Be Yourself and be part of a changing world
14th edition of the Octave Program
2025, April 1st to 3rd – Evian
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In a vastly changing world, we constantly need to adapt our behavior as leaders or managers to rise to new challenges. The Octave Program is a leadership and intercompany seminar that tackles the transformation of businesses in the digital era, drawing on the experiences of all generations. In a nutshell, it is designed to nurture and equip willing participants with the ability to adapt to these changes.
Join us:
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2025, April 1st to 3rd
Evian Resort: 3 days
Costs: 3800€ (excluding VAT)
For any request about the Octave programm, contact programme.octave@danone.com, specifying the purpose of your request (information request, registration request, partnership request…)
Why participating?
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LEARNING
• Understanding other generations
• Fighting against prejudices
• Identifying the different ways we work and how we can cooperate
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UNDERSTANDING
• Understanding how the world is changing
• Understanding the impact of new technologies on companies
• Whatever your age, the U culture is spreading
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TAKING STEPS
• Having confidence in yourself
• Gaining new skills
• Knowing how to put individual and collective potential to good use
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For more information about the Program, please consult the “Why Octave” section.
Become a changemaker within your organization
Schedule
The Octave Program is conceived to alternate phases of inspiration and phases of respiration:
| The moments of inspiration: Plenary sessions |
| The moments of respiration: Workshops |
The main themes during the seminar:
| The Never Normal |
| Generations, so far, so close: between myth and reality |
| The gift revolution – Rethinking management |
| How to deal with the Never Normal ? |
| Collective Intelligence : How Diversity Makes Us All Smarter |
| A few keys to non-violent communication |
| From ecology to ecosophy |
| Is there a golden age for negotiation |
| Put an end to stereotypes to live better together |
| Experiment Mindfulness |
| And many others…to discover on site!
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Registrations
For any request about the Octave programm, contact programme.octave@danone.com, specifying the purpose of your request (information request, , partnership request…)
Place and Access
Located in the North part of the French Alps, in Haute-Savoie, Evian is at the heart of a beautiful area,
on the south border of the Geneva Lake, 45 km from Geneva.
The plenary sessions and the workshops take place at the Evian Resort.
Participants and speakers will be accommodated in the Royal and Ermitage hotels.
The Octave team is in charge of booking and assigning you a hotel room together with the partner companies.
We will send you an email to inform you the name of your hotel one week before the event.
Evian Les Bains is accessible by several means of transport:
By plane
Geneva International Airport: 9 daily direct flights Paris-Geneva (50 km from Evian, please consider
a transfer time of 2 hours)
By train
Evian-Les-Bains train station: 15 minutes transfer time
Geneva (Cornavin) train station: direct trains from Paris (50 km from Evian, please consider a transfer time
of 1 hour and a half)
Free shuttles will be at your disposal connecting the Geneva airport and both train stations
(Cornavin and Evian-Les-Bains) to your hotel. (Schedules will be indicated later on).
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Official Partners
The Octave Program is an original idea by Danone, in partnership with L’Oréal, ENGIE, Orange, and Société Générale and any company affected by the issue and open to the approach. So far, more than 25 companies support the Octave Program.
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