With Ismérie, we talked about everything except hair.
And yet hair is her passion.
As she likes to define herself, she is a «hair lover» — a lover of hair.
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In an interview filled with her sincerity, humour and humility, she tells us in particular how she was caught up by her destiny, how she started out in hairdressing before founding her eponymous salon @atelier_ismerie 10 years ago, her entrepreneurial struggles and her management mistakes.
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What fascinates me about Ismérie is her agility — her flexibility, her ability to listen to those around her and her team, to question herself and learn from her mistakes, to make decisions quickly and to dare.
And her ability to connect. What appeals to her clientele, which has become her community, is obviously her talent and sense of service, but it is also a relaxed, natural and accessible style.
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Ismérie has surrounded herself with equally wonderful people, driven by the same values:
💇♀️ Ambrine @ambrinegrs
🔥 Clémence @clemence_flamme
🎨 Lucas @lucas_coloriste
✂️ Marc-Antoine @marc_antoined
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If you’d like to find out more about what I call Creative Management, I dedicated a full episode to it a few months ago.
Today, I would like to take a closer look at one aspect of Creative Management: team-building.
What exactly does it involve?
What are the benefits?
I also share a great example, as well as a counter-example, from my own experience as an employee.
And bonus: I talk about my favourite sports coach, Ted Lasso. (no spoiler as I haven’t started Series 4 yet).
If you're interested in offering your team a workshop / team-building / training session, do drop me an email! lbm@lilibonnet.com
I can organise and facilitate almost anywhere in the world 🙂
I’ve known Fabien for over 20 years, back when he was a graphic designer.
We worked together on a project and have stayed in touch — partly because it’s something I enjoy doing, of course, but mainly because I’ve always admired his entrepreneurial spirit.
Even when he enrolled at art school, he didn’t know what he was going to do later on; he just had a fairly broad vision of his future:
– getting up whenever he wanted;
– not working for a boss;
– and living in a loft.
Today, that’s exactly what he’s doing.
He’s the owner of UNSEEN, a vintage shop in Brussels, but he’s also a designer, a carpenter…
it’s clearly impossible to define him in a single word, as he has developed and put to use a wide range of skills.
And it’s quite fascinating to see how much this multi-potential individual needs to free himself from the constraints that a single skill entails, to allow himself not to be confined to just one profession. Not to limit himself. And that is precisely the driving force behind everything he undertakes.
this episode, we also talked about:
– pop culture,
– imposter syndrome,
– mental health,
– and identity, thanks to his recent reconnection with his country of origin, Vietnam.
