Organisational Resilience, Leadership Remediation & AI Adoption.
Strategic advisory combining 20+ years of global enterprise delivery, doctoral research in technology acceptance, and high-reliability operational discipline.
Practice Areas
Four disciplines, one advisory practice.
Leadership Remediation & Team Alignment
Rapid intervention to diagnose, restructure, and realign fractured leadership teams, cross-functional delivery groups, and stalled enterprise programmes. Translating crisis leadership and psychological resilience into clear accountability and unified execution.
Applied AI Adoption & Acceptance
Translating doctoral research at Trinity College Dublin into board-level strategy. We design empirical technology acceptance models, ethical governance frameworks, and change roadmaps that overcome user resistance and deliver measurable workforce capacity.
HR Technology & Vendor Governance
De-risking major HCM and payroll programmes across enterprise workforces. Strategic architecture and commercial vendor rationalisation across SAP SuccessFactors, ServiceNow, Microsoft, SailPoint, Workday, and Oracle environments.
High-Performance Leadership
The disciplines that prepare an athlete for an Olympic final apply directly to leadership teams: planning in four-year cycles, performing under pressure, recovering from setbacks, and coaching individuals so the whole team wins. Drawn from supporting athletes at six Olympic Games and from leading the University of Galway’s swimming, water polo and lifesaving programmes, where Sébastien was named Coach of the Year in 2025.
Leadership & Engagements
Senior, hands-on advisory.
Executive Background
Led by Sébastien Locteau—HR Technology Pioneer (2024), Trinity Business School doctoral researcher, former French Armed Forces operations specialist, and multi-cycle Olympic coach. Advisory leader with a track record across the UN, the International Red Cross, the International Olympic Committee, Banque Cantonale Vaudoise, HSBC, Barclays, the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA), Capgemini, Lidl, Auchan, and Specsavers.
Whether in military interventions, elite athletics, or multinational boardrooms, performance failures stem from alignment breakdown. We diagnose root operational friction to restore momentum and measurable output.
Core Advisory Engagements
- Dysfunctional Team Intervention Rapid assessment, mediation, and restructuring of critical leadership and programme delivery teams.
- AI Adoption & Acceptance Audits Organisational readiness, governance, and user absorption frameworks for high-reliability environments.
- HR Systems & Vendor Management Platform architecture, multi-vendor contract rationalisation, and partner delivery governance.
- Advisory HR Technology Director Strategic C-suite advisory oversight for major enterprise transitions, digital risk mitigation, and Target Operating Models.
Institutional Research & Enterprise Ecosystem
