A behaviour never comes from nowhere.It takes shape in a culture, in relationships, in practices,in decisions and in a way of organizing work.
Our story
Before Mosaïca, there was a problem to solve.
2012
Recruiting was not enough.
The first workers recruited internationally leave the company. One thing becomes clear : bringing people in is not enough. Those who arrive, and those who receive them, both have to be prepared.
2019
The question went beyond a single company.
A series of gatherings, first as lunch-and-learn sessions, brings together leaders from Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean around situations experienced in their organizations : integration, management, diversity, labour relations and welcoming practices.
2021
Mosaïca takes shape.
Mosaïca is founded as a division of Groupe Industriel AMI. The name is suggested by Lise Cardinal. The question is already no longer only about recruiting, but about better preparing managers, teams and the people who arrive.
Today
The question has widened.
That experience has become a broader way of looking at organizations : their culture, their management practices, their decisions and the conditions in which people work, collaborate and find their place.
What we have learned from it
Behaviours are visible. The systems that produce them are far less so.
An organization states intentions, organizes practices and produces a daily experience. Situations attributed too quickly to individuals are often better understood in the gap between those three levels.
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What is intended
Strategic directions, stated values, announced priorities.
What the organization says it wants.
Gap
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What is organized
Responsibilities, structures, processes, tools and management practices.
What it actually puts in place.
Gap
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What is experienced
Welcome, integration, relationships, tensions and day-to-day experience.
What people actually live.
Our work begins in the gaps between those three realities.
The people behind Mosaïca
Three perspectives. One organization to understand.
A management decision does not always produce the expected effect on the ground. An HR practice is not always experienced the way it was designed. A cultural difference does not explain everything.
Leadership, decision-making and industrial reality
Martin Lépine
President, co-founder
An entrepreneur at the head of Groupe Industriel AMI. His perspective starts from the employer’s reality, from management decisions and from their effects on the ground.
Even before Mosaïca took shape, Lise Cardinal had grasped its spirit. She is the one who suggested the name, inspired by the singularity of individual paths and by the strength of what they can build together.
A recognized specialist in relationship networking, an international speaker and an author, she has devoted her career to making networks a genuine lever of trust, mutual support and development. She has written and co-written three books on networking : Comment bâtir un réseau de contacts solide, Réseautage d’affaires : mode d’emploi and Réseautage d’affaires : mode de vie.
As Mosaïca’s honorary patron, Lise enriches our thinking with her ideas, takes part in our Regional Roundtables and helps create encounters with people and areas of expertise that deepen the conversation.
Her experience, her perspective and her ability to build connections contribute to Mosaïca’s reach and to the depth of the thinking we want to bring out.
Understand what is at play.
Make the gaps visible.
Act on practices.
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Understand
Look at the situation, its context and the different possible readings before concluding.
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Make visible
Bring out the gaps between intentions, practices and lived experience.
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Act
Turn that reading into decisions, practices, skills or tools that fit.
What we want to build
Organizations whose intentions are recognizable in daily life.
Managers prepared for the reality of their teams. Onboarding journeys that do not rely on improvisation. Cultures able to look at what they produce. Decisions whose effects are observed as closely as their intentions.
Our visual universe
The mosaic is not our decoration. It is how we represent organizations.
Distinct elements. Relationships. Tensions. Trajectories. Then, when you step back, a structure appears. Our mosaics express this way of looking at organizations : understanding the parts without losing sight of the whole.