Stéphane Gagnon
Partner & Co-founder
As a teenager, Stéphane couldn't decide between becoming a writer or an actuary. That tension between words and numbers never left him and it's exactly what makes him a strategist unlike most.
His career reads in two chapters. The first: over 20 years inside major organizations, from National Bank and Microcell (Fido) to the Laurentian Bank, where he served as Executive Vice-President, Marketing and Product Management. The second: co-founding Kairos with Marie-Pierre, which he considers the peak of his career.
His purpose there is clear: help leaders see further ahead, and make sure they don't have to face their biggest challenges alone. He sketches in his Moleskine, lets his subconscious do its work, talks things through with his team, and comes back with angles no one had seen before, often asking: "Is there a better way?"
He's an optimist, and he knows it. That's also what allows him to see possibilities where others see obstacles.
He holds a Master's in Marketing and sits on the board of the Agence de mobilité durable de Montréal, bringing his strategic governance expertise to the city. The rest of the time, he's somewhere between Mont-Royal and a country he hasn't discovered yet.