Facilitation · Innovation · User research

Your answers are already in the room. I help you find them, together.

I help organizations and teams turn ideas into products, services and strategies with real impact, combining design thinking, lean startup and collective intelligence.

Damien Gauthier facilitating a collaborative workshop
20+

years in innovation, facilitation & UX

2 – 80

participants, from agile team to large collaborative events

FR · EN

working languages, in Switzerland and internationally

PhD

EPFL · structured thinking for complex problems

What I do

Three ways I can help

Facilitate your collective intelligence

Collaborative workshops where your teams align, decide and produce: vision & roadmaps, strategic retrospectives, LEGO® Serious Play, change readiness, and more.

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Accelerate your innovation & strategy

Multi-week strategy mandates, OGSM strategy definition, Design Sprint and lean validation, and coaching for your innovation programs and teams.

Explore programs

Understand your users

User interviews, journey mapping, focus groups, concept validation and user testing: field evidence that grounds your decisions in reality.

Explore research
"Being the meeting point between your strategic needs and the needs of your audiences."
My mission, on every engagement
How it works

A proven path from first call to final deliverables

Align

One or two preparation meetings with your sponsor team: we align on objectives, deliverables, participants and logistics.

Design

I design the session as a production flow, not an agenda. Every activity exists to move the group toward the deliverable.

Facilitate

I hold the space, ask the right questions and make sure everyone contributes, while keeping the group firmly on course.

Deliver

I consolidate the results into deliverables you can act on: reports, boards, strategies, roadmaps, in the format you need.

See the full approach, convictions and methods

Workshop participants working in a plenary room
Small groups working around tables during a collaborative session
Participants posting ideas on a workshop wall
Signature formats

Workshops and programs that get teams unstuck

Design Sprint & Lean validation

Prototype and test an idea with real users in under a week, before investing heavily.

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Vision & roadmap workshops

Align your leadership team on a shared vision and a concrete, prioritized roadmap.

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LEGO® Serious Play

Model complex problems with your hands, deep exploration in a playful, non-intimidating setting.

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The River of 7 Stones

A research-based game to map the impacts of change and leave with prioritized actions.

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Department Dating

Break silos: departments meet in fast 1-to-1 sessions to discover synergies and leave with actions.

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Custom trainings

Design Thinking, Lean Startup and Gamestorming, 1 to 3 days, tailored to your teams.

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They trusted me with their challenges

  • État de Genève
  • SIG
  • Vaudoise Assurances
  • Nespresso
  • Lycra
  • HES-SO
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…as well as the Ville de Genève, Visilab, and multinationals in FMCG, commodity trading and private banking.

Selected references

Real challenges, tangible results

Public sector, Geneva

A digital strategy co-built with its stakeholders

For the État de Genève (OCSIN), I facilitated the co-construction of a digital strategy for the internal services used by 18,000+ employees, interviews, platform analysis and collaborative workshops.

Public sector, Geneva

A 5-year roadmap in two days

40 senior managers of a Ville de Genève department co-created the roadmap for the coming legislature during a two-day off-site workshop.

FMCG multinational

An executive team aligned on annual strategy

A one-day OGSM workshop where 16 executives defined objectives, goals, strategies and measures, and left aligned on the year ahead.

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Got a complex challenge and a room full of smart people?

Let's design the session that turns their collective intelligence into decisions, prototypes and roadmaps.

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