Valthena is a strategy and management consulting firm.

We bring unique end-to-end transformation capabilities to build competitive advantage: from business strategy to go-live.

We combine
complementary assets:

  • Business Expertise to define strategic choices and create competitive advantage

  • Consulting and Project Management know-how to articulate transformation roadmaps

  • Agile and Human Capital Frameworks to enable change

  • IT Advisory Expertise and selected partners providing Technological Capabilities to effectively deliver solutions

Transformation
Journey

We are result-oriented, value-driven, independent, entrepreneurs.

And steadily growing our core team of senior professionals and high-level consultants.

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Our expertise

Financial Services

Business expertise ...

Corporate & Investment Banking

  • Differentiate offers leveraging technology
  • Arbitrate by value the transformations initiated

Wealth & Asset Management

  • Shift to digital for distribution
  • Extend product to new asset classes & Inject purpose (ESG)

Retail Banking

  • Manage transition to increased interest rates
  • Invest in client experience

Insurance & Social Protection

  • Manage the impacts of societal and climate change
  • Prevent instead of cure

across the value chain to address targeted stakes ...

Business Strategy

  • Business Review
  • New Products
  • Services & Markets
  • Business case

Sales & Distribution

  • Client Journey
  • Self-Care Platform Digitization

Operations & Technology

  • Alignment with Business
  • Operating Model
  • Business IT
  • Agile Models

Business Compliance

  • ESG & EU Taxonomy Regtech
  • KYC/AML/CFT
  • Data Compliance

... supported by Consulting and Project Management know-how to articulate transformation roadmaps.

Agile, Human Capital & HR Transformation

Mobilize your Human Capital for a successful and sustainable transformation.

Leading Change to support your business evolutions

  • Align ExCo & Management to formulate a common vision and ambition
  • Assess and address cultural issues
  • Support HR teams in mergers & acquisitions and restructurings
  • Co-construct the transformation process
  • Drive the implementation of the strategy
  • Support the evolution of work methods and management models
  • Develop a culture of change : train and lead communities of change leaders
  • Set collective mobilization forums to give sense and engage people in Change

Create Value through HR function as a real Business Partner

  • Improve HR efficiency by increasing coordination and reliability of operations
  • Optimize the employee experience (ECM)
  • Increase accountability through changes in goals setting, evaluation and reward
  • Set a dynamic talent management environment
  • Optimize skills development : creation of an internal university or renovation of learning programs (upskilling, reskilling...)
  • Set and deploy participative innovation
  • Develop the HR function's service spirit and internal customer relations in a Service Level Agreements mode

To implement your large-scale Agile transformations, we can mobilize Wemanity, pioneer and leader of Agile transformation in Europe.

IT advisory

An offer targeting the key issues of Information Systems Departments.

Drive by value the IT Strategy

Improve the IT added value to the business

  • Strengthen the formulation and collection of business needs with business units
  • Translate business needs into IT strategy
  • Arbitrate by value IT transformations and projects
  • Rethink IT offers according to business needs and market alternatives

Transform, industrialize and innovate

Tomorrow’s IT: How to become sober, digital- ready, sovereign

  • Design the strategy and trajectory of your transformation
  • Define the new IT roles, business and skills of the IT Department
  • Optimize the organization, professionalize it (DevOps, Agile organization, Cybersecurity, Architecture, Data management...)

Manage complex IT programs

Put under control the IT programs in progress or to be launched

  • Implement a strengthened management, capable of anticipating risks, dealing with problems and arbitrating quickly, while focusing on cost optimization and value creation.

Ensure Financial performance

Strengthen the IT financial management and guaranty cost optimization

  • Rethink and equip processes from budget to IT rebilling model and reporting
  • Infuse a financial culture to projects leader and managers
  • Challenge costs of the IT Department and identify cost reduction opportunities

We have developed a preferred partnership with Wemanity, in order to gather all necessary IT skills to implement your transformations (Agile IT, SAFe, DevOps, Architecture & API, User Experience and Digital Delivery activity...).

Our differentiating assets

A deep knowledge of the industry, methodologies, a privileged partnership, market analysis and proprietary trainings

Experience and seniority of our business teams

Industry trends, End client expectations, Business stakes, Value chain drivers

Proven methodologies and canvas

Industry trends, End client expectations, Business stakes, Value chain drivers

Privileged partnership with leader in Agile transformation

Industry trends, End client expectations, Business stakes, Value chain drivers

Market watch and analysis

Market trends, Regulatory monitoring, Vendors watch, Research & Publication

Proprietary trainings

Industry trainings, Program Management excellence, Consulting skills, Problem Solving

Our team

Experienced professionals in strategy and management consulting

Didier TAUPIN

Président Former CEO of Deloitte Consulting

Matthieu MERCUSOT

Partner Financial Services Banking

Christine MARTIN

Partner Financial Services Banking

Nicolas CHAPIS

Partner Financial Services Banking

Stéphanie SAKHOCHIAN

Partner IT Advisory

Emmanuel GAMBART DE LIGNIERES

Partner Financial Services Insurance

Fabienne SPECK

Director Human Capital