Francis Cholle

Francis P. Cholle (born 1965) is a French-American author and management consultant. He is the founder and chief executive of The Human Company, a New York City-based business consultancy, as well as the founder of Squircle Academy and the Know Better World Foundation.

Early life and education Cholle was born in 1965 in Paris to a family of scientists and grew up in the southeastern Parisian suburb of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés. He earned a master's degree in science of management from HEC Paris.

Career Early career Cholle began his career in art book publishing, taking on a leadership role at the Paris-based art publisher Éditions Hazan. He moved to New York City at the age of 28 and obtained French-American dual citizenship.

Cholle has taught at HEC Paris, Fashion Institute of Technology, Wharton School, and Columbia Business School.

Writing In 2007, Cholle's first book L'intelligence intuitive: Pour réussir autrement was published in France by Éditions d'Organisation/Eyrolles with support from the Centre national du livre. The book argued that the information age was giving way to an age of intuition and that companies needed to mobilize creativity by integrating intuition into management.

Cholle's third book Squircle: A New Way to Think for a New World, was published in 2020.

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