Emmanuelle Duez

Founder and president, WoMen’Up, which focuses on topics related to male/female diversity; creator of The Boson Project.

RADAR THINKER

Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2019.

FAST FACT

The Boson Project was selected as one of the six most promising companies of 2014 by August and Debouzy’s Start You Up programme and was cited as being among the top 100 startups to invest in by Challenges magazine.

FAST FACT

Nominated (alongslide Laurence Onfroy) in the start-up category by Tribune Women’s Awards.

Ideas

The name of the Boson Project comes from the Higgs boson elementary particle. “We operate on the elementary particles of companies, that is to say: human resources,” says Duez. Young people entering the workforce now — ‘Y’, ‘Z’, ‘Millennial’, or ‘digital native’ generation – will be the catalyst a major societal transformation, a third anthropological revolution. “This young generation rings the death knell of yesterday’s world, and prepares our entering of the world of tomorrow,” she says.

Bio

Serial entrepreneur, educated at X, Sciences Po, ESSEC and Bocconi University. Worked in strategy (SFR), social media marketing (Spring), politics (Ministry of Finance) and at a management consultancy (Deloitte). In 2013, launched The Boson Project, a consulting firm, which harnesses the power of the young. Also an Ensign in the Citizens Reserve of the Navy, a body of 300 lobbyists charged with defending the interests of the sea and the Navy.

Content

Speaks on entrepreneurism, the youth of today and achieving gender balance in organizations.

NATIONALITY: French

Media picks

Verdict

“Emmanuelle Duez, the flagship entrepreneur of the Y generation.”

Le Figaro

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