Boréale + Résonens

What Boréale + Résonens does

Boréale + Résonens is a privately held French HR consulting, training, and employer-group management group headquartered in Oullins-Pierre-Bénite (Lyon). Founded in 2004 through the launch of GEP and consolidated under its current brand in 2023, the group operates across four French territories (Lyon/Nord Isère, Ain/Jura, Vosges, and Nîmes/Montpellier) and manages nine employer groups serving more than 150 member companies and over 400 placed employees. Its core business combines strategic and organizational consulting, individualized training pathways, HR function outsourcing, and the creation and governance of employer groups (groupements d'employeurs) that allow member companies to share employees and development costs.

The group's primary technology asset is the proprietary myBOREALE+RESONENS digital platform, comprising four modules — myStart for candidate positioning, myImprove for interactive training content, myCoaching for on-site coaching, and myManage for performance tracking — designed to digitize the skills-development journey from technical positioning through to KPI reporting. The platform underpins a Qualiopi-certified training offering (renewed July 2024) and supports co-built internal academies for anchor clients such as Nestlé Waters (NWSS Academy) and AddUXI (AddUXI Academy).

Boréale + Résonens employs approximately 70 collaborators led by founder-president Hervé Piquet-Gauthier and managing director Alexandra Grascia. The firm follows an immersive, on-site engagement model where consultants embed within client companies; multi-year consulting engagements, employer-group membership fees, and training delivery form the primary revenue streams. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed, and no external investment or parent company is indicated. In 2022 the group recorded its first international activity, accompanying a GEP member to a United States production site.

Name

Boréale + Résonens

Legal name

BOREALE FORMATION

Website

https://boreale-resonens.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Boréale + Résonens is a French HR consulting, training, and employer-group management group that operates four employer groups across Lyon, Ain/Jura, Vosges, and southern France, serving 150+ member companies with embedded consulting, individualized training, and shared-employee staffing under the myBOREALE+RESONENS digital platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

HR Consulting and Professional Training Services

NAICS

Temporary Help Services (56132)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Incumbent Worker Training & Upskilling (EDAAAOAE)

Keywords

• Human resources consulting
• Professional training services
• Employer group management
• Organizational transformation consulting
• Workplace coaching

Headquarters

HQ city

Oullins-Pierre-Bénite

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Employer Group Management Services: Boréale + Résonens recruits employees and makes them available to member companies through employer groups (groupements d'employeurs), with the aim of developing their skills and/or sharing them between member companies. The group ensures governance of the employer group structure and good relations between stakeholders.
2. Professional Training Services: Individualized training itineraries developed in collaboration with member companies, combining company experts and Boréale + Résonens experts. Training includes both technical skills and internal communication, collaboration, and relationship consolidation. Performance measured via digital tools and quarterly reporting.
3. HR Management Services: Externalization of HR function including job studies, skills matrices, on-site evaluations, recruitment, integration, skills development, personnel administration, and payroll production.
4. Business Strategy and Organization Consulting: Long-term consulting engagements to align leadership vision with teams, diagnose and analyze internal/external context, accompany CODIR members, and deploy organizational transformation.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Boréale + Résonens delivers consulting, training, and HR management services to French industrial and manufacturing companies through on-site, immersion-based engagements. It operates employer groups (groupements d'employeurs) that recruit and share employees across member companies, complemented by the proprietary myBOREALE+RESONENS digital platform covering positioning, training, coaching, and performance tracking.

Product overview

Boréale + Résonens operates as a consulting and training group offering both a unified digital platform (myBOREALE+RESONENS) and professional services. The platform comprises four integrated modules: myStart for candidate positioning, myImprove for online training content, myCoaching for on-site coaching, and myManage for performance tracking. Complementing the digital tools are six core service offerings covering business strategy, organizational consulting, training & coaching, HR management, territorial development & CSR, and employer groupings (groupements d'employeurs), all built on a territorial anchoring model across four regions in France.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• myBOREALE+RESONENS: Digital platform comprising multiple tools: mySTART (positioning), myIMPROVE (interactive training), myCOACHING (on-the-job coaching), myMANAGE (performance monitoring) - designed for skills development and competency tracking
• GENIPLURI
• GEP
• GE VOSGES
• PROGRESS
• IDEGO
• NWSS Academy
• ADDUXI Academy

Products and services

• Strat\u00e9gie des entreprises (Business Strategy Consulting) Strategic consulting service that accompanies company directors and Executive Committee members in deploying their business strategy through an immersive methodology that aligns leadership vision with organizational structure and team capabilities.
• Organisation de l'entreprise (Business Organization Consulting) Organizational consulting to implement structure aligned with the strategic vision and personality of the leader, including diagnosis and change management support across CODIR teams.
• Formation & Coaching (Training and On-the-Job Coaching) Individualized training itineraries combined with on-site coaching to align employee competencies with job requirements and company needs. Includes CQP and TP certified programs across Plasturgy, Agro, and Industry sectors, and innovative methods (3D printing, augmented reality).
• Gestion des ressources humaines (HR Management Services) Externalization of the HR function covering job studies, competency matrices, on-site evaluations, recruitment, integration, skills development, personnel administration, and payroll production.
• D\u00e9veloppement territorial & politique RSE (Territorial Development and CSR) Services accompanying companies, associations, local authorities, and public employment services for harmonious territorial development and CSR policy execution, including inclusive employment projects.
• Groupement d'employeurs (Employer Group Management Services) Creation, governance, and management of employer groups that recruit employees and make them available to member companies, including skills development and resource sharing across businesses. Operates 9 employer groups across 4 territories (GENIPLURI, GEP, GE VOSGES, PROGRESS, IDEGO, GE CE PLURI, GEIQ CERA, GENIPLURI Associatifs et Collectivit\u00e9s, GEIQ M\u00c9TALLURGIE feasibility).
• myBOREALE+RESONENS Digital Platform Integrated proprietary digital platform comprising four modules (myStart for candidate positioning, myImprove for training content, myCoaching for on-site coaching, and myManage for performance tracking) that support the entire training and competency development journey of employees.

Named customers14 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• GenipluricoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023GENIPLURI is an employer group operated by Boréale + Résonens spanning from Lyon metropolitan area to northern Isère, through the Ain plain. It brings together 6 employer groups with industrial, transport, associative, and public sector companies. President: Antoine CATALDO (Cars Faure). Statistics: 132 members, 318 employees at member companies, 1,206 people trained, 23 collaborators.
• GEP (Groupement d'Employeurs Plasturgy)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023GEP is an employer group spanning from Ain to Jura, historically focused on industrial companies in the Plasturgy valley. President: Nicolas ALLOIN (Faiveleytech). Statistics: 600 coachings per year, 30 member partners, 100 technical platform training days, 60 training days per year.
• GE VOSGEScoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023GE VOSGES is an employer group in Eastern France in the Vittel region, initiated by Nestlé Waters. Statistics: 55 employees hired by the employer group, 26 employees hired by member companies, 954 individualized training sessions.
• PROGRESScoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023PROGRESS is an employer group in southern France between Nîmes and Montpellier, bringing together industrial and service companies. Initiated by Perrier with Eminence, Royal Canin, and Syngenta. President: Saber ZOUGGARH (Syngenta). Statistics: 36 tutors trained, 10 leadership meetings per year, 100% diploma success rate (CQP, TP), 70% hiring rate at end of training.
• LYONSO BasketminorGTM or Marketing PartnerSports partnership with LYONSO basketball club sharing sporting values (collaboration, inclusion, solidarity, action, immersion). General manager Sami Driss. Boréale + Résonens participates in values-driven sports engagement alongside member companies.
• ARS (Agence Régionale de Santé)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIDEGO employer group project supported by ARS to provide night nurses to 19 EHPAD care homes in the Lyon region, reducing hospitalization durations for residents.
• HANDISPOSITIFminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAssociation created alongside GENIPLURI for diversity and equal opportunities, part of the Fair[e] project for integrating priority job seekers in Lyon Metropolitan companies.

Scale indicators16 records

Recent moves14 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• ManpowerGroup France: Global workforce-solutions and staffing company with a large French operation providing permanent placement, temporary staffing and workforce development. Comparable to Boréale + Résonens's employer-group shared-employment and HR-management offerings, but operating at vastly greater scale and broader scope.
• Demos: Major French corporate training and professional-services firm offering leadership development, training and HR consulting. Comparable to Boréale + Résonens's training/coaching and strategy/organisation consulting offerings, particularly for enterprise clients.
• Skillsoft: Global enterprise learning and talent-development platform providing digital training content, coaching and performance management. Comparable to Boréale + Résonens's myBOREALE+RESONENS platform in the integrated learning-and-performance category, but at global scale and pure SaaS delivery.
• AFPA: France's national association for adult vocational training, providing work-force development and reskilling programs across industrial sectors. Directly comparable to Boréale + Résonens's incumbent-worker training and Qualiopi-certified programs, though AFPA is a public-sector, much larger entity.
• Cegos: France's largest corporate training and consulting firm, offering professional training, coaching and organisational consulting to enterprises. Comparable to Boréale + Résonens's training/coaching and business-strategy service lines, though at much larger scale and broader geographic scope.
• Adecco France: Major French staffing and workforce-solutions provider offering permanent placement, temporary staffing, and training. Directly comparable to Boréale + Résonens's recruitment and shared-employment model, though with a broader industrial and services footprint.

Others

• CCI France (CCI Formation): Network of French Chambers of Commerce operating territorial training and workforce-development programs for member companies. Comparable to Boréale + Résonens's territorial, employer-group-anchored training model, but delivered through public institutional channels rather than private employer groups.
• Réseau National des Groupements d'Employeurs (RNGE): National federation representing and supporting French groupements d'employeurs (employer groups). Directly comparable as the institutional ecosystem in which Boréale + Résonens operates its 9 employer groups across France.

Emerging players

• 360Learning: French-founded digital learning platform offering collaborative LMS and upskilling tools for enterprises. Comparable to Boréale + Résonens's myBOREALE+RESONENS digital platform in the digital-learning category, though 360Learning is a pure-play SaaS versus B+R's services-led model.
• BPI Group: French HR consulting and outplacement firm offering career management, HR advisory and workforce-transition services. Comparable to Boréale + Résonens's HR management and strategy/organisation consulting offerings, particularly for workforce-transformation engagements.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

Subsidiaries8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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