Emilie Bonamy, I am an Executive coach and the mission of my firm, ELB Conseil is to contribute to the continuity and sustainability of Family businesses, by co-constructing their Governance and developing Leadership. I have been supporting families and family businesses for fifteen years and have had the opportunity to lead conferences and workshops for the FBN every year, including at the FBN Global summit.

I am also a tenth-generation family shareholder of Wendel, a French family group over three hundred years old, that has encountered crises and managed to overcome them, and this led me to embrace my responsibility as an owner and deepen the specificities of family and corporate governance.

Regarding my training, I did a Master of Litterature at La Sorbonne, Sciences-Po, and did ESSEC Business school. I did internships and exchanges in the United States and Brazil and speak fluent English and Portuguese.

Before founding ELB Conseil, I had 15 years of experience in large communication groups (Havas, Editis, Vivendi,) as a Strategic and Marketing Director, the CEO of a publishing house and as the Communication Director.

During these years I also founded a Philantropic association that helps people in situations of great loneliness or exclusion.

I am married, I am the mother of a 21 year old girl, the stepmother of my husband’s

daughters and their husbands, and a happy grandmother with four small and big children.