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OUR TEAM
Psychologists, academics, executives, counselors and healthcare professionals… we met at Paris-Dauphine University. We share one core conviction: while change is inevitable, suffering from it is not.
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Maxime Rabéchault
Maxime’s starting point is simple: change is no longer an occasional disruption. It has become a permanent condition of organizational life. Organizations can no longer focus solely on managing one transformation after another. They must build the individual, collective and organizational capabilities that allow them to adapt to uncertainty over time.
His approach to change enablement is fundamentally bottom-up. At the individual level, adaptability is grounded in cognitive, emotional, relational and behavioral skills. At the collective level, these skills become shared practices of collaboration, decision-making and learning. At the organizational level, they require structures, processes and working conditions that allow people to put them into practice.
Reconciling organizational transformation with mental health
Traditional change management tends to focus on methods, communication and adoption. Leadership development programs, meanwhile, still rely heavily on static personality assessments.
These approaches can provide useful reference points, but they tell us little about what people and teams actually do when faced with pressure, uncertainty or conflicting demands.
This is why Maxime has built the UNREST approach around what can be observed, developed and tested in practice: behaviors, skills and the organizational conditions that make them possible.
Grounded in cognitive and behavioral science
His work draws on two main bodies of research:
• The World Health Organization’s psychosocial skills framework, which focuses on the cognitive, emotional and interpersonal resources people draw on to respond effectively to the demands and challenges of everyday life.
• Cognitive and behavioral science, work and organizational psychology, and organizational development, particularly their evidence-driven Anglo-American tradition. These fields share a pragmatic focus on observable behavior, practical application and measurable outcomes.
Bringing these perspectives together helps avoid two common pitfalls: treating transformation as a purely technical process, and asking individuals to compensate for problems rooted in the organization itself.
Through diagnostics, organizational development consulting, coaching and conferences, UNREST helps organizations prepare for continuous change, improve the likelihood of transformation success and protect the people who make it possible.
Background
Education
Experience
We are Change Enablers
We share a lot of things, in particular the fact that we have all been trained at Paris-Dauphine University and, through our respective backgrounds, to embody change.
A Common Ambition
UNREST brings together a team of practitioners trained at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL and across the fields of management, work and organizational psychology.
We share a common academic foundation, a strong commitment to methodological rigor and the same conviction: the capacity to change is neither a fixed trait nor something that can simply be demanded. It develops as an individual skill, a collective dynamic and an organizational capability.
Every UNREST practitioner brings substantial experience in the corporate world, together with expertise directly relevant to our work: change enablement, organizational development, cognitive and behavioral science, psychosocial skills, coaching, agility, resilience, psychological safety and collective intelligence.
Our approach draws on the pragmatic, evidence-based tradition of behavioral science and organizational psychology. We start with real workplace situations and address both observable behaviors and the organizational conditions that allow people to put them into practice.
We treat adaptability, agility and resilience as capabilities that are developed through action. We reject assessments that confine people to static profiles, inspirational narratives disconnected from the realities of work, and interventions that ask individuals to compensate for dysfunctions rooted in the organization itself.
Our ambition is to help organizations prepare for continuous change and improve the likelihood of transformation success through structured methods, proven tools and observable outcomes, without exhausting the people who make change possible.
To be Useful. Now and Permanently.
Change is no longer episodic; it is continuous. It’s time to adapt to this new reality by building your organization’s capacity for change.
Confidence
Rigor
Solidarity
Why Call on Us?
We make change your comparative advantage and a source of development for your talents.
We only use research instruments
Our support method is structured and standardized
The impact of our interventions is traceable and measurable
Preparing Organizations for an Uncertain World
In a radically uncertain world, the performance of an organization depends on its adaptability. UNREST is the first change enablement advisory firm designed to develop this behavioral and relational competence.
