
Gwenaël Odongui-Bonnard
Co-founder · Interim general and commercial management · Structuring and supporting growth · Transformation and reorganisation · Independent board director
From a multi-sector career to transition management, a trajectory built on execution rather than recommendation alone. International events, luxury hospitality, marketing, multi-site management: different sectors, the same reflex, own the ground rather than comment on it.
From the Crans Montana Forum to the Hôtel Métropole in Brussels, by way of managing multi-site commercial programmes across Europe, his career has led him to lead up to 200 people, with 10 direct reports, and a P&L of 12 to 15 million euros. Corporate reorganisation, change management and growth support form the core of his practice. This experience of managing crisis situations, opportunities and negotiations, allows him to operate in very different contexts, with the reserve and humility needed to approach each issue objectively.
Start-ups, SMEs, mid-caps, international groups, family businesses: this diversity of environments and countries has shaped a plural, culturally aware reading of business.
Since 2021, he has worked in interim management and advisory roles, across sectors as varied as SaaS, corporate and institutional communication, hospitality and construction. This diversity keeps his perspective fresh and objective on every project, with an ability to quickly transpose lessons from one sector to another and to distinguish what is structural from what is circumstantial. He co-founded Stratlane in 2023 and teaches at the ISTEC business school in Brussels.
Certifications: PMP, PRINCE2, Prosci/ADKAR. Executive programmes at HEC Liège, in commercial strategy and digital transformation.
Today, he takes on short, medium and long-term mandates in interim general or commercial management, reorganisation and governance, in environments where change is already under way or still to be built.
He also collaborates, on certain specific mandates, with the Human Partners network, which specialises in supporting company leaders.
- Interim general management
- Strategic and operational support for management teams
- Structuring and supporting growth
- Organisational transformation
- Executive diagnostic and crisis management
- Independent board director
- Interim commercial management
- One-off commercial support, without taking over the function
- Commercial strategy and structuring of the business development function
- CRM and pipeline management
- Strategic partnerships
"A recommendation that stays on a slide changes nothing. I don't stop at the report, I go through to execution."

