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RealChange Network is a company based in Silicon Valley that provides learning expeditions on innovation and sustainability for global companies.

RealChange Network helps global companies and entrepreneurs succeed through Sustainable and Social Innovation. RealChange guides executives and entrepreneurs in the design and implemention of successful responsible innovation strategies and help them reinvent themselves effectively.

LEARNING EXPEDITIONS: Learning Expedition allows executives, entrepreneurs and their team to apply the best practices of world class companies and inspiring leaders in North America, Europe or Asia to their organization and to the challenges they are currently facing. The program challenges habitual thinking and helps embrace change on a personal and organizational level.

INNOVATION OUTPOSTS IN SILICON VALLEY: Effective tools to benefit from the innovations coming from Silicon Valley is to launch an innovation outpost.

CHANGE MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP: The ultimate outcome of RealChange Network is connected to a successful organizational change, enabling organization to exceed the expectations of its customers, employees, shareholders and communities.

Christian Forthomme is President and Founder of Silicon Valley-based RealChange. He is an entrepreneur and a guide to innovation, green-tech, green business and sustainability in Silicon Valley. He is also an international change management consultant, an educator and connector for innovative North American and European organizations. He has been a key contributor to the success of leadership development, culture change and sustainability initiatives for clients around the world. Christian's work on the green revolution in Silicon Valley was featured on prime time French TV evening newscast TF1 in 2009. He has a unique track record in helping companies, teams and organizations move rapidly from current growth challenge to next success milestone. Christian Forthomme helps executives and managers in Europe and North America reinvent their organizations, build highly effective global teams and dramatically increase their effectiveness as leaders. He is a specialist of learning expeditions to North America for international executive teams. He has helped companies establish the initial vision and build the intercultural team to succeed in a new country and has coached clients in the development of a global culture integrating the best of national and organizational cultures. Christian Forthomme directed the innovative MBA program in Organizational Leadership at JFK University for 5 years. He was also a Principal of WDHB Consulting Group from 1989 to 1996. Earlier in his career, Christian opened new markets in Southeast Asia for a major French paper company and while a graduate student in France, launched a nationally recognized organization that coordinated students at ten ivy-league universities for market surveys abroad. Projects have led him to serve clients in Germany, France, England, Ireland, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Portugal as well as in the United States and Canada. Christian Forthomme holds an MBA from ESSEC in Paris, France and a Masters degree in Interdisciplinary Consciousness Study from John F. Kennedy University. He is also a graduate of the inaugural cohort of the Executive Program of Presidio Graduate School.