What I do
Real solutions, for two kinds of people.
Whatever the subject, the same method: Analyse · Inspiration · Build · Deploy. See the method ↓
1. For SMEs and large companies
AI for everyone
Giving everyone the chance to understand and use AI. Taking the fear away.
Hands-on sessions built on your own use cases, not demos.
MBZUAI Global AI Leadership Program 2025
Office 365 & Digital Workplace adoption
Changing the way people work, not just installing tools.
Skillset, toolset and mindset.
BOBST Life Program · 5,600 employees
Hybrid meeting rooms
From a 3-seat huddle room to a modular space for 100+ people: places where working together feels just as natural on site as remotely, and where the meeting starts in under a minute.
Design · installation · maintenance · support
Digital signage
Bringing internal communication closer to the people.
Setting up processes to display existing content with no manual effort.
BOBST deployments
Automation
Cutting out repetitive work through workflows and integrations.
Workflows, automation and AI + workflows in practice
2. For SMEs, non-profits, charities and community groups in particular
Complex websites
With CMS, workflows and automations built in. Swiss nFADP and GDPR compliance handled from day one.
10+ complex websites
Wix Partner Creator
PrivacyBee Partner
Turnkey meeting rooms
Two formats built for SMEs: the manager's room (4 seats) and the boardroom (10–12 seats). Video calls that work the first time, with no one to call for help.
Design · installation · maintenance · support
Building automation
Making the building adapt to the people in it. For energy efficiency and everyday comfort.
Home automation ~100 sensors · solar 103 MWh · rainwater harvesting
HOW WE COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER
When the human stakes take over
People are already at the heart of how I work: I watch how things are really used, I listen to teams, I design for those who will actually use the solution. But some projects go further. When the human stakes are high, the scope is broad, or the situation calls for specialised tools, I team up with Valérie Bauwens, of Human-Centricity. An expert in innovation, change management and collective intelligence, she has made this her craft for over 25 years.
Valérie Bauwens
Human support
Her side
uncovering how things are really used, opening up spaces for dialogue, working with mindsets and resistance, embedding change for the long term.
Stéphane Mader
Technical solutions
My side
understanding needs, simplifying, automating, rolling out real solutions that work and that teams take up, with the attention to people that makes them genuinely used.
Technology and people aren't two steps that follow one another, but two forces moving forward together. Depending on the scale of the project, we carry them side by side, from the system that runs to the people who make it their own.
Two skill sets proven to work together, in the field and over time.
My method
Four steps, always the same.
Whatever the subject, the approach stays the same, whether it's AI, meeting rooms, digital signage, websites or buildings.
01
Analyse
People's needs, processes, strategy. I start by understanding the daily pain points.
02
Inspiration
Gathering information and solutions, looking at what others have done.
03
Build
Programming, commissioning, testing, documentation. Real things that work.
04
Deploy
Change management, training. A solution no one uses is a solution that failed.
Four steps, one person. The one who listens at the start is the one who builds, tests and trains at the finish. Nothing gets lost between the promise and the delivery.
45+ years at BOBST
From electronics apprentice to senior management. I worked my way up every rung, from the shop floor to strategy, which lets me read an organisation from the ground up: the constraints on the floor as much as the stakes in the boardroom. Few people have lived that full picture from the inside.
The nerve to face the unknown
Moving from engineering to communication, spending two years in Japan training teams, crossing the Atlantic on an IMOCA racing yacht alongside pro sailor Bernard Stamm. Seventeen days and nights facing my own limits. Each time, leaving the familiar behind to learn something new. That same curiosity is what I bring to your projects.
Real things, always
Machines installed on every continent, meeting rooms fitted out, exhibition stands delivered, breakdowns fixed under pressure, brands rebuilt from the ground up. My track record isn't made of projects that only exist in PowerPoint, but of things that run, that thousands of people use every day.
Rooted locally, built to last
Local impact, real and hands-on, starting at home. A solar array that has produced over 103 MWh since 2017, a house run by a hundred or so sensors and actuators. I don't theorise about sustainable transformation: I live it every day, and I put that experience to work on human-scale projects, right here in the region.
What would make me take on a role again? A subject I genuinely love: simplification, automation, rolling out solutions, transformation.
Work & proof
What you see, and the work behind it.
Click a thumbnail to explore the project in detail. This is just a glimpse: I have many more projects to show you, and these are here to spark ideas of what's possible.
SMART HOME · AUTOMATION & ENERGY
Smart home
CORPORATE RESTAURANT · SIGNAGE & DIGITAL MENUS
bobst-restaurant.ch
MEETING ROOMS · VIDEO & COLLABORATION
Meeting rooms
REGIONAL ORGANISATION · PLATFORM & ONLINE PAYMENTS
cadet.ch
SERIOUS GAME · SIGN-UPS & 100% AUTOMATED PROCESS
lariviereaux7pierres.com
DIGITAL SIGNAGE · DYNAMIC DISPLAYS
Digital Signage - Dynamic displays
PROCESS AUTOMATION · PAPERLESS ACCOUNTING
Accounting documents, automated capture
Awards
FEIEA Grand Prix 2013
Multiple SVIK Awards
Rebrand 100
Internal Communicator of the Year 2012
AI Certificate · MBZUAI 2025
Contact
Two doors, one conversation.
No set prices, every project is tailor-made.
A project or assignment?
SME, large company or non-profit: let's roll out a solution that works.
A role or opportunity?
Looking for someone to lead a transformation?
To run a project?
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