On July 2, 50 HR directors and HR managers gathered for “HR Best Practices 2026,” a NUMA morning event organized in partnership with the ANDRH.

The focus of the discussion: How can we foster a corporate culture that goes beyond stated values?

Because a culture can’t be imposed. It is built, defended, and adapted. And it plays out above all in the small, everyday decisions we make: how we hire when we’re in a hurry, how we manage when things get tough, and how we respond when situations are uncomfortable. To explore this topic, three organizations came to share their experiences:

• ‍Sarah Ben Allel, Chief People Officer at Qonto: How to adapt a corporate culture to a rapidly growing organization so that it remains a true guiding principle even as the company surpasses 1,000 employees.‍
• Rose-Emilie Camblin, Vision 2035 Manager at Leroy Merlin: How the Vision process enabled thousands of employees to help shape the company’s future, rather than simply having it imposed on them.‍
• Vincent Derwael, Head of Management Development and Leadership at Club Med: How kindness has evolved from being a stated value to becoming a behavior that is expected, evaluated, and developed.

The key takeaway from this morning: culture is less about rhetoric and more about practices, the trade-offs made, and the behaviors that are actually encouraged on a daily basis.
We’ve compiled the highlights of the discussion in a summary available for download.

There you will find:

• concrete benchmarks for assessing the gap between the stated culture and the actual culture in your organization;
• practices that have been tested in very different contexts;
• clear guidelines for deciding where to start.

Download the summary of our discussions.‍