The coach

Achille SATIEU, The Transform’Actor

“Through neuroscience, I turn executives, managers and entrepreneurs into catalysts for lasting collective and organisational performance.”

Professional Business Coach (ICF credential in progress), certified NeuroCoach, speaker, entrepreneur and founder of SMARTE Coaching. Before supporting others, I first transformed myself.

Human first!

Coach Achille SATIEU
NeuroCoachcertified · ICF credential in progress
Since 2020Entrepreneur and business leader
6SMARTE resilience programmes
3Books published
What I do for you

I help you stand firm, bounce back and succeed for the long term

I support executives, managers, entrepreneurs and their teams. My tool: the SMARTE method. My key to transformation: neuroscience.

Coaching

Executives, managers, teams, public speaking: individual or group support to transform postures for the long term.

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Training and talks

Emotional intelligence, stress management, conflict management, leadership, neuroscience: short, practical formats you can apply straight away.

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Certifying programmes

Six resilience programmes, from Leader to Expert level, to anchor the SMARTE method and pass it on in your turn.

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My story

I have come a long way. I have always stayed standing.

Before I was a coach, I was a child who doubted himself. The SMARTE method was born from my life. A difficult childhood, disappointments, inner blocks, trials. And, every time, the decision to get back up.

The origins

A child in search of confidence

My childhood was very difficult. It left me with what many people know in silence: a lack of confidence, low self-esteem, a shyness that makes you lower your eyes. At that age, few would have bet on me.

The trigger

The disappointment that woke everything up

Years later, with a degree in logistics and transport, I am working in shipping agency services within the Bolloré Africa Logistics group. Then a heartbreak turns everything upside down. It could have extinguished me. It wakes me up. I rebel, look for answers and discover coaching. It is during my training that I become aware of a new reality: I carry immense potential within me.

The leap

Leaving everything to prove to myself that it is possible

I resign. A leap into the unknown, for the shy child I once was. I go into referral marketing and bring together a community of more than 800 people which, in seven months, generates a turnover of $1,350,000. The potential was very real.

The trial

Build, fall, hold on

I then create my own companies: Smart Shopping, then the Smart Global Concepts group, which I have led since 2020 and which is developing GLOMARI (Global Market International). And life tests me as never before: bank loans, new disappointments, human resources difficulties, family constraints. The trials keep coming. I stay standing.

The support

A mother who was always there

In those years, one person stays by my side from beginning to end: my mother. She supports me when everything is shaking. She weeps for me. She holds firm, with me. She is my anchor, and one of my greatest reasons to keep going. It is to honour her that I committed to an MBA and a DBA: my way of saying thank you.

The key

Neuroscience, first applied to myself

What allows me to get back up, I find in neuroscience and cognitive-behavioural approaches. I apply them to myself first: understanding my reactions, undoing my blocks, building new habits. And it works. What transformed me, I now know I can pass on.

The realisation

What kept me going has a name

One day, I ask myself the question everyone should ask: what allowed me to stay standing when everything pushed me to give up? I find six strengths, present at every stage: strategy, motivation, agility, resilience, transparency and excellence. I give them a name: SMARTE.

The mission

Turning every trial into a springboard, for others besides myself

The shy child has become a determined man. Today, I describe myself as one of the most resilient young African entrepreneurs: with humility, because every trial I overcame has built me. From my childhood to this day, it is in everything I have been through, and in the neuroscience that transformed me, that I find my strength. I first tested this method on myself; today I put it into practice in my training courses and coaching. I support entrepreneurs, executives, organisations and individuals, with particular attention to those who, like me, had a difficult childhood. My book “L’Entrepreneur audacieux” (The Bold Entrepreneur) tells this story.

If you recognise yourself in this story, remember this: where you are today is a starting point. What I did, you can do. And you can do it with support.

What my story teaches you

Behind this story, there is a method

What enabled me to hold on is a set of reflexes that can be learned, grounded in neuroscience, and that I pass on today.

1

A trial can become a starting point, provided you know what to do with it.

2

Potential is activated and made to last through a method.

3

Solid support changes everything, in life as in business.

Expertise

A 360° profile

Coaching and support

  • Certified NeuroCoach: Neuroscience Coach Certification, Efficient Coach (programme accredited by CPD, CMA, IPHM and ICAHP)
  • Practitioner of cognitive-behavioural approaches (CBT)
  • Professional Business Coach: ICF (International Coaching Federation) training completed, credential in progress
  • Certified Life Coach
  • Certified Learning Coach
  • Public speaking coach – Toastmasters International, Pathways “Presentation Mastery” path
  • Member of the Association des Coachs Professionnels de la Côte d’Ivoire (ACOPCI)

Training and consulting

  • Speaker
  • Certified training consultant in instructional design
  • Certified digital marketing consultant
  • Certified OKR Leader and OKR Practitioner
  • Trainer in leadership, entrepreneurship, e-commerce and artificial intelligence

Entrepreneur and business leader

  • Founder of SMARTE Coaching
  • Head of Smart Global Concepts Group (SGC)
  • Founder and Expert Trainer at Global Training Academy (GTA) since 2023
  • Project lead, Human and Organisational Transformation, at Univers d’Impact
  • Creator of the SMARTE method and of the programme Le Puissant Orateur (The Powerful Speaker)
  • Author of 3 books

Academic background

  • In progress: MBA in Human Resource Management
  • In progress: DBA in Executive Leadership
  • Swiss International Management Academy (Switzerland)
  • Professional bachelor’s degree in Logistics and Transport, specialising in Maritime and Port Expertise
Career

A career built in the field

2026

SMARTE Coaching

Founder and trainer. Launch of the six resilience programmes and their certifications.

2026

Dual MBA & DBA degree

MBA in Human Resource Management and DBA in Executive Leadership, in progress, with Swiss International Management Academy (Switzerland). A commitment made in tribute to my mother.

2026

Univers d’Impact

Project lead, Human and Organisational Transformation: I design the association’s training, coaching and transformation programmes.

2026

FOCUS TL Consultant

Chief Transformation Executive: design and delivery of transformation and certification programmes across Africa.

Since 2023

Global Training Academy (GTA)

Founder and Expert Trainer: design and delivery of certifying courses in leadership, entrepreneurship, human development and digital marketing.

Since 2020

Smart Global Concepts Group

Head of Smart Global Concepts Group SARL and of the development of GLOMARI.

2020 – 2023

Smart Shopping

Founder.

The turning point

Referral marketing

In seven months: a community of more than 800 people, generating $1,350,000 in turnover.

2015 – 2021

Bolloré Africa Logistics

Six years in shipping agency services, within the group.

Training

Professional bachelor’s degree

Logistics and Transport, specialising in Maritime and Port Expertise.

Certifications

International certifications, a practice rooted in real life

NeuroCoachOKR LeaderOKR PractitionerLeadership coachingDigital marketingSocial media marketingInbound salesStoic philosophySatisfecit CPLA 2025
“Transformation begins with the experience of those who lived it before teaching it.”
Achille SATIEU
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