Transforming a ExCo into a Task Force: the unexpected alliance between a marine commando and a CEO coach

In this episode, Hubert Reynier (CEO of VISCONTI Partners) welcomes Jérôme Mandin (CEO of Pegasus Leadership, former marine commando).
Between them, they have built a unique offer: to accelerate the transformation of management teams into real high-performance Task Forces.

An ambitious promise, born of a meteoric encounter... and a common conviction:

The human factor surpasses all processes.

Who is Jérôme Mandin?

A former Navy commando who worked in special operations, he founded Pegasus nearly 20 years ago.

Since then, he and his team have accompanied around fifty ExCo in immersion every year.

Their trademark:

• The terrain, not the theory.
• The moments of truth, not the slides.
• Simplicity, not artificial complexity.

Their objective: to test, test and reveal the collective, by relying on what is most solid: the strengths of each person.

And VISCONTI Partners?

Founded by Hubert Reynier, VISCONTI supports CEOs and their teams to unleash their full potential.

Hubert Reynier describes his role as that of a demanding sports coach:

• diagnosis,
• setting in motion,
• regular pace,
• durable anchoring.

The complementarity with Pegasus is immediate: Head and legs. Fire and ice. The coach and the impact player.

Why does this alliance make sense?

Because leaders face three universal challenges:

1. Advance in the management profession and make their team grow.
2. Increase economic performance in an unstable world.
3. Finding fulfilment, individual and collective.

Their rarest resource?
The weather.

And their main success factor?
The team. Always the team.

What is the “High Performance Task Force” course?

One nears designed to go quickly, very quickly, while transforming in depth.

Three levels, depending on the maturity of the team:

• Team under construction → formalize the basics (2—3 months)
• Mature team → solidify, adjust, anchor (3—4 months)
• Experienced team → reinvent yourself, destabilize yourself in order to make further progress (long cycle)

The unique alternation:

Pegasus immersions in Lorient (submarine base)
VISCONTI coaching every two weeks

All without a catalog: only tailor-made.

Their secret sauce?

• A shared history: creating emotional markers that the team will never forget.
• The truth without judgment: seeing leaders for who they really are.
• Simplicity: what is complicated never fits in the field.
• Anchoring: working on strengths, not compensating for weaknesses.
• Sustainable performance: a before-and-after experienced by all.

Jérôme says it clearly: “What we create is that moment when a team looks at each other and says: It's not like it used to be.”

Why do leaders need to train?

Because being a leader means being a top athlete.
Because a team does not become successful by chance.
Because the emergency should not replace the important.

Pegasus recommends two off-sites per year.
VISCONTI recalls:

“An ambitious CEO has a duty to be supported.”

What we remember:

• A rare combination between immediate impact and sustainable transformation
• A program capable of creating a before-and-after in a ExCo
• A simple vision: Take care of your team, they are your best performance driver.
• A final message to leaders:

“If you're still hesitating... you're already wasting time.”

Ready to go into mission mode?

contact@visconti.partners