Team / Edith Luc

Paris, 2024
Pateau Consultants is conducting several cross-cultural sessions for Sonepar, a leading technical solutions provider to electrical industry professionals.  

Lyon, March 12th, 2024
Jacques Pateau is Key Note speaker at the annual EMEA meeting of EJ, the world leader in access solutions. Topic : "The importance of culture for sustainable development."

Paris-Bonn, February-September 2024
Pateau Consultants continues to support Buyin, the JV of Deutsche Telekom and Orange through on-line and face-to-face coaching and cross-cultural training. 

Mannheim, September 24th-25th, 2024
Prof. Pateau facilitates a cross-cultural seminar for MBA' students at the Mannheim Business School, the leading business school in Gerrmany 

“I consult in global organizations to help executives, managers and employees work together and benefit from their various cultural horizons.”

Social psychologist, (Ph.D. University of Montréal), Edith Luc is herself from a multicultural background thanks to her Amerindians, Belgians, French, and Luxembourgeois ancestors. She lives in Quebec and sojourns regularly in France. She has traveled in New-Guinea, South East Asia, Europe and Central America. She has worked in Australia where she implemented a french linguistic training program. During her college years, she was in charge of a canadian field study on Amerindians cultures.

She began her career at the University of Ottawa where she directed a pan-Canadian study on adult education and started her own management consulting business.

Her clients are from the services and communications sectors. She helps executives, managers and employees work together when confronted with national and corporate cultural challenges. She consults as well when intergroup conflicts arise by diagnosing the situation and implementing action plans. Her services include as well : teambuilding, cultural audits, training and coaching during mergers and acquisitions. Her consultations aim at establishing and implementing strategies that will help people manage cultural difficulties so they can work in a performing and harmonious social environment.

She prepares French business people to do business and live in Canada. She trains and coaches Canadians expatriates to work and live in other countries. She trains corporate universities trainers to take into account learning strategies of their participants when coming from different cultural perspectives.

She is a board member of APEIQ (Association for intercultural communication of Québec), Psychologists Corporation of Québec, a member of SIETAR International.

She consults with different Canadian and global organizations such as : Axa, Ericsson, Hydro-Québec, governments of Canada, Québec and Ontario, Infogrames, Poullain Enterprises Inc, Fujistsu, FTM international, Fritz, Via Rail, Voxdata, Gaz Métropolitain, City of Montréal, Ste-Justine Hospital for Children, etc..