A short journey of a pirate willing to MakeSense

1. From a pirate to a gangster

2. Once upon a time in the marvelous and enchanting land of Brittany,
a terrible curse was weighting upon the tormented seaside.
It’s here!
It troubled the night of every man. It was a real nightmare even for the most coura-
geous sailor. Eldest’s whispers carried on its mystery and its greatness.
A lonely ship in search of the most precious pearls was reigning on the sea.
No vessels could stand against him. A lonely ship dwelled by the most dreadful
pirates. Every sailor trembled at the sound of their chorus.

3. A lonely ship guided by the famous one-eyed captain Leborgne*!
Few were the ones who survived his voracious desire of gold.
Over time, the Leborgne line kept on thriving as terrible pirates.
*In French “le borgne” means “one-eyed man”
The captain Leborgne dynasty kept
on fuelling awful stories. His terrible
temper has never faded away from
a generation to the other one. It remained well known as the inheritance
of being his descendant.
I was born as one of them!
The fierce blood of captain Leborgne
flows in my veins.

4. I grew up as a pirate. I quickly learned all the secrets of the seaside, all the
address from the finest pirates.
Family Portrait - Daddy, my sister, my brother, my Mummy and myself.
I did not share the voracious desire of gold as my ancestor did. But I shared his
passion and his persistence. My preference leaned toward creating more wealth
from unexpected skills I could not prevent from my voracious desire of learning how
to make it possible Quickly the enchanting land of Brittany could have no more secret
for me...

5. I searched for a new learning horizon. I took
on a journey and stopped by at the Alps
Mountain. Here I had stil a lot to learn!
However I had became an unfortunate pirate.
.I had left my elders and hardly found a way to carry
on my skills for piracy in the ... mountains!?! Yes, what an
idea. Have you ever met a single pirate thriving in the
mountain?
Yet I was not helpless. I realized I was now evolving in a
giant pool along with business
sharks. I searched for their
most unexpected and precious
skills. I found out that their
extempore ideas could be valuable for my quest.

6. From a pirate I became a gangster
the day I joined an incredible gang:
MakeSense.
An international gang which connects with social entrepreneurs so they could help them raising their challenges by
organizing : hold-ups (creative workshops). I learned how
to organize hold-up with my new fellows from MakeSense.
We understood how to steal people ideas for the people
who needed it the most: social impactful entrepreneurs.
Then I started a journey across the globe to meet these entrepreneurs who were making sense.

7. In Beijing Yao and Tina needed help
for their Healthy Baby SMS project.
They were seeking new ideas to
develop a sustainable business model so they could help more unfortunate women to access to the
basic medical care they needed
during their pregnancy.
In Paris, Olivier needed ideas to
gather more people in his new
social network where people help
each other dealing with an alternative currency: the
Lemna.
In Senegal, Benjamin was seeking
for new ideas so he could finance
new economic and social projects
(a school, a hospital ...) and at the
same time organize a communication campaign for people to come
stay at his socially responsible hostel: «Hotai Village».
In Ghana, Felix also needed ideas
for his African Test. He wished
to attract tourists in his home
town, so they will come and help
him teach what they would like to
share in his school for underprivileged kids.

8. In Bhopal, Pradeep has
been creating the Museum School. He needed new
ideas to help share the
knowledge of the world with
the kids from the world
and create a brand new
school.
As I was travelling and hold-upping ideas for these sense making projects, I met Avhani, Divya and Manish. They wanted to become surgeons,
scientists and pilots.
In Punjab, Manoj needed
news ideas for the Naandi
Clean Water Program. His
team wished to develop impactful communication campaign so they could provide to
more rural people clean and
safe water.
They had so much dreams and enthusiasm to share. From the slum they were living in
they invite me to join their tender, generous and hopefulness world.

9. At this time I was a happy gangster. I was wil ing to keep on learning so
one day I could share with them my enthusiasm and truly contribute to
social impactful projects from Europe to Asia,
I started to become an explorer.
I am willing to understand: social innovation projects, challenges and promising strategy; how targeting low-income population is a deep source of
renewal and innovation for companies; how companies can benefit from
these innovations and learning at their global scale...
An explorer who is stil keen on learning so I could, at my scale, create a
bit of a better world.
Here I am and hopefully I stil have a lot to learn!
To be continued ...