Jean-luc Doumont
Founding partner
Geneviève Casterman
Founding partner
With an MBA and 18 years of previous experience, including
at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and as executive
director at Fortis, Geneviève Casterman brings to Principiæ
a keen sense of business—and of business communication,
nicely complementing Jean-luc's more scientific background.
Besides preparing or running training sessions with Jean-luc,
Geneviève is our “field investigator” for consulting activities,
and she manages our projects, our clients, and our finances.
She is the person to talk to in order to inquire about our line
of activities, discuss current or scheduled training sessions,
or exchange ideas about possible ways to address your needs.
Geneviève is fluent in English, French, Dutch, and Spanish.
Beyond ensuring a smooth day-to-day operation, Geneviève
is in charge of our business development. She researches new
and exciting activities Principiæ might engage in, in line with
our constant efforts to “structure the thoughts” of our clients
and their staff, through training, consulting, and publishing.
An engineer (Louvain) and a doctor in applied physics (Stanford),
Jean-luc Doumont is Principiæ's more visible face. Over the years,
he has run several hundred training sessions, thus addressing
thousands of attendees in English, French, Dutch, and Spanish,
on topics of scientific, technical, or business communication,
pedagogic approaches, statistical thinking, and related themes.
Jean-luc is one of the very few trainers in the field to combine
a top-notch technical background with acclaimed communica-
tion and teaching skills. Thanks to this unusual combination,
he approaches professional communication in an innovative,
engineering-like way that contrasts sharply with the tradition
of the field, rooted in the humanities. He is thus well received
by engineers, scientists, and managers, who say that they are
“on the same wavelength”—a prerequisite to effective learning.
An articulate, entertaining, and thought-provoking presenter,
Jean-luc is a popular keynote or invited speaker worldwide.
In recent years, he is giving guest lectures increasingly often
at top-ranked graduate engineering schools, such as at MIT,
Stanford, UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon,
UC San Diego, UCLA, U of Maryland, Harvard, and Penn State.
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