Jean-Pierre Capron

Jean-Pierre Capron has acquired wide recognition as a seasoned leader of project-oriented organizations. He started his professional life in the mid-60’s as an underground engineer in a colliery in eastern France, where he considers that he learnt his most important lessons about people behavior and management.

After weathering the oil crisis of the 1970’s as a senior civil servant in charge of the French oil & gas policy, for more than 25 years he has led deep organizational changes and difficult turn-arounds as COO, CEO or President of prominent organizations:

• Technip and the French Atomic Energy Commission in the 1980’s,

• Renault Trucks (a leading international truck production company) and Fives Lille (a large French mechanical engineering group) in the 1990’s,

• and the Africa office of Stolt Offshore / Acergy (a leading offshore construction contractor for the oil & gas) in the 2000’s.

He is well known for his systematic, no-nonsense approach to management that he couples with a deeply rooted sense of humor and penetrating observation skills on human behavior.

Having retired in 2008, besides taking care of his grand-children and tending his garden in Brittany, Jean-Pierre Capron has found time to distil in a short volume what life has taught him about project management.