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Expertise

Advice rooted in the practice of the profession.

You only advise well on what you have faced yourself. Four ways to work together, grounded in real experience of general management and governance — never in a method learned from a book.

Michel Mathieu Michel Mathieu · Former CEO of LCL, founder of MM Conseil
Boards of directors, shareholders, committees

Board mandates & governance

A director who has sat where the real questions are settled — audit, risk, nominations, remuneration — and who can tell a debate of form from a decision that binds.

  • Director / non-voting director mandates
  • Chairing or serving on specialised committees
  • Board governance and effectiveness reviews
Proven in the career

Director of Amundi, Eurazeo, Predica, Crédit Agricole Italia — and today of Wakam, CIEL Finance and BNI. Twenty years on the boards of leading institutions.

Executives, management committees

Executive advisory

The sparring partner of a leader who has held the same seat. On strategy, transformation and the hard trade-off — someone who has already carried the responsibility, not only produced the analysis.

  • Board advisory & sparring partner to the CEO
  • Strategic framing and defining trade-offs
  • Support for transformations and restructurings
Proven in the career

Seven years CEO of LCL, Deputy CEO of Crédit Agricole S.A. — he has held the seat, not merely advised those who hold it.

General and financial management

Financial diagnosis & steering

Reading performance where it truly hides and steering by the right indicators — net banking income, cost-to-income ratio, profitability. Figures he has turned around himself, not merely commented on.

  • Performance and trajectory diagnosis
  • Steering framework and key indicators
  • Cost-structure optimisation
Proven in the career

The “MUST” plan: €950M in savings delivered. Cost-to-income ratio cut from 72% to 46%, net banking income sharply improved.

Executives and high-potentials

Executive coaching

Individual, strictly confidential support — for an executive taking up a new role, a successor being prepared, or simply someone who needs a perspective that owes them nothing.

  • Individual, confidential support
  • Preparation for a new role / succession
  • Perspective and strategic listening
Proven in the career

Forty years teaching and passing on — professor at CESB, trainer at IFCAM, lecturer at Montpellier Law School.

How an engagement begins

A conversation, never a method.

Every engagement begins with a specific issue, never a method. A first conversation, in confidence, to find the real question. Then advice that is direct, evidenced, and owned by the person who gives it — one that stays until the recommendation becomes a result.

A deliberately small number of engagements, chosen for what is at stake.

Independence, first

Advice is only worth the independence of the person who gives it. MM Conseil sells no product, places no one, and answers to no one but its client. The view is objective because it is free — including when it is not the one you hoped to hear.

Confidential conversation

A specific need in mind?

A first confidential conversation, with no commitment, to define your need.

Request a confidential conversation michel@mmconseil.eu