42. EU Business News- European CEO of the Year Awards 2025 Jun25193 Based in Paris, Carolyne Coquet EURL is an ultra-luxury boutique consulting and coaching firm dedicated to transforming luxury, fashion, and lifestyle brands. At the company’s heart lies a return to the true essence of luxury: emotionally resonant branding, purposeful storytelling, human-centred leadership, and the revival of emotional and relational intelligence in client engagement. Steering this return is Carolyne Coquet, a visionary CEO and thought leader breaking down barriers to help clients unlock the untapped potential of social and emotional intelligence. With decades of experience across the world’s most prestigious maisons – spanning high jewellery and fashion to yachting and champagne – Carolyne Coquet EURL is a company uniquely positioned to deliver high-impact strategic consulting, executive coaching, and relational sales transformation programs for elite teams and visionary founders. Since its inception, the company has remained committed to working alongside brands that have outgrown the traditional, transactional, and experiential formulas of the past – and are ready to embrace a more elevated, human, and emotionally intelligent future. A renowned name in the luxury landscape, Carolyne Coquet founded Carloyn Coquet EURL in 2022 with the aim of providing clients with luxury and strategic marketing, business development, and hightier sales consulting services. Before the establishment of Carolyne Coquet EURL, Carolyne enjoyed a career path characterised by transformation and change – from her early days with the United Nations in Geneva to more than 25 years of leadership in the luxury industry with maisons such as Cartier and Bulgari. Carolyne first began her professional career in finance and accountancy, quickly mastering the structure and discipline of numbers. Her journey soon evolved toward strategy, brand elevation, marketing, retail, and commercial leadership, with a number of key leadership roles including Chief of Staff, High Jewellery Director and Managing Director. Across each role, Carolyne’s vision has remained clear: to translate complexity into clarity, vision into value, and empower teams to thrive. Today, Carolyne leads Carolyne Coquet EURL with an approach often described as visionary and transformational, one rooted in trust, clarity, and emotional intelligence. She guides her team with a firm belief in the power of shared values, championing respect, authenticity, courage, and boldness. These are not merely principles that are spoken about at Carolyne Coquet EURL, but qualities that have laid the foundation of how the team shows up, how they listen, and how they create together. Since founding Carolyne Coquet EURL, one of the most significant challenges Carolyn has faced is one that entrepreneurs rarely speak about: the quiet solitude of leadership, and the mental walls that are unconsciously built to limit true potential. In the early years of leadership, demands are relentless – shaping the vision, defining philosophies, earning the trust of the first clients, and assembling the appropriate collaborators. But the deeper challenge soon follows: not only doing, but being the way you show up your belief in yourself. “To lead with clarity and conviction, I have had to become intentional about curating my mindset,” Carolyne told us. “Nurturing emotional intelligence, cultivating inner calm, and developing the discipline to challenge my own beliefs – these have become daily practices. Because no matter how strong your strategy is, if your mindset isn’t aligned then it will always limit your impact.” Carolyne first began Carolyne Coquet EURL with the clear intention of focusing exclusively on the ultra-luxury segment, working with brands and clientele operating above the €50,000 threshold and specialising in ultra-high-net-worth individual engagement. But, through a series of mystery shopping experiences across the top maisons, Carolyne was surprised by how disconnected the client engagement often felt, with interactions quickly shifting from warm but robotic welcomes to self-serving product pushes. “That moment changed something for me,” she reflected. “It made me realise that luxury, at any level, should never be superficial. I came to believe that anyone who steps into a luxury environment – regardless of ticket size – deserves to feel seen, respected, and engaged with authenticity. This experience has broadened my approach to include a relational selling program for retail stores as, ultimately, emotional intelligence is what differentiates a brand in the hearts of clients – no matter their net worth.” Moving forward, Carolyne intends to deepen and expand the emotional presence, relational intelligence, and human connection of her services. As she develops a body of work to champion a more conscious, relational model of client engagement, Carolyne will emphasise selective collaboration and continue to work with visionary brands who understand that luxury must evolve – and those who are willing to reimagine the way they connect with both clients and teams. This is a significant step in the next chapter for Carolyne Coquet EURL, one characterised by depth, influence, and transformation – and one that we at EU Business News cannot wait to witness. Contact: Carolyne Coquet EURL Email: [email protected] Company: Carolyne Coquet Web Address: https://Carolyneecoquet.com/ Ultra-Luxury Consulting CEO of the Year 2025: Carolyne Coquet & Award for Innovation in Relational Sales 2025
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