Philippe Vignon — former General Manager of easyJet, ex-L’Oréal Paris Sales Director, and an internationally experienced business leader — shares his journey from being a tough, ego-driven manager to an emotionally intelligent leader. Starting to manage teams at 25, he recognized his rigid patterns and sought change through various methods, ultimately joining INLIBRIUM’s Integral Self-Actualization program. This holistic 6-month program addressed various aspects of genetic testing and health optimization, lifestyle modifications, physical, emotional, intellectual practices and included transformational psychedelic experiences, helping Philippe integrate his sensitive side with his professional identity. He credits the program and ongoing coaching with improving his emotional flexibility, leadership, and work-life balance.
Philippe Vignon — former General Manager of easyJet, ex-L’Oréal Paris Sales Director, and an internationally experienced business leader — shares his journey from being a tough, ego-driven manager to an emotionally intelligent leader. Starting to manage teams at 25, he recognized his rigid patterns and sought change through various methods, ultimately joining INLIBRIUM’s Integral Self-Actualization program. This holistic 6-month program addressed various aspects of genetic testing and health optimization, lifestyle modifications, physical, emotional, intellectual practices and included transformational psychedelic experiences, helping Philippe integrate his sensitive side with his professional identity. He credits the program and ongoing coaching with improving his emotional flexibility, leadership, and work-life balance.
In his own words
If, as an effective leader, you're not able to read emotions, weak signals, soft cues, and two-thirds of your bandwidth is busy with you trying to keep a formatted appearance, you're basically losing 70% of your potential.
Hi, my name is Philippe. I started managing people quite early, when I was around 25, in sales functions. I think at the age of 20 years old, potentially, you need an ego, a strong ego, to be able to be successful. And I realized that I was becoming that tough manager, basically, you know, patronizing my staff. It's like if we're putting, you know, those tinted lenses, glasses, and they become that thick, and we're not even aware anymore that we were wearing those tinted lenses. When I became aware of that, that was unbearable.
And that led me to start doing various things, such as rebirth, you know, breathing exercises, meditation. But I realized that sometimes some of our patterns are really deeply embodied, and they need something potentially more powerful.
When I started the journey, there was Philippe, the business guy, on one side, and there was the sensitive Philippe. And I knew that deep inside I wanted to merge both, because that would make me really more humanly powerful, if I may say.
I met Hardi through a LinkedIn connection. He had posted something about psychedelics, and very spontaneously I just contacted him, saying, yeah, we should have a chat. I think that's how we started.
I liked the very genuine approach that Hardi had, to say, okay, we're here to support the transformations of leaders, where you'll be first tackling how you eat. Who you are is what you eat, so you will be supported into enhancing and improving that. Then you'll be tackling sleep patterns, to gain knowledge on some genetic aspects that you need to consider, that might be playing for you or against you. So Hardi was basically spot on.
And I was already interested in the field of psychedelics, so I was open-minded to that. I'm really ready to let go and to experiment, really looking at the entire construction from deep within, with no control. So it's like if it's creating this enhanced flexibility, emotional and mental flexibility, to surf life, if you wish. And so that gives you an ability to read the reality much better, because, to some extent, you have come to realize that all these filters that we have, all these indoctrinations, all of those belief systems, are gone. And sometimes that might be overwhelming, tears popping up in your eyes. You might be thinking, oh gosh, what am I doing with that? It's amazingly healing.
But then, the work is actually taking place when you're back in life, supported by a mentor or coach that has been going through the same journey, and giving very tangible tips on how to take care of oneself, and how to start implementing slight changes on how you're going to lead your organizations. And very quickly I could see, with some adjustments, how much that was bringing me in terms of having a positive impact, in terms of the ability to keep a certain level of energy, to keep a certain work-life balance.
I'm not saying that I'm pure and liberated. Gosh, no, still work to be done. But it seems that once you've been diving for the first time in what psychedelics offer, you will gain that level of intimacy, connectedness, perception of yourself. Then you have more bandwidth that can be activated to actually have an impact on the planet, in the way you lead organizations and you lead people, in a much more coherent and human way. In simplistic terms, that is what is leading good organizations to become great organizations. And so you end up going to bed and you're happy.
I would say that this process, in my personal, subjective case, has been a definitive validation that the journey I had embarked on before was right. And I switched, or I transformed myself, from seeing two different clusters, the business guy, the human being, and merging them together. So there is, if you wish, now a strong anchorage, or a strong grounding, that the process with INLIBRIUM has allowed me to achieve.
I think for entrepreneurs and visionaries who are keen and interested in going through a transformation process, I would invite them to contact, you know, the people working at INLIBRIUM, to see if they fit. And if that's the case, and they feel the appeal despite all the resistance that they might be facing, to go for it. Being at peace with yourself again: it's an investment for your own life, at the end of the day.
If, as an effective leader, you're not able to read emotions, weak signals, soft cues, and two-thirds of your bandwidth is busy with you trying to keep a formatted appearance, you're basically losing 70% of your potential.
Hi, my name is Philippe. I started managing people quite early, when I was around 25, in sales functions. I think at the age of 20 years old, potentially, you need an ego, a strong ego, to be able to be successful. And I realized that I was becoming that tough manager, basically, you know, patronizing my staff. It's like if we're putting, you know, those tinted lenses, glasses, and they become that thick, and we're not even aware anymore that we were wearing those tinted lenses. When I became aware of that, that was unbearable.
And that led me to start doing various things, such as rebirth, you know, breathing exercises, meditation. But I realized that sometimes some of our patterns are really deeply embodied, and they need something potentially more powerful.
When I started the journey, there was Philippe, the business guy, on one side, and there was the sensitive Philippe. And I knew that deep inside I wanted to merge both, because that would make me really more humanly powerful, if I may say.
I met Hardi through a LinkedIn connection. He had posted something about psychedelics, and very spontaneously I just contacted him, saying, yeah, we should have a chat. I think that's how we started.
I liked the very genuine approach that Hardi had, to say, okay, we're here to support the transformations of leaders, where you'll be first tackling how you eat. Who you are is what you eat, so you will be supported into enhancing and improving that. Then you'll be tackling sleep patterns, to gain knowledge on some genetic aspects that you need to consider, that might be playing for you or against you. So Hardi was basically spot on.
And I was already interested in the field of psychedelics, so I was open-minded to that. I'm really ready to let go and to experiment, really looking at the entire construction from deep within, with no control. So it's like if it's creating this enhanced flexibility, emotional and mental flexibility, to surf life, if you wish. And so that gives you an ability to read the reality much better, because, to some extent, you have come to realize that all these filters that we have, all these indoctrinations, all of those belief systems, are gone. And sometimes that might be overwhelming, tears popping up in your eyes. You might be thinking, oh gosh, what am I doing with that? It's amazingly healing.
But then, the work is actually taking place when you're back in life, supported by a mentor or coach that has been going through the same journey, and giving very tangible tips on how to take care of oneself, and how to start implementing slight changes on how you're going to lead your organizations. And very quickly I could see, with some adjustments, how much that was bringing me in terms of having a positive impact, in terms of the ability to keep a certain level of energy, to keep a certain work-life balance.
I'm not saying that I'm pure and liberated. Gosh, no, still work to be done. But it seems that once you've been diving for the first time in what psychedelics offer, you will gain that level of intimacy, connectedness, perception of yourself. Then you have more bandwidth that can be activated to actually have an impact on the planet, in the way you lead organizations and you lead people, in a much more coherent and human way. In simplistic terms, that is what is leading good organizations to become great organizations. And so you end up going to bed and you're happy.
I would say that this process, in my personal, subjective case, has been a definitive validation that the journey I had embarked on before was right. And I switched, or I transformed myself, from seeing two different clusters, the business guy, the human being, and merging them together. So there is, if you wish, now a strong anchorage, or a strong grounding, that the process with INLIBRIUM has allowed me to achieve.
I think for entrepreneurs and visionaries who are keen and interested in going through a transformation process, I would invite them to contact, you know, the people working at INLIBRIUM, to see if they fit. And if that's the case, and they feel the appeal despite all the resistance that they might be facing, to go for it. Being at peace with yourself again: it's an investment for your own life, at the end of the day.