Lyne, and the three treasures
We have been together since we were fifteen. We were friends first — best friends.
I have been married to Lyne Renaud for thirty-six years. We have been together since we were fifteen, and before we were a couple we were friends — best friends.
That detail matters to me. Plenty of couples discover a friendship after years of living together. We went the other way round, and I think that is what explains the longevity.
Forty years of building organisations assumes someone who accepts the long days, the hard decisions, and the months when cash flow decides everything.
An entrepreneur’s career is not run alone. The pages of this site talk about engagements, architectures and organisations; none of them would exist without someone who held everything else together while I was building.
I have three wonderful children. The three treasures of my life, and the reason I get up every morning. Their names are not on this site — that is their life, not my pitch.
Why this page exists
People often ask where the insistence on people rather than tools comes from, in a field that mostly talks about technology. The answer is here. An organisation is made of people who go home at night — that is true for my clients as much as for me.
That conviction has concrete consequences for the work. I do not recommend transformation plans that assume teams will hold an unsustainable pace for eighteen months. I do not design an on-call rotation I would not take myself. An organisation that burns through its people does not make it past a decade, and I have watched enough brilliant companies collapse that way to stop treating it as a detail.
A question on this?
Describe the context in a few lines. I answer with a proposed angle, not a brochure.