Autrement dit

What Autrement dit does

Autrement dit is a French professional training and accompaniment organization (Société Civile, capital social €1,000) founded in the early 2000s and headquartered in Montaut, in the southwest of France. The firm is co-directed by Brigitte Chizelle, an intervention sociologist and trainer, and Dominique Lataste, a PhD psychosociologist and trainer, who have worked together for nearly 30 years delivering human-centered interventions across agriculture and the social sector.

Its service portfolio is organized around four pillars: Formation (custom-built training programs typically lasting 1–3 days, or 6–8 APP-based sessions per year), Accompagnement d'équipe (team support combining well-being and efficiency through solution-oriented methods), Études-action (action-research studies that bring stakeholders together around territorial or sectoral problems, particularly in agriculture and rural contexts), and Publications (academic and professional outputs in journals such as Revue POUR, Cahiers Pédagogiques, Education Permanente, and Sociologies Pratiques). The offering rests on participatory, systemic, and solution-focused methodologies — there is no software platform, API, or proprietary technology product.

Commercially, the firm operates a fully bespoke, demand-driven model: training is never sold off-the-shelf, and each engagement begins with a needs-analysis interview before a tailored proposal and quote are issued. Revenue is generated through professional-services fees per project, often structured as multi-year contracts, with financing typically routed through French OPCO operators such as VIVEA for the agricultural sector. The organization holds Qualiopi certification (Certificat N° B00337) — the mandatory quality credential for accessing French public professional-training funds — and primarily serves the southwest quarter of France and Paris, with occasional work in other regions. Primary customer segments are agricultural actors (farmers handling transmission, young installers, agricultural collectives), work collectives and associations (cooperatives, unions, associations), and social/medico-social relationship-aid professionals.

Name

Autrement dit

Legal name

Autrement dit

Website

https://autrement-dit.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Autrement dit is a French training and accompaniment organization that designs bespoke training, team support, and action-research services for agricultural actors, work collectives, and social-sector professionals, primarily in southwest France and Paris.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Montaut

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. Training and Formation Services: Revenue is generated through customized training programs delivered to constituted groups, collectives, and partner organizations. Training fees are quoted per project based on duration, content, and logistics. The organization can directly handle financing applications through OPCO (professional sector fund) such as VIVEA for agricultural training.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Autrement dit is a French training organization that designs and delivers customized ('sur-mesure') training programs, team accompaniment services, and action-research studies for constituted groups and partner organizations. Its offerings focus on the human and psychosocial dimensions of agricultural transmission-installation, building durable work collectives, resilience in farms and rural structures, and professional practice analysis (APP) for social-sector professionals.

Product overview

Autrement dit is a professional training and accompaniment organization (Société Civile) offering customized training programs and support services. The portfolio consists of four main pillars: (1) Formation (Training) as the core educational offering with thematic programs lasting 1-3 days or ongoing 6-8 session annual cycles; (2) Accompagnement d'équipe (Team Accompaniment) for organizational development; (3) Études-action (Action Research) for territorial projects; and (4) Publications for knowledge sharing. The main training sub-products include Travailler ensemble (working in collectives), Transmettre/S'installer (farm succession), Résilience building, Professionnalisation (professional development), and APP & Supervision (practice analysis). The organization primarily serves the agricultural and rural sector in southwestern France, with 97% participant satisfaction rates.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Formation (Custom Training Programs) Customized training programs built 'sur-mesure' for constituted groups and partner training organizations, covering collective work, agricultural transmission, professional practice analysis (APP), and resilience. Addressed to farmers, agricultural collectives, social-sector professionals, and accompaniment managers.
• Accompagnement d'équipe (Team Accompaniment) Customized team accompaniment services combining well-being at work and efficiency through solution-oriented approaches, supporting teams, projects, or territories in their collective functioning.
• Études-action (Action Research) Research-action studies that associate stakeholders around specific problems to better understand phenomena and initiate changes, notably in agricultural and territorial projects (e.g., Tous paysans en Brionnais).
• Travailler ensemble (Working Together) Training Training sub-product focused on building durable collectives, team decision-making, partnership dynamics, and managing work couples, targeting agricultural and rural structures.
• Transmettre / S'installer (Transmit / Install) Training Training sub-product addressing human aspects of farm transmission and installation, including anticipation of succession, succession planning, and meeting with successors.
• Favoriser la résilience (Resilience Building) Training Training sub-product focused on resilience building, rebound strategies, and developing margins of maneuver and creativity for agricultural operations.
• Professionnaliser les acteurs (Professionalizing Actors) Training Training sub-product for structure managers and accompaniment professionals, covering project management, participatory training facilitation, and group dynamics.
• APP & Supervision (Professional Practice Analysis) Training sub-product based on analysis of professional practice for relationship professionals in social and medico-social sectors, including supervision and group analysis sessions (typically 6-8 sessions per year, 2 hours to full day each).

Quantifiable outcome

• 97% of participants declare themselves satisfied with trainings and interventions

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Partner Training OrganizationscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCollaborating training organizations that request custom-built training programs from Autrement dit for their own constituents. These partners contract with Autrement dit to deliver specialized training content.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Trame (formerly FNCUMA réseau): French agricultural development and training network historically linked to CUMA/cooperatives. Highly comparable because it also delivers customized training and accompaniment to agricultural collectives on cooperation, transmission and rural development across France.
• AFOCG: Association de Formation Collective à la Gestion, a French network of training organizations serving farmers on management, collective work and decision-making. Comparable in serving the same farmer/collective audience with bespoke training on relational and organizational dimensions.
• FADEAR: Formation Agricole pour le Développement Rural, the training arm of the peasant agriculture movement (Confédération Paysanne). Comparable because it delivers customized training to farmers and installers on transmission, installation, and project development across French regions.
• CIVAM: Centres d'Initiatives pour Valoriser l'Agriculture et le Milieu rural, a national network of rural development associations running training and accompaniment for farmers and rural collectives. Comparable in its mission, methods (participatory, collective-focused), and rural/agricultural audience.
• Réseau InPACT: Collective of French agricultural and rural associations providing training and accompaniment on alternative agriculture, transmission and collective work. Comparable because member organizations deliver the same type of 'sur-mesure' training to farmers and rural collectives.

Others

• Terre de Liens: French organization supporting agricultural land access and farm installation through financing, citizen mobilization, and accompaniment. Comparable because it addresses the same farm transmission/installation problem space, even though its primary instrument (land ownership) differs from training delivery.

Broad incumbents

• Cegos: Large French corporate training and consulting firm offering broad management, leadership and team-development programs. Comparable because it addresses the same 'team accompaniment / collective work' demand, but at much broader scale and with a generic rather than agricultural specialization.
• AFPA: Agence nationale pour la formation professionnelle des adultes, the major French public vocational training provider. Comparable as a French adult training organization serving professional clients, though much larger in scale and focused on accredited vocational qualifications rather than bespoke psychosocial training.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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