The total disorientation he experienced by arriving at Bain and in front of performing personal tasks – administrative in particular – of which he had barely envisaged existence, Raffi Grinberg first transformed it into a course intended for students.
We are in 2017, he is a lecturer at the Boston College Caroll School of Management and “Invent, develops, teaches [le module] Adulting 101 ». Its objective: to allow young people “To acquire all skills [pratiques] that they need to flourish after graduation. ”
Eight years later, in March 2025, Raffi Grinberg published How to Be a Grown Up: The 14 Essential Skills You Didn’t Know You Needed (Until Just Now)chez Chronicle Books.
A work “Funny and deeply insightful” According to Nicholas Thompson, CEO of the American cultural monthly The Atlantic.
When the heads of the strat advice must call their parents to the rescue
The genesis of this guide dates from the very first day of activity of Raffi Grinberg at Bain & Company in 2012, just after graduating from Princeton.
Surrounded by young consultants graduated from prestigious universities like him, he finds himself having to fill in different forms “Transmitted by human resources”. All must choose between several pension plans, decide on the part of their salary that they will devote to their retirement and tackle other daily financial tasks. “Each of us came out in the corridor and called our parents”tells Raffi Grinberg to The Economist.
In the podcast The Second Citythe ex-Bainie is complete. “I then realized that I had spent about 17 years at school and that I simply had not learned all these fundamentals of adult life. »»
In the United States, the adult 101 course was a great success with students aged just under 20 years old up to forty years. It is provided in universities, libraries and even bars during happy hours.
A coach and entrepreneur journey after leaving Bain
Entering the New York Bath office in 2012, he left the office 3 years later to become a managing director of the start-up UP-lift which develops an evolutionary application for helping people with depression.
He then founded or co-bonded several start-ups or educational platforms, of which The Constructive Dialogue Institutea non -profit non -support organization based on behavioral sciences for “Depolarizing communities and promoting mutual understanding beyond the differences”.
Author in 2017 of the manual The Real Analysis Lifesaveran introduction to mathematics based on evidence (50,000 copies sold worldwide), Raffi Grinberg has also practiced career coaching, his specialty being maintenance simulations for advice.
Since 2019, he has been executive director of Dialog, a company in the Tech/Internet sector which employs around thirty people and remains voluntarily discreet on its activities.
Will this US example arouse a variation in France, where the context is significantly different on both retirement and savings?
