Speaker of the day: Bertrand Pulman — Economy and Finance

A graduate of Sciences Po Paris in 1976, then holding a PhD in anthropology from Paris 5 University in 2000, Bertrand Pulman has been immersed throughout his career in the field of research and teaching in human sciences.

Today, a professor of sociology and anthropology at Sorbonne Paris Cité, Bertrand Pulman is also responsible for a Master's program at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences sociales. He takes a serious interest in social foresight in three different areas: sport, family, and health. He is also a specialist in the dialogue between social sciences and psychoanalysis.

Bertrand Pulman's research on the sociology of sport has much to teach managers and business leaders. It profoundly illuminates our relationship to performance, our connection to difficulties and successes, and the functioning of teams. He shows how much physical activity and sport are societal issues, as they influence our well-being — especially at work — and our individual and collective health.

Regarding the sociology of the family, Bertrand Pulman demonstrates that the mutations and increasing diversity of family configurations must be taken into consideration, as they can impact corporate life. The comparison of kinship systems across space and time makes it possible to identify what constitutes the foundation of specifically human solidarity.Language spoken by the speaker

• French

Bertrand Pulman delivers his lectures in French; he is active in French-speaking countries, in French-speaking Switzerland, Geneva, Lausanne…UnoMe invites you to discover the philosophy of Bertrand Pulman during a conference. This sociologist studies the performance and hyper-performance of high-level athletes whose main values can be applied to the business world to optimize the use of its potential. But more than that: he also observes recent transformations in the family to analyze corporate life through the foundations of social bonding which are alliance, reciprocity, exchanges, and interdependence.

Prepare your company to follow the values of team-building through the notions of commitment, sense of collective, relationship to failure and success, and emotional mastery.

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