Our team
The diversity of our backgrounds
IDEM PER IDEM brings together individuals with very different backgrounds and experiences. Each person brings a unique perspective, helping us understand the issues at hand, the stakes and develop tailored solutions.
It is from this synergy between our diverse backgrounds that our creativity springs: bringing different perspectives together, fostering dialogue between areas of expertise and proposing unique approaches tailored to our clients’ challenges.
Éléna Fourès
Founder and Chairwoman · International Executive Coach
With a PhD in general semantics and as an international executive coach, Éléna Fourès has been supporting senior executives for over 35 years, both in France and internationally. A multicultural professional, born in the USSR, she works in French, English, Spanish and Russian.
Demanding, direct and deeply committed to her clients, Éléna combines an uncompromising perspective with genuine confidence in their ability to grow and take their rightful place. Her experience enables her to help clients quickly gain a broader perspective, expanding the way they view themselves, their environment and their future. By breaking down the barriers in their thinking, she guides them beyond what they thought possible.
As IDEM PER IDEM’s scientific and educational lead, Éléna has developed the organization’s core methodologies and has been supervising and training coaches and facilitators since 1998. The author of eight books on leadership and change, she draws on ongoing research grounded in real-world experience to inform her practice.
Diane Fourès
Managing Partner · Executive Coach
An ESSEC MBA graduate specializing in business strategy, Diane Fourès joined IDEM PER IDEM in 2014 with the ambition to transform a business built around its founder into a structured and sustainable organization.
She rethought and developed the service offering, built the team and devised the pedagogical framework to support IDEM PER IDEM’s growth. In particular, she designed the exercises and role-plays used in training programs, as well as the educational videos, for which she wrote the scripts and directed production.
An executive coach for over 10 years and an opera singer, graduating from École Normale de Musique de Paris, Diane draws on this dual experience of leadership and the stage to inform her practice. She focuses particularly on legitimacy, assertiveness and impact: taking your place, standing by your convictions, managing your emotions, and aligning who you are with what you convey through your words and actions.
Pierre Fourès
International Executive Coach
A graduate of HEC and Sciences Po Paris, Pierre Fourès has built his career within international economic and institutional environments (IMF, international banks).
This experience of governing bodies and institutions gives him a particularly keen insight into strategic issues, power dynamics and high-level conflict situations. He helps leaders take a step back, clarify their strategy and find the positioning that will enable them to implement it.
A theatre enthusiast, Pierre also founded, directed and staged the Apya theatre company. He applies this experience of the stage to his work on impact: embodying a message, giving it power and creating the conditions for it to reach its audience.
His keen insight enables him to quickly identify what needs to change so that an intention, a strategy or a message truly produces the desired effect.
Alexandre Fourès
Partner, Head of Innovation · Executive Coach
With a Master’s degree in Level Design from SMU in Dallas, Alexandre Fourès spent five years at Gearbox Software working on AAA games and virtual reality projects.
By joining IDEM PER IDEM, Alexandre brings a perspective from a radically different world. He applies concepts from game design to shed new light on the mechanisms of motivation, behavior and interactions within organizations. Curious, sharp-minded and keen to share his knowledge, he also brings a distinct generational perspective to the corporate world, which he combines with a resolutely positive approach.
As Head of Innovation, Alexandre drives IDEM PER IDEM’s R&D and designs new tools. In particular, he has developed Constellation, our professional network mapping software.
A story that is passed on and constantly reinvented
IDEM PER IDEM is our passion and a family story.
Founded by Éléna Fourès in 1995, the company now brings together two generations who have chosen to pool their experience and perspectives in pursuit of a shared vision.
Here, passing on the legacy does not mean simply replicating the past. Each generation helps IDEM PER IDEM evolve whilst remaining true to its very essence.
Gabriel Caratini
International Executive Coach · IDEM PER IDEM Partner
A pianist, improviser and teacher for over 25 years, Gabriel Caratini has been working with IDEM PER IDEM for more than a decade. His experience on stage, in improvisation and in teaching informs a particularly dynamic style, based on listening, adaptation and experimentation.
Lively, positive and always at ease, Gabriel knows how to adapt to a wide range of personalities and situations and find just the right way to get a message across. He supports executives and leaders with their challenges relating to making an impact, public speaking, assertiveness and energy management.
He also contributes to the design of IDEM PER IDEM’s training programs and methodologies, bringing to them his experience as an educator and his ability to transform complex concepts into simple, practical and engaging experiences.
At the heart of Idem per Idem
Véronique and Giuseppina ensure the day-to-day organization and quality of the IDEM PER IDEM experience.
Véronique Daguet
Office Manager
After many years’ experience managing seminar centers, Véronique Daguet joined IDEM PER IDEM and took charge of its day-to-day operations: commercial and administrative management, training program planning, group organization and office management.
The true backbone of the organization, Véronique oversees the structure of the training programs and ensures they are delivered effectively. Extremely organized, precise and adaptable, she is able to handle complexity and find solutions that allow trainers to focus fully on their work.
Giuseppina Aiello
Executive Assistant
As the first point of contact with IDEM PER IDEM, whether on the phone or in our offices, Giuseppina ensures the quality of the experience for our clients. She is responsible for scheduling, general services, liaising with our suppliers, and managing books and materials.
Attentive, warm and a particularly good listener, she creates an atmosphere in which clients and staff feel immediately at ease. Her ability to anticipate needs and her excellent interpersonal skills enable her to identify requirements – sometimes even before they are voiced – and respond to them appropriately.