About Alain

Alain Thys is a story teller and an agent of change.  His core skill is to make complex business issues easier to understand and help senior executives translate them into strategies that excite their customers, staff and stakeholders.

With a professional background in fashion, retail, corporate finance and technology, Alain has worked on almost every side of the corporate fence.  He's fought the lone cash-flow battles of an entrepreneur and has run international corporate teams of hundreds.

Today, Alain is a founding partner of Futurelab, a management innovation boutique helping companies identify new profit opportunities in an ever more complex world.  He is a regular speaker, has authored a number of seminars and publishes his own blog.

Alain is very happily married, has a great little son, and apart from his family he most enjoys cooking, the South of France and a good glass of Malt Whiskey.  His role model is Leonardo Da Vinci.