Biography
Trained at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the Université de Montréal (Ma) and the Université de Nice-Sopjhia Antipolis (PhD), he dedicated himself primary to research. It was by exploring sensory cultures that he discovered the world of design, which he has never left since.
He spent the first part of his career in the culinary world, first as a post-doctoral researcher and then as a research fellow at the Paul Bocuse Institute, then as an innovation project manager in Groupe SEB R&D, where he paved the way for anthropology and explored culinary practices on four continents.
After discovering the world of consulting (The Creativists) he launched his own structure, Users Matter, dedicated to user-centred innovation in 2016, and participated in the launch of the Making Tomorrow collective the following year.
Users are everywhere! But the Human being still occupies a very weak place in innovation. It is on the strength of this observation that he works to make meetings with users, customers and citizens concrete and operational throughout the innovation process.
A regular lecturer at several institutions (La Cambre, Audencia, Louvain School of Management, AgroSup, Universita di Milano Bicocca, …) and speaker (more than 100 talks to date), Olivier has published some forty articles and books on innovation, food and sensory cultures and design.
He is also co-author of “Playing with the future: Use design fiction to turn your business around” (Pearson Editions, 2016) co-written with Nicolas Minvielle and Anthony Masson.
Expertises
- Business strategy
- Creative thinking
- Leadership
Languages
- French
- English
