Galleon Impact

In 2019, The Galion Project published Galion Impact Solutions in response to a conviction: the company's contribution to society has become an essential growth driver. By offering 45 solutions tested by Galion members to improve the economic, social and environmental impact of the company, we wanted to accelerate this awareness among entrepreneurs and facilitate their transition to action.

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Why publish a new edition a little over a year later?

First, because making impact a recurring subject is the condition for it to become a growth KPI in the ecosystem as obvious as team turnover or EBITDA.

Second, because we want to make our publications collective and evolving tools, so that everyone takes ownership of the subject and is part of the solution.

And, of course, because the crisis raises the question of corporate responsibility more than ever. By upsetting the order of things, it has presented us all with essential questions: what kind of world do we want for tomorrow? How are we going to consume, produce, work? What meaning do we want to give to our actions? We all ask ourselves these questions as managers, employees, customers, investors or partners.

And then, by separating us from each other, the pandemic also revealed that what linked us within the company — meetings, conviviality, informal exchanges — was essential to us. It made us feel intimately that the company is above all a group of people, and the human being its true wealth. And while financing and innovation are essential to face the major crisis we are going through, it is women and men who will be the driving force behind the recovery, and the key to business resilience.

During the first edition, we focused on environmental responsibility. In this 2nd edition, Galion members have enriched solutions for the social impact of businesses. Not because the environment has become a secondary subject: on the contrary, it is beginning to become obvious for businesses. But because everything starts with humans.

Our commitment to impact alongside The Galion Project

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The year 2020 will remain a very special year for all of us. The upheavals we have experienced encourage me to accelerate our reflections on our relationship to growth and the place we give to people in creating value.

For a long time, I have been convinced that our growth models need to change. To do this, the concept of capital must be enriched and integrate, in addition to the financial nature, the idea that the wealth of companies and countries is also based on the men and women who make them up.

It is this intangible asset, which is very valuable, that we call human capital.

Human capital is not a simple economic constant, it is a living concept that we are addressing in the context of current technological developments. It is the foundation of our societies and that is why our macroeconomic research teams have made it a subject of study. Their analyses lead to the following theory: innovation accelerates the obsolescence of individual skills and they should therefore be continuously re-evaluated and strengthened.

This work highlights the importance of human capital as a driver of collective performance. They are thus a real source of enthusiasm as they confirm our initial intuition about the essential role of humans as a factor of long-term growth. Technology does not destroy value; on the other hand, it exacerbates the importance of accumulating human capital in order to achieve sustainable and inclusive growth over the long term.

This reality opens up new fields, especially in terms of investment. We look forward to exploring them with each of you and to participating, together, in the emergence of a new way of approaching performance.

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