About Helen & Co

How We can help

Hi there — I’m Helen, founder of Helen & Co.

I work with leaders and teams to have the conversations that actually matter without drama. The ones that don’t resolve themselves through more meetings, better slides, or polite agreement.

My work stands at the intersection of strategy, facilitation, and human behavior — creating the conditions for honest conversations, clean decisions, and real progress across teams, hierarchies, and perspectives.

Because when emotional friction is reduced, decisions move faster, collaboration feels lighter, and meetings finally support progress and flow instead of draining it away.

How it Started

Two business professionals, a woman and a man, are standing next to a large whiteboard with handwritten notes and workshop diagrams. They are smiling and pointing at the whiteboard.

I have 8+ years of corporate experience and a lifelong passion into what makes humans tick (politics, biology, culture, power, emotions and personal development) 

I used to think of these as “soft” skills or hobbies and that what really mattered were “hard” skills in the workplace.

So I learned Finance, Supply chains, Excel, Powerpoint and spent hundreds of hours in professionnal meetings that made me feel a mix of :

  • Boredom (Only 12 minutes until the end)

  • Demotivation (Definitely, turning off my camera for this)

  • Frustration (Why am I here?)

  • Confusion/Futility (Did we decide anything? / Did it matter that I was there ?)

How it ALL changed

Two yellow taxi signs on the roofs of parked cars on a city street at night with blurred city lights in the background.
“I didn´t know that meetings could be like THAT”
“Remember...”
“It was SO funny that...”

One day, I was asked to organize and run a team offsite for my colleagues.

It was really fun. We had a full 8h day of discussions and activities and the day itself was as fun as the planning.

But then something unexpected happened…

After the day ended, people just didn´t want to leave, and on the way back to the hotel, when people are usually on their phones bored, exhausted or checked out..

THE TAXI WAS BUZZING and my colleages couldn´t stop talking about how the day we had just had together.

Remember X ? It was so funny when Y. OMG this was such a good idea !

One manager said, “I have 10 years of experience, I know how to run a meeting…. but not like THAT! I didn´t know meetings could be like THAT. “

How it continued

People standing in two lines facing each other, engaging in a team-building activity and ice breaker in workshop setting.

Over time, I became curious about why these sessions worked — not just that they did and I noticed was that the impact didn’t come from activities, energy, or chemistry.

It came from structure: how conversations were framed, how attention was guided, how tension was held long enough to be useful instead of avoided.

That’s when my work shifted from “running good & fun sessions” to practicing structural depth facilitation: designing containers that allow groups to face complexity, name what matters, and make decisions that actually hold — without escalation or collapse.

Today, this is the core of how I work: not adding energy to a room, but creating the conditions where the group’s own intelligence can organize itself.

If you want your next meeting to feel different,
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