Biography
Ericka Cogne, 41, began her career as a strategy consultant at Accenture. As an agent of change, she wanted to give her career a more solidarity-based dimension, and then spent 2 years in Asia as a skills-based sponsor to develop an education association: Passerelles Numériques, at the age of 22!
On her return, she helped Accenture model its social footprint calculation and develop its links with its ecosystem in connection with the Mooving Forward program.
At the age of 27, Ericka became head of the Accenture Foundation at national and then global level. Although she had spent 6 years developing the Accenture Foundation, whose influence and impact are now well known, she wanted to go further.
After 9 years at Accenture, in 2016, she seized the opportunity to take over as CEO of Télémaque at the request of Henri Lachmann, then President of Télémaque, to widely deploy the model. “Education? A priority, and equal opportunities above all; it’s a lung, the air of tomorrow for our society!”.
In 7 years, Ericka Cogne has increased the number of corporate partners in the association by a factor of ten, to over 238 today, and the number of young mentees supported by Télémaque by a factor of 10. She also co-founded and she is treasurer of the Collectif Mentorat, which brings together over 72 mentoring associations in France.
Télémaque is a prizewinner of the Epic Foundation, the 1 jeune1 mentor mentoring plan, and the “Innovons pour l’emploi” social impact bonds contract by the French Ministry of Labor, Employment and Integration with Télémaque PRO, which promotes success stories in the professional sector in France.
Today, Ericka is also :
– Treasurer of L’Ascenseur, France’s 1st Equal Opportunity third places, which brings together over 20 associations fighting against social determinism and for equal opportunities.
– Vice-Chairwoman of the Bleu Blanc Zèbre Movement, which brings together over 450 grassroots players working for a more inclusive economy.
– Member of the Haut Conseil à la Vie Associative Ericka holds a Master’s degree from MBS Montpellier, an Executive MBA from HEC from 2015 to 2017 and a diploma from the Centre des Hautes Etudes de la fonction publique at INSP (ex ENA) in 2022/2023.
Ericka Cogne is one of the 50 winners of the 2nd edition of the Palmarès Giverny – Le Point alongside committed leaders under 40 who are helping to accelerate France’s ecological and social transformation!
Session
Wednesday April 24th