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Who We Are

Yves Blandiaux is the Founding Partner of Wave4Growth.

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Over the past 25 years, Yves has held international sales and general management positions for ICT providers such as Cisco, Fujitsu and Alcatel.

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During his career, Yves has led sales force transformations from transactional "product" sales to more complex sales, i.e. value selling, solution selling and consultative selling.

He also went through the crises of 2001, 2008 & 2019 by fundamentally rethinking the leadership, approach and organization of sales within his own teams.

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Since 2018, Yves has been working as a freelance with technolgy-intensive companies (Start-Up, Scale-Up and Global), helping their customer-facing teams sign more and bigger customers.

Yves is heavily engaged in multiple sectors : ICT, Lifescience, MedTech, Service, Indutry, ...

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Yves is committed to bring the best of scaling Start-Ups to established market Leaders and vice-versa.

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Yves Blandiaux | LinkedIn

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Our Drivers

Our Vision

Most companies, regardless of their size or tenure, are constantly evolving their business value propositions to stay ahead. Selling Innovation is crucial in this landscape, as your ability to drive innovation can pave the way for success.​ Selling Innovation goes beyond meeting existing customer needs; it involves anticipating needs that have not yet been articulated. To Sell Innovation, you need to Sell Change. This process demands specific skills and techniques that may seem unconventional. Sales professionals must hone their abilities to spark curiosity, nurture interest, and ultimately create a sense of urgency in prospects. Failure to master the art of Selling Innovation could relegate you to the "nice-to-have" category in your prospect's mind. However, being deemed a mere option is insufficient and may result in missed business opportunities. The key lies in empowering your sales team to position your most groundbreaking innovations as "must-haves" for prospects, leading to swift and successful closures. Are your sales teams equipped to make your innovations indispensable in the eyes of your prospects?

Our Mission

Radically improve companies' ability to sell innovation by injecting the right Innovation Selling DNA into sales teams through innovative, pragmatic, and impactful programs and coaching practices. These programs are tuned to serve different customer profiles: disruptive challengers (start-ups, scale-ups) and established leaders.

Our Values

Create lasting positive impacts by being pragmatic and simplifying what looks complex. Act with trust and integrity, be transparent, and communicate openly. Put the customer at the center of everything you do. Embrace innovation and disruption, build on facts and outside-in perspectives. Foster teamwork, be part of your team, and co-create for success

Certified  Growth Expert

We are certified as a "Label Enterprise" for Growth (Diagnostic & Execution) by the Walloon Region. This certification opens up opportunities for significant regional subsidies for SMEs headquartered in Wallonia.

 

In addition, we are honored to be recognized as a certified Growth Partner with WE and a Mentor with Start it@KBC. Our commitment to growth and innovation extends further as we conduct workshops on "Selling Innovation" in collaboration with WSL, Digital Attraxion, Social Selling Forum and HEC Executive Education.

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