My Map of the Territory
A compass, not a plan. A direction that lets life circulate and clarifies what I choose to nurture.
Reflecting the living,
putting back into circulation
Creating from the source.
Giving, receiving, letting it circulate —
like living water that regenerates as it passes.
In-depth reflections on today's world — through the lens of the living. What circulates, what stagnates, what is ready to transform.
Living governance · Systemic reading · Transmission
I’ve been questioning things since I was 11.
They arise from what I encounter,
from what we experience, from the world around us.
I want to let the most fruitful ones circulate,
open spaces yet unexplored,
and see what might emerge.
THE INVISIBLE PACT
A film project
A family story, a Brussels building, archives: I would love to make a film of it, with others.
I am now looking for the people with whom to bring it to life.
My vision
From Control to Emergence
Doing my part, letting reality respond — and leaving an empty chair for what I do not yet know.
Where I speak from
Several crossings,
one common thread
Forty years crossing systems — from the inside. International finance, pioneering entrepreneurship in the living world, then governance. Each stage refined the same capacity: reading patterns, naming blind spots, telling apart what accumulates from what circulates.
"True strength is not doing everything alone.
It lies in sincere connection and reciprocal support."
1990 — 2007
International finance — 17 years, including Citigroup. Complex systems, flows, power dynamics.
2007 — 2024
Sequoia — At the origin of the takeover and development of Sequoia, of which I was CEO — the drive came from me, the journey was made with others.
Today
L'Oiseau Bleu — Foundation. Living governance, transmission, collective consciousness. Exploring the invisible legacies of the feminine — silenced suffering, passed down from generation to generation without ever being named. Frozen suffering becomes poison. Recognized, loved and transformed by the crossing, it becomes source again — living, purifying, creative. The Grandala, a bird of the Himalayan heights, is its living signature.
In the background
Ten years of equine work (Eponaquest), somatic intelligence, transgenerational exploration. The body and deep listening as the first grounds for reading.
Reflections
Regenerating the world through the lens of the living
These aren't advice articles. They are reflections rooted in experience — on what our systems do to us, and on what the living shows us.
Latest reflections
- Regaining Discernment Amid Collective Tensions26 October 2026DISCERNMENT · TENSIONS · PREVENTION
- Changing Course Without Changing Destination21 October 2026EMERGENCE · EXPERIMENTATION · CHANGE
- What We Advance of Ourselves21 October 2026HABITS · SYSTEMS · ENERGY
These reflections circulate freely.
Emerging
Books I've read
This space shares, by starting small and concretely, what art and nature can teach us about what it means to be alive, today.
A book, a film, a debate — read or watched on your own, then shared together.
Interventions
Interventions on request
I take part occasionally in gatherings, conferences, conversations, projects or events when the subject and the encounter make sense.
Formats and terms are defined case by case, depending on the context.
Find my writings
Elsewhere
Substack
Source de Flourish — Voices of the Living
Systemic predation, vision capital, living governance, transgenerational patterns.
LinkedIn
Posts & conversations
The return to the body, AI as a mirror, the superwoman myth, collective patterns.
EMERGING
The Invisible Pact
Transgenerational exploration. Architecture, dispossession, family memory.
In 2024-2025, I had begun writing a narrative about my paternal family lineage and its invisible loyalties — a quest for truth, following some fairly intriguing discoveries and resonances, including in my own life. A story of the material dispossession of the feminine in that lineage.
I began this story in 2024 and set it aside in 2026. Today I am taking it up again, differently, with the idea of making it a film.
In the meantime, it became a source work — material from which other forms can draw. The material continues to circulate; the forms themselves remain open. Discover the project →