KA ORA

What KA ORA does

KA ORA SARL is a small French coaching and consulting firm headquartered in Clamart, a suburb of Paris. The company provides human performance and organizational development services to French enterprises, individual professionals, and high-performance athletes. It operates from a single Île-de-France location with a team of 8 professionals assembled under founder Fabrice Zanelli (Associé Fondateur).

The firm's product portfolio is built around four interconnected service lines: strategic consulting to businesses and organizations (needs identification, solution creativity, organizational adaptation, and change support); individual and collective coaching aimed at helping clients develop their own solutions and decision-making perspective; training and mentoring programs emphasizing simple, pragmatic, objective-focused skill development; and specialized support for high-level athletes focused on removing barriers to action and strengthening cooperation with their sporting environment. There is no proprietary technology platform; all services are delivered by human consultants and coaches.

KA ORA follows a sales-led, professional services business model. Engagements are bespoke and quote-based, with no publicly disclosed pricing tiers or productized offerings. The go-to-market relies on direct enterprise outreach, a professional website, and word-of-mouth referrals from existing large-corporate relationships. Named clients include France Télévisions, Veolia, Lagardère, Clarins, Vinci Energies, Quadient, Quick, and Infractive. The company is structured as a SARL with €1,000 registered capital, is entirely founder-owned, has no external investors, and maintains no subsidiaries or disclosed partnerships.

Name

KA ORA

Legal name

KA ORA SARL

Website

https://ka-ora.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

KA ORA is an 8-person French coaching and consulting firm based in Clamart that delivers organizational consulting, individual and team coaching, training, and high-performance athlete support to French enterprises and professionals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Management Consulting

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Quality Assurance (QA), Coaching & Performance Management (EDABACAF)

Keywords

• Business consulting services
• Executive coaching
• Leadership training
• Organizational development
• Performance coaching

Headquarters

HQ city

Clamart

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Professional Services - Consulting: Business consulting services to enterprises and organizations including identification of client needs, solution creativity, adaptation challenges, and organizational flexibility.
2. Coaching Services: Individual and/or collective coaching to help individuals and teams find and implement their own solutions, providing opportunities for alternative thinking and appropriate choice-making.
3. Training and Mentoring: Training and skills development through mentoring programs, focused on simple, pragmatic actions centered on objectives.
4. High-Performance Athlete Support: Specialized coaching for elite athletes to eliminate barriers to action, help athletes appropriate their own objectives, and strengthen cooperation with their environment.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

KA ORA is a French consulting and coaching firm that provides business and organizational consulting, individual and collective coaching, training/mentoring programmes, and specialized support for high-performance athletes. Engagements are delivered by a multidisciplinary team of eight practitioners combining backgrounds in management, life sciences, sport and performing arts, and are sold primarily to enterprise clients and individual executives.

Product overview

KA ORA is a consulting and coaching firm offering a unified portfolio of four interconnected service offerings: strategic consulting to businesses and organizations, individual and collective coaching, training and mentoring programs, and specialized support for high-level athletes. The company positions itself as a talent development and human performance specialist, emphasizing the importance of human capital in organizational success.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Conseil aux entreprises et Organisations Bespoke management and organisational consulting service for companies and organisations, advising on leadership, performance and human-capital topics.
• Coaching Individuel et Collectif
• Formation et Mentorat
• Accompagnement du Sportif de Haut Niveau

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• BTS: Global boutique consultancy specializing in leadership development, sales transformation, and human performance. Closely comparable positioning to KA ORA's enterprise consulting and coaching offering for large organizations.
• Selescope: French executive search and leadership advisory firm serving growth-stage and enterprise clients. Comparable to KA ORA on the French leadership advisory and human-capital positioning.
• CoachHub: European digital coaching platform headquartered in Berlin offering enterprise coaching programs. Highly comparable to KA ORA's individual/collective coaching pillar but at significantly larger scale and with a technology-enabled delivery model.
• Wavestone: French-headquartered consulting firm serving large corporates on transformation, performance, and organizational change. Overlaps with KA ORA's enterprise consulting pillar in the French market.
• BetterUp: Global coaching and mental-performance platform serving enterprises. Directly comparable on the corporate coaching and human-performance value proposition KA ORA sells to French enterprises.
• Eurogroup Consulting: French-origin boutique consultancy focused on transformation, organization, and human resources. Directly comparable as a French boutique serving large enterprises on organizational performance, similar in scale to KA ORA's ambitions.

Emerging players

• Junum: Independent advisory firm focused on human capital and people strategy for organizations. Comparable as a boutique people/performance advisor targeting similar enterprise buyers as KA ORA.

Broad incumbents

• Right Management (ManpowerGroup): Global talent and career development arm of ManpowerGroup, offering coaching, leadership development, and outplacement to enterprises. Overlaps with KA ORA's coaching and training pillars at larger scale.
• Korn Ferry: Global organizational consulting firm with a strong leadership development, executive coaching, and talent practice. Competes with KA ORA at the high end of enterprise coaching engagements.
• Cegos: Major French-headquartered training and professional development group with a global footprint. Overlaps with KA ORA on training, consulting, and organizational development, but operates at much larger scale and breadth.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/KAORA36406770
• Facebookfacebook.com/KA-ORA-105061794230492
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kaora1

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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