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Search every verified Veronique Subileau interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Véronique Subileau, then-director of human resources at Transdev, spoke at the LH Forum 2016 about diversity and connection in the workplace. She described Transdev as a global mobility company with 83,000 employees in 19 countries and said the company aims to "create the conditions for everyone to be alive in the company" through trust, listening, kindness, and empathy. Subileau argued that performance is achieved by gathering different profiles who share company objectives and values, rather than people with similar thinking. She cited specific diversity initiatives, including a diversity club open to all employees and a nursery program for young recruits, noting that 30% of Transdev's 7,500 French recruitments in the prior year were young people. Subileau stated that companies should move away from spending time on PowerPoints and emails and instead focus on living, talking, and exchanging. She said the company of tomorrow will be defined by its ability to create connection between all individuals, and that leaders must evolve from command-and-control styles to become "conscious leaders" who animate collective intelligence and reveal diverse talents. She concluded by quoting Jacques Attali, saying "to be happy, one must create connection."
“We make the bet on humans; we listen to our employees and give them the means and conditions to co-create. What we do is to create the conditions for everyone to be alive in the company, and these conditions are trust, listening, kindness, and empathy.”
“This collective intelligence only makes sense and is rich if around the table we gather different profiles. Performance in companies is not achieved by putting people with the same way of thinking or experiences together, but by different people who share the company's objectives and values.”
“To recreate connection in companies, we must stop spending our time making PowerPoints and answering emails; instead, we must live, talk, exchange, and dialogue. We are living beings in living companies, and that is the subject we try to address.”
“The magic starts to happen when you truly trust, respect, listen, and show kindness in the company. That is when energies are freed and meaningful, lasting connections are created.”
“Regarding gender diversity, we gathered employees and asked how to make diversity a lever of performance at Transdev. The key action was to create a diversity club open to all, where everyone has a voice, using social networks to exchange articles and viewpoints to simply create connection.”
“For intergenerational diversity, we have 10% of employees under 30 and want more. Last year in France, 30% of our 7,500 recruitments were young people. We created a nursery to welcome these young employees, where they train, tour networks, meet all group employees, and become operational within a year.”
“The company of tomorrow will be focused on its ability to create connection between all individuals, no matter how different they are: connections between employees, clients, suppliers, and stakeholders where connection is still lacking today.”
“The company that will be attractive, fulfilling, and high-performing will have conscious leaders, natural leaders who animate collective intelligence, give meaning, reveal all talents in their diversity, and the previous century's command-and-control leaders must urgently evolve.”
“To be happy, one must make others happy. To conclude, I want to say that to be happy, one must create connection.”
La diversité, atout majeur d'une société positive. Avec Véronique Subileau, directrice des ressources humaines, Transdev.
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