Co-creating impact that reflects who we are.
La Machine ronde designs tailored collaborative workshops and programmes to help you turn transitions into opportunities to innovate together.
Our approach combines collaborative design, sustainability and learning design to develop solutions that make a difference — and empower teams to make them their own.
It builds on the expertise within your organisation, while strengthening your teams’ autonomy and their ability to tackle future challenges.
Your reality doesn’t need fixing.
It’s where we start.
10-minute questionnaire · An initial map of where you stand · No sensitive data · Free
Future of Work
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Talent Attraction
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Collective innovation
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Value chains
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Biodiversity
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Regenerative
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Local ecosystems
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Credible Commitments
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Innovation collective
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AI & Work
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Future of Work 〰️ Talent Attraction 〰️ Collective innovation 〰️ Value chains 〰️ Biodiversity 〰️ Regenerative 〰️ Local ecosystems 〰️ Credible Commitments 〰️ Innovation collective 〰️ AI & Work 〰️
What if every challenge became an opportunity ?
A few examples of challenges that can be tackled through collective problem-solving.
Crack a stubborn problem.
Innovate from frontline expertise.
Systems thinking · Innovation · Problem solving
Break down silos.
Bring together different areas of expertise and experience to solve problems differently.
Collaboration · Cross-functional working · Collective intelligence
Unite around a shared project.
Turn members into active contributors.
Engagement · Belonging · Co-creation · Networks
Turn bids into a driver for innovation.
CSR · Value proposition · Innovation · Evidence of commitments
Make your impact a strength.
Turn intentions into distinctive proof of commitment.
CSRD · VSME · Reporting · Communication · Supplier qualification
Integrate AI on your own terms.
Evolve rather than replace.
Future of work · Skills · AI
Our formats at a glance.
Whether they run for three hours or six months, all our formats are built around the same principles:
Right-sized, focused and iterative
Adapted to your starting point
Designed to fit in
Led by an internal team
Focussed on action
Built to last
Every organisation moves at its own pace.
Our formats can be used independently or combined into a broader transformation journey, depending on your needs and priorities.
Les Croquis
Explore
3 hours
Explore a challenge and prototype an initial response.
L’Ancrage
Scale
6–12 months
Scale what works and strengthen your teams’ capacity to act.
Le Sprint
Activate
6 sessions
Turn a priority challenge into concrete, actionable solutions.
Le Cap
Align
1–2 days
Turn complexity into a shared direction.
One approach for organisations and schools.
The challenges organisations face today offer the perfect opportunity to learn how to tackle those of tomorrow.
The same approach applies to organisations and schools, with formats tailored to each context.
For organisations
Turn a real challenge into an opportunity for action while strengthening the organisation’s capacity to respond over time.
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Explore a challenge before taking action.
A short introductory workshop to understand a contemporary issue, establish a shared framework and open up new possibilities for action, starting from a real challenge within your organisation.
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Turn complexity into a shared direction.
A focused collaborative workshop to explore a challenge, bring together different perspectives, agree on priorities and define a clear direction for action.
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Turn a challenge into collective action.
A multi-step collaborative process to understand a challenge, develop a response that fits, test it quickly and produce initial evidence of commitment.
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Build the organisation’s capabilities for the long term.
Long-term support to embed learning, strengthen collaborative practices and turn each challenge into a new capability for the organisation.
For schools
Experience the same approach through contemporary challenges, and learn how to tackle those of tomorrow.
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Discover collaborative design through a contemporary challenge.
A first hands-on experience of Human-Centered Design applied to an organisational challenge. Students learn a problem-solving approach by experiencing it rather than studying it.
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Build a collective response to a complex challenge.
Working from a case inspired by challenges faced by organisations, students use collaborative design, systems thinking and CSR as a framework for making choices to design, articulate and test their responses.
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Learn how to lead a transformation project.
Across several sessions, students progressively build their ability to analyse a challenge, collaborate, experiment, iterate and present a proposal to a project sponsor.
Whatever the challenge, the approach remains the same.
Understand in context. Co-create and put into action.
Learn by doing.
Navigating complexity
Put challenges into context and agree on priorities.
The best decisions are grounded in a shared framework: CSR helps guide those choices.
Turning challenges into action
Explore, test and put solutions into action — immediately and without adding complexity to the organisation — through collaborative design.
The best solutions are co-created with key stakeholders and tested through action.
Making change last
Track, adjust and assess impact to turn commitments into lasting change and build team autonomy.
Successful transitions strengthen the organisation’s capabilities over time.
“ Organisations and schools alike face increasingly complex and interconnected challenges: environmental transitions, changing professions, new technologies, skills, collaboration and evolving societal expectations…
My role is to turn these challenges into collective problem-solving experiences, tailored to each context, that bring together expertise, spark creativity and strengthen the capacity to act.
So that every challenge becomes an opportunity to learn, every solution a resource, and what works can be scaled up.”