Team - consultancy in Creative Thinking and Innovation

Our Team

Aline Frankfort, Director

A Law Graduate (ULB) and a drawing trainee (La Cambre).
A Creativity and Innovation activist since she started her professional career in 1989 in M&A, looking for ways to use the Future as an Innovation force, basing strategic actions not only on Present realities, but most importantly, on Future possibilities.
She creates her own creative Thinking and Strategic Innovation consultancy in 1992 dedicated to successfully create "Shifts in Minds for Shifts in Action", i.e. help people and teams adopt the mindsets and skillsets needed to design new ways forward in a game changing world. The specific integration of challenging, creative, disruptive, breakthrough, design and strategic thinking leads team to deal strategically, creatively and collaboratively with issues and get better results.
Accredited in 1993 as expert in the practice and teaching of the "Six Thinking Hats®" and "Lateral Thinking®", "State-of-the-Art" methods invented by Dr. Edward de Bono (Medicine, Psychology and Physiology), the world's highest authority in the field of "Design Thinking" and "Serious Creativity®".
After her certification, Aline travels with him to South Africa and Hong Kong to co-lead seminars on "Serious Creativity in Management" and "Sur/Petition®".
Trained at MIT in their approach to "Transformational Leadership and Deep Change" (May 2003)
She holds an Executive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation from the M.I.T Sloan School of Management which covers "Reinventing Business Strategy", "Building, Leading and Sustaining the Innovative organisation", "Understanding and solving complex Business Problems, "Driving Strategic Innovation".
She is Lecturer on "Performance Management" at the Solvay Business School in Brussels (IACE & IADE modules) between 1992 and 2001.
Currently invited Lecturer on "Serious Creativity" at the Faculty of Applied Sciences ULB.

Jean-Louis Baudoin, Senior Partner

Jean-Louis is in his 7th life! And enjoying it.
After early exposure to foreign culture at age 18
(South Africa as Rotary Fellow and The United States the same year as American Field Service Exchange Student),
Jean-Louis obtained a Doctorate of Law from Liège University.
He has been "diagnosed" in a Thesis as "the Third man", capable of building a bridge between cultures.
As a confirmed Jazz Musician (double bass), Jean-Louis has played with people like Toots Thielemans, Nathalie Loriers, Jean-François Prins, Eric Legnini and Félix Simtaine.
He has reinvented himself several times to live
a very diversified and rich life: International Student Travel Expert, award-winning freelance copywriter and fantastic name finder, design store inventor, expert audiovisual scenario writer, coach in persuasive Presentation Skills and "Toqued" restaurant owner.
Jean-Louis has joined forces with Aline in 1992.
Along with her, he was trained and certified by Edward de Bono.
He is certified by the M.I.T Sloan School of Management in "Reinventing Business Strategy"
He also taught Performance Management at Brussels Free University's Solvay Business School between 1992 and 2001.
Training people in conceptual and creative Thinking, Persuasive Presentation Skills and Creative Writing are among Jean-Louis's favourite activities.
He uses his talent in name finding, creative concept articulation to create numerous Visions and ideas. He is currently building a bridge between jazz and Management to stimulate a creative Art of Collaboration.