EMPOWERED LEADERSHIP
Anne Grandjean - Founder of the Worklab
I transform the world of work by transforming its leadership.
For 20 years, I have observed the same thing: brilliant, capable, hard-working leaders — and something that resists, or for some, a quiet unease. Not a lack of skills. Not a lack of motivation. A hidden logic — protection patterns encoded long before their first role, still running in the background, costing infinitely more than it should.
My work is to go there. Not to the surface. To the root.
What experience has allowed me to understand: what organisations call weaknesses — resistance, hesitation, the need for control, silence — are rarely what they appear to be. It is intelligence. A logic that is coherent, readable — when you know how to read between the lines. And it is precisely by reading between the lines that we have a chance to move things. At every scale.
My path to satisfaction and ease at work and in my role as a leader was not a straight line — it was marked by several steps, each one a milestone in a major transformation. The transformation I now offer in accelerated form to those who are ready.
My path
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The problem was the environment
For the first part of my career, I thought — like many — that the problem came from the outside. Wrong structure, wrong hierarchy, wrong industry. I spent years changing the environment — as a project and programme manager, I had the tools for it — while realising that some environments simply won't be changed by one person. The wins brought fleeting satisfaction, but they never answered what was working on me inside. The context mattered — but it wasn't enough to explain the difficulty.
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The problem was me
I quickly took on responsibilities in the corporate world. Leadership roles brought new questions. Am I up to this? Do I have what it takes? I started to think I was inevitably missing something. More training, more competencies, more qualities. I looked there too. Without a lasting solution to my discomfort.
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Would the solution be in the label?
In 2014, I moved into personal and organisational development. A new phase began: putting names on the unease. Performance anxiety. Perfectionism. Impostor syndrome. For a time, drawn to the idea of labelling my experience, I even considered learning to 'live with it'. But acceptance was not really in my nature
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The real discovery
One day, I understood that these behaviours weren't my personality. They were strategies — built at a precise moment in my life to protect me, and still running in a context that no longer needed them. That shift in perspective changed everything.
Not because I learned to manage better. Because I discovered the modalities that eliminate these reflexes at the source. It's exactly what I've done with my clients ever since.
My discomfort was the meeting of two logics: the leadership logic of my environment — the one that rewards some things and silences others — and my own hidden logic. Revealing both is the first step. Changing mine at the root is what changed everything.
My credentials
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20 years in business, in management positions, including the highest ones.
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Including 10 years as a consultant and coach in people and organizational development.
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Master's degree in Communication Sciences (MSc), with a specialization in business communication
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Postgraduate diploma in Neuroscience & Psychology
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Professional coaching diploma and a PCC (ICF) accreditation meaning I have over 500 hours of coaching experience.
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Diploma as a clinical hypnotherapist specializing in "Rapid Transformational Therapy" (Marisa Peer Method)
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Certified Brainspotting therapist (David Grand Method)
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Years leading change as a project and programme manager (PMP, PMI), then as Director of Operations at a large international group. That is where I saw, repeatedly at scale, what I was living personally: collective logics that facilitate or block transformation, without anyone naming them.
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But above all: a lived experience and understanding of what it means to 'struggle' with yourself and others at work. I know what it feels like to tick every box and feel empty. To be overlooked for a promotion. Or to care so deeply about your work that letting go becomes impossible. I have been through it. And I look forward to helping you move beyond all of this. Because it is possible — and far more accessible than you think.
What to do if something here
resonates with you...
The first step isn't a conversation with me. It's discovering your hidden logics — what your environment's logic, and your own, are really costing you.
The Leadership Logic Map takes 10 minutes. The report you receive — and a debrief — often say more than years of reflection.
