROPOSED CONTENT AND QUOTE
You will then receive one or more detailed briefs, for a talk or a workshop, so we can fine-tune your project.
SCOPING CALL OR VIDEO WITH ME
This conversation is about going over the context of the session together, along with its content, and answering any remaining questions.
DELIVERY
Once the terms of the collaboration are agreed, we move on to creating and delivering the engagement.
- WHAT MY ENGAGEMENTS COVER
My ambitions
My talks, workshops and masterclasses tackle the pressing challenges leaders and managers face today. They are built around key themes that address four major goals:
- Lead with confidence in an age of fragility and constant disruption.
- Reinvent leadership to create energy, trust and sustainable performance.
- Develop tomorrow's workforce with the skills that will outlast AI.
- Turn transformation into lasting results by creating cultures that learn faster than change.
* More themes on this topic are available on GLUKOZE.COM, my site dedicated to the new cultures of work. (Unfortunately in French for the moment)