Strategies & Business Consulting
“What counts is not the entry, not event maybe the victory. What really matters is the journey.” (FC)
“Success is not about what you carry, nor the win that crowns your story. True success is measured by your trajectory.”
Working with Teams
Executive teams who bring Fred in are looking for a strategic ally, not “just another consultant”.
They call on him when they need to bring back clarity, action and meaning fast, and when the stakes are high:
- GROWTH: break through to the next level and accelerate conquest
- TRANSFORMATION: evolve or reinvent the culture, offer or model, all the way down to the teams
- COHESION: get a stuck organization moving again: silos, blurred ownership, unclear “who does what and how”
START-UP & PIVOT: start, pivot or reposition as entrepreneurs
With executive committees and leadership teams, Fred’s pragmatic, results-driven approach is used to:
- Decode resistance
- Identify the blind spots that weigh everything down
- Shift mindsets and behaviors
His behavioral lens helps them simplify, experiment and adjust, with one clear goal: strengthening team autonomy (rather than creating dependency on an outside facilitator.)
Throughout the work, teams rely on Fred to reveal their strengths, clarify everyone’s role and build a culture where everyone feels responsible for impact, not just for tasks.
Working with Decision-Makers
- Ambition
- Long-term vision
- Business emergencies
- Desires
- Revenue pressure
- External expectations
- Personal life
They expect a strategic sparring partner who gives them strategic and decision-making shortcuts, not another “nice coach” handing out homework and repeating that “the answer is within you”.
Their goal: own their ambition without burning out, and without sacrificing what matters most around them.
They use the sessions to position themselves more clearly, bring the skeletons out of the closet and explore new options:
- What to stop
- What to dare
- What to strengthen
- What to reduce
- And with whom
Over time, Fred becomes a reference point who:
- Knows their stakes, strengths and vulnerabilities
- Helps them align strategy, role and daily decisions
- Reminds them of their direction during transition phases
- Celebrates their progress and milestone wins with them
Sophie Verbaeys-Reid, Coach Body · Voice · Presence | Author | Speaker
When you are a solopreneur with a background in large corporations, your reflex is to look for your own answers. That is exactly what I do, very spontaneously.
What I was looking for in working with Fred was something else: someone able to take me one step further.
Someone to help me look at my business strategy differently. To dare to see bigger, further. Someone who challenges you while bringing meaning and concrete examples.
Someone who also knows how to question himself and accept that, after all, I am the expert on myself ;-). And for that I wanted a 1‑to‑1 approach and a male counterpart, since around 35% of my clients are men, that perspective matters to me.
What very pleasantly surprised me is not only that Fred Colantonio meets my expectations, but also that his approach has a particularly relevant entrepreneurial depth.
Fred is a professional speaker, CSP‑certified, a multiple author (I’m only on my first book and spending time with him really makes me want to write more). He is himself a solopreneur and works with companies of all sizes, like me. He knows my clients. He knows the real world. And his criminologist’s eye brings some surprising ways of looking at things.
And all these constructive exchanges take place in joy, good humour, enthusiasm and with a touch of rock ’n’ roll.
This is NOT AT ALL what I was expecting. And it is exactly what I needed.
If you are a solo entrepreneur and you are wondering whether Fred is “for you”: my answer is yes, don’t hesitate. His mentoring‑style support brings real added value, even when you already have experience and a solid frame of reference.
- As a visionary, inspiring presence, he makes it much easier to anchor future practices in everyone’s everyday reality.
- As a proactive, demanding challenger, he looks to push supported organizational practices as far as they can go.
Gaetan Hanen, Director Equip Consult (role at the time)
Jean-Luc Jouhannet, Founder of Jouhannet Consulting (Transform your organizations by taking inspiration from living systems and bees) 🐝🐝 | Home‑Abeilles (Installing and sponsoring beehives in companies) 🍯🍯
I met Fred six years ago during a training session on “Failure as Fuel.”
Since then, we’ve kept in touch and continue to talk regularly. Why? Because these conversations bring me something concrete and practical.
Running a company means making decisions every day. Some are simple. Others impact the future of the business, the teams, the projects and sometimes even your personal balance. In those moments, Fred helps me cut through the noise.
He doesn’t hand out ready‑made recipes, doesn’t decide for me and doesn’t try to be right. Instead, he pushes me to go deep into the issues, to check that the decisions I make are the right ones and that they are aligned with what I really want to build.
More than once, our conversations have kept me from making a decision too quickly or heading in a direction that wasn’t the right one.
Looking back, what stands out most is that I’ve gained in discernment. Today I make some decisions with more distance, more coherence and more peace of mind.
After six years, if I’m still talking with Fred, it’s simply because it helps me grow — and not just a little.
"Devenir Auteur·e" Online Program 🇫🇷
“Publishing a book is not enough to make you a fully-fledged author. Becoming an author is a role, a mindset, an attitude you step into so your content can reach its full potential.” (FC)
The only program built by someone who has experienced 3 key roles: author, publisher and series editor. No theory. Just concrete action.
Through this triple experience, Fred has guided dozens of aspiring authors from idea to publication and promotion.
He knows what makes a book:
- Useful and memorable
- Marketable and enjoyable
- Above all, impactful for both its author and its readers
This masterclass program is the result of:
- His experience as a multi-published author
- His publishing and distribution strategies
- His expertise in communication and positioning
- His human, concrete and straight-talking approach
His goal:
- Give you winning strategies
- Help you make your own informed choices
- Help you avoid the mistakes too many aspiring authors make
Because “Writing a book is a life experience that transforms you. You will discover parts of yourself you never imagined.”