what BEYOND can help you do
Show a Clear Direction
for your company
Tell the story
behind your products and services.
Inspire confidence
and action.
Motivate your employees.
bring out the best
in your team
Make your meeting
the highlight of their day.
Set the tone for success
through real dialogue.
Share a productive mind-set.
outdo
Yourself
Activate your power
and charisma.
Make an impact on any audience -
and enjoy it.
Deliver the right message each time.
go BEYOND
Creator of
BEYOND COMMUNICATIONS
Mallika Lecoeur
PhD French and Romance Philology, Columbia University
I am Franco-American of Indian origin and have been living in the Paris region since 2006. Thanks to the services I offer through BEYOND COMMUNICATIONS, leaders can enhance the value and impact of their work through a mindful and strategic practice of communication.
They feel more confident speaking before an audience, facilitating a meeting, connecting with clients and stakeholders, and hitting send.
BEYOND also enables me to collaborate with other communication firms across the globe: ExeclComm in New York, Leadership Minds in London, DB&A in Paris... These partnerships lead to creative solutions for our clients’ communication goals.
If you have a speech to prepare, a seminar to give, or troops to rally, BEYOND can help.
Photos by Marisa Yarborough
companies I’ve worked with:
abbott | accorinvest | Allego Meridiam | american express | axa | BFMTV | bnp paribas | brown brothers harriman | cadwalader | carlyle | capgemini | cHEVRON | cisco | Citibank | Danone | diptyque | Edenred (Sodexo) | elle magazine | Ernst & Young | emlyon business school | european investment bank | fnac darty | foley hoag | gilead sciences | grands chais de france | GRDF | institut pasteur | IPSEN | Janssen | jpmorgan chase | Kroll | Lagardère | L'Oréal: all divisions | linxens | lipton teas and infusions | longview philanthropy | mediarun - Top music | MICHELIN | NBCUniversal | neoma business school | NN Investment partners | otsuka | PricewaterhouseCoopers | Relais & Châteaux | renault | REXEL | ROCHE | Saint-Gobain | Salesforce | SANOFI | SCIENCES PO | servier | Shiseido | swiss re | takeda | talentsoft | tlc | Vinci | whirlpool
above and BEYOND
To help you achieve your leadership and communication goals, BEYOND offers diverse tools, both virtually and in person, in French and in English. Click on a tool category below to learn more.
what clients are saying
I was very confident,
and with the right mindset.
Clearly your advice worked! I was more assertive than usual, and I enjoyed it -
I think for the first time.
I’m about to present to 300
top-level international investors
I had only a few days to prepare it all, but thanks to everything that you have taught me, I feel I am ready!
With your advice and insights, you made my day a success.
My deepest thanks for this.
I wished we could have more sessions!
That was one of the best leadership seminars
I’ve been to here.
Thank you again
for your dedication, meticulousness, and thoughtfulness
in all the ways you support our participants and our clients.
You are truly an example of leadership in action.
highlights and spotlights
May 2023
In February 2023, I facilitated Women’s Voices at the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg, to help strengthen the communication skills of diverse women leaders. Ever since that experience, I’ve been curious about the institution’s Diversity and Inclusion journey. Recently on its website, I learned about the Reverse Mentoring Programme for Disability Inclusion. A reminder of how enlightening and impactful it can be to simply spend time with someone and listen to their story.
February 2023
An Executive coachee recently shared with me an inspiring program that her company Diptyque helps to support: La Maîtrise Populaire of the Opéra Comique. It’s an artistic ensemble that offers multidisciplinary training to students in the Paris region, especially those growing up in communities facing socioeconomic hardship. Its mission is to enable these youths to integrate the performing arts in their lives for the long run: from third grade through university.
Having begun operatic singing at the age of 13, I know the impact that a prolonged, stimulating music education has on a person’s capability, self-confidence, and general approach to life. For amateurs and professionals, whatever their life conditions, the arts are neither a luxury nor a whim. They’re vital for our welfare - something that Diptyque, a whimsical luxury brand, has understood for years.
A step back in time…
Click below to hear a passage from my live performance of W.A. Mozart’s “Laudate Dominum,” Vesperae solennes de confessore, sung when I was fourteen at the Salle de Musique in Lucerne, Switzerland.
October 2022
I love accompanying Rosa Carrico, Global President Kerastase at L'Oréal, for her public speaking engagements. We each seem to grow from these collaborations, and the biggest thrill is to watch her on stage. Here’s an experience that will stay with me for a long time: Kerastase’s ‘Power Talks,’ an event covered by Vogue, Figaro, Marie Claire, and countless others.
These inspirational speeches “by women, for women” have made Kerastase stand for something big: women can realize their potential when they dare to join forces.
From February to June 2022, in partnership with the Bryan & Tailor communications firm, I accompanied a dynamic cohort of Managers at AccorInvest on a journey through positive leadership and others-focused influencing. Through webinars, workshops, and practice sessions I facilitated, and the participants’ presentations before a jury in which I served, these Managers from diverse departments and geographies transformed their approach to leadership.
In May 2021, I was contacted by the Student Council of the American Section, Lycée International in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. The high school students graciously invited me to speak at their “Public Speaking Workshop.” What a fun opportunity to take what I’ve gained through BEYOND and pay it forward: to another generation of public speakers!
Here’s a short excerpt from the workshop:
On the heels of the April conference at Oxford (see just below), the Guilde des Plumes invited me to share in Nantes on June 14, 2019 my thoughts in French on public speaking, the fear it inspires, the confidence it can bring. Here’s a review of the conference by Brian Jenner of the European Speechwriter Network. It was the first time I sang during a speech!
The Oxford Speechwriters' & Business Communicators' Conference, hosted by the European Speechwriter Network at The Queens College, Oxford, April 3-5, 2019.
An article I wrote in 2018 for The Scholar and Feminist Online.
Thanks to my PhD in French and Romance Philology at Columbia University (2011), I have pored over manuscripts, engravings, and dusty publications to explore the French art of conversation under the Ancien Régime.
From the art of conversation as an academic study, the art of communication has emerged as my professional passion.
This article is about conversation, play, and the watchful eye
of Louis XIV’s mysterious wife.