Christian Forthomme is President and Founder of RealChange. He is an international change, leadership and sustainability consultant, an entrepreneur, educator and connector for innovative North American and European organizations. His clients include Genentech, the Gates Foundation, Odwalla, New Leaf Paper, J&J, Groupe Yves Rocher, France Telecom, Bayer, BNP-Paribas or Nature et Decouvertes. He has been a key contributor to the success of leadership development, culture change and sustainability initiatives for clients around the world. Christian has specific experience in building highly effective multi-cultural teams and helping innovative organizations learn from each other on both sides of the Atlantic. He has a unique track record in helping companies, teams and organizations move rapidly from current growth challenge to next success milestone. Christian Forthomme helps executives and managers in Europe and North America reinvent their organizations, build highly effective global teams and dramatically increase their effectiveness as leaders. He is a specialist of learning expeditions to North America for international executive teams. He has helped companies establish the initial vision and build the intercultural team to succeed in a new country and has coached clients in the development of a global culture integrating the best of national and organizational cultures. Christian Forthomme directed the innovative MBA program in Organizational Leadership at JFK University for 5 years. He was also a Principal of WDHB Consulting Group from 1989 to 1996. Earlier in his career, Christian opened new markets in Southeast Asia for a major French paper company and while a graduate student in France, launched a nationally recognized organization that coordinated students at ten ivy-league universities for market surveys abroad. Projects have led him to serve clients in Germany, France, England, Ireland, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Portugal as well as in the United States and Canada. Christian Forthomme holds an MBA from ESSEC in Paris, France, and a Masters degree in Interdisciplinary Consciousness Study from John F. Kennedy University. He is also a graduate of the inaugural cohort of the Executive Program of Presidio Graduate School.