Consultant in social strategy and employee relations, former HR and employee relations directorNetwork expert
Jean-François Poupard
Twenty-five years of employee relations, from advising employee representatives to leading social affairs at AFPA.
- Social strategy
- French
How they work
A graduate in economics, he began his career at Syndex, a consultancy working for employee representatives, as an adviser to works councils, group councils and European works councils, before taking charge of the firm's professional transformation, then its general management.
As director of employee relations at Groupe VYV for five years, he helped establish group-wide employee relations and negotiated within the Mutualité branch. From 2022 to the end of 2024 he was director of social affairs at AFPA, in charge of employee relations, pay and benefits policy, and quality of working life.
Since 2025 he has advised companies across sectors on their social strategy, conflict resolution, training and managerial support, with the aim of sound employee relations.
He is involved in the master's programme in Negotiation and Employee Relations at Université Paris Dauphine, and teaches at CentraleSupélec and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
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