Francis Cholle is a Paris-born French American writer. He now works as a management consultant. He is also the founder of The Human Company.
Francis grew up close to Paris, France, in Saint-Maur des Fossés. He graduated from HEC Paris. He started his career learning the craft of art book publishing and leading the turn around of Editions Hazan in Paris, France. He decided to move to New York, when he was 28. As an academic, he has taught at HEC MBA in Paris, Fashion Institute of Technology, Wharton Graduate School of Business and Columbia Business School.
In 2011, Francis published The Intuitive Compass, which describes his C-Suite management consulting model, called The Intuitive Compass. Previously, he wrote a book named, L'intelligence intuitive: Pour réussir autrement, which quickly made the Relay bookstore best-sellers' list.
In 2020, Francis wrote a book called SQUIRCLE: A New Way to Think for a New World. In the book, Francis discusses the human predisposition to dismiss non-rational thought processes, including intuition, emotion, feeling, inspiration, aspiration, and its cost to people and organizations. To combat this, he proposed a new method called SQUIRCLE. The book reached USA Today and The Wall Street Journals best-selling book lists.