From engineering to organisational intelligence: The journey of Prefix’s founder

  7 November 2023
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From a technical world to a facilitative posture

In the early years of my career, everything followed a fairly linear path: a degree in microengineering from EPFL, technical roles in Switzerland and Australia, spanning research and product development. It was solid, stimulating, coherent… but incomplete.

Upon returning to Switzerland, a shift began. Joining a consultancy firm, I stepped into projects that required more than technical expertise – they called for navigating human dynamics, ambiguity, and cultural diversity. One project in particular proved pivotal: Solar Impulse. This visionary venture took me from project manager to flight logistics lead. A technical challenge, yes – but above all, a deeply human one. It taught me that a mission doesn’t hold together by process alone, but by the engagement of those who carry it.

Creating space for projects that carry meaning

With this experience as a catalyst, I founded Prefix in 2014. The vision was simple but demanding: to support organisations in working differently. Better. With more clarity.

Today, I wear three hats: founder, senior consultant, and certified FSEA trainer.

My approach is rooted in one core principle: blending project management rigour, relational finesse, and systemic awareness. Over the years, I’ve worked across varied sectors – industry, public administration, academia, non-profits – in French, English, and Swiss-German. What fuels me? The diversity of people, of challenges, of blind spots to uncover. And the conviction that posture matters more than method.

Practice-based methods

Over time, I’ve come to understand that effectiveness doesn’t arise from applying ready-made models – it comes from methods that are tested, refined, and allowed to evolve with reality.

That’s the spirit behind Prefix’s incubator – a living space for the emergence of bespoke approaches shaped by field needs.

The circular project management method was one of its first outcomes: a hybrid framework born from the dialogue between predictive and agile, designed for complex, shifting, human environments.

Since then, other practices have emerged – such as crossed councils, designed to circulate peer intelligence without adding unnecessary weight. And more are currently in development.

Today, Prefix stands as a laboratory of organisational intelligence – where methods are never rigid, but always connected to meaning, action, and the living systems they serve.

The word of the ibex

Why Prefix?

Pre for the anticipation which caracterizes the project management job and fix for the problems solving aspect of it.

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