Meeting with Marie Welté, co-founder of Maison Labiche.
Pioneering in the personalisation of embroidered t-shirts, Maison Labiche has since developed a womenswear, menswear and children's wardrobe.
Marie has always loved making and creating with her hands. The first t-shirts were, furthermore, embroidered by hand — like the one I bought when the brand launched nearly 15 years ago.
In this episode, to which Marie wanted to dedicate the necessary time to delve deeply into numerous topics, we covered in particular:
🧵 His academic background and the differences between a French *grande école* and an American university
🧵 The brand name
🧵The structure and growth of the company
🧵Recruitment and development of MLB managers and team members
🧵The products: design, quality, marketing, communication
🧵The entrepreneurial mind-set
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.
