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Eight years after the creation of Yemanja, which designs and furnishes offices, its founder and her partner handed over the controls to their colleagues and took three months of vacation. The key? Precious rest and transformed habits. Until reinventing the definition of leadership.
She returned two weeks ago, after three months of absence. “We had to get back into the rhythm, but after such a long period of rest, we come back full of energy. And then, I missed the office atmosphere,” confides Marie Vaillant, all smiles. This 46-year-old entrepreneur, former administrative and financial director, co-founded Yemanja eight years ago. With his partner Quentin Audran, twelve years his junior, they design and fit out office spaces. And both therefore offered themselves the luxury of three months of leave, leaving their more than 30 employees to fend for themselves.
On the program? A long journey to the end of the world for someone who has no children. A family stay in Japan for the other, mother of three children, who then spent a lot of time at home – between two escapades in Bordeaux or Nantes – spent reading and writing, running her fingers on a piano or chaining yoga postures. “I felt the total absence of burden…
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