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How did the community start?
It began with the realisation that technicians
Philippe Lesoil
were the Group’s most important community.
Managing partner in charge of strategy
We decided to work with about twenty technicians and institutionnal relations at ENGIE
to fi nd a way to promote their role. This task Grenn and network co-manager alongside
Véronique Huchet
force came up with the idea of creating a network
of ambassadors, which we set up in April 2018. [email protected]
For purposes of effi ciency we decided to limit
the network’s scope to France for the time being.
What does being an ENGIE
Technician Ambassador mean?
Sharing your passion, your pride and your
experience to help others gain a better
understanding of technical roles and to foster
vocations both within the Group and externally.
Every ambassador receives a letter of appointment
signed by the Group Executive VP and the
CEO of their BU. They sign a charter and have
a day’s training in the ambassador role.

What does the network involve?
Today we have about a hundred technicians from
many different backgrounds, all of them highly This community addresses a vital need
motivated to fl y their profession’s fl ag at business
forums, debates (Imagine 2030), exhibitions etc. to ensure our technicians remain committed,
held by the Group. They were either co-opted by providing recognition and by making
by their managers or signed up of their own
accord via a platform; applications are validated it easier for them to progress
by their HR offi cer and their manager.
within the Group. Our aim is also for a diverse
How does it contribute to community, in line with ENGIE’s diversity.
ENGIE’s transformation?
In September 2018, we went one step beyond Seven female technicians have just joined
raising awareness of the technician role and
launched the Vision 2030 workshop, in which the network. One of the assignments of our
12 members of the community debated social Technician Ambassadors is to help achieve
trends and the impact on their work.
the Group-wide objective of bringing more

women into technical roles.”
Launched as a French community, it will
gradually be rolled out all over Europe.