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Michaël V. Dandrieux
Michaël V. Dandrieux, Ph.D., is a sociologist and co-founder of Eranos. For the past 20 years, he has guided leaders across various industries: shaping the future of healthcare with Pierre Fabre, steering Chloé's transition to stakeholder governance, fostering worker engagement at Nexans, navigating Air France's cultural response to COVID, promoting Pernod Ricard's values of conviviality, and enhancing women's confidence with L'Oréal USA. Rooted in the tradition of the sociology of the imagination, he teaches at Sciences Po Paris within the School of Management and Impact and serves on several Boards of Directors and Mission Committees.
Full bioMichaël V. Dandrieux, Ph.D., is a French sociologist, co-founder of Eranos, and a theorist and practitioner of cultural change. Over the past 20 years, he has collaborated with top executives to lead global cultural change initiatives across various industries. His projects include preparing for the future of care with Pierre Fabre, transitioning the luxury Maison Chloé from a shareholder to a stakeholder governance, drastically increasing worker engagement at Nexans plants, modeling Air France’s culture to navigate the COVID crisis, centering Pernod Ricard’s values around conviviality, and increasing women’s confidence with L’Oréal USA.
Michaël began his career in computer science, creating companies that continue to provide backbone technologies to institutions such as the Council of State and the Comédie Française. He earned his Ph.D. from Sorbonne University, where he focused on understanding the seemingly irrational traits of culture that create real-world cohesion within communities, such as trust, desire, and dreams.
A multiple-time TEDx speaker, Michaël spent ten years as the executive editor of the humanities review Les Cahiers de l’Imaginaire (CNRS Editions). He serves as a board member and member of the mission committee for several companies, and currently teaches ethics and corporate contribution to the habitability of the world at the School of Management and Impact of Sciences Po Paris.
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La rue du Louvre
Eranos lives on rue du Louvre, between the post office, the stock exchange, and the Les Halles interchange, within sight of the eastern facade of the palace that the French, in 1665, refused to entrust to Bernini, on the pretext of protecting the Louvre (though this ‘den of wolves’) from the savagery of Italian baroque