About us
IDEM PER IDEM was built on the belief that everyone has the resources necessary for their own development within themselves.
Since 1995, we have been honing the leadership skills of today’s and tomorrow’s leaders, teams and organizations.
Revealing the diamond
Diamonds and coal are made up of the same carbon atoms. Coal becomes a diamond by changing its structure under the influence of time and pressure.
IDEM PER IDEM means ‘the same through the same’.
From the very beginning, this image has illustrated our approach: revealing your potential, developing your practices and attitudes, whilst remaining true to your values and grounded in your very essence.
Our role is to create, with the utmost rigor, the conditions that enable everyone to find their own answers and to ‘grow’.
A story born in the field
In the late 1980s, Éléna Fourès founded a language school in Abidjan. She observed that discussions between teachers and expatriate managers regularly went beyond learning English: their concerns centered on management, impact and the ability to engage Ivorian teams in an intercultural context.
Éléna therefore set up seminars and round-table discussions dedicated to these issues, deepened her research into leadership and intercultural relations, and trained as a coach.
In 1995, IDEM PER IDEM was born out of this experience.
Since then, we have remained true to that same founding principle: listening to what is happening on the ground, understanding our clients’ needs and developing approaches that enable them to achieve their objectives.
What drives us
PASSION
We are deeply passionate about our work: supporting, sharing knowledge, helping our clients grow and building alongside them. This passion fuels our creativity and the energy we put into every project we undertake.
ETHICS
We place confidentiality, autonomy and responsibility at the heart of our practice. We create the conditions for everyone to find their own answers and grow whilst remaining true to themselves.
COMMITMENT
We strive to fully understand our clients’ challenges and anticipate their needs. We approach every project with the same dedication as if it were our own.
PRAGMATISM
We make tangible the aspects of leadership that are sometimes difficult to grasp: attitude, ambition, responsibility, influence… Our approaches are designed to be experienced and put into practice in order to bring about lasting, concrete and observable change.