Mission-driven companies: aligning rhetoric and reality in the field

23/9/2025
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Mission-driven companies: aligning rhetoric and reality in the field

In this new episode of Les Pieds dans le Plat, Claudio Vandi interviews Pauline Barnouin, former Chief Human Resources Officer at Phenix, a company that fights against food waste. Many companies claim to be committed... but how many really are?

Values, impact and tutti quanti are clearly part of every organization's vocabulary. But the big question is: how do we bring these principles to life in the day-to-day work of our teams, for REAL?

Pauline Barnouin has been taking up this challenge at Phenix for the past 5 years. At Phenix, values are strong, the mission is present and embodied in every employee. So she tells us all about it: what she's learned, the management rituals they've put in place, and the key contact points for bringing the company's commitments to life (from recruitment to offboarding).

On the program:

  • How do you translate the company's mission statement into job interviews?
  • What practical tools are available to support managers?
  • Feedback, transparency, co-construction: levers for an embodied team culture
  • Why impact shouldn't aim for perfection
  • How can we manage the tensions between individual demands and collective reality?

Enjoy!

You can also follow the Les Pieds dans le plat podcast on the networks‍

And support Les pieds dans le Plat :

In this new episode of Les Pieds dans le Plat, Claudio Vandi interviews Pauline Barnouin, former Chief Human Resources Officer at Phenix, a company that fights against food waste. Many companies claim to be committed... but how many really are?

Values, impact and tutti quanti are clearly part of every organization's vocabulary. But the big question is: how do we bring these principles to life in the day-to-day work of our teams, for REAL?

Pauline Barnouin has been taking up this challenge at Phenix for the past 5 years. At Phenix, values are strong, the mission is present and embodied in every employee. So she tells us all about it: what she's learned, the management rituals they've put in place, and the key contact points for bringing the company's commitments to life (from recruitment to offboarding).

On the program:

  • How do you translate the company's mission statement into job interviews?
  • What practical tools are available to support managers?
  • Feedback, transparency, co-construction: levers for an embodied team culture
  • Why impact shouldn't aim for perfection
  • How can we manage the tensions between individual demands and collective reality?

Enjoy!

You can also follow the Les Pieds dans le plat podcast on the networks‍

And support Les pieds dans le Plat :

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